
Monday, February 16, 2026
Monday, February 16, 2026
slake \sleyk\, verb:
1. to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
2. to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc.: His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
3. to cause disintegration of (lime) by treatment with water.
Slake comes from Middle English slaken, "to become or render slack," hence "to abate," from Old English slacian, from slæc, "slack."
get off my planet
- a nicer way of telling someone "get lost and leave me alone"
mom: David, go do your homeowrk.
David: get off my planet, i am going to Adam's house.
mom: I refuse to help you to save your sinking Titanic Holiday
- President's Day
- Washington's Birthday (2/16/18)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Guts or Balls?
Guts or Balls? There is a medical distinction.
We've all heard about people having guts or balls, but do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, and to alleviate further confusion, the following definitions are listed below:
GUTS - Is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: 'Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?'
We've all heard about people having guts or balls, but do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, and to alleviate further confusion, the following definitions are listed below:
GUTS - Is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: 'Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?'
BALLS - Is coming home late after a night out with the guys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the butt and having the balls to say: 'You're next, Chubby.'
I hope this clears up any confusion on the definitions.
Medically speaking, there is no difference in the outcome, since both ultimately result in death.
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Sunday, February 15, 2026
galligaskins \gal-i-GAS-kinz\, noun:
1. leggings or gaiters, usually of leather.
2. loose hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Galligaskins is of obscure origin, though it's often associated with the now-obsolete French word garguesques. It entered English in the 1570s.
page clicker
- An eBook that is exciting to read and hard to put down.
While reading Neil deGrass Tyson's Autobiography on my Amazon Kindle and his personal account of the events of September 11th 2001 I found the eBook to be a real page clicker as I became absorbed in the story.
History
- USS Maine: exploded and sank in Havana harbor, helping to provoke the Spanish-American War (1898)
- Decimal Day: the UK and Ireland switched their currencies to a decimal system (1971)
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan, nine years after the invasion began (1989)
- Canadian flag: red-and-white maple leaf banner was adopted (1965)
- YouTube: video sharing website launched in the US (2005)

Birthdays
- Galileo Galilei 1564 - Astronomer
- John Sutter 1803
- Cyrus McCormick (Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr.) 1809 - Inventor
- Charles Tiffany 1812
- Susan B. Anthony 1820 - American suffragist
- Cesar Romero 1907
- Kevin McCarthy 1914
- Hank Locklin 1918
- Harvey Korman 1927
- Graham Hill 1929
- Claire Bloom 1931
- Gerhard M. Sessler 1931
- Adolfo (Adolfo Sardina) 1933
- Susan Brownmiller 1935
- Bill Bradley (Will Jr.) 1938
- Brian Holland 1941 - Songwriter
- Mick Avory (The Kinks) 1944
- John Helliwell (Supertramp) 1945
- Rusty Hamer 1947
- David Brown (Santana) 1947
- Sherry (Sharon) Jackson 1947
- Marisa Berenson 1948
- Melissa Manchester 1951 - Singer
- Matt Groenig 1954 - Cartoonist ("The Simpsons")
- Ali Campbell 1959 - Musician (UB40)
- Mikey Craig 1960 - Musician (Culture Club)
- Darrel Green 1960 - Football player
- Chris Farley 1964
- Michael Easton 1967
- Emily May Young 1970
- Renee O'Connor 1971
- Jaromir Jagr 1972 - Hockey player
- Brandon Boyd 1976
- Ashley Lyn Cafagna 1983

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Saturday, February 14, 2026
VD - 2026
Today is Valentine's Day, but do you know what it's origin? Here it is from answers.com:
The origins of Valentine's Day, like the origins of love itself, are somewhat obscure — a combination of myth, history, destiny, chance and marketing.
Legend has it that a certain third-century priest named Valentine persisted in performing marriage ceremonies despite a ban by the Roman emperor Claudius II (Claudius was persuaded that single men made better soldiers for his army). Thrown into jail, Valentine formed a relationship with his jailor's daughter (some say he cured her blindness) and he signed his last message to her "From your Valentine," a phrase which still gets a lot of mileage.
St. Valentine was executed on February 14, circa the year 270, and his remains (probably his, but there were two other Christian martyrs called Valentine) are now on display in the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin.
There are also reports of an ancient pagan custom that took place in preparation for the Roman festival of Lupercalia, which started February 15. The names of the town's maidens would be collected and then drawn at random by the local bachelors; in this fashion couples were paired off for the year.
Third, medieval Europeans thought February 14 was the date on which the birds started to mate. (There's no record of when the bees started.) From "Parlement of Foules," a poem by Chaucer:
"for this was on seynt Volantynys day/ Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his mate.
Starting on Valentine's Day 1400, the French royal court held a Cour Amoreuse, in which ministers met after mass in "joyous recreation and talk about love." Love poems were presented before the ladies, who judged them and awarded a golden crown for the best one.
St. Valentine's Day was on the official Church list of feast days from 496, when Pope Gelasius I established it, until 1969, when Pope Paul VI dropped it from the calendar.
The first valentine on record was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. That message is on display in the British Library. In the 1840s a Massachusetts woman called Esther Howland came up with the idea of mass-producing Valentine's Day cards; now, about a billion are sent yearly, mostly by women.
Valentine's Day gifts, however, are another matter — there, American men outspend women two to one. The most popular gifts, according to the National Retail Federation, are (in descending order): candy/chocolate, dinner/a night out, flowers, and jewelry.
That aside, in modern times this day is more like a "Hallmark Holiday" with an added element of legalized prostitution. If a man gives his lady an acceptable gift (the Hallmark part. You better damn well have a card and SOMETHING "romantic" such as dinner, flowers, candy, etc.) and in exchange you hope to score. If you're dating you are likely to have a fun night, if you're married, this is one of those "sex holidays."
To all the ladies out there, I suggest you give some up to your man, and to all the men out there, I hope you get lucky. Happy Valentine's Day!
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Saturday February 14, 2026
boffin \BOF-in\, noun:
- a scientist or technical expert.

billet-doux \bil-ay-DOO\, noun; plural billets-doux \bil-ay-DOO(Z)\:
- A love letter or note.
In French, billet-doux means "sweet note;" or "short note" (billet, "note" + doux, "sweet," from Latin dulcis).
- acronym for made for each other
love
- nature's way of tricking people into reproducing
valentine shame kleenex
- 2ply partner-in-a-box usually found on the floor in a ball on February 15th.
I can tell Con didnt have a date, she must have watched love actually by herself last night, look at all the valentine shame kleenexs all over her room.
Valentines day
- A Pointless and worthless day invented by Hersheys Confectionary Co and Joining forces with Teleflora Florists and Corbans Wine Makers just so they can profit out of Wine, Cholocates and Flowers, while single people suffer at the clutches of the hands of this evil and corrupt capitalist-orientated day that is not even a fucking holiday period.
Valentines Day should be banned and all those celebrating it shot.

Valentime's Day
- The 14th of February. It falls on the same day as [Valentine's Day] except this one is only celebrated by 5 year olds.
My daughter rocks, she got Valentimes from all the boys at school on Valentime's Day.
Holiday
- St. Valentine's Day: celebrated in various American and European countries by the exchange of valentines or love tokens. Also called Valentine's Day. (now go get some ass!)
- St. Valentine's Day massacre: seven gangsters were killed as Al Capone's gang ambushed Bugs Moran's (1929)
- ENIAC: "Giant Brain" Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was unveiled at theUniversity of Pennsylvania (1946)
- fatwa: edict was issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urging Muslims to kill Satanic Versesauthor Salman Rushdie (1989)
- NEAR Shoemaker: space probe went into orbit around 433 Eros, becoming the first craft to orbit an asteroid (2000)
- Dolly the sheep: the first cloned mammal was put to sleep at age 6.5, suffering from lung cancer (2003)
Birthdays
- Christopher Sholes 1819
- George Ferris 1859
- Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894 - Comedian
- James Pike 1913
- Jimmy Hoffa 1913
- Mel Allen (Israel) 1913
- Hugh Downs 1921
- Skeezix Wallet 1921
- Cesare Siepi 1923
- Donna Atwood 1923
- Elliot Lawrence 1925
- Frank Borman 1928
- Phyllis McGuire 1931 - Singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- Florence Henderson 1934 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
- Andrew Prine 1936
- Razzy Bailey 1939
- Lillie Bryant 1940 - Singer (Billy & Lillie)
- Ricardo Rodriguez 1942
- Michael Bloomberg 1942 - tyrant
- Bob Murphy 1943
- Maceo Parker 1943
- Alan Parker 1944 - Director
- Carl Bernstein 1944 - Journalist
- Gregory Hines 1946
- Pat O'Brien 1948 - Television personality
- Raymond Joseph Teller 1948 - Comedian, magician (Pen and Teller)
- Roger Fisher 1950 - Musician (Heart)
- Jo Jo (Alicia) Starbuck 1951
- Michael Doucet (Beausoleil) 1951
- Ken Wahl 1957 - Actor ("Wiseguy")
- Meg Tilly 1960 - Actress ("The Big Chill," "Agnes of God")
- Jim Kelly 1960 - Football player
- Dwayne Wiggins 1961
- Enrico Colantoni 1963
- Rickey Wolking 1966 - Musician (The Nixons)
- Manuela Maleeva 1967
- Elaine Youngs 1970
- Simon Pegg 1970 - Actor
- Drew Bledsoe 1972 - Football player
- Kevin Blades 1972 - Musician (Lit)
- Rob Thomas 1972 - Musician (Matchbox 20)
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