Georgi Girl - 2026

 

There used to be a time that summer in NY meant seeing the GEORGI Vodka ads on the backs of buses. Some years back some groups had them removed and had laws passed to prevent booze ads on city property. Fast forward a bunch of years and the booze ads are GONE, but you can find THC ads all over.   

 

Sunday, September 6, 2026

favonian \ fuh-VOH-nee-uhn \ , adjective; 

1. of or pertaining to the west wind. 
2. mild or favorable; propitious. 

Origin: Favonian comes from Favonius , the ancient Roman personification of the west wind. The word entered English in the mid-1600s. 

Bus Surfing

• The act of attempting to ride a bus by standing in the aisle like a surfer. The goal is to stand for as long as possible without touching anything (seats, poles, people) for support. Often a competition between two people to see who can stand the longest..

''On the way home last night I was bus surfing for a full 3 minutes!''

History

• 
  William McKinley: US president was shot by an anarchist; he died eight days later (1901)
• Piggly Wiggly: the first self-service supermarket opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
• Queen Juliana: popular monarch assumed the throne of the Netherlands, which she retained until 1980 (1948)
• Hendrik Verwoerd: South African prime minister was stabbed to death by a deranged parliamentary messenger in parliament in Cape Town (1966)
• Saint Petersburg: the original name was restored after the Russian city had been Leningrad since 1924 (1991)
• Cal Ripken Jr.: played in his 2,131st consecutive game and broke Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record (1995); his streak ended at 2,632 games on September 20, 1998

Birthdays

• Marquis de Lafayette 1757
• Jane Addams 1860
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• Max Schreck 1879 
• Otto Kruger 1885
• Joseph P. Kennedy 1888 - bootlegger
• Billy Rose 1899
• Morgan Beatty 1902
• Maxie ‘Slapsie’ Rosenbloom 1904
• Vince DiMaggio 1912
• Jimmy Reed (Matthew James Reed Leland) 1925
• JoAnne Worley 1937
• David Allen Coe 1939
• Brian Smith 1940
• Mel McDaniel 1942
• Swoosie Kurtz 1944

• Roger Waters 1944 - Musician (Pink Floyd) 
• Ron Boone 1946
• Jane Curtin 1947
• Claydes Smith 1948 - Musician (Kool & the Gang)
• Banner Thomas 1954 - Musician (Molly Hatchet)
• Joe Smyth 1957 - Musician (Sawyer Brown)
• Jeff Foxworthy 1958
• Michael Winslow 1960
• Perry Bamonte 1960 - Musician (The Cure)
• Paul Waaktaar 1961 - Musician (a-ha)
• Mark Chestnut 1963
• Rosie Perez 1964
• William DuVall 1967 - Musician (Alice in Chains, Comes With The Fall)
• CeCe Peniston 1969
• Darryl Anthony 1969 - Musician (Az Yet)
• Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) 1971
• Justin Whalen 1974
• Nina Persson 1974 - Musician (The Cardigans)
• Foxy Brown 1979

  

  

 

  

Sunday, August 23, 2026

diffluence \ DIF-loo-uhns \ , noun; 

1. the act of flowing off or away. 
2. the act or process of dissolving into a liquid; liquefaction; deliquescence. 
3. the rate at which fluid flow diverges along an axis perpendicular to the direction of flow at a given point. 

Origin: Diffluence derives from the Latin prefix dis- , meaning "apart" or "away," and fluent- , meaning "flowing."

 

prefill

• When, in cases of extreme thirst, a person using a soft-drink fountain fills the beverage container, chugs it, and then fills it again before sitting down to eat.

Person 1: Hey man, why did it take you so long to get a soda? 
Person 2: I was prefilling my cup; I've been thirsty all day.

Trivia

What cigarette was once advertised with the slogan, “More doctors smoke [this brand] than any other cigarette”?

• Camel.
  

History

• William Wallace: Scottish nationalist who opposed British rule, and on whom Braveheart was based, was executed in London (1305)
• Franklin: area that is now part of Tennessee seceded from North Carolina; it failed to win acceptance as one of the United States (1784)
• Rudolph Valentino: death of the 31-year-old silent screen sex symbol known as the quintessential Latin lover caused mass hysterical mourning (1926)
• Sacco and Vanzetti: Italian-American anarchists were executed by electric chair for murder during an armed robbery; questions about the fairness of their trial remain (1927)

Birthdays

• Louis XVI (France) 1754
• Oliver Hazard Perry 1785
  
• Edgar Lee Masters 1869
• Gene Kelly 1912
• Bob Crosby (The Bob Cats) 1913
• Tex Williams 1917
• Jean Darling 1925
• Peter Thompson 1929
• Vera Miles 1930
• Mark Russell 1932
• Barbara Eden 1934 - Actress ("I Dream of Jeannie")
• Sonny Jurgensen 1934
• Rudy Lewis (Drifters) 1936
• Ronnie Cox 1938
• Tony Bill 1940
• Richard Sanders 1940
• Patricia McBride 1942
• Antonia Novello 1944
• Rex Allen Jr. 1947
• Keith Moon 1947 - Musician (The Who)
• Shelley Long 1949 - Actress
• Rick Springfield 1949 - Actor / Singer
• Woody Paul (Riders in the Sky) 1949
• Mark Hudson 1951
• Jimi Jamison 1951 - Musician (Survivor)
• Bobby G. (Bucks Fizz) 1953
• Dean DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) 1961
• Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays, Black Grape) 1962
• River Phoenix 1970
• Jay Mohr 1971
• Ray Park 1974 (Darth Maul)
• Kobe Bryant 1978 - Basketball player
• Joanne Froggatt 1980 - Actress ("Downton Abbey") 

  

  

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

previse \ pri-VAHYZ \ , verb; 

1. to foresee. 
2. to forewarn. 

Origin: Previse is derived from the Latin word praevidēre which means "to foresee." 

thumb lashing

• To be reprimanded via sms messages on a mobile (aka cell) phone.

"I was supposed to take her out for dinner but I stayed with me mates at the pub and boy did she give a right thumb lashing."

History

• Phobos: Martian moon named for the Greek god of fear was discovered by Asaph Hall (1877)
• 19th Amendment: was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it; this gave US women the right to vote (1920)
• Lolita: controversial Vladimir Nabokov novel, about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, was published (1955)
• James Meredith: became the first African American to graduate from "Ole Miss" (1963)

Birthdays

• Antonio Salieri 1750
  Merriwether Lewis 1774

  
• Max Factor 1904
• Caspar Weinberger 1917
• Shelley Winters 1920
• Rosalynn Carter 1927
• Grant Williams 1930
• Roman Polanski 1933 director, convicted child rapist 
• Gail Fisher 1935
• Rafer Johnson 1935
• Robert Redford 1937
• Johnny Preston 1939
• Christopher Jones 1941
• Martin Mull 1943
• Carl Wayne (The Move) 1944
• Nona Hendryx 1945
• Dennis Elliot (Foreigner) 1950
• Patrick Swayze 1952
• Ron Strykert (Men at Work) 1957
• Madeleine Stowe 1958
• Zac Maloy (The Nixons) 1968
• Everlast 1969
• Edward Norton 1969
• Christian Slater 1969
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner 1970
• Mike Boorem 1988

  

 

  

Friday, August 7, 2026

epithalamion \ ep-uh-thuh-LEY-mee-on, -uhn \ , noun; 

• a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom. 

Origin: Epithalamion comes from the Greek epi- + thalamos meaning "at, upon" + "bridal chamber." It entered English in the late 1500s. 

flatuglance

• The look that someone gives another person when they pass gas in public.

Dude, Rachael totally farted today during class, so I flatuglanced her.  

 

Holiday

• International BEER Day! (first Friday of August, annually)

History

• Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
• Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
• Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
• Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
• Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the to the Soviet Union (1987)
• Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
• US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)

Birthdays

• Nathaniel Greene 1742
• Mata Hari 1876
• Billie Burke 1884
• Rudolf Bunche 1904
• Warren Covington 1921
• Felice Bryant 1925
• Stan Freberg 1926
• "The Amazing" James Randi 1928
• Magic Slim 1937
• Ron Holden 1939
• Verna Bloom 1939
• B.J. Thomas 1942
• Garrison Keillor 1942
• Lana Cantrell 1943
• John Glover 1944
• David Rasche 1944
• Rodney Crowell 1950
• Andy Fraser (Free) 1952
• Caroline Aaron 1952
• Wayne Knight 1955
• Alberto Salazar 1958
• Bruce Dickinson 1958 (Iron Maiden)
• David Duchovny 1960 (X-Files)
• DeLane Matthews 1961
• Marcus Roberts 1963
• Harold Perrineau 1963 - Actor ("Lost") 
• Raul Malo (The Mavericks) 1965
• Charlotte Lewis 1967
• Sydney Penny 1971
• Charlize Theron 1975 (Aeon Flux)
• Sydney Crosby 1987

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

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