Monday, November 2, 2026

odontoid \ oh-DON-toid \ , adjective; 

• of or resembling a tooth; toothlike. 

Origin: Odontoid entered English in the early 1700s from the Greek word odontoeidḗs meaning "toothlike." 

Columbusing

• When liberal white women accuse white people of having invented/discovered something that has been around for years, decades, even centuries.

Miley Cyrus is totally Columbusing with this twerking shit.

Holiday

• Dia De los Muertos (Mexico)
  

History

• North Dakota : became the 39th state; South Dakota became No. 40 on the same day (1889)
• Balfour Declaration: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" (1917)
• Spruce Goose: made of birch, not spruce, the largest flying boat was flown on its first and only flight by its designer, billionaire Howard Hughes (1947)
• Levelland UFO sighting: several separate witnesses in Texas claimed to have seen, late at night, a bright egg-shaped object near which their car engines died (1957)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover: in Britain, publisher Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity for printing the D.H. Lawrence novel (1960)

Birthdays

• Daniel Boone 1734
• James Knox Polk (U.S.) 1795
• Warren G. Harding (U.S.) 1865
• Paul Ford 1901
• Burt Lancaster 1913
• Ray Walston 1914
• Ann Rutherford 1920
• Charlie Walker 1926
• Earl "Speedo" Carroll (The Coasters) 1937
• Patrick J. Buchanan 1938
• Jay Black (Jay and The Americans) 1938
• David Stockton 1941
• Shere Hite 1942
• Stefanie Powers 1942
• Keith Emmerson (ELP) 1944
• Maxine Nightingale 1953
• Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses) 1960
• k.d. lang 1961
• Bobby Dall (Poison) 1961
• Ron McGovney 1962 - Musician (Metallica)
• David Schwimmer 1966 - Actor ("Friends")
• Alvin Chea (Take 6) 1967
• Charlie 'Steele' Pennachio (Linear) 1967
• Brandi Brandt (Playboy Centerfold 10/87) 1968
• Nelly 1974 - Pop-rapper
  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

 

  

Sunday, November 1, 2026

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poltergeist \ POHL-ter-gahyst \ , noun; 

• a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc. 

Origin: Poltergeist comes directly from the German word of the same spelling which entered English in the 1850s. The term comes from the German word polter meaning "to make noise, knock, rattle" and Geist meaning "ghost."

ebola-head

• somebody with ebola; or an insult for a person who gets somebody worked-up.

My dad is an ebola-head because he installed spy software on my laptop!

 

Holidays

• All Saints' Day (Christianity)
• Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, Mexico — 2 days)

History

• 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
• 1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
• 1879 - Thomas Edison executed his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898).
• 1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.
• 1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
  1963 - The Arecibo Radio-Telescope Observatory in Puerto Rico officially opens.  
• 1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.
  2014 - Wayne "Static" Wells was found dead from a drug overdose. 

 

Birthdays

• Stephen Crane 1871
• James Kilpatrick 1920
• Lou Donaldson 1926
• Betsy Palmer 1929
• Gary Player 1935
• Bill Anderson 1937
• Barbara Bosson 1939
• Robert Foxworth 1941
• Larry Flynt 1942
• Marcia Wallace 1942
• Chris Morris (Paper Lace) 1944
• Rick Grech (Blind Faith, Traffic) 1946
• Ted Hendricks (NFL) 1947
  
• Jeannie Berlin 1949
• Dan Peek (America) 1950
• Ronald Bell (Kool and the Gang) 1951
• Keith Stegall 1954
• Lyle Lovett 1957
• Rachel Ticotin 1958
• Eddie McDonald (The Alarm) 1959
• Fernando Valenzuela (MLB) 1960
• Mags Furuholmen (a-ha) 1962
• Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
• Rick Allen (Def Leppard) 1963
• Willie D (Geto Boys) 1966
  
• Sophie B. Hawkins 1967
• Alex James (Blur) 1968
• Dale Wallace (Emerson Drive) 1969
• Toni Collette 1972
• Jenny McCarthy 1972
• Andrew Gonzales (Reel Big Fish) 1972
• Helene Udy 1976
• LaTavia Marie Roberson 1981 - Singer (Destiny's Child)
• Penn Badgley 1986

  

 

  

Sunday, October 18, 2026

calvous \ KAL-vuhs \ , adjective;

• lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald. 

Origin: Calvous is derived from the New Latin word calvus meaning “bald.”

cuddle call

• a phone call (or a text) to arrange an immediate cuddle date. Not a booty call but similar in the call for satisfaction nature of the behavior.

"Hey Baby. What's going on?"

"Hi. Cuddle Call?"

"See you in ten minutes"

  

 

History

• Great Basel Earthquake: Swiss city was destroyed, along with parts of France and Germany (1356)
• Edict of Nantes: law that had granted religious liberties to Protestants was revoked by Louis XIV and replaced with the Edict of Fontainebleau; many Protestants left France as a result (1685)
• Moby-Dick: Herman Melville's novel about Captain Ahab's quest was published; it was originally entitled The Whale (1851)
• Alaska: territory known as "Seward's Folly" was purchased by the US from Russia for approximately $7 million in gold bullion (1867)
• Persons Case: a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruling in Edwards v. Canada determined that in Canada women could be defined as persons for political purposes (1929)

Birthdays

• Giovanni Canaletto 1697
• Salomon Andree 1854
• Henri Bergson 1859
• Lotte Lenya 1898
  
• Miriam Hopkins 1902
• James Brooks 1906
• Bobby Troup 1918
• Anita O'Day 1919
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canada) 1919
• Melina Mercouri 1923
• Chuck Berry 1926
• George C. Scott 1927
• Keith Jackson 1928
• Violeta Barrios de Chamorro 1929
• Forrest Gregg (NFL) 1933
• Inger Stevens 1934
• Peter Boyle 1935
  
• Mike Ditka (NFL) 1939
• Lee Harvey Oswald 1939
• Willie Horton (MLB) 1942
• Russ Giguere (The Association) 1943
• Joe Morton 1947
• Laura Nyro 1947
• Paulette Williams 1948
• Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon) 1949
• Wendy Wasserstein 1950
• Pam Dawber 1951
• Terry McMillan 1951
• Jerry Royster (MLB) 1952
• Keith Knudsen (The Doobie Brothers) 1952
  
• Martina Navratilova 1956
• Thomas Hearns 1958
• Jean-Claude Van Damme 1960
• Erin Moran 1961
• Wynton Marsalis 1961
• Vincent Spano 1962
• Tim Cross (Sponge) 1966
• Michael Stich 1968
• Nonchalant 1973
• Peter Svenson (The Cardigans) 1974
• Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr.) - Singer, rapper
• Jesse Littleton (Marshall Dyllon) 1981
• Frieda Selena Pinto 1984
• Tyler Posey 1991 - Actor

  

 

 

 

 

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

crinose \ KRAHY-nohs, KRIN-ohs \ , adjective; 

• hairy. 

Origin: Crinose finds its origin in the Latin crinīs meaning "hair." The suffix -ose is used in formation of adjectives borrowed from Latin to denote "full" or "abounding in." Crinose entered English in the 1720s.

hinky

• Something as yet undefinable is wrong, out of place; not quite right.

There's something hinky about the deal.

History

• Siege of Jerusalem: Islamic military leader Saladin retook the holy city from the Crusaders (1187)
• HMS Beagle: naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England after a five-year sea voyage, during which he formulated his theory of natural selection (1836)
• Opus Dei: Roman Catholic organization was founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá; it was popularized in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (1928)
• The first episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE premiered on television (1959)
• Thurgood Marshall: was sworn in as the Supreme Court's first African American justice (1967)
• Rock Hudson: movie star died of AIDS; he was the first celebrity to announce he had the disease (1985)

Birthdays

• Richard III 1452 - He married the widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life
• Mahatma Gandhi 1869

  
  
• Wallace Stevens 1879
• Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life"
• Ruth Cheney Streeter 1895 - The first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
• Bud Abbott 1895
• Graham Greene 1904
• Paul Goldsmith 1927
• Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) 1927
• George "Spanky" McFarland 1928
• Moses Gunn 1929
• Maury Wills 1932
• Rex Reed 1938
• Don McLean 1945
• Jo-el Sonnier 1946
• Donna Karan 1948
• Chris LeDoux 1948
• Avery Brooks 1948

  
• Richard Hell 1949
• Annie Leibovitz 1949
• Mike Rutherford (Mike & the Mechanics, Genesis) 1950
• Gordon "Sting" Sumner (Police) 1951
• Philip Oakey (Human League) 1955
• Freddie Jackson 1956
• Bud Gaugh (Sublime) 1967
• Dion Allen (Az Yet) 1970
• Kelly Ripa 1970 actress, MILF
  Jim "#4" Root 1971 Guitarist: SlipKnot / Stone Sour, formerly Mr. Cristina Scabbia
• Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch) 1971
• LaTocha Scott (Xscape) 1973