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

 

 

  

 

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

fink \ fingk \ , verb; 

1. Slang . to inform to the police; squeal. 
2. Slang . to act as a strikebreaker; scab. 

noun: 

1. Slang . a strikebreaker. 
2. Slang . a labor spy. 
3. Slang . an informer; stool pigeon. 
4. Slang . a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.

Origin: Fink emerged as a slang term in the US in the early 1900s. Its origin is unknown, but some etymologists cite the German word of the same spelling, which means "a frivolous or dissolute person," as a possible lexical ancestor.

 

Layout Bitching

• The act of users posting statuses on Facebook, bitching and moaning unnecessarily about new layouts.

Person A: "WHAT THE HELL FACEBOOK, Y U ALWAYS CHANGE LAYOUT?"

Person B: "Shut the hell up and stop layout bitching."

 

confident turtle

• When one sticks their neck out so far as to avoid double chins and exude the confidence of a turtle that comes out of its shell.

She used the confident turtle to replace duck face in photos.

History

• Black Friday: Wall Street panicked as speculators tried to corner the gold market, causing a collapse (1869)
• USS Enterprise: first nuclear aircraft carrier was launched, in Newport News, Virginia (1960)
• 60 Minutes: investigative TV news-magazine debuted on CBS (1968)

Birthdays 

• John Marshall 1755
• F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896
• Don Porter 1912
• Larry Gates 1915
• Jim McKay 1921
• Sheila MacRae 1924
• Anthony Newley 1931
• Jim Henson 1936
• Barbara Allbut (The Angels) 1940
• Linda McCartney 1941 - Musician (Wings), wife of Paul McCartney (Beatles)
• Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut (The Angels) 1942
• Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 1942
• "Mean" Joe Green (NFL) 1946
• Phil Hartman 1948
• Gordon Clapp 1948

• Kevin Sorbo 1958
• Nia Vardalos 1962
• Cedric Dent (Take 6) 1962
• Rafael Palmeiro 1964
• Lisa Matthews (born Lisa Reich) 1969 (PB Playmate Apr 1990)
• Marty Mitchell (Ricochet) 1969
• Megan Ward 1969
• Marty Cintron (No Mercy) 1971
• Kyle Sullivan 1988

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

WTF Friday: Home Computer

The size of a home maybe!

Argh!

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

blithesome \ BLAHYTH-suhm \ , adjective; 

• lighthearted; merry; cheerful: a blithesome nature . 

Origin: Blithesome entered English in the early 1700s from the Gothic term bleiths meaning "kind, merciful."

Magic Toaster 

• A derogatory term describing an un-savvy computer users view of what a computer is.

Why my magic toaster no come on? I plug in, but no toast!

 

History

• Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)
• Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851) 
  Quagga: the last specimen of the zebra-like animal died, at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam (1883)

  
• Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)
• IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
• Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)
• Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)

Birthdays

• Thomas Bewick 1753
• Abbott Thayer 1849
• Christy Mathewson 1880
• Cecil B. DeMille 1881
• Cantinflas 1911
• Mario Moreno 1911
• Jane Wyatt 1912
• Michael Kidd 1919
• Majorie Reynolds 1921
• Joe Jones 1926
• John Derek 1926
• Porter Wagoner 1927
• Mstislav Rostropovich 1927
• Buck Owens 1929
• William Goldman 1931
• Parnelli Jones 1933
• Larry Ziegler 1939
• George Hamilton 1939
• Jennifer Warren 1941
• Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1949
• Kid Creole 1950

• Pat Metheny 1954
• Sam J. Jones 1954
• Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) 1956
• Suzanne Vega 1959
• Roy Hay (Culture Club) 1961
• Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963
• Peter Krause 1965
• Pete Sampras 1971
• Rebecca Gayheart 1972
• Linda O'Neil / Pamela Laveux 1973: actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.
• Casey Affleck 1975
• Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) 1975
• Dominique Swain 1980

  

 

  

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

peckish \ PEK-ish \ , adjective; 

1. Chiefly British Informal . somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish . 
2. Chiefly British Informal . rather irritable: He's always a bit peckish after his nap.

Origin: Though the origins of peckish are unknown, this term may share its roots with the term pick . This term came to English in the early 1700s.

MILF 

• Mother I'd Like to Fuck
• Mom I'd Like to Fuck
• Mother I'd Like to Frick

Julie Clarke is a MILF!

History

• SOS: Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the distress signal (1909)
• Alcatraz: island prison in San Francisco Bay received its first civilian inmates (1934)
• Hussein ibn Talal: 16-year-old was proclaimed king of Jordan after his father was declared mentally unfit (1952)
• Watts riots: civil disturbances in Los Angeles left 34 dead (1965)
• The Mall of America: the most-visited mall in the world opened on the site of Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota (1992)

Birthdays

• Robert Ingersoll 1833
• Carrie Bond 1862
• Lloyd Nolan 1902
• Jean Parker 1912
• Alex Haley 1921
• Carl Rowan 1925
• Mike Douglas 1925
• Arlene Dahl 1928
• Jerry Falwell 1933
• Virna Lisi 1937
• Anne Massey 1937
  
  
• Mike Hugg 1942
• Guy Villari 1943
• Jim Kale (The Guess Who) 1943
• Ian McDiarmid 1944
• John Conlee 1946
• Ian Charleson 1949
• Eric Carmen (Raspberries) 1949
• Steve Wozniak 1950
• Eric Braun (Iron Butterfly) 1950
• Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea 1953
• Joe Jackson 1955
• Richard Reinhardt (The Ramones) 1957
• Diana Woei 1965
• John Mitchell 1965
• Charlie Sexton 1968
• Chris Dave (Mint Condition) 1968
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad 1970
• Julia Anne Clarke 1972: aka Julie Clarke, Playmate 03/91, actress, model, hardbody, nurse
• Will Friedle 1976
• Chris Kelly (Kriss Kross) 1978