Saturday, November 14, 2026

azoth \ AZ-oth \ , noun;

1. the universal remedy of Paracelsus. 
2. mercury, regarded by alchemists as the assumed first principle of all metals. 

Origin: Azoth is derived from the Arabic word az zā'ūq which meant quicksilver or mercury.

007

• The codename of legendary Secret Service Agent, James Bond

And please double ough seven, try not to destroy this one car.

 

 

bacontarian

• A person who claims to be a true vegetarian but knowingly supplements their diet with small amounts of bacon, bacon bits, and bacon fat.

My friend Sagar, a true Bacontarian, claims to be a true vegetarian but also eats meals where bacon is added.

Trivia

Why did author J. K. Rowling use initials rather than her full name when she launched her Harry Potter series?

• She had been told young boys might object to reading a book written by a woman. So Joanne Rowling—who had no middle name—borrowed the K from her late grandmother Kathleen and became J. K. Rowling.

 

History

• Moby Dick: the famous Herman Melville novel was published (1851)
• Nellie Bly: New York journalist began her around-the-world-in-72-days trip, beating the time of Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1889)
• Coventry: central England city was largely reduced to rubble by Nazi air raids (1940)
• Apollo 12: second successful manned mission to the moon was launched (1969)
• Sedna: this trans-Neptunian object and very far-away dwarf planet candidate was discovered (2003)

Birthdays

• William III (Britain) 1650
• Robert Fulton 1765
• Claude Monet 1840
• Jawaharlal Nehru 1889
• Aaron Copland 1900
• Dick Powell 1904
• Joseph McCarthy 1909
• Rosemary DeCamp 1910
• Barbara Hutton 1912
• Martha Tilton 1915
• Howard Duff 1917
• Johnny Desmond 1920
• Brian Keith 1921
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922
• Phyllis Avery 1924
• Kathleen Hughes 1928
• McLean Stevenson 1929
• Fred Haise 1933
• Ellis Marsalis 1934
• Don Stewart 1935
• Carey Bell 1936
• Freddie Garrity (Freddie & the Dreamers) 1940
• P.J. O'Rourke 1947
• Buckwheat Zydeco 1947
• James Young (Styx) 1948
• Prince Charles (England) 1948
• Stephen Bishop 1951
• Yanni 1954 - Musician
• D.B. Sweeney 1961
• Laura San Giacomo 1961
• Run (Run D.M.C.) 1964
• Patrick Warburton 1964
• Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads) 1964
• Jeannette Jurado (Expose) 1965
• Butch Walker (Marvelous 3) 1969
• Shyheim 1977
• Olga Kurylenko 1979 

 

 

  

 

  

Rock out with some DK! 2026

To mark the assassination of JFK, this weekend, I thought I'd post some Dead Kennedys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I

"Kill The Poor"

Efficiency and progress is ours once more 
Now that we have the Neutron bomb 
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done 
Away with excess enemy 
But no less value to property 
No sense in war but perfect sense at home: 

The sun beams down on a brand new day 
No more welfare tax to pay 
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light 
Jobless millions whisked away 
At last we have more room to play 
All systems go to kill the poor tonight 

Gonna 
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight 

Behold the sparkle of champagne 
The crime rate's gone 
Feel free again 
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White 
Jane Fonda on the screen today 
Convinced the liberals it's okay 
So let's get dressed and dance away the night 

While they: 
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

WTF Friday - An Unbelievably AWFUL Adventure

Summed up pefectly with

The adventures of

THE MAN WITH NO PENIS

Friday, November 13, 2026 - 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.

boobook \ BOO-book, -book \ , noun; 

• a small, reddish-brown spotted owl, Ninox boobook , native to Australia and New Zealand. 

Origin: Boobook comes from Dharuk, a now-extinct Australian aboriginal language. The word is said to be imitative of the sound the bird makes.

brown out

• Less intense than the experience of "blacking out" when drunk and not remembering portions (or all) of your night, "browning out" occurs when you don't remember something until someone brings it up. It's not a complete blackout, but partial, because you remember once someone refreshes you.

I didn't even remember making out with Bryanne until J-Lo told me (it must not have been that good)! I definitely had a brown out last night.

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

• Saint Brice's Day Massacre: King Ethelred of England ordered the murder of all Danes in his country (1002)
  
• death & taxes: Benjamin Franklin listed life's two certainties in a letter (1789)
• Holland Tunnel: the world's first long, mechanically-ventilated, underwater tunnel opened between New York and New Jersey (1927)
• Fantasia: animated musical Disney film premiered (1940)
• Bhola cyclone: the 20th century's greatest natural disaster killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh (1970 )
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "the Wall," designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC (1982)

Birthdays 

• Edwin Booth 1833
• Robert Louis Stevenson 1850
• Louis Brandeis 1856
• Alexander Scourby 1913
• Nathaniel Benchley 1915
• Jack Elam 1916
• Oskar Werner 1922
• Clyde McPhatter (Drifters) 1933
• Joonas Kokkonen 1921
• Madeleine Sherwood 1922
• Linda Christian 1924
• Richard Mulligan 1932
• Garry Marshall 1934
• Jean Seberg 1938
• Dack (Norman) Rambo 1941
• Ray Wylie Hubbard 1946
• Joe Mantegna 1947
• Whoopi Goldberg 1949
• Chris Noth 1957
• Tracy Scoggins 1959
• Caroline Goodall 1959
• Vinny Testaverde 1963
• Walter Kibby (Fishbone) 1964
• Jimmy Kimmel 1967
• Steve Zahn 1968
• Gerard Butler 1969 (The 300 Guy)

  

   

  

 

Turtle Thursday: Rhyme

 

TMNT!!!

Thursday, November 12, 2026

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hempy \ HEM-pee \ , adjective; 

• Scot . mischievous; often in trouble for mischief. 

Origin: Hempy comes from the late Middle English word hempi , which meant "made of hemp." This is thought to be a dark joke about one being fit for hanging by a hemp rope, and, by attenuation, mischievous.

Alex from Target

• Alex from Target is a hardcore pimp who recently gained fame as an Instagram sensation for reasons beyond the comprehension of any sane person.

Alex from Target bagged my bags when no one else would.

 

History

• Kenesaw Mountain Landis: judge was elected the first commissioner of baseball after the Black Sox scandal (1920)
• Leon Trotsky: was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the Soviet ruler (1927)
• Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge: eight-mile-long structure opened for traffic (1936)
• Ellis Island: the New York Harbor facility, which served more than 12 million immigrants, was closed (1954)

Birthdays

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815
• Auguste Rodin 1840
• Jo Stafford 1918
• Richard Quine 1920
• Kim Hunter 1922
• Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) 1922
• Grace Kelly 1929
• Jack Oakie 1930
• Charles Manson 1934
• Ruby Nash Curtis (Ruby & the Romantics) 1939
• Brian Hyland 1943
• Wallace Shawn 1943
• Valerie Leon 1943 (Bond Girl)
  
• Jimmy Hayes (Persuasions) 1943
  
• Al Michaels 1944
• Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) 1944
• Neil Young 1945
• Barbara Fairchild 1950
• Megan Mullally 1958
• Nadia Comaneci 1961
• David Ellefson (Megadeth) 1964
• Tony Montana (Great White) 1965
• Tonya Harding 1970
• Angela Watson 1974
• Tevin Campbell 1976
• Anne Hathaway 1982