Quote of the day: 8/1/2026

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers

Saturday, August 1, 2026

transfigure \ trans-FIG-yer or, esp. British, -FIG-er \ , verb; 

1. to change in outward form or appearance; transform. 
2. to change so as to glorify or exalt. 

Origin: Transfigure came to English in the 14th century from the Latin trānsfigūrāre meaning "to change in shape." 

SFA

• sweet 
• fuck 
• all
• Amounting to nothing or very little

Wow what a waste, I did SFA this weekend.

History

• Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
• WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
• Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
• MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

Birthdays

• Francis Scott Key 1779
• Herman Melville 1819
• Arthur Hill 1922
• Lionel Bart 1930
• Geoffrey Holder 1930
• Tom Wilson 1931
• Ramblin' Jack Elliot 1931
• Dom DeLuise 1933
• Yves Saint Laurent 1936
• Giancarlo Giannini 1942
• Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942
• Boz Burrell (Bad Company) 1946
  
• Tim Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1951
• Robert Cray 1953
• Michael Penn 1958
• Robert Buck (10,000 Maniacs) 1958
• Joe Elliot (Def Leppard) 1959
• Suzi Gardner (L7) 1960
• Chuck D (Public Enemy) 1960
• Coolio 1963
• Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) 1964
• George Ducas 1966
• Charlie Kelley (Buffalo Club) 1968
• Tempestt Bledsoe 1973
• Taylor Fry 1981
• Asheley Angel (O-Town) 1981

  

 

  

March Out! NIN

I can't think of a better way to end the work week than with March Of The Pigs by Nine Inch Nails!

 

 

Vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhK-rzjfUMw

march of the pigs 

by nin

 step right up march push
crawl right up on your knees
please greed feed (no time to hesitate)
i want a little bit i want a piece of it i think he's losing it
i want to watch it come down
don't like the look of it don't like the taste of it don' like the smell of it
i want to watch it come down
all the pigs are lined up
i give you all that you want
take the skin and peel it back
now doesn't it make you feel better?
shove it up inside surprise! lies
stains like the blood on your teeth
bite chew suck away the tender parts
i want to break it up i want to smash it up i want to fuck it up
i want to watch it come down
maybe afraid of it let's discredit it let's pick away at it
i want to watch it come down
now doesn't it make you feel better?
the pigs have won tonight
now they can all sleep soundly
and everything is all right

WTF: Victoria "Posh" Beckham describes to Kate Beckinsale how big just one of my nuts is

Friday, July 31, 2026

gallinipper \ GAL-uh-nip-er \ , noun; 

• Informal . any of various insects that sting or bite, especially a large American mosquito, Psorophora ciliata.

Origin: Gallinipper came to English in the late 1600s. Though its origins are uncertain, the second element of the word likely comes from the term nipper , which has referred to an animal that bites since the 1530s. 

guy time

• When men have quality time together, and do "guy" things. This is usually referred to when a guy wants to hang out with his friends. A man might tell his girl friend or significant other that he's about to or would like to participate in this.

"Hey babe, me and my friends are gonna have some guy time this week..."

 
History

• Trinidad: island in the Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus (1498)
• Samuel Hopkins: received the first US patent for a process of making fertilizer (1790)
• Christchurch: became the first New Zealand city to be chartered (1856)
• NYSE: closed due to the outbreak of World War I, but opened again four months later to help the war effort by selling bonds (1914)
• K2: the world's second-highest peak, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, was summited for the first time, by an Italian team (1954)

Birthdays

• Maximilian II 1527 - Holy Roman Emperor
• S.S. Kresge 1867
• George Liberace 1911
• Milton Friedman 1912
• Bryan Hextall 1913
• William Todman 1913
• Hank Jones 1918
• Curt Gowdy 1919
• Hank Bauer 1922
• Don Murray 1929
• Kenny Burrell 1931
• Geoffrey Lewis 1935
• France Nuyen 1939
• John West 1939 - Musician (Gary Lewis and the Playboys)
• Lobo 1943
• Susan Flannery 1943
• Sherry Lansing 1944
• Geraldine Chaplin 1944
• Bob Welch 1946 - Musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• Gary Lewis 1946 - Musician (Gary Lewis and the Playboys)
• Karl Green 1947 - Musician (Herman's Hermits)
• Barry Van Dyke 1951
• Evonne Goolagong 1951
• Alan Autry 1952 - Actor
• James Read 1953
• Michael Biehn 1956 - actor (Terminator, ALIENS)
• Bill Berry 1956 - Musician (R.E.M.)
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• Daniel Ash 1957 - Musician (Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, Love and Rockets)
• Wesley Snipes 1962
• Norman Cook 1963 - Musician (Housemartins)
• J.K. Rowling 1965 - Author (Harry Potter series)
• Dean Cain 1966
• Loren Dean 1969
• Annie Parisse 1975
• Robert Telfer 1977
• Will Champion 1978 - Musician (Coldplay)
• Evgeni Malkin 1986 - Hockey player

 

  

 

  

Turtle Thursday: Dot [2008]

This is one of our sadder stories. Above you see Dot, a red eared slider. She was very friendly, and demanded human contact. Unfortunately she couldn't get along with any of the other turtles. Her vicious ways nearly ended Dante's life. So we had to give Dot away. It broke our hearts, but it was for the greater good. Who knows what damage would've been dished out upon the others.

Thursday, July 30, 2026

beget \ bih-GET \ , verb; 

1. (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring). 
2. to cause; produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power . 

Origin: The term beget has been around in English since before 1000s. It is a cognate with the Old High German bigezzan.  

 

brush the horse

• When you are walking past someone in close proximity and your body parts touch theirs. Thus, making you feel uncomfortable.

Dude, that guy so just brushed the horse up on me.

Did that guy just brush the horse? I swear I felt his fupa on my back when he passed by me.

 

History

• Baltimore: port town and industrial center was founded (1729)
• "La Marseillaise": the French national anthem was first sung in Paris (1792)
• In God We Trust: became the official motto of the US (1956)
• Kim Philby: the Soviet news service announced that the British intelligence officer and double agent had defected to the USSR (1963)
• Medicare: insurance program for senior citizens was signed into US law (1965)
• Jimmy Hoffa: the former Teamsters president disappeared in suburban Detroit; he has never been found, but he is presumed dead (1975)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act: "Corporate Responsibility Act" — that tightened control of financial reporting and reduced the potential for fraud — was signed into law by President George Bush (2002)

Birthdays

• Emily Bronte 1818
• Thornstein Velben 1857
• Henry Ford 1863
• Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin 1889 - Invented the iconoscope, called the "Father of Television"
• Casey Stengel 1890
• Henry Moore 1898
• Dick Wilson 1916
• Richard Johnson 1927
• Christine McGuire (The McGuire Sisters) 1929
• Thomas Sowell 1930
  
• Edd "Kookie" Byrnes 1933
• Ben Piazza 1934
• Buddy Guy 1936
• Joe Nuxhall 1938
• Eleanor Smeal 1939
• Peter Bogdanovich 1939
• Paul Anka 1941
• David Sanborn 1945
• William Atherton 1947
• Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947
• Jean Reno 1948
  
• Frank Stallone 1950
• Ken Olin 1954
• Anita Hill 1956
• Delta Burke 1956
• Rat Scabies (Damned) 1957
• Kate Bush 1958
• Richard Burgi 1958
  
• Neal McCoy 1961
• Laurence Fishburne 1961
• Lisa Kudrow 1963 - Actress ("Friends")
• Vivica A. Fox 1964
• Dwayne O'Brien (Little Texas) 1964
• Christine Taylor 1971
• Hillary Swank 1974
• Jaime Pressly 1977
• April Bowlby 1980 
  
  

   

 

   

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

 

  

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Eris and Pluto

Spotlight: Easy come, easy go. On this date in 2005, astronomers announced the discovery of Eris, a heavenly body slightly larger than Pluto, and called it the 10th planet. The International Astronomical Union did a little further research and decided that both bodies were too small to be official planets, so Eris and Pluto were demoted to the official designation of dwarf planet. Along with its moon, Dysnomia, Eris is the most distant known object in orbit around the sun. The word "pluto" took on a new meaning with this move — it came to be defined as "to demote or devalue someone or something."

 

Quote: "Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing." — Yoda, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

ambulant \ AM-byuh-luhnt \ , adjective;

1. moving from place to place; itinerant; shifting. 
2. Medicine/Medical . a. not confined to bed; able or strong enough to walk. b. serving patients who are able to walk. 

Origin: Ambulant comes from the Latin ambulāre meaning "to walk." It entered English in the mid-1600s. 

bats in the cave

• visible clumps of nose goblins, often found clinging to nasal hair.

"you need to blow your nose, you got some serious bats in the cave!!"

 

History

• Spanish Armada: was defeated by the English, led by Sir Francis Drake (1588)
  
• NASA: President Eisenhower signed a bill creating the space agency (1958)
• Lady Di: married Prince Charles at St. Paul's Cathedral in London (1981)
• switch hitter: Red Sox batter Bill Mueller became the first Major League Baseball player to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a single game (2003)
• Eris, a heavenly body slightly larger than Pluto, was discovered and called it the 10th planet. (2005)

Birthdays

• Booth Tarkington 1869
  
• Benito Mussolini 1883
• Sigmund Romberg 1887
• Theda Bara 1890
• Clara Bow 1894
• Melvin Belli 1907
• Stephen McNally 1913
• Richard Egan 1923
• Lloyd Bochner 1924
• Robert Horton 1924
• Ted Lindsay 1925
• Don Carter 1926
• Paul Taylor 1930
• Randy Sparks (New Christy Minstrels) 1933
• Robert Fuller 1934
• Peter Jennings 1938
• David Warner 1941
• Neal Doughty (REO Speedwagon) 1946
• Simon Kirk (Bad Company) 1949
• Ken Burns 1953
• Geddy Lee (Rush) 1953
• Michael Biehn 1956
• Patti Scialia (E Street Band) 1956
• Alexandra Paul 1963
• Martina McBride 1966
• Chris Gorman (Belly) 1967
• Wil Wheaton 1972
• Stephen Dorff 1973
• Wanya Morris (Boyz II Men) 1973