Tuesday, December 11, 2024

biblioklept \BIB-lee-uh-klept\, noun:

• A person who steals books.

Biblioklept forms from two Greek roots: biblio-, 'book," and klept, "thief."

 

Clicker's Remorse 

• The internet analog of buyer's remorse, wherein one comes to regret having clicked on a link of interest after they look up at the clock minutes or hours later and realize that they have invested an inordinate amount of time reading an article, playing a game, conversing with someone, looking at photos, etc. which they would not have spent had they resisted the impulse to "check it out"...

Upon looking up at the clock and realizing he'd spent the last 2 hours choosing the cuter kitten after clicking on the link his sister had emailed him Danny developed a strong feeling of clicker's remorse for not having resisted the urge to click on the link.

History

• Indiana: the Hoosier State became America's 19th state (1816)
• Edward VIII: king of Great Britain and Ireland became the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily; he did it for love (1936)
• UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965, was founded (1946)
• Chechnya: Moscow sent in troops to restore control over the region (1994)
• Madoff scandal: Bernie Madoff: the former NASDAQ chairman was arrested for perpetrating what may be the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history; he was sentenced to 150 years in prison (2008)

Birthdays

• Fiorello La Guardia 1882
• Carlo Ponti 1913
• Perez Prado 1918
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918
• Maila Nurmi 1922 (Vampira)
• Betsy Blair 1923
• Willie Mae Thornton 1926
• Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930
• Rita Moreno 1931
• Ron Carey 1935
• J. Frank Wilson 1941
• David Gates (Bread) 1941
• Donna Mills 1943
• Brenda Lee 1944
• Tony Brown 1946
• Lynda Day George 1946
• Teri Garr 1949
• Susan Seidelman 1952
• Bess Armstrong 1953
• Jermaine Jackson 1954
• Mike Mesaros (Smithereens) 1957
• Franklin Carlton "Nikki Sixx" Serafino Feranna 1958 - "bassist"term used loosely (Mötley Crüe)
• David Schools (Widespread Panic) 1964
• Mo'Nique 1968
• Rider Strong 1979