Wednesday. September 18, 2024

piceous \PIS-ee-uhs\, adjective:

1. Inflammable; combustible.
2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
3. Zoology. Black or nearly black as pitch

Piceous stems from the Latin word piceus meaning "made of pitch."

 
Lonelybooking

• Adding status updates to Facebook, constantly, because no one is paying attention to one. Also, being alone in one's room in a house full of people, feeling lonely, and appealing to Facebook to feel validated.

Person 1: Crapsauce! John has texted me three times, and updated his status six times. He must be lonelybooking again.
Person 2: I'd talk to him, if he didn't lonelybook all the time. It's so annoying.

History

• Tiffany and Co.: upscale jewelry retailer was founded as a stationery and fancy goods store (1837)
• The New York Times: the "Gray Lady," then known as The New-York Daily Times, published its first issue (1851)
• Jimi Hendrix: influential rock guitarist died, age 27, due to substance abuse (1970)
• 2001 anthrax attacks: began, a week after 9/11, with a mailing from Trenton, New Jersey, to various media sources in New York City (2001)

  

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Birthdays

• Samuel Johnson 1709
• John Diefenbacker (Canada) 1779
  
• John George Diefenbaker 1895
• Greta Garbo 1905
• Eddie "Rochester" Anderson 1905
• Satchel Leroy Paige 1908
• Ray Geiger 1910
• Syd Howe 1911
• Rossano Brazzi 1916
• Jack Warden 1920
• Harvey Haddix 1925
• Phyllis Kirk 1926
• Teddie King 1929
• Jimmie Rodgers 1933
• Robert Blake 1938
  
• Fred Willard 1939
• Frankie Avalon 1939
• Ken Brett 1948
• Kerry Livgren (Kansas) 1949
• Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones) 1952
• Holly Robinson Peete 1964
• Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe, New Edition) 1967
• Joanne Catherall (Human League) 1962
• Blas Elias (Slaughter) 1967
• Jada Pinkett 1971
• Lance Armstrong 1971 (cheater)
• Brandon Porter 1993
• Taylor Porter 1993