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

 

 

  

 

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

moniker \ MON-i-ker \ , noun;

• Slang . a person's name, especially a nickname or alias. 

Origin: Moniker is derived from the Shelta word mŭnnik meaning "name." It entered English in the mid-1800s. Shelta is an argot used in parts of the British Isles based in part on Irish.  

immaturation 

• the process of becoming immature

by revisiting old posts we were able to witness the immaturation of the internet from a place of cordial dissent to whiny bickering.

 
 

History

• White House: the cornerstone was laid for the building then known as the Executive Mansion (1792)

  
• universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
• World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
• Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
• Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
• Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he was Egypt's longest-serving president

Birthdays

• Mary Ludwig 1754
• Rudolf Virchow 1821
• Wilbur Shaw 1902
• Herblock (Herbert Block) 1909
• Cornel Wilde 1915
• Burr Tillstrom 1917
• Laraine Day 1920
• Yves Montand 1921
• Lou Saban (NFL) 1921
• Nipsey Russell 1924
• Lenny Bruce 1925
• Frank D. Gilroy 1925
• Margaret Thatcher (Britain) 1925
• Eddie Yost (MLB) 1926
• Shirley Caesar 1928
• Eddie Mathews (MLB) 1931
• Cliff Gorman 1936
• Melinda Dillon 1939
• Paul Simon 1941
• Pamela Tiffin 1942
• Jerry Jones 1943
• Robert Lamm (The Big Thing, Chicago) 1944
• Karen Akers 1945
• Demond Wilson 1946
• Lacy J. Dalton 1946
• Sammy Hagar 1947
• John Lone 1952
• Beverly Johnson 1952
• Marie Osmond 1959
• John Wiggins 1962
• Jerry Rice (NFL) 1962
• Kelly Preston 1962
• T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah 1962
• Kate Walsh 1967
• Rhett Akins 1969
• Nancy Kerrigan 1969
• Tisha Campbell 1970
• Sacha Baron Cohen 1971
• Jan Van Sichem Jr. (K's Choice) 1972
• Katia Winter 1983
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1989
  
• Tiffany Trump 1993

  

 

 

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

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bletting \ BLET-ing \ , noun; 

• the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.

Origin: Bletting comes from the French word blet meaning "overripe." It entered English in the 1830s.

Shoplift the Pooty

• When a man sleeps with a single mother with a small child. Also, when a man expresses false adornment for a women's child in order to sleep with her.

Dude, look at John and Sara. He straight up shoplifted the pooty.

 
Trivia
What does the squirting cucumber plant squirt?

• Seeds and slimy fluid—as far as 20 feet. The strange plant, native to the Mediterranean region, looks like a normal cucumber, but as it ripens it begins filling up with a slimy juice that builds such intense pressure inside the cucumber that it shoots off its stalk, spewing seeds and fluid in its wake.

History

• US Naval Academy: was established in Annapolis, Maryland, as the Naval School (1845)
• Outer Space Treaty: international agreement went into effect (1967)
• Fiji: became independent of Britain (1970)
• London Bridge: (re)opens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (1971)
• Spiro Agnew: Richard Nixon's vice president resigned after being charged with tax evasion (1973)

Birthdays

• Giuseppe Verdi 1813
• Helen Hayes 1900
• Johnny Green 1908
• Ivory Joe Hunter 1914
• Thelonious Monk 1917
• Louis Gottlieb 1923
• James Clavell 1924
• Edward D. Wood, Jr. 1924
• Paul Kruger (South Africa) 1925
• Richard Jaeckel 1926
• Harold Pinter 1930
• Bruce Devlin 1937
• Dallas Smith 1941
• Peter Coyote 1942
• Joanna Shimkus 1944
• Ben Vereen 1946
• John Prine 1946
• Charles Dance 1946
• Pete Mahovalich 1948
• Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1948
• Jessica Harper 1949
• Midge (James) Ure 1953
• David Lee Roth (Van Halen) 1955 
• Tanya Tucker 1958
• Kirsty MacColl 1959
• Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1961
• Jim Glennie (James) 1963
• Rebecca Pidgeon 1965
• Bai Ling 1966
• Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls) 1967
• Brett Favre (NFL) 1969
• Dean Roland (Collective Soul) 1972
• Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974 
• Jodi Lyn O'Keefe 1978
• Mya Harrison 1979

 

 

  

 

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

osculate \ OS-kyuh-leyt \ , verb; 

1. to kiss. 
2. to bring into close contact or union. 
3. Geometry . (of a curve) to touch (another curve or another part of the same curve) in osculation. 
4. to come into close contact or union. 
5. Geometry . (of a curve) to touch another curve or another part of the same curve so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.

Origin: Osculate is formed with the Latin word for "mouth," ōs , and a suffix used to create English verbs from Latin, -ate . It entered English in the mid-1600s.

 

FMI

• For My Information

FMI, does Colin go to the gym on Main Street or on Water Street?

 

Trivia

How many Star Wars performers appeared in the most films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?

• Only two. The diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO.
  

 

History

• Empress Myeongseong: the last empress of Korea was assassinated by the Japanese (1895)
• perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
• Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
• water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
• Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
• Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)

Birthdays

• Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
• Juan Peron 1895
• Billy Conn 1917
• Rona Barrett 1936
• Fred Stolle 1938
• Paul Hogan 1939
• David Carradine 1940
• Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
• Jesse Jackson 1941
  
• George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
• Buzz Clifford 1942
• R.L. Stine 1943
• Chevy Chase 1943
• Susan Raye 1944
• Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
• Sarah Purcell 1948
• Brian Glenwright 1949
• Sigourney Weaver 1949
  
  
• Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
• Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
• Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
• Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
• Michael Dudikoff 1954
• Darrell Hammond 1955
• Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
• Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
• Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
• C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
• 
  Teddy Riley 1966
• Emily Proctor 1968
• Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan") 
• Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
• Kristanna Loken 1979
• Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
• Nick Cannon 1980
• Angus T. Jones 1993