Saturday, June 14, 2025

mordacious \mawr-DEY-shuhs\, adjective:

1. sharp or caustic in style, tone, etc.

2. biting or given to biting.

Mordacious came into English in the 1640s from the Latin word mordāx meaning "given to biting."

 

government

• government is like a condom in that it allows for inflation, halts production, destroys subsequent generations, protects a bunch of pricks, and provides its constituents with a sense of security while they are actually being screwed.

... too many to list.

oh yea, government.

Holiday

• Flag Day (US)

History

• Munich: Benedictine monks founded the Bavarian city on the banks of the Isar River (1158)
• US Army: was founded to fight the British (1775)
• Bear Flag Revolt: the California Republic was declared by Sonoma settlers while California was still ruled by Mexico (1846)
• UNIVAC I: the first commercial computer was dedicated at the US Census Bureau (1951)
• Pledge of Allegiance: President Eisenhower signed the order inserting the words "under God" (1954)
• Falkland Islands: military dispute ended as Argentine forces surrendered to the British (1982)

Birthdays

• Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811
• Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax 1848
• Burl Ives 1909
• Dorothy McGuire 1916
• Sam Wanamaker 1919
• Gene Barry 1921
• Pierre Salinger 1925
• Don Newcombe 1926 - Baseball player
• Cy Coleman 1928
• Che Guevarra 1928 - racist socialist
• Marla Gibbs 1931 - Actress, producer
• Jerzy Kosinski 1933
• Jack Bannon 1940
• Muff Winwood 1943 - Musician (Spencer Davis Group)
• Rod Argent 1945 - Musician (The Zombies, Argent)
• Donald Trump 1946 - POTUS
• Barry Melton 1947 - Musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
• Alan White 1949 - Musician (Yes)
• Eddie Mekka 1952 - Actor ("Laverne and Shirley")
• Will Patton 1954 - Actor
• Eric Heiden 1958 - Olympic gold-medal speed skater
• Boy George (George O'Dowd) 1961 - Singer (Culture Club)
• Chris DeGarmo 1963 - Musician (Queensryche)
• Yasmine Bleeth 1968 - Actress ("Baywatch")
• Steffi Graf 1969 - Tennis player
• Traylor Howard 1971 - Actress ("Monk," "Two Guys and a Girl")
• Diablo Cody 1978 - Screenwriter ("Juno")
• Kevin McHale 1988 - Actor ("Glee") 

  

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TGIF: Keep Calm!

WTF Friday - SURPRISE HENTAI!!!

I don't like where this is headed!

Have a wild weekend!

Friday, January 13, 2025: Friday the Thirteenth!

FRIDAY THE 13TH!

triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;

• fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. 

Origin: Triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek word for thirteen, triskaídeka and the Greek word for fear, phobos . It entered English in the early 1900s.

topos \TOH-pohs, -pos\, noun:

• a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.

Topos entered English in the 1930s directly from the Greek word meaning "place." It has always referred to a literary motif.

 

gloatgram

• an instagram post that features the user boasting about their life, usually in the form of food or leisure/travel.

person a: "did you see the gloatgram that kevin posted?"

person b: "no."

person a: "he was in tahiti sipping mai tai out of a golden chalice."

person b: "what a dick."

Holiday

• Friday the 13th: No one really knows the origin of the superstition about Friday the 13th, although in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, he suggested that it started with the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.

 

History

• Great Vancouver Fire: most of the Canadian city was destroyed by a fire that killed dozens of people and left only a few buildings standing; within days rebuilding began (1886)
• Boxer Rebellion: peasant uprising began in China (1900)
• Miranda vs. Arizona: the US Supreme Court issued its landmark decision ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to police questioning (1966)
• Thurgood Marshall: became the first black man to be nominated as a US Supreme Court justice; he served for 24 years (1967)
• Pioneer 10: the space probe flew out of the solar system, the first man-made object to do so (1983)
• Mehmet Ali Agca: would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II in 1981 was pardoned by Italy (2000)

Birthdays

• Gnaeus Julius Agricola 0040 - Roman general
• Winfield Scott 1786 - United States Army General
• James C. Maxwell 1831 - Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician
• William Butler Yeats 1865 - Poet, dramatist
• Harold "Red" Grange (Harold Edward "Red" Grange) 1903 - Football player nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost"
• Doc Cheatham 1905 - Musician
• Luis Walter Alvarez 1911 - Physicist, inventor
• Ralph Edwards (Ralph Livingstone Edwards) 1913 - Radio and television host, television producer
• Mary Wickes (Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser) 1916 - Actress
• Sy Zentner 1917 - Musician, bandleader
• Ben Johnson (Benjamin Sinclair "Ben" Johnson) 1918 - Sprinter
• Paul Lynde 1926 - Comedian, actor
• Bob McGrath 1932 - Actor ("Sesame Street")
• Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff) 1935 - Artist
• Siegfried 1939 - Magician (Siegfried & Roy)
• Bobby Freeman 1940 - Singer, songwriter, record producer
• Malcolm McDowell 1943 - Actor
• Dennis Locorriere 1949 - Musician (Dr. Hook)
• Jonathan Hogan 1951 - Actor
• Richard Thomas 1951 - Actor ("The Waltons")
• Stellan Skarsgard 1951 - Actor
• Tim Allen 1953 - Comedian, actor ("Home Improvement")
• Ally Sheedy 1962 - Actress
• Hannah Storm 1962 - Television host
• Bettina Bunge 1963 - Tennis player
• Deniece Pearson 1968 - Singer (Five Star)
• Jamie Walters 1969 - Actor, singer
• Steve-O 1974 - Actor
• Ethan Embry 1978 - Actor
• Sarah Schaub 1983 - Actress
• Kat Dennings 1986 Actress
• Ashley Olsen 1986 - Actress
• Mary-Kate Olsen 1986 - Actress

   

 

 

 

Turtle Thursday: Run for it!

Thursday, June 12, 2025

blather \BLATH-er\, verb:

• to talk or utter foolishly; blither; babble: The poor thing blathered for hours about the intricacies of his psyche.

noun:

• foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.

Blather comes from the Old Norse word blathra meaning "to chatter, blabber" or "nonsense."

 

Homance

• A "Homance" is the female equivalent of a Bromance. A homance is a strong love between two straight females, the relationship can be described as closer than friends but less than a dating relationship.

Man Ashley and Kristen have such a Homance!

We aren't Lesbians, We're bestfriends! We're a Homance!

 

Holiday

• Russia Day (Russia) (June 12, annually)

History

• Virginia: became the first state to adopt a bill of rights — the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
• perfect game: John Lee Richmond pitched the first MLB game in which no batter reached base during the entire nine innings (1880)
• Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: shrine to the US national pastime was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York (1939)
• Loving v. Virginia: US Supreme Court struck down all bans on interracial marriages (1967)
• Gossamer Albatross: human-powered aircraft was flown by Bryan Allen across the English Channel (1979)
• "Tear down this wall": challenge was issued by US President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; the Berlin Wall did indeed come down two years later (1987)
• $50 bill: new and improved design was unveiled by the US Treasury to help the elderly and hinder counterfeiters (1997)

  

Birthdays

• David Rockefeller 1915 - Banker
• Irwin Allen 1916 - Television and film producer, nicknamed "The Master of Disaster"
• Samuel Z. Arkoff 1918 - Movie producer
• Uta Hagen 1919 - Actress
• George H.W. Bush 1924 - 41st President of the United States, father of President George W. Bush
• Vic Damone 1928 - Singer
• Anne Frank (Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank) 1929 - Known for her diary which documented her experiences during World War II
• Jim Nabors 1930 - Actor, singer ("Gomer Pyle, USMC")
• Rona Jaffe 1932 - Novelist
• Robert Bower 1936 - Attorney
• Chick Corea 1941 - Musician
• Marv Albert 1941 - Sportscaster
• Reg Presley 1944 - Musician (The Troggs)
• Brad Delp 1951 - Musician (Boston)
• Bun E. Carlos 1951 - Musician (Cheap Trick)
• Junior Brown 1952 - Musician, singer
• Rocky Burnette (Jonathan Burnette) 1953 - Musician
• Timothy Busfield 1957 - Actor ("The West Wing," "thirtysomething")
• Jenilee Harrison 1959 - Actress (Threes Company)
  
• John Linnell 1959 - Musician (They Might Be Giants)
• Grandmaster Dee 1962 - Musician (Whodini)
• Paula Marshall 1964 - Actress ("Gary Unmarried")
• Frances O'Commor 1967 - Actress
  Bobby Sheehan 1968 - Musician (Blues Traveler)
  
• Hideki Matsui - Baseball player
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd 1977 - Musician
• Robyn (Robin Miriam Carlsson) 1979 - Singer, songwriter
• Wil Horneff 1979 - Actor
• Dallas Clark 1979 - Football player
• Adriana Lima 1981 - hot Brazilian supermodel
• Kendra Wilkinson 1985 - former Girl Next Door
  Abby Lee [Kershaw] 1987 - model, actress: Lovecraft Country