Monday, October 19, 2026

pratfall \ PRAT-fawl \ , noun;

1. a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating. 
2. a humiliating blunder or defeat. 

Origin: Pratfall entered English in the 1930s. It combines prat and fall . The origin of prat is unknown. Fall comes from the Old English feallan.

haberdash

• A bunch of bullshit; unsupported bullshit; a notion stated a fact.

Aww, thats haberdash if he says he can jump across that huge river in one bound.

 

History

• Yorktown campaign: British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the land war of the American Revolution (1781)
• Black Monday: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 508 points — over 22% — setting a record for percentage decline that still stands (1987)
• Guildford Four: men wrongly convicted for a deadly IRA bombing were cleared after 15 years in jail (1989)

Birthdays

• Thomas Browne 1605
• Annie Peck 1850
• Charles Merrill 1885
• Robert Beatty 1909
• George Cates 1911
• Lawanda Page 1920
• Bern Bennett 1921
• George Nader 1921
• Jack Anderson 1922
• John le Carre 1931
• Robert Reed 1932
• Peter Max 1937
• Michael Gambon 1940
• Simon Ward 1941
• Peter Tosh 1944
• Divine 1945

• John Lithgow 1945
• Patricia Ireland 1945
• Jeannie C. Riley 1945
• Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) 1948
• Lynn Dickey (NFL) 1949
• Charlie Chase 1952
• Nino DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1956
• Karl Wallinger (Waterboys, World Party) 1957
• Michael Myers 1957 - The Shape / serial killer
  
• Jennifer Holliday 1960
• Evander Holyfield 1962
• Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1965
• Jon Favreau 1966
  
• Trey Parker 1969
• Chris Kattan 1970
• Pras Michel (The Fugees) 1972
• Omar Gooding 1976
• Cyndi Thompson 1976
• Benjamin Salisbury 1980
• Rebecca Ferguson 1983 (DUNE) 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

  

The Lie Detecting Robot

John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick His wife Marsha has long ago given up trying to get him to change.

One day, John came home about noon and told Marsha that he had gone to a nearby city and purchased a Robot. It was no ordinary robot, but it was in fact a Lie Detector. He said it had to charge 4 or 5 hours, and then he would show her how it worked.

At 5:30 that afternoon, Tommy, their 11 year old son, came in from school, nearly 2 hours and 15 minutes late. Both parents were understandably angry.

'Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?', they asked.

'Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project,' said Tommy.

The Robot walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him completely out of his chair.

'Son, this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you went after school'

'We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie.'

'What did you watch?', asked Marsha.

'The Ten Commandments.'

The Robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off his chair.

With lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, 'I am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen.'

'I'm ashamed of you Son,' said John. 'When I was your age, I never lied to my parents, never tried to see dirty pictures much less dirty movies, told dirty jokes, nor did I misbehave.'

The robot walked around to John and delivered a roundhouse right that not only knocked him out of his chair, but out the back door and half way across the patio.

When he came back inside, Marsha was bent double laughing, almost in tears. 'Boy, did you ever ask for that one! And you can't be too mad with Tommy. After all, he is your son!'

The Robot immediately walked around to Marsha, and literally slapped the shit out of her, not once, but three times.

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

  

 

 

 

 

  

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Can't argue with that