WTF Friday: Unexplainable

 

Friday, May 22, 2026

immure \ih-MYUR\, verb:

1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
2. To build into a wall.
3. To entomb in a wall.

Immure comes from Medieval Latin immurare, from Latin in-, "in" + murus, "wall." It is related to mural, a painting applied to a wall.

meatatarian

• A person who eats meat virtually to the exclusion of vegetables. The meatatarian often claims to be conserving veggies for those who would actually eat them, and keeps the veggies out of the waste stream, helping the environment, or keeping produce costs down.

Waiter: "What can I get you?" 
Mary: "A cheeseburger deluxe, hold the lettuce, tomato, coleslaw, and pickle." 
Waiter: "So you just want the burger and fries." 
Mary: "Yep, I'm a meatatarian."

History

• War of the Roses: series of civil wars began, pitting York against Lancaster (1455)
• Pact of Steel: Germany and Italy committed to a military alliance (1939)
• Truman Doctrine: became US law; it encouraged aid to countries under communist threat (1947)
• Richard Nixon: became the first American president to visit Russia (1972)
• Sri Lanka: became a republic, changing its name from Ceylon (1972)
• Republic of Yemen: was formed by the union of North Yemen and South Yemen (1990)
• The Tonight Show: Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his late night show (1992)

Birthdays 

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813 - Composer
  

  
• Mary Cassatt 1844 - Painter, printmaker
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - Author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels
• Laurence Olivier 1907 - Actor, director, producer
• Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount, Le Sony'r Ra) 1914 - Musician
• Vance Packard 1914 - Journalist, social critic, author
• Judith Crist 1922 - Film critic
• Charles Aznavour 1924 - Singer
• Elaine Leighton 1926 - Musician
• Michael Constantine 1927 - Actor
• Jackie Cain 1928 - Musician
• T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon
• Kenny Ball 1930 - Musician
• Al Brown 1934 - Band leader (Al Brown's Tunetoppers)
• Peter Nero (Bernard Nierow) 1934 - Pianist, conductor
• Frank Converse 1938 - Actor
• Susan Strasberg 1938 - Actress
• Richard Benjamin 1938 - Actor, director
• Paul Winfield 1939 - Actor ("Sounder")
• Bernard Shaw 1940 - Broadcast journalist
• Michael Sarrazin 1940 - Actor
• Barbara Parkins 1942 - Actress
• Bernie Taupin 1950 - Songwriter, worked with Elton John
• Jerry Dammers 1954 - Musician (Specials)
• Iva Davies 1955 - Musician (Icehouse)
• Al Corley 1956 - Actor, singer, producer
• Morrissey 1959 - Musician (The Smiths)
• Dana Williams 1961 - Musician (Diamond Rio)
• Ann Cusak 1961 - Actress
• Jesse Valenzuela 1962 - Musician (Gin Blossoms)
• Johnny Gill 1966 - Singer (New Edition)
• Dan Roberts 1967 - Musician (Crash Test Dummies)
• Naomi Campbell 1970 - Model
• Alison Eastwood 1972 - Actress, director
• Anna Belknap 1972 - Actress ("CSI: NY")
• Donell Jones 1973 - Musician
• A.J. Langer 1974 - Actress
• Ginnifer Goodwin 1978 - Actress ("Big Love")
• Maggie Q 1979 - Actress
• Apolo Anton Ohno 1982 - Speed skater 
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

    

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Turtle Thursday: A handful! [2008]

This week in 2008 Dante demonstrated that she WAS a handful!

Thursday, May 21, 2026

satiety \suh-TY-uh-tee\, noun:

• The state of being full or gratified to or beyond the point of satisfaction.

Satiety is from Latin satietas, from satis, "enough."
 

 

 

cropduster

• buttocks. derived from cropdusting.

That woman has a fine cropduster.

 

 

 

 

History

• Clara Barton: founded the American Red Cross (1881)
• Pagliacci: Leoncavallo's opera debuted in Milan (1892)
• Leopold and Loeb: two teenagers attempt to commit the perfect crime when they murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924)
• The Spirit of St. Louis: one-seater plane touched down as Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight (1927); Amelia Earhart became the first woman to perform the same feat (1932)
• Hydrogen bomb: first aerial detonation took place over Bikini atoll (1956)
• Rajiv Gandhi: former Indian prime minister was assassinated while running for reelection (1991)
• Susan Lucci: won her first Daytime Emmy award for Best Actress in the 19th consecutive year she was nominated (1999)

Birthdays

• Plato 427 B.C.
• Albrecht Durer 1471
• Philip II (Spain) 1527
• Alexander Pope 1688
• Glenn Hammond Curtiss 1878
• Armand Hammer 1898
• Horace Heidt 1901
• Fats Waller 1904
• Robert Montgomery 1904
• Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel 1909
• Harold Robbins 1916
• Dennis Day 1917
• Raymond Burr 1917
• Anthony Steel 1920
• Andrei Sakharov 1921 - Soviet physicist, he came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Soviet antiwar activist
• Ara Parseghian 1923
• Peggy Cass 1924
• Ed Fitz Gerald 1924 
• Robert Creeley 1926
• Rick Jason 1926
• Tommy Bryant 1930
• David Groh 1939
• Heinz Holliger 1939
• Ronald Isley (The Isley Brothers) 1941
• Hilton Valentine (The Animals) 1943
• Janet Daily 1944
• Marcie Blane 1944
• Richard Hatch 1946
• Bill Champlin (Chicago) 1947
• Leo Sayer 1948
• Carol Potter 1948
• Mr. T (Lawrence Tero Tureaud) 1952
• Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 1955
• Judge Reinhold 1957
• Lisa Edelstein 1968 - Actress
• Christian McBride 1972
• Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher George Latore Wallace) 1972
• Fairuza Balk 1974

  

 

  

Hasselhoff Wednesday: This girl!

Knows what's good!

Or smokes crack. 

Now sure which.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:

1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.

2. Interchangeable.

noun:

1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.

Fungible comes from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi (vice), "to perform (in place of)."

 

Bacon Curtains

• A part of a woman's anatomy

Last nights i got in between the bacon curtains

 

 

badunkadunk

• a dick-bouncin, dynamic booty, that defies the laws of physics and reminds men why we wanna be dogs or an urban term used to define approval of the voluptuous curvature of a feminie rump.

We snapped our necks 'round, lost the beat of the funk, and laid our eyes upon Karla Spice's beautiful badunkadunk.

History

• First Council of Nicaea: opened in present-day Turkey; it dealt with the relationship of Jesus to God the Father, and the date of Easter, among other issues (325) 
  

  
• Charles Lindbergh: began the first solo flight across the Atlantic, in The Spirit of St. Louis; he flew from Long Island to Paris in about 11 1/2 hours (1927)
• Amelia Earhart: began her flight from Newfoundland to Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (1932)
• Hamburger Hill: US and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain after one of the Vietnam War's bloodiest battles (1969)
• Cheers: the final episode of the TV sitcom was seen by 93 million viewers (1993)
• East Timor: became an independent nation and the first new sovereign state of the 21st century (2002)
• Kingda Ka: the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster opened in New Jersey; it reaches 128 mph, and New York City, Atlantic City and Philadelphia are visible from the top of the tower (2005)

Birthdays

• William Thornton 1759 - Inventor, painter, designed the United States Capitol, first Superintendent of the United States Patent Office
• Dolley Payne Madison 1768 - U.S. First Lady, wife of 4th President James Madison
• Honore de Balzac 1799 - Novelist
• John Stuart Mill 1806 - Editor, philosopher
• William George Fargo 1818 - Organizer of Wells, Fargo & Company
• Henri Julien Felix Rousseau 1844 - French painter
• Wladyslaw Sikorski 1888 - Polish military and political leader
• Jimmy Stewart 1908 - Actor (Philadelphia Story [1940]; The Glenn Miller Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• William R. Hewlett 1913 - Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)
• Patrick Ellis (Leftwich) 1916 - Actress
• George Goble 1919 - Comedian, Actor (Harper Valley P.T.A.)
• Vic Ames (Urick) 1920 - Singer (The Ames Brothers)
• Edith Fellows 1923 - Actress (The Grace Kelly Story, In the Mood)
• Bob Sweikert 1926 - Auto racer, won Indianapolis 500 in 1955
• Bud (Henry) Grant 1927 - Football player and coach
• David Hedison (Ara David Heditsian) 1928 - Actor (Licence to Kill, Live and Let Die)
• James McEachin 1930 - Actor (The Dead Don’t Die, Double Exposure)
• Kenton Boyer 1931 - Baseball player
• Constance Towers 1933 - Actress (On Wings of Eagles)
• Anthony Zerbe 1936 - Actor (North and South, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Cool Hand Luke)
• Dave Hill 1937 - Golfer
• Teddy Randazzo 1937 - Songwriter, producer, singer, actor
  

  
• Stan Mikita 1940 - Hockey player
• Joe Cocker 1944 - Singer, songwriter
• Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre) 1946 - Singer (Sonny & Cher), actress (Moonstruck [1987]; The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask), Mrs Bax0jayz doppleganger
• Bobby (Ray) Murcer 1946 - Baseball player
• Dave Thomas 1949 - Comedian, actor
• Cullen Bryant 1951 - Football player
• Warren Cann 1952 - Musician (Ultravox)
• Dean Butler 1956 - Actor
• Ronald Prescott Reagan 1958 - Dancer, talk show host, son of U.S. President Ronald Reagan
• Jane Wiedlin 1958 - Singer (Go-Go's, Frosted)
• Bronson Pinchot 1959 - Actor (Courage Under Fire, Beverly Hills Cop series, Risky Business)
• Tony Goldwyn 1960 - Actor (The Pelican Brief, Ghost, Gaby: A True Story)
• Susan Cowsill 1960 - Singer (The Cowsills, Continental Drifters, Psycho Sisters)
• Nick Heyward 1961 - Musician (Haircut 100)
• Brian Nash 1963 - Musician (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
• Mindy Cohn 1966 - Actress
• Tom Gorman 1966 - Musician (Belly)
• Timothy Olyphant 1968 - Actor
• Busta Rhymes 1972 - Musician
  Alexa Mansour 1996 - Actress