Wednesday, August 31, 2016

beek \BEEK\, verb:

1. To bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fire.

2. (Of wood) to season by exposure to heat.

Beek is related to the same Middle English root that results in bake.

pockets on swole

• Having pockets full of money, i.e. swolen

"Pockets on swole lookin like they got the mumps" - Yung Joc

"I pull up in tha lambo

Pockets stay on swole" - Bow Wow

History

• Malaya: became independent of the United Kingdom (1957); a few years later this federation of states became Malaysia
• Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
• Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
• Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
• Baghdad bridge stampede: 1,000 pilgrims were killed when panic over a supposed suicide bomber caused a crush of people on the Al-Aaimmah bridge over the Tigris River (2005)

Birthdays

• Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012
• Maria Montessori 1870
• Wilhelmina (Netherlands) 1880
• Frederic March 1897
• Arthur Godfrey 1903
• William Saroyan 1908
• Sir Benrard Lovell 1914
• Daniel Schorr 1916
• Alan Jay Lerner 1918
• Richard Basehart 1919
• G.D. Spradlin 1920
• Buddy Hackett 1924
• James Coburn 1928
• Frank Robinson 1935
• Eldridge Cleaver 1935
• Warren Berlinger 1937
• Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1939
• Jack Thompson 1940
• Roger Dean 1944 - Artist
• Itzhak Perlman 1945
• Van Morrison (Them) 1945
• Richard Gere 1949
• Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) 1952
• Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys) 1955
• Gina Shock (The Go-Go's) 1957
• Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze) 1957
• Edwin Moses 1958
• Chris Whitley 1960
• Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1960
• Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) 1963
• Jeff Russo (Tonic) 1969
• Debbie Gibson 1970
• Tamara (Trina & Tamara) 1977

TGIF! Friday, May 23, 2014

recusant \REK-yuh-zuhnt\, noun:

1. A person who refuses to submit, comply, etc.
2. English History. A person, especially a Roman Catholic, who refused to attend the services of the Church of England.

Recusant comes from the Latin word recusāre meaning "to demur, object."

missing link 

• A man who is covered head to toe with thick and wiry hair. He's so hairy, he's the missing link that connects humans to apes.

Joe: "Damn, it's 115 degrees out here. Why doesn't Tom take off his shirt?" Dick: "That poor bastard is so hairy, he got tired of being called the missing link."

Holiday

• World Turtle Day - (05/23 annually)

History

• Joan of Arc: was captured by the Burgundians who sold her to the English (1430)
• Captain Kidd: was hanged in London for murder and piracy (1701)
• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: began the first passenger service in the US (1830)
• Mounties: the North West Mounted Police was created; it would later become the federal police force of Canada (1873)
• New York Public Library: after 16 years of construction, the library's main building was dedicated by President William H. Taft (1911)
• Bonnie and Clyde: Depression-era outlaws were ambushed and killed by police in Louisiana (1934)
• West Germany: was reconstituted from post-WWII occupation zones (1949)

Birthdays

• Friedrich Anton Mesmer 1734 - Physician, astrologist
• Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) 1810 - Journalist, criti, women's rights activist
• Arabella Mansfield 1846 - She was the first female lawyer in the United States
• Douglas Fairbanks 1883 - Actor
• Herbert Marshall 1890 - Actor
• Artie Shaw 1910 - Band leader
• Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers) 1910 - Actor, musician, singer, dancer
• John Payne 1912 - Actor, singer
• Betty Garrett 1919 - Actress ("All in the Family," "Laverne and Shirley")
• Helen O'Connell 1920 - Singer, actress, dancer
• Alicia de Larrocha 1923 - Pianist
• Mac Wiseman 1925 - Singer
• Nigel Davenport 1928 - Actor
• Rosemary Clooney 1928 - Singer, actress
• Julian Euell 1929 - Jazz musician
• Barbara Barrie 1931 - Actress
• Joan Collins 1933 - Actress ("Dynasty")
• Robert Moog 1934 - Musician
• Charles Kimbrough 1936 - Actor ("Murphy Brown")
• General Johnson 1943 - Musician (Chairman of the Board)
• Lauren Chapin 1945 - Actress ("Father Knows Best")
• Misty Morgan 1945 - Musician
• Judy Rodman 1951 - County singer
• Anatoly Karpov 1951 - Chess grandmaster
• "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler 1952 - Boxer
• Luka Bloom 1955 - Singer
• Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host
• Shelley West 1958 - Country singer
• Linden Ashby 1960 - Actor
• Karen Duffy 1961 - Actress, model
• Phil Selway 1967 - Musician (Radiohead)
• Noel Gallagher 1968 - Musician (Oasis)
• Laurel Holloman 1968 - Actress ("The L Word")
• Lorenzo 1972 - Singer
• Maxwell 1973 - Singer
• Jewel 1974 - Singer
• Kelly Monaco 1976
• Adam Wylie 1984 - Actor

  

Douchebag of the month

You Mad??

Looks like I struck a nerve there you creeping jealous troll. LOL

Thursday, February 16, 2012

mammonism \MAM-uh-niz-uhm\, noun:

• The greedy pursuit of riches.

Mammonism is an odd combination of Aramaic and Greek. The word mammon meant wealth in Aramaic, and the suffix -ism forms a noun from a verb, as in criticism and plagiarism.

let me know how that works out for you

• the easiest way to end an argument when your opponent relays their intentions to do something that you do not agree with.

(online or in text msg, etc)

"I have to go shopping"

'I shop online, you must have tons of time on your hands. it's Christmas and the stores are packed!'

"The traffic here is fine."

'I thought it was snowing there.'

"I have snow tires! duh."

'You know, there are websites that sell things much cheaper.'

"But there is a sale going on at my favorite place!"

'fine. let me know how that works out for you.'

Best way to diffuse (yep, this is trolling!): "U mad?"

Trivia

Which three U.S. government departments have had jurisdiction over the National Weather Service since its creation in 1870?

• The Department of War (1870–90), the Department of Agriculture (1890–1940), and the Department of Commerce (1940–today).

History

• Tutankhamen's tomb: Egyptian king's burial chamber was opened, mesmerizing the world with the wealth inside; among the treasures found were a gold throne, a gold sarcophagus and the king's mummified body (1923)
• nylon: the high-strength synthetic polymer was patented by industrial chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1937)
• Fidel Castro: became leader of Cuba after ousting Fulgencio Batista; he stepped down in 2008 due to ill health, and his brother Raúl took office (1959)
• 911: Alabama's speaker of the house placed the first call on the US emergency telephone system, in Haleyville (1968)

Birthdays

• Henry Adams 1838
• Robert Flaherty 1884
• Van Wyck Brooks 1886
• Katharine Cornell 1898
• Chester Morris 1901
• Wayne King (The Waltz King) 1901
• Edgar Bergen 1903
• Hugh Beaumont 1909
• Jimmy Wakely 1914
• Bill Doggett 1916
• Patty Marie Andrews 1918 - Singer (The Andrews Sisters)
• Jean Behra 1921
• Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe 1921
• Otis Blackwell 1932
• Gretchen Wyler 1932
• Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher)
• Barry Primus 1938
• Herbie & Harold Kalin (The Kalin Twins) 1939
• Jeremy Bulloch 1946 - Actor (Boba Fett)
• Pete Postlethwaite 1946 - Actor
• William Katt 1951 - Actor
• Margaux Hemingway 1955
• James Ingram 1956 - Singer
• LeVar Burton 1957 - Actor
• Ice-T 1958 - Rapper
• Lisa Loring 1958 - Actress
• John McEnroe 1959 - Tennis player
• Andy Taylor 1961 - Musician (Duran Duran)
• Jerome Bettis 1972 - Football player
• Ahman Green 1977 - Football player
• Sam Salter 1978 - Singer

You thought you knew hate

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

sapid \SAP-id\, adjective:

1. Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant flavor.
2. Agreeable to the mind; to one's liking.

Sapid comes from Latin sapidus, "savory," from sapere, "to taste."
Birther

• A conspiracy theorist who believes that Barack Obama is ineligible for the Presidency of the United States, based on any number of claims related to his place of birth, birth certificate, favorite birthday, or whether or not he has heard the song Africa by Toto.

"Did you know that Barack Obama's parents concealed the location of his birth because they knew he would grow up to be President? What? Of course it makes sense, I'm a birther!"

Trivia
Which sport was being played and what teams were competing when the instant replay was used on TV for the first time?

• Football was the game, and Army and Navy were the teams playing at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia on December 7, 1963. CBS replayed an Army touchdown, warning its viewing audience, “This is not live. Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again.”

Today in History:

• Maximilien Robespierre: Reign of Terror leader was guillotined in Paris during the French Revolution (1794)
• Peru: declared independence from Spain (1821)
• 14th Amendment: granted full citizenship to former US slaves; introduced new civil rights safeguards, due process, equal protection (1868)
• Austria-Hungary: declared war on Serbia, precipitating World War I (1914)
• Kennewick Man: prehistoric remains were discovered on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, sparking a debate between scientists and Native Americans (1996)
• IRA: ended its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland in favor of "exclusively peaceful means" (2005)

Today's Birthdays:

• Beatrix Potter (1866-1943): the author of the Peter Rabbit stories
• Earl Tupper (1907-1983): the inventor of Tupperware
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994): the First Lady who gave Americans a TV tour of the White House
• Bill Bradley (66): pro basketball player and Rhodes scholar who became a US senator and ran for president
• Jim Davis (64): creator of Garfield
• Sally Struthers (61): actor, All in the Family and Gilmore Girls; actors Georgia Engel (61) and Elizabeth Berkley (37) also have birthdays today
• Hugo Chavez (55): lunatic president of Venezuela
• Delfeayo Marsalis (44): jazz trombonist; also, musicians Rick Wright (1943-2008), Steve Morse (55) and Afroman (35)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

immure \ih-MYUR\, verb:

1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
2. To build into a wall.
3. To entomb in a wall.

Immure comes from Medieval Latin immurare, from Latin in-, "in" + murus, "wall." It is related to mural, a painting applied to a wall.

missing link

• A man who is covered head to toe with thick and wiry hair. He's so hairy, he's the missing link that connects humans to apes.

Joe: "Damn, it's 115 degrees out here. Why doesn't Tom take off his shirt?"
Dick: "That poor bastard is so hairy, he got tired of being called the missing link."
Trivia

How long did it take to transmit a 98-word message from Great Britain’s Queen Victoria to U.S. President James Buchanan in 1858 over the newly laid transatlantic cable?

• 16 1/2 hours.

Today in History:

• The Spirit of St. Louis: one-seater plane touched down as Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight (1927)
• Amelia Earhart: became the first woman to perform the same feat (1932)
• hydrogen bomb: first aerial detonation took place over Bikini atoll (1956)
• Rajiv Gandhi: former Indian prime minister was assassinated while running for reelection (1991)

Today's Birthdays:

• Alexander Pope (1688-1744): English poet best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer
• Henri Rousseau (1844-1910): naïve painter
• Willem Einthoven (1860-1927): physiologist who developed the EKG
• Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989): human rights activist and Soviet dissident who won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize
• Leo Sayer (61): pop singer; musicians Fats Waller (1904-1943) and Bill Champlin (62) were also born on this date
• Al Franken (58): comedian and political satirist turned politician
• Lisa Edelstein (42): House's Dr. Lisa Cuddy; other entertainers born on this date include Richard Hatch (64), Carol Potter (61), Mr. T (57), Judge Reinhold (52), Nick Cassavetes (50), Fairuza Balk (35) and Ashlie Brillault (22)

Love conspiracies?

Here's a list of websites I got in my email for whatever that turns you on:

TARGETED INDIVIDUAL and a member of THE WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE AND ABUSE USING DIRECTED ENERGY AND NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS

SECRET GEOPHYSICAL, DIRECTED ENERGY, NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS -TECHNICAL & POLITICAL/HISTORICAL INFORMATION

** FROM PRAVDA - SECRET GEOPHYSICAL WEAPONS – "UNPREDICTABLE NATURAL DISASTERS AND MAN-CAUSED CATASTROPHES"

WEB: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/15/42068.html

SECRET GEOPHYSICAL WEAPONS
WEB: http://www.rense.com/general28/deathray.htm

** JOHN ST. CLAIR AKWEI VS. NSA, FT. MEADE, MD, USA
WEB: http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/akwei.html

** SYSTEMS OF SURVEILLANCE
WEB: http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/resources.html

** MIND CONTROL & SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTION – 100 USA PATENTS
WEB: http://www.rexresearch.com/sublimin/sublimin.htm

** MONARCH THE NEW PHOENIX PROGRAM
WEB: http://www.monarchnewphoenix.com/Books/MKULTRA1960.doc
http://www.myspace.com/marsboy683
EMAIL: marsboy683@yahoo.com

** ABOUT THE CAUSES OF THE 2ND WORLD WAR
WEB: http://www.agitprop.org.au/lefthistory/1948_falsifiers_of_history.php

BUSH/USA – WAR CRIMES & HITLER CONNECTIONS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/all-the-presidents-nazis_b_102022.html

ON THE NEED FOR NEW CRITERIA OF DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOSIS IN THE LIGHT OF MIND INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY, CAROLE SMITH, JOURNAL OF PSYCHO-SOCIAL STUDIES , VOL 2(2) NO 3 2003
WEB: http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/NewCrit-JPSS-CS2.htm

PROJECT CENSORED
WEB: http://www.projectcensored.org/

GLOBAL RESEARCH
WEB: http://www.globalresearch.ca/

WANTTOKNOW.INFO/MINDCONTROL
WEB: http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol10pg

** USA REPRESENTATIVE JIM GUEST'S (MO) LETTER
WEB: http://www.freedomfchs.com/repjimguestltr.pdf

Spit

I was standing in the queue for the Q28 bus in Flushing and was waiting by a group of High School kids also waiting. There were about six of them, and they all took turns spitting about every 15 seconds. It was repulsive. What is wrong with an entire bunch of kids that they need to clam so often? If this behavior were an aberration it might not be so bad, but this happens regularly. Girls. Boys. All standing around in groups spitting. What the phuc is going on???

Some missed birthdays

I just thought it was funny how many OBVIOUS porno names there were on the IMDB birthday list yesterday...

January 23rd

• Tiffani Thiessen (34): actress, Saved by the Bell
• Jas (25), Veronika Vanoza (26), K.C. Lane (27), Gina Ryder (31), Dic Tracy (33), Bambi (III) (36), Nikki Fuller (40): t3h pr0n
• Tito Ortiz (I) (33): ultimate fighter, caveman, hits it with Jenna Jameson