Tuesday, October 27, 2026

higgledy-piggledy \ HIG-uhl-dee-PIG-uhl-dee \ , adverb; 

• in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter. 

adjective: 

• confused; jumbled. 

Origin: Higgledy-piggledy came to English in the late 1500s and is a rhyming compound of uncertain origin. 

Presponse

• To respond to a question before it is finished, often confusing the asker.

Wendy: So are you avail-

Jimmy: No. (Presponse)

Wendy: -ible Monday?

(silence)

Wendy: Are you?

History 

• Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love was founded (1682)
• Federalist Papers: the first of a series of essays was published, calling for the ratification of the US Constitution; the essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787)
• IRT: New York City's first rapid transit subway opened (1904) [Pictured below: The City’s mayor, George McClellan, opens the world-renowned New York City subway system. He actually drove the first passengers, charging them 5¢ to ride a line that, back then, only covered 9.1 miles of track with 28 stations. How things changed…]
• nylon: chemical company DuPont announced the name of its new synthetic fiber (1938)
• Wall Street crash: trading was halted for a cooling-off period after the Dow fell more than 500 points (1997)

Birthdays

• James Cook 1728
• Nicola Paganini 1782
• Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858
  
• Emily Post 1872
• Leif Erickson 1911
• Dylan Thomas 1914
• Teresa Wright 1918
• Nanette Fabray 1920
• Ralph Kiner (MLB) 1922
• Roy Lichtenstein 1923
• Ruby Dee 1924
• Floyd Cramer 1933
• John Cleese 1939
• Lara Parker 1942
• Lee (Melvin) Greenwood 1942
• Carrie Snodgress 1946
• Terry Anderson 1947
• Jack Daniels (Highway 101) 1949
• Garry Tallent (E Street Band) 1949
• Fran Lebowitz 1950
• Jayne Kennedy-Overton 1951
• Roberto Benigni 1952
• Peter Firth 1953
• Robert Picardo 1953
• Simon LeBon (Duran Duran) 1958

• Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 1967 
• Sean Holland 1968
• Sheeri Rappaport 1977
• Kelly Osbourne 1984

  

 

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

pratfall \ PRAT-fawl \ , noun;

1. a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating. 
2. a humiliating blunder or defeat. 

Origin: Pratfall entered English in the 1930s. It combines prat and fall . The origin of prat is unknown. Fall comes from the Old English feallan.

haberdash

• A bunch of bullshit; unsupported bullshit; a notion stated a fact.

Aww, thats haberdash if he says he can jump across that huge river in one bound.

 

History

• Yorktown campaign: British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the land war of the American Revolution (1781)
• Black Monday: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 508 points — over 22% — setting a record for percentage decline that still stands (1987)
• Guildford Four: men wrongly convicted for a deadly IRA bombing were cleared after 15 years in jail (1989)

Birthdays

• Thomas Browne 1605
• Annie Peck 1850
• Charles Merrill 1885
• Robert Beatty 1909
• George Cates 1911
• Lawanda Page 1920
• Bern Bennett 1921
• George Nader 1921
• Jack Anderson 1922
• John le Carre 1931
• Robert Reed 1932
• Peter Max 1937
• Michael Gambon 1940
• Simon Ward 1941
• Peter Tosh 1944
• Divine 1945

• John Lithgow 1945
• Patricia Ireland 1945
• Jeannie C. Riley 1945
• Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) 1948
• Lynn Dickey (NFL) 1949
• Charlie Chase 1952
• Nino DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1956
• Karl Wallinger (Waterboys, World Party) 1957
• Michael Myers 1957 - The Shape / serial killer
  
• Jennifer Holliday 1960
• Evander Holyfield 1962
• Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1965
• Jon Favreau 1966
  
• Trey Parker 1969
• Chris Kattan 1970
• Pras Michel (The Fugees) 1972
• Omar Gooding 1976
• Cyndi Thompson 1976
• Benjamin Salisbury 1980
• Rebecca Ferguson 1983 (DUNE) 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

flibbertigibbet \ FLIB-er-tee-jib-it \ , noun; 

1. Archaic . a gossip. 
2. a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

Origin: Flibbertigibbet is of obscure origin, but is thought have been formed as an imitative representation of the sound of chatter or gossip. It entered English in the late 1400s. 

 

White Girl Wasted

• To be extremely drunk, high or a mixture of both. The term is derived from the extreme inebriation most commonly experienced by white females between age 17 to 27.

Tonight is 50 cent shot night, we getting white girl wasted for sure!

 

 

History

• Richard II: became the first English king to abdicate his throne; he was forced to do so by his successor, Henry IV, and died shortly thereafter (1399)
• bobbies: Sir Robert Peel's police force went on duty at Scotland Yard (1829)
• Tylenol scare: began with the first of seven deaths in the Chicago area from ingestion of cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules (1982) 
  SOMEWHERE IN TIME - Iron Maiden's 6th studio album was released (1986)  
• Dow Jones: had its steepest one-day drop in history, 778 points (2008)

Birthdays

• Miguel de Cervantes 1547
• Horatio Nelson (England) 1758
• Gene Autry 1907
  
• Richard Harkness 1907
• Greer Garson 1908
• Michelangelo Antonioni 1912
• Stanley Kramer 1913
• Trevor Howard 1916
• Lizabeth Scott 1922
• Bum Phillips 1923
• Steve Forrest 1924
• Anita Ekberg 1931
• Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 - Musician
• Larry Linville 1939
• Jean-Luc Ponty 1942
• Madeline Kahn 1942
• Ian McShane 1942
• Lech Walesa 1943
• Mike Post 1944
• Patricia Hodge 1946
• Bryant Gumbel 1948
  
• Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly) 1948
• Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948
• Alvin Crow 1950
• Sebastian Coe 1956
• Suzzy Roche (The Roches) 1956
• Andrew "Dice" Clay 1958
• Les Claypool (Primus) 1963
• Devante Swing 1969
• Emily Lloyd 1970
• Natasha Gregson Wagner 1970  

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

ardor \ AHR-der \ , noun; 

1. great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion: She spoke persuasively and with ardor.
2. intense devotion, eagerness, or enthusiasm; zeal: his well-known ardor for Chinese art.
3. burning heat.

Origin: Ardor comes from the Latin ārd(ēre) meaning "to burn" and the suffix -or , which often occurs in loanwords from Latin and denotes a condition or property of things. In Middle English, this word was often spelled ardure.

Dumpster Break 

• The act of masturbating behind a dumpster while on a break at work. Often done in order to relieve stress or "clear" one's thoughts, such breaks are taken by employees in nearly every career field. However, studies show that the majority of cases occur in high-stress jobs such as: short-order cooks, security guards, carnival ride operators, janitors, and air traffic controllers.

• The dumpster break is signaled by the universal sign of a single sock hanging over the side of the dumpster, warning others to stay clear. 

"Yo B-Mart, can you keep an eye on my sector? Ima take me a dumpster break."

History

• Great Fire of London: conflagration that wiped out much of London began (1666 OS)
• United States Department of the Treasury: was established by an act of Congress (1789)
• "Speak softly and carry a big stick": policy was enunciated by US vice president Theodore Roosevelt at the Minnesota State Fair (1901)
• Japan's surrender: WWII officially came to an end with a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (1945)
• Principality of Sealand: North Sea micronation located off the coast of Suffolk was established by Paddy Roy Bates, who has ruled it ever since (1967)

Birthdays

• Cleveland Amory 1917
• Laurindo Almeida 1917
• Allen Drury 1918
• Martha Mitchell 1918
• Marge Champion 1923
• Horace Silver 1928
• Eddie Price 1929
• Grady Nutt 1934 - Comedian ("Hee Haw")
• Peter Ueberroth 1937
• Sam Gooden (Roosters, The Impressions) 1939
• Jimmy Clanton 1940
• Tom Keating 1942
• Joe Simon 1943
• Luke Walker 1943
• Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) 1943
• Marty Grebb (The Buckinghams) 1946
• Terry Bradshaw 1948
• Christa McAuliffe 1948
  
• Nate 'Tiny' Archibald 1948
• Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) 1948
• Lamar Johnson 1950
• Mark Harmon 1951
• Lenvil Elliott 1951
• Jimmy Connors 1952
• Rick Manning 1954
  
• Linda Purl 1955
• Steve Porcaro (Toto) 1957
• Fritz McIntyre (Simply Red) 1958
• Paul Deakin (The Mavericks) 1959
• Eric Dickerson 1960
• Keanu Reeves 1964
• Salma Hayek 1966
• K-Ci (Jodeci) 1969
• Tony Thompson 1975

Salma Hayek demonstrates the proper technique for giving me a handy jay!

Happy berfday, yo!

  

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