Turtle Thusday: Car-sized Turtle Found

 

 

Read the full article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51485011

 

And here:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/car-sized-turtle-found-in-colombian-coal-mine.html#mkcpgn=fbdsc8

And here:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/12/giant-round-prehistoric-turtle-discovered/?intcmp=features#ixzz20QPpqrT7

 

 

Saturday, June 1, 2024

skirr \skur\, verb:

1. To go rapidly; fly; scurry.
2. To go rapidly over.

noun:

1. A grating or whirring sound.

Skirr is related to the word scour, which comes from the Old Norse word skur meaning "shower."

 
Supes

• A shortened version of super. Can be used in any situation.

Jeremy-"Dude we just got a three foot bong." 
Andrew-"What?!? that's supes legit!" 
or 
Taylor-"Hey mann we're playin pong in my room tonight. Beers on me" 
Jordan-"Ahh man now I'm supes excited to play"

 

feminacy \FEM-uh-nuh-see\, noun:

• feminine nature.

Feminacy entered English in the 18th century from the Latin roots fēmin meaning "woman" and -acy, a suffix denoting nouns of quality, such as papacy and legacy.

 

 

 

Porn Mode

• A mode available in modern web browsers that doesn't store any session information.

Porn Mode Coming to Firefox

 

History

• Kentucky: became the 15th state in the US (1792); Tennessee joined the Union four years later (1796)
• Don't give up the ship: the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence cried out these words; the US Navy adopted them as its motto (1813)
• North magnetic pole: was found for the first time, by English explorer James Clark Ross on the Boothia Peninsula (1831)
• Action Comics: debuted, featuring Superman (1938)
• CNN: Ted Turner's network began 24-hour live news broadcasts (1980)
• Nepalese royal massacre: 10 people were slain in Narayanhity Royal Palace, including the king and queen; Crown Prince Dipendra was accused of murder-suicide (2001)

Birthdays

• Brigham Young 1801
• Nelson Riddle 1921
• Richard Erdman 1925
  

  
• Andy Griffith 1926 - Actor
• Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) 1926 - Actress
• Pat Corley 1930
• Edward Woodard 1930
• Pat Boone 1934 - Singer
• Peter Masterson 1934
• Morgan Freeman 1937 - Actor
• Cleavon Little 1939
• Rene Auberjonois 1940
• Fredrica von Stade 1945
• Brian Cox 1946
• Jonathan Pryce 1947
• Ron Wood 1947 - Musician (Rolling Stones)
• Tom Sneva 1948
• Powers Boothe 1949 - Actor
• Gemma Craven 1950
• Graham Russell 1950 - Musician (Air Supply)
• Ronnie Dunn 1953 - Musician (Brooks and Dunn)
• Lisa Hartman Black 1956 - Actress
• Alan Wilder 1959 - Musician (Depeche Mode)
• Simon Gallup 1960 - Musician (The Cure)
• Richard Comeaux 1961 - Musician (River)
• Paul Coffey 1961 - Hockey player
• Mike Joyce 1963 - Musician (Smiths)
• Jason Donovan 1968
• Teri Polo 1969 - Actress
• Derek Lowe 1973 - Baseball player
• Heidi Klum 1973 - Model, television host ("Project Runaway")
• Alanis Morissette 1974 - Musician
  Danielle Harris 1977 - horror actress
  
• Santana Moss 1979 - Football player
• Damien Fahey 1980 - Television host ("Total Request Live")
• Justine Henin 1982 - Tennis player
  

  

   

    

   

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Sunday, January 14, 2024

desinence \DES-uh-nuhns\, noun:

1. A termination or ending, as the final line of a verse.

2. Grammar. A termination, ending, or suffix of a word.

Like descent, desinence is related to the Latin word dēsinere which meant "to put down or leave."

 

Passenger assessment

• The tendency, especially while waiting for a plane, to scan one's fellow passengers for signs of violent intention. This tends to increase after an airline incident or near incident.

Jake surreptitiously looked up and down the many aisles of chairs as he waited for his plane to arrive at the gate. Passenger assessment is an essential part of flying these days. he rationalized.

 

History

• Marilyn Monroe: blonde bombshell wed legendary Yankee Joe DiMaggio; the marriage lasted less than a year, but DiMaggio remained devoted long after that (1954)
• Human Be-In: counterculture event took place in San Francisco, preceding the Summer of Love (1967)
• Margrethe II: ascended the throne of Denmark as its first reigning queen since the early 1400s, thanks to a constitutional amendment that allowed female succession (1972)
• Miami Dolphins: beat the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, becoming the first, and so far only, NFL team to have an undefeated season (1973)

Birthdays

• Benedict Arnold 1741
• Henri Fantin-Latour 1836
• Albert Schweitzer 1875
• Cecil Beaton 1904
• William Bendix 1906
• Russ Columbo 1908
• Mark Goodson 1915
• Billy Butterfield (World’s Greatest Jazz Band) 1917
• Andy Rooney 1919
• Tom Tryon 1926
• Billy Walker 1929
• Caterina Valente 1931
• Clarence Carter 1936
• Sonny Siebert 1937
• Billy Jo Spears 1937
  
• Jack Jones 1938
• Allen Toussaint 1938
• Julian Bond 1940
• Faye Dunaway 1941
• Gibby Gilbert 1941
• Holland Taylor 1943
• Shannon Lucid
• Graham Marsh 1944
• Gene Washington
• Carl Weathers 1948
• T-Bone Burnett 1948
• Lawrence Kasdan 1948
• Geoff Tate (Queensryche) 1959
• Steven Soderbergh 1963
• Mark Addy 1964
• Slick Rick 1965
• Dan Scheider 1966
• Tom Rhodes 1967
• Emily Watson 1967
• L.L. Cool J (James Todd Smith) 1968
• Jason Bateman 1969
• Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) 1969
• Jordan Ladd 1975

 

 

 

Sunday, April 16, 2023

undertone \UHN-der-tohn\, noun:

1. A color modified by an underlying color.

2. A low or subdued tone of speaking.

3. An unobtrusive or background sound.

4. An underlying quality or element; undercurrent.

Undertone is first used to describe in a visual sense around 1800.

 

ghost taste

• the familiar taste that accompanies a post-meal burp. it's like deja-vu in your mouth.

Man jo, I just caught a straight ghost taste from that barbeque earlier.

History

• Harriet Quimby: became the first female pilot to fly the English Channel (1912)
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: returned to Russia, ending an exile of some 20 years (1917)
• LSD: Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the drug (1943)
• Texas City Disaster: at least 580 were killed in the explosion of a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate, in America's worst industrial disaster (1947)
• cold war: term was coined by financier Bernard Baruch in a speech in South Carolina (1947)
• Walter Cronkite: the "most trusted man in America" began his 19-year run as anchor of CBS Evening News (1962)
• panda diplomacy: China sent the US two giant pandas as a gift after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China (1972)
• Virginia Tech: Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, eventually killing 32 students and himself in the US's most deadly shooting rampage (2007)

Birthdays

• Hans Sloane 1660 - Doctor, naturalist, instrumental in founding of the British Museum
• Sir John Franklin 1786
• Flora Batson 1864
• Jose de Diego 1866 - Patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico, April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in his honor
• Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers
• John Millington Synge 1871 - Poet, playwright
• Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, communist
• Les Tremayne (Henning) 1913 - Actor ("The War of the Worlds", "The Slime People")
• John Hodiak 1914 - Actor
• Spike Milligan 1918
• Merce Cunningham 1919 - Dancer, choreographer
• Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor
• Kingsly Amis 1922 - Novelist
• Bennie Green 1923 - Musician, lyricist
• Barry Nelson 1920 - Actor ("Airport", "The Shining"), first actor to portray Ian Flemming's James Bond.
• Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn")
• Joseph Alois Ratzinger 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
• Peter Mark Richman 1927
• Edie Adams 1929 - Actress
• Ed Townshend 1929
• Roy Hamilton 1929 - Singer
• Herbie Mann (Soloman) 1930 - Jazz musician,
• Ike Pappas 1933 - Singer
• Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer
• Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien) 1939 - Singer
• Queen Margrethe II 1940 - Queen of Denmark
• Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg 1942 - Baseball player
• Dave Peverett (Lonesome Dave) 1943 - Musician (Foghat)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)1947 - Basketball player
• Gerry Rafferty 1947 - Singer, songwriter
• Bill Spooner 1949 - Musician (The Tubes)
• Peter Garrett 1953 - Singer (Midnight Oil)
• Jay O. Sanders 1953 - Actor
• Ellen Barkin 1954 - Actress ("Eddie and the Cruisers")
• Jimmy Osmond 1963 - Singer (The Osmonds), the youngest Osmond
• David Pirner 1964 - Musician (Soul Asylum)
• John Cryer 1965 - Actor ("Superman 4: The Quest for Peace", "Pretty in Pink", "Two and a Half Men")
• Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian
• Dan Rieser 1966 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
• Selena Quintanilla 1971 - Singer
• Peter Billingsley 1972 - Actor ("A Christmas Story")
• Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor
  Gina Carano 1982 - Actress
• Samantha Char 1995

 

 

 

 

RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE!!!

The unimaginable happened. Russian forces have invaded Ukraine from various points around the country starting early this morning. At this time, they are reporting over forty souls lost. The Ukrainian resolve is stronger than Putin expected, so they are putting up substantial resistance. 

Meanwhile, NATO and the USA, who promised to protect Ukraine in the early 90s, after the fall of the USSR, if they removed their nuclear weapons, are doing close to nothing in response. Shameful. 

Biden's weak response has been so clear that it looks like China will be moving on Taiwan soon, as well. These are dark times.

Friday, January 14, 2022

draconian \dray-KOHN-ee-uhn; druh-\, adjective:

1. Pertaining to Draco, a lawgiver of Athens, 621 B.C.
2. Excessively harsh; severe.

Draconian refers to a code of laws made by Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in blood.

 

abc sex

• Sex only on Anniversaries, Birthdays and Christmas

They've been married so long they only have abc sex

 

History

• Marilyn Monroe: blonde bombshell wed legendary Yankee Joe DiMaggio; the marriage lasted less than a year, but DiMaggio remained devoted long after that (1954)
• Human Be-In: counterculture event took place in San Francisco, preceding the Summer of Love (1967)
• Margrethe II: ascended the throne of Denmark as its first reigning queen since the early 1400s, thanks to a constitutional amendment that allowed female succession (1972)
• Miami Dolphins: beat the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, becoming the first, and so far only, NFL team to have an undefeated season (1973)

Birthdays

• Benedict Arnold 1741
• Henri Fantin-Latour 1836
• Albert Schweitzer 1875
• Cecil Beaton 1904
• William Bendix 1906
• Russ Columbo 1908
• Mark Goodson 1915
• Billy Butterfield (World’s Greatest Jazz Band) 1917
• Andy Rooney 1919
• Tom Tryon 1926
• Billy Walker 1929
• Caterina Valente 1931
• Clarence Carter 1936
• Sonny Siebert 1937
• Billy Jo Spears 1937
  
• Jack Jones 1938
• Allen Toussaint 1938
• Julian Bond 1940
• Faye Dunaway 1941
• Gibby Gilbert 1941
• Holland Taylor 1943
• Shannon Lucid
• Graham Marsh 1944
• Gene Washington
• Carl Weathers 1948
• T-Bone Burnett 1948
• Lawrence Kasdan 1948
• Geoff Tate (Queensryche) 1959
• Steven Soderbergh 1963
• Mark Addy 1964
• Slick Rick 1965
• Dan Scheider 1966
• Tom Rhodes 1967
• Emily Watson 1967
• L.L. Cool J (James Todd Smith) 1968
• Jason Bateman 1969
• Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) 1969
• Jordan Ladd 1975