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, November 22, 2025

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adscititious \ad-si-TISH-uhs\, adjective:

• added or derived from an external source; additional.

Adscititious comes from the Latin word adscītus which meant "derived, assumed, foreign."

 
peefurbished

• Electronics replaced after water damage by begging the company to do it under warranty.

"I thought your phone was broken?"
"It was, but I pleaded with the guy at the store and he replaced it with a peefurbished one!"

 
Trivia
What is a ship doing when it is cold-ironing?

• It’s in port with its onboard generators shut down, using shoreside power.

History

• Edward Teach: the pirate known as Blackbeard was killed during a battle with the British Navy off the coast of Virginia (1718)
  

  
• ...---...: S-O-S was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin (1906)
• China Clipper: a Pan Am "flying boat" started regular transoceanic mail service from San Francisco to Manila (1935)
• JFK: the 35th president of the US was assassinated by a sniper during a motorcade in Dallas (1963)
• Margaret Thatcher: the prime minister of England quit her post, citing lack of party support (1990)

Birthdays

• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819
  
• Charles de Gaulle (France) 1890
• Hoagy Carmichael 1899
• Benjamin Britten 1913
• Lew Hays 1914
• Rodney Dangerfield 1921
• Geraldine Page 1924
• Lew Burdette (MLB) 1926
• Robert Vaughn 1932
• Michael Callan 1935
• Allen Garfield 1939
• Terry Gilliam 1940
• Tom Conti 1941
• Guion S. Bluford 1942
• Billie Jean King 1943
• Wade Blasingame 1943 - Baseball player
  
• Floyd Sneed (Three Dog Night) 1943
• Aston Barrett (Bob Marley & The Wailers) 1946
• Steve Van Zandt (E Street Band) 1949
• Greg Luzinski 1950 - Baseball player
• Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club) 1950
• Craig Hundley (Cragi Hundley Trio) 1953
• Jamie Lee Curtis 1958 - Actress
• Jason Ringenberg (Jason & the Scorchers) 1958
• Mariel Hemingway 1961
• Stephen Geoffreys 1964
• Nicholas Rowe 1966
• Boris Becker 1967
• Scarlett Johansson 1984 - Fappening / Actress (Avengers)

        

 

 

 

 

  

Rock out with your ZOMBIE out!

 

 

It's Halloween today, so I thought I'd end this week with one of my favorite bands that just exhudes creepiness: White Zombie.

Here is one of their best songs ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0E0ynyIUsg&ob=av3e

More Human Than Human

Yeah I am the astro-

Creep a demolition

Style hell american

Freak yeah - I am the

Crawling dead - a

Phantom in a box

Shadow in your

Head say acid

Suicide freedom

Of the blast read

The fucker lies yeah -

Scratch off the -

Broken skin - tear

Into my heart make

Me do it again yeah

yeah

More Human Than Human (6 times)

Yeah I am the jigsaw

Man I turn the

World around

With a skeleton hand say -

I am electric head a cannibal core a

Television said

Yeah do not victimize

Read the mother

Fucker-psychoholic lies yeah -

Into a psychic war I

Tear my soul

Apart and I

Eat it some more yeah

Yeah

More Human Than Human (6x)

I am the ripper

Man a locomotion

Mind love american

Style yeah I am

The nexus one I

Want more life

Fucker I ain't

Done - yeah

More Human Than Human (8x)