Wedesday, October 14, 2026

pericope \ puh-RIK-uh-pee \ , noun;

1. a selection or extract from a book.
2. a portion of sacred writing read in a divine service; lesson; lection.

Origin: Pericope came to Enlgish in the mid-1600s, and is ultimately derived from the Greek perikopḗ meaning "a cutting."

requestion

• requesting something indirectly by way of a question note: this is distinguished from a regular question because the answer is usually obvious

"are those peanut m&m's?" (requestion)

"yes, would you like some?"

"yeah"

 

History

• Battle of Hastings: the last Anglo-Saxon king of England fell to William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest (1066)

  
• sound barrier: was broken for the first time by a person, United States Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager, who flew a secret experimental Bell X-1 jet at supersonic speed (1947)
• Peace Corps: the idea to send American volunteers abroad was first mentioned by JFK when he was a presidential candidate (1960)

Birthdays

• William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
• Dwight David Eisenhower (U.S.) 1890
• Lillian Gish 1893
• E.E. Cummings 1894
• Eugene Fodor 1905
• Allan Jones 1908
• John Wooden 1910
• C. Everett Koop 1916
• Bill Justis 1926

• Roger Moore 1927
• Robert Webber 1928
• Melba Montgomery 1938
• Ralph Lauren 1939
• Cliff Richard 1940
• Tommy Harper (MLB) 1940
• J.C. Snead 1941
• Billy Harrison (Them) 1942
• Udo Kier 1944
• Al Oliver (MLB) 1946
• Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues) 1946
• Charlie Joiner (NFL) 1947
• Marcia Barrett (Boney M) 1948
• Sheila Young 1950
• Harry Anderson 1952
• Greg Evigan 1953
• Beth Daniel 1956
• Arleen Sorkin 1956
• Thomas Dolby 1958
• Keith Byars (NFL) 1963
• Karyn White 1965
• John Seda 1970
• Jimmy Jackson 1970
• Doug Virden (Sons of the Desert) 1970
• Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) 1974
• Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) 1975
• Usher 1978

 

 

  

 

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

rusticate\ RUHS-ti-keyt \ , verb;

1. to go to the country.
2. to stay or sojourn in the country.
3. to send to or domicile in the country.
4. to make rustic, as persons or manners. to finish (a wall surface) so as to produce or suggestrustication.
5. British . to suspend (a student) from a university as punishment.

Origin: Rusticate is derived from the Latin verb rusticārī meaning "to live in the country." It entered English in the mid-1600s.

 

lego hair

• a particularly shitty male haircut in which the sides cover the ears and the hair appears to be "snap on".

Cha Chi hadn't had a haircut in weeks. When he showed up it looked like he had lego hair.

History

• "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever": Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé tribe makes his famous statement of surrender to US Cavalry troops (1877)
• Jarrow March: 200 protesters set out on a walk from Jarrow in northeastern England to Parliament in London in a bid to draw attention to their unemployment and poverty (1936)
• Dr. No: the first James Bond 007 movie came out (1962)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus: debuted on BBC-TV (1969)
• PBS: nonprofit TV network began broadcasting (1970)

  

Birthdays

• Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830
• Robert H. Goddard 1882 - Known as the "Father of the Space Age"
• Ray Kroc 1902 - Founder of McDonalds
  
• Larry Fine 1902
• Joshua Logan 1908
• Allen Ludden 1918
• Donald Pleasence 1919
• Bil Keane 1922
• Glynis Johns 1923
• Bill Dana 1924
• Gail Davis 1925
• Richard Gordon, Jr. 1929
• Skip (George) Homeier 1930
• Diane Cilento 1933
• Margie Singleton 1935
• Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia) 1936
• Johnny Duncan 1938
• Carlo Mastangelo (Dion and The Belmonts) 1938
• Arlene Smith (The Chantels) 1941
• Richard Street (The Temptations) 1942
• Steve Miller (The Steve Miller Band) 1943
• Brian Connolly (The Sweet) 1948
• Jeff Conaway 1949
• B.W. Stevenson 1949
• Brian Johnson (AC/DC) 1947 
• Eddie Clarke (Motorhead) 1950
• Karen Allen 1951
• Clive Barker 1952
• Harold Faltemeyer 1952
• Russ Mael (Sparks) 1953
• Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) 1954
• David Bryson (Counting Crows) 1954
• Leo Barnes (Hothouse Flowers) 1955
• Bernie Mac 1957
• Daniel Baldwin 1960
• Michael Andretti 1962
• Dave Dederer (Presidents of the U.S.A.) 1964
• Mario Lemieux (NHL) 1965
• Guy Pearce 1967
• Josie Bissett 1970
• Grant Hill 1972
• Kate Winslet 1975
• Scott Weinger 1975
• Brian Mashburn (Save Ferris) 1975
• Paul Thomas (Good Charlotte) 1980

  

 

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

cherry-pick \ CHER-ee-pik \ , verb; 

1. Informal . to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components . 
2. Informal . (in retail use) to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise. 

Origin: Cherry-pick entered English in the 1960s possibly as an extension of the slang term cherry-picker , defined by Railroad Magazine in 1940 as a "switchman, so called because of red lights on switch stands. Also any railroad man who is always figuring on the best jobs and sidestepping undesirable ones." 

 

FNG

• Military term, 'Fucking New Guy' usually someone just out of training or just transfered into the unit/AO, who either hasn't proved his worth or doesn't know how to operate properly due to lack of experiance.

"Damnit, nearly everyone here is an FNG, we'll be wiped out on the next op"

 

History

• 
  US Senate: Pennsylvanians William Maclay and Robert Morris became the first two members elected to the federal body (1788)
• The Magic Flute: Mozart's opera opened in Vienna (1791)
• ether: was used as an anesthetic for the first time by Boston dentist William Morton (1846)
• Little Women: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up during the US Civil War was published (1868)
• Munich Agreement: France, Italy, Germany and Britain signed a pact allowing Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland; it became synonymous with appeasement (1938)
• Nuremberg Trials: 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes (1946)
• James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause star died in a car crash at age 24 (1955)
• Republic of Botswana: African nation declared its independence from Britain (1966)

Birthdays

• William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon
• Johnny (John Thomas) Allen 1905 - Baseball pitcher
• Deborah Kerr (Trimmer) 1921 - Actress ("The King and I", "Separate Tables")
• Oscar Pettiford 1922 - Musician, played with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Getz
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  Truman Capote (Streckfus Persons) 1924 - Writer (In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany's), actor
• Robin Roberts 1926 - Baseball pitcher
• Angie Dickinson 1931 - Actress (Police Woman, Cassie and Company)
• Johnny Podres 1932 - Baseball pitcher
• Cissy Houston 1933
• Jill Corey 1935 - Singer
• Johnny Mathis 1935 - Singer
• Len Cariou 1939
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  Dewey Martin 1942 - Musician (Buffalo Springfield)
• Frankie Lymon 1942
• Marilyn McCoo 1943 - Singer (5th Dimension), TV hostess (Solid Gold)
• Austin "Red" Robbins 1944 - Basketball player
• Sylvia Peterson 1947 - Singer (The Chiffons)
• Marc Bolan (Mark Feld) 1947 - Musician (T.Rex)
• Rula Lenska 1947
• Andy Maurer 1948 - Football player
• Catie Ball-Condon 1951 - Swimmer

  
• John Lombardo (10,000 Maniacs) 1952
• Deborah Allen 1953 - Singer
• Victoria Tennant 1953 - Actress
• Calvin Levels 1954
• Patrice Rushen 1954
• Barry Williams (Blenkhorn) 1954 - Actor (The Brady Bunch)
• Basia 1956
• Vondie Curtis-Hall 1956
• Fran Drescher 1957
• Marty Stuart 1958
• Debrah Farentino 1959
• Eric Stoltz 1961 - Actor (Some Kind of Wonderful, The Glass Menagerie)
• Crystal Bernard 1961 - Actress (Happy Days, Wings)
• Dave Magadan 1962 - Baseball player
• Marley Marl 1962
• Eddie Montgomery 1963
• Robby Takac 1964 - (Goo Goo Dolls)
• Lisa Thornhill 1966
• Monica Bellucci 1968
• Jenna Elfman 1971
• Ashley Hamilton 1974
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  Mike Damus 1979
• Martina Hingis 1980
• Dominique Moceanu 1981
• Lacy Chabert 1982
• Kieran Culkin 1982
  Rosana Arkle 1988

 

 

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Thursday, August 27, 2026

writhen \ rith-uhn \ , adjective; 

• Archaic . twisted. 

Origin: Writhen has been in English since before 900. It is related to the Old English verb wrīthan meaning "to twist, wind" which in turn is a cognate with the Old Norse rītha meaning "to knit, twist." 

 

deface

• To remove a 'friendship' from facebook due to having either accidentally adding him/her as a friend or actually adding them and reconsidering later.

"Yeah, there was this guy in my network who added me. I thought he looked OK, but his updates were really cramping my news feed, so I had to deface him."

 

"I went on a date with a girl I met a week before and like the day after our date she changed her status to 'in a relationship.' I defaced her."

History

• Edwin Drake: drilled America's first successful oil well near Titusville, PA
• Krakatoa: volcano erupted in the loudest explosion ever recorded; the resultant tsunami killed 36,000 (1883)
• Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in history ended after less than an hour when Zanzibar surrendered (1896)
• Kellogg-Briand Pact: multinational treaty signed in Paris outlawed war — about 11 years before the same nations took part in WWII (1928)
• Mariner 2: the US launched a space probe to Venus; it flew past the planet in December (1962)
• Mars: the red planet got up close and personal with Earth — only 55,758,006 km away (2003)

Birthdays

• George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770
• Margaret Hungerford 1850
• Theodore Dreiser 1871
• Charles Rolls 1877
• Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S.) 1908
• Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Theresa) 1910
• Martha Raye 1916
• Jimmy C. Newman 1927
• Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (South Africa) 1928
• Ira Levin 1929
• Carter Stanley 1935 - Musician (Stanley Brothers)
• J.D. Crowe 1937
• Tommy Sands 1937

• Daryl Dragon 1942 - Musician (The Captain and Tennille)
• Tuesday Weld 1943
• Tim Bogert 1944 - Musician (Vanilla Fudge)
• Marianne Sagebrecht 1945
• Harry Reems 1947
• Barbara Bach 1947
• Jeff Cook 1949 - Musician (Alabama)
• Buddy Bell 1951
• Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952
• Willy DeVille 1953
• Alex Lifeson 1953 - Musician (Rush)
• Diana Scarwid 1955
• Glenn Matlock 1956 - Musician (Sex Pistols) 
• Dean Delvin 1962
• Mike Johnson 1965 - Musician (Dinosaur Jr.)
• Bobo 1968 - Musician (Cypres Hill)
• Tony Kanal 1970 - Musician (No Doubt)
• Sarah Chalke 1976
• Jon Siebels 1979 - Musician (Eve)