Saturday, October 3, 2026

Salchow \SAL-kou\, noun:

• Ice Skating. a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.

Salchow entered English courtesy of Swedish figure skater Ulrich Salchow, who invented the jump and first performed it in 1909.

 
maybe later

• a slightly less (or more) dick way of saying "no fucking way."

"Hey man wanna come over later and catch Dancing With the Stars?"

"Maybe later."

"You fuckin' dick."

History

• The Mickey Mouse Club: children's variety show debuted on ABC (1955)

  
• German Unity Day: marks the date that East and West reunited after 45 years (1990)
• O.J. Simpson: after a sensational trial, the former football player was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend (1995)
• Siegfried and Roy: On Roy Horn's 59th birthday, a tiger grabbed him by the neck and dragged him offstage in the middle of a performance (2002); Roy was critically injured, and only returned to the stage in 2009 to briefly reunite with Siegfried and the tiger that had caused Roy's injuries.

Birthdays

• Emily Post (Price) 1873
• Thomas Wolf 1900
  
• Harvey Kurtzman 1902 - Founder of "Mad" magazine
• James Herriot 1916
• Gore Vidal 1925
• Erik Bruhn 1928
• Andy Hebenton 1929
• Glenn Hall 1931
• Harold Henning 1932
• Neale Fraser 1933
• Madlyn Rhue 1934
• Eddie Cochran 1938
• Felix Pappalardi (Mountain) 1938
• Alan O'Day 1940
• Barbara Ferris 1940
• Chubby Checker 1941
• Michael Gallagher 1941
• Alan Rachins 1942
• Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) 1947
• Ronnie Laws 1950
• Pamela Hensley 1950
• Dennis Eckersley 1954
• Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954
• Peter Frechette 1956
• Jack Wagner 1959
• Louis Marchiony Jr. 1960
• Tommy Lee 1961 "Musician" (Motley Crue)
• Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) 1969
• Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) 1971
• Lena Headey 1973 Actress (300, Dredd)
• Neve Campbell 1973
• Shannyn Sossamon 1978 
  
• Erik Von Detten 1982

     

 

 

 

  

Saturday, September 12, 2026

rimple \ RIM-puhl \ , verb; 

• to wrinkle; crumple; crease. 

noun: 

• a wrinkle. 

Origin: Rimple comes from the Old English hrimpan , which can be compared to the Old High German rumpfusla meaning "wrinkle; fold." The verb sense entered English in the mid-1400s.  

put the boot in 

• (British) Kicking somebody when they're down.

Once it became obvious he would be fired, the entire office took the chance to put the boot in.

History

• Henry Hudson: began exploring the Hudson River (1609)
• Elizabeth Barrett: eloped with fellow poet Robert Browning (1846)
• Jacqueline Bouvier: married John F. Kennedy in an enormous wedding (1953)
• Bonanza: Ben Cartwright and his sons rode onto the screen in America's first TV series taped in color (1959)
• Haile Selassie: Ethiopia's emperor was deposed in a military coup after a 58-year reign (1974); he died a year later, while under arrest
• Steven Biko: black civil rights leader died in police custody in South Africa; international protests and a UN arms embargo ensued (1977)

Birthdays

• Richard Gatlin 1818
• H.L. Mencken 1880
• Maurice Chevalier 1888
• Ben Blue 1901
• Margaret Hamilton 1902
• Jesse Owens 1913
• Tony Bettenhausen 1916
  
• Irene Dailey 1920
• Yma Sumac 1924
• Ella Mae Morse 1924
• Dickie Moore 1925
• Freddie Jones 1927
• Ian Holm 1931
• George Jones 1931
• Glenn Davis 1934
• Linda Gray 1940
• Tony Bellamy (The Tornados) 1940
• Maria Muldaur 1943
• Barry White 1944
• Joe Pantoliano 1951
• Neil Peart (Rush) 1952
• Gerry Beckley (America) 1952
• Peter Scolari 1954
• Barry Andrews (King Crimson, XTC) 1956
• Brian Robertson (Wild Horses, Thin Lizzy) 1956
• Rachel Ward 1957
• Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) 1965
• Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five) 1966
  
• Darren E. Burrows 1966
• Larry "Ler" LaLonde (Primus) 1968
• Paul Walker 1973
• Yao Ming (1980)
• Emmy Rossum 1986
• Nany Tovar (aka Karla "Spice" Lopez) 1986 model from Maracaibo Zulia, Venezuela
• Alexia Fast 1992
• Sydney Sweeney 1997 actree, had good jeans 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

hypocorism \ hahy-POK-uh-riz-uhm, hi- \ , noun; 

1. a pet name. 
2. the practice of using a pet name. 
3. the use of forms of speech imitative of baby talk, especially by an adult. 

Origin: Hypocorism entered English in the 1840s from the Greek word hypokórisma meaning "pet name." It came from the verb hypokor(ízesthai) meaning "to play the child, call by endearing names."  

 

Manscape 

• The removal of excess body hair via waxing, shaving, plucking. Also manscap - ing, ed. See Metrosexual 

When your chick calls you a Yeti, it might be time to manscape.

 

Trivia

What 2-inch-long ocean creature is one of the noisiest animals on earth?

• The pistol shrimp, which makes a noise that can reach up to 218 decibels—30 decibels higher than the sound made by the blue whale. It does this by snapping its oversized pincer to fire off a 60-mile-an-hour blast of water that creates a low-pressure bubble with an internal temperature that is hotter than the sun. The bubble quickly bursts, emitting a high-decibel boom that stuns the tiny shrimp’s prey and provides it with food.
  

History

• Battle of Crécy: longbows helped the heavily outnumbered English defeat the French, marking the decline of chivalry and the rise of England as a world power (1346)
• 19th Amendment: women's suffrage became the law of the land in the US (1920)
• Donoghue v Stevenson: woman found a snail in her ginger beer; this case became a cornerstone of British law in the field of negligence (1928)
• MLB on TV: the first Major League Baseball game was televised from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York; the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers split a doubleheader (1939)
• Pope John Paul I: Italian cardinal dubbed the Smiling Pope assumed the papacy; he died 33 days later (1978)

Birthdays

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• Lee Deforest 1873
• Christopher Isherwood 1904
• Albert Sabine 1906
• Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910
• Jim Davis 1915
• Ronnie Graham 1919
• Georgia Gibbs 1920
• Ben Bradlee 1921
• Irving R. Levine 1922
• Jan Clayton 1925
• Ben J. Wattenberg 1933
• Tommy Heinsohn 1934
• Geraldine Ferraro 1935
• Don Bowman 1937
• Bill White 1939
• Vic Dana 1942
• Swede Savage 1946
• Valerie Simpson 1948
• Bob Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1949
• Michael Jeter 1952
• Brett Cullen 1956
• Alex Trevino 1957
• John O'Neill 1957
• Jet Black (The Stranglers) 1958
• Branford Marsalis 1960
• Jimmy Olander (Diamond Rio) 1961
• Chris Burke 1965
• Shirley Manson (Garbage) 1966
• Adrian Young (No Doubt) 1969
• Melissa McCarthy 1971
• David Grubka 1972
• Chris Pine 1980 (Captain Kirk)
• Macaulay Culkin 1980
• Shellie Chapman aka Tori Black 1988 (t3h pr0n)