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Thursday, July 10, 2025

fen \fen\, noun:

low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
the Fens, a marshy region W and S of The Wash, in E England.

Fen came from the Old English term fenn, and ultimately comes from the Proto-Indo-European root pen- meaning "swamp."

Porno elbow

An medical variant of the condition known as 'tennis elbow' primarily affecting the dominant arm of hyperactive males who don't play tennis.

Jim: What's going on Doc? I can barely bend my right elbow.

Doctor: It's obviously a severe case of tennis elbow.

Jim: I don't play tennis, Dude.

Doctor: Do you stay up late, alone with a computer?

Jim: Uhh Maybe

Doctor: Are you right handed Jim?

Jim: Uhh Ya

Doctor: Jim, sorry to tell you but it looks like you've got a severe case of porno elbow. Unplug the computer for two weeks and you'll be fine.

History

Monkey Trial: proceedings began against John Scopes, who broke Tennessee state law by teaching evolution to high school students (1925)
Meher Baba: Indian spiritual master began a silence "to save mankind from monumental ignorance," which ended up lasting 44 years till his death (1925)
Battle of Britain: German began to attack Britain by air (1940)
Telstar: the first communications satellite was launched into orbit (1962)
Coca-Cola Classic: the Coca-Cola Co. announced it would bring back its original formula after customers reacted negatively to New Coke (1985)

Birthdays

John Calvin 1509
Camille Pisarro 1830 (impressionist painter)
James Whistler 1834
Aldolphus Busch 1842
Nikola Tesla 1856 (genius)
Marcel Proust 1871
Mary McLeod Bethune 1875
Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1875
John Gilbert 1897
Ljuba Welitsch 1913
Milt Buckner 1915
Dick Cary 1916
Don Herbert 1917
David Brinkley 1920
Jake LaMotta 1921
Jeff Donnell 1921
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921
Jean Kerr 1923
Fred Gwynne 1926
David N. Dinkins 1927
Ivan Passer 1933
Jerry Herman 1933
Sandy Stewart 1937
Lawrence Pressman 1939
Mills Watson 1940
Robert Pine 1941
Ian Whitcomb 1941
Arthur Ashe 1943
Jerry Miller 1943 - Musician (Moby Grape)
Ron Glass 1945
Virginia Wade 1945
Hal McRae 1946
Sue Lyon 1946
Arlo Guthrie 1947
Ronnie James Dio 1949 - Musician (DIO)
Cheryl Wheeler 1951
Neil Tennant 1954 - Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
Bela Fleck 1958
Hawkshaw Wilson 1960 - Musician (BR5-49)
Peter DiStefano 1965 - Musician (Porno for Pyros)
Peter Serafinowicz 1972 - Actor / comedian (The Tick)
Sofia Vergara 1972
Jessica Simpson 1980

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Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Hasselhoff Wednesday: For last weekend

Happy Berfday to Mrs Bax0jayz!

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

poniard \PON-yerd\, noun:

1. a small, slender dagger.

verb:

1. to stab with a poniard.

Poniard entered English in the 1500s and ultimately comes from the Latin pungus meaning "fist." The Old French word poignal literally refers to something held by the fist.

greeting orbit

When you're with someone and run into an acquaintance of his/hers. They exchange greetings, which leads to a conversation, and you stand there smiling like a dummy wondering if you'll ever be introduced.

We strolled through the crowd arm in arm, she knowing everyone and stopping to chat - me knowing nobody and in perpetual greeting orbit.

Trivia
What triggered the first recorded student protest in U.S. history?

Sour butter served in Harvard University’s dining rooms in 1766. The protest, known as the Great Butter Rebellion, resulted in the suspension of half the student body and lasted a month. Years later, the protest leader, student Asa Dunbar, would be the grandfather of Henry David Thoreau.

History

Wimbledon: the precursor to the tennis tournament first began; only Gentlemen's Singles was played (1877)
cross of gold: William Jennings Bryan delivered a speech to the Democratic National Convention supporting bimetallism, advocating a silver standard in addition to the gold standard (1896)
Johnny Weissmuller: swam 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, thus breaking the minute barrier (1922)
Grateful Dead: psychedelic rock-country-jazz band played its last concert, a month before the death of lead singer Jerry Garcia (1995)
Midsummer Classic: MLB All-Star game ended in a tie after 11 innings; both sides had run out of pitchers (2002)

Birthdays

Ann Radcliffe 1764
Elias Howe 1819
Ottorino Respighi 1879
Clara Bow 1907 - Actress (Down to the Sea in Ships, The Plastic Age)
Harold C. Fox 1910
Leonard Pennario 1924
Red Kelly 1927
Ed Ames 1927 - Actor, musician (The Ames Brothers)
Lee Hazlewood 1929
Jesse McReynolds 1929
June Jordan 1936
James Hampton 1936
Brian Dennehy 1938 - Actor
Richard Roundtree 1942 - Actor
Dean Koontz 1945 - Author
Bon Scott (AC/DC) 1946
O.J. Simpson 1947 - Football player, actor, murderer
Chris Cooper 1951 - Actor
John Tesh 1952 - Musician, television personality
David Ball 1953
Debbie Sledge 1954 - Musician (Sister Sledge)
Fred Leo Nukis (Eric Fred Norris) 1955 Stern Show
Tom Hanks 1956 - Actor
Kelly McGillis 1957 - Actress
Jimmy Smits 1958 - Actor
Jim Kerr 1959 - Musician (Simple Minds)
Marc Almond 1959 - Musician (Soft Cell)
Courtney Love 1964 - Musician (Hole)
Frank Bello 1965 - Musician (Anthrax)
Scott Grimes 1971 - Actor
Enrique Murciano 1973 - Actor ("Without a Trace")
Jack White 1975 - Musician (White Stripes)
Fred Savage 1976 - Actor ("The Wonder Years")
Linda Park 1978 - Actress ("Star Trek: Enterprise")

Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Review Tuesday: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (2025)

Mobile Suit Gundam:

GQuuuuuuX

2025

When a teen joins in on underground mecha battles on a space colony, things take a strange turn.

I don't get to watch much Japanese animation. I just don't have time to binge watch a long series. But when Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX came to AMAZON PRIME and only ran twelve episodes, and I saw all the strange designs coming out of it, I decided to give it a shot.

Right off the bat this show had a major problem that I have with a LOT of anime:

THE CHILDREN ARE THE BESTEST EVAR!

Ugh! There's underground mecha fighting and this little girl, despite never being in a cockpit before is better than EVERYONE! Plus, her backup dude is flying the RED GUNDAM. The fabled mobile suit used by Char Aznable to win the war! But Char vanished? How did this emo kid get his hands on it? How is he so good too?

The show jumps around a lot. The exposition scenes with Char during the war are great. You figure out quickly that this is some alternate universe that Zeon won the great war. Apparently, without their great weapon, Gundam: The White Devil, Zeon was able to combine their superior high-mobility technology with the advanced weapons systems of the Federation's flagship mobile suit and win the war. Char, however, vanished before the end of the war, along with his mobile suit. So the re-appearance of thew Red Gundam has piqued the interest of several officer.

The little girls and the emo dude are all bummers. Some of the mobile suit re-designs are pretty cool while others are seriously WTF. Why is this thing that looks exactly like a GM called a Gelgoog??? That aside, the Char storyline makes it worthwhile. When they finally reveal what this alternate storyline is really all about, the show gets better, and the ending is perfect.

Butterfly Effect in Full Swing: The Gundams in “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-“ – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

balk \balk\, verb:

to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
(of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.

noun:

a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment.
a strip of land left unplowed.

Balk comes from the Old Norse balkr meaning "ridge of land." The modern figurative senses of this term relate to obstructions in passage resulting from unplowed land.

Nuts to Butts, adjective:

used in a very crowded or tight situation.

hey, you don't wanna get in on that one (subway car), it's nuts to butts.

Sarah Palin Effect

The principal that expertise on a certain subject can be gained through geographical proximity to it

Gov. of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is a proclaimed expert on foreign affairs with Russia due to Alaska`s proximity to Russia and can thus be called the "Sarah Palin Effect"

History

Liberty Bell: was rung to call Philadelphia citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Wall Street Journal: began publication (1889)
Ziegfield Follies: producer Florenz Ziegfield staged his first "follies" on the roof of New York City's New York Theater (1907)
Roswell UFO Incident: A report appears in newspaper Roswell Daily Record announcing "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region." (1947)
Oklahoma!: the Broadway musical's soundtrack became the first album to go gold (indicating one million sales), as certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (1958)
The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane (1960)
Vietnam War: U.S. troops begin withdrawing from Vietnam. (1969)
The Solar Impulse completed the first 24-hour flight by a solar powered plane. (2010)