Wednesday, October 21, 2026

lorn \ lawrn \ , adjective; 

1. Archaic . lost, ruined, or undone. 
2. forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn. 

Origin: Lorn came to English when Middle English was spoken. It ultimately comes from the Old English verb -lēosan meaning "to lose."

Selfie 

• A picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, Myspace or any other sort of social networking website. You can usually see the person's arm holding out the camera in which case you can clearly tell that this person does not have any friends to take pictures of them so they resort to Myspace to find internet friends and post pictures of themselves, taken by themselves. A selfie is usually accompanied by a kissy face or the individual looking in a direction that is not towards the camera.

myspace face facebook arm twitter picture Selfie
 

 

 

History 

• Old Ironsides: the United States Navy frigate USS Constitution was launched in Boston Harbor (1797)
  

  
• Thomas Edison: invented a workable incandescent electric lamp in his Menlo Park lab (1879)
• Guggenheim: stunning Frank Lloyd Wright structure housing a museum of modern art opened on Museum Mile in New York (1959)
• Vietnam War: tens of thousands marched in Washington, DC, protesting America's involvement in the war (1967)
• 1975 World Series: Carlton Fisk hit a ball that bounced off a left field foul pole, giving him a home run and a Red Sox win over the Reds in 12 innings in the series' sixth game (1975)

Birthdays

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772
  
• Alfred Nobel 1833
• Sir Georg Solti 1912
• Dizzy Gillespie 1917
• Bob Rosburg 1926
• Whitey Ford (MLB) 1928
• Ursula LeGuin 1929
• Georgia Brown 1933
• Manfred Mann 1940
  
• Francis Fitzgerald 1940
• Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MGs, Blues Brothers) 1941
• Elvin Bishop 1942
• Brian Picolo (NFL) 1943
• Ron Elliot (Beau Brummels) 1943
• Everett McGill 1945
• Lee Loughnane (Chicago) 1946
• Bill Russell (MLB) 1948
• Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) 1949
• Charlotte Caffey (Go-Go's) 1953
• Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers) 1955
  
• Carrie Fisher 1956
• Julian Cope 1957
• Steve Lukather (Toto) 1957
• Che Colovita Lemon (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1970
• Jade Jagger 1971
• Jeremy Miller 1976
• Will Estes 1977
• Kim Kardashian 1980 - "Actress"
• Juliete Cabrera 1987 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

  

 

  

Happy Birthday HOOTERS!

Happy Birthday Hooters!

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Happy Birthday Hooters!

 

 

 

 

Cuz who doesn't love buffalo wings and cold beer?

 

 

 

Sunday, October 4, 2026

ethos \ EE-thos, EE-thohs, ETH-os, -ohs \ , noun; 

1. Sociology . the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period: In the Greek ethos the individual was highly valued.
2. the character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc. 
3. the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion.

Origin: Ethos comes from the Greek term meaning "custom; habit; character," and provides the root for the term ethics . It entered English in the 1600s.

manicorn

• a mythical male creature who is successful (read: pursuing his passion and can pay his electric bills/rent), funny, chivalrous, masculine (read: not chauvinistic), adventurous, artistic (read: not suicidal). See any John Cusack film (or Chuck Klosterman's witty commentary on Fake Love in Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Pops), any romantic comedy where the flawed guy comes through in the end...

"Where is my manicorn? I keep going out with all these losers!"

"Too bad I settled when I got married, I just met my manicorn."

Trivia

What was Hannah Montana TV star Miley Cyrus’ given name at birth?

• Destiny. Her childhood nickname, Smiley, morphed into Miley, which legally became her first name in 2008 when she was 15.

 

 

History

• Gregorian calendar: was proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII; this date, October 4, was followed immediately by October 15 in Spain, Portugal, Poland and most of Italy (1582)
• US Open golf tournament: was played for the first time; the $150 prize was won by Horace Rawlins (1895)
• Sputnik: the space race began when Russia launched the first man-made satellite into orbit (1957)
• Pope Paul VI: became the first pontiff to visit the US when he addressed the UN General Assembly in New York (1965)
• Hooters, the delightfully tacky yet unrefined restaurant chain came into being (1983)
  

  

   

  

  
  

  

   

Birthdays

• Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S.) 1822
• Frederic S. Remington 1861
• Edward L. Stratemeyer 1862
• Damon Runyon 1884
• Buster Keaton 1895
• Frankie Crosetti 1910
• Jan Murray 1917
• Charlton Heston 1924
• Alvin Toffler 1928
• Leroy Van Dyke 1929
• Felicia Farr 1932
• Sam Huff 1934
• Eddie Applegate 1935
• Anne Rice 1941
• Lori Saunders 1941
• Jackie Collins 1941
• Nona Hendryx 1944
• Clifton Davis 1945
• Susan Sarandon 1946
• James Fielder (Buffalo Springfield) 1947
• Armand Assante 1949
• Alan Rosenberg 1950
• Barbara McDonald (Timbuk 3) 1958
• Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys) 1959
• Greg Hubbard (Sawyer Brown) 1960
• Jon Secada 1961
• David W. Harper 1961
• Liev Schreiber 1967
• Alicia Silverstone 1976
• Rachael Leigh Cook 1979
• Jimmy Workmann 1980
• Michael Charles Roman 1987