Bane

Saturday, February 7, 2026

idem \AHY-dem, ID-em\, pronoun: 

• the same as previously given or mentioned.

Idem stems from the Latin word of the same spelling which meant essentially "it."

Hangry

• When you are so hungry that your lack of food causes you to become angry, frustrated or both. An amalgam of hungry and angry invented to describe that feeling when you get when you are out at a restaurant and have been waiting over an hour to get the meal that you have ordered.

"Damn! Where is that steak I ordered? We've been waiting for an hour and a half here. The service here is terrible! I'm starving! I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel really hangry!"

 

History

• 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

  
• 1940 - "Pinocchio" world premiered at the Center Theatre in Manhattan.
• 1962 - The U.S. government banned all Cuban imports and re-export of U.S. products to Cuba from other countries.
• 1964 - British invasion: The Beatles arrived in US for the first time and were mobbed at JFK International Airport
• 1977 - Russia launched Soyuz 24
• 1979 - Pluto: the dwarf planet moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the first time since its discovery
• 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.
• 1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of the Big Apple.
• 1985 - "Sports Illustrated" released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages.
• 1992 - Maastricht Treaty: was signed in the Netherlands; it created the European Union as a successor to the European Community, and established a central banking system and a common currency — the euro
• 1993 - Carmen Electra's self-titled debut album was released.
• 1995 - Tupac Shakur was sentenced to 1 to 4 1/2 years in jail for sexual abuse.

Birthdays

• Sir Thomas More 1478

  
• John Deere 1804
• Charles Dickens 1812
• Frederick Douglas 1817
• Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867
• Eubie (James Hubert) Blake 1883
• Sinclair Lewis 1885
• Larry "Buster" Crabbe 1908
• Oscar Brand 1920
• An Wang 1920
• Eddie Bracken 1920
• Wilma Lee Cooper (Leary) 1921
• Keefe Brasselle 1923
• Gay Talese 1932
• Earl King 1934
• King Curtis 1934

  
• Dieter Bohlen 1944
• Sammy Johns 1946
• Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night) 1948
• Alan Lancaster (Status Quo) 1949
• Marilyn Cochran 1950
• Miguel Ferrer 1954
• Brian Travers (UB40) 1959
• James Spader 1960
• Garth Brooks 1962
• David Bryan (Bon Jovi) 1962
• Chris Rock 1966
• Jason Gedrick 1967
• Edward Bergenholz 1974
• Ashton Kutcher 1978
• Tina Majorino 1985

  

 

  

Rock out with your GROUNDHOG out!

Those fucking overgrown rats did their thing this week. Might as well dust this tune off...

Groundhog's Day

Primus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXKNwo5ik8

When I woke up this mornin' I felt a pang.
I was hungerin' for some apple pie.
Stumble in the bathroom, hung my hog a little bit.
Washed the sleep out of my eye.
Oh yeah, it's gonna be a fine day.
Scratched myself a bit.
Poured me out a bowl-a corn chex.
Closest thing I could find to apple pie.
Lingerin' taste of toothpaste
Made the milk go down a bit funny.
But you know, them chex they do satisfy.
Oh yeah, this'll be a fine day.
So, after my mornin' rise-n-shine and eat-n-clean.
Had my mind set to hit them streets.
Drizzle from the night left cold puddles out.
Had my black stomp-boots on my feet.
It's my day.
Since I was in kneepants my pop had tried to make me realize.
If I set my mind down to it I could be a big man in the public eye.
So with my big blue collar on,
I set out to find the easy way. What an
Ice cold bath it was when I found you had to pay to play.
To taste the taste it's a tease that never would subside.
The taste is strong but soured by my learned eyes.
Well, if a woodchuck could chuck wood,
He'd get down on his knees to pray.
This little snappy boy might see
The light this ground hog's day.

Rock out and I wonder...

This weekend marks 36 years since he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...

Del Shannon

Runaway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLLcvWeiKw

As I walk along,

I wonder what went wrong,

With our love, a love that was so strong.

And as I still walk on,

I think of the things we've done

Together, a-while our hearts were young.

I'm a-walkin' in the rain,

Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain,

Wishin' you were here by me,

To end this misery

And I wonder--

I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,

Why,

Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,

Yes, and I wonder,

A-where she will stay-ay,

My little runaway,

Run, run, run, run, runaway.

I'm a-walkin' in the rain,

Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain,

Wishin' you were here by me,

To end this misery

And I wonder--

I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,

Why,

Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,

Yes, and I wonder,

A-where she will stay-ay,

My little runaway,

Run, run, run, run, runaway.

Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.

TGIF: Have a drink!

Friday, February 6, 2026

williwaw \WIL-ee-waw\, noun: 

• a violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes, as in the Strait of Magellan, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.

Williwaw entered English in the 1830s. It is of unknown origin.

Strategic Dipping

• Not double dipping! When a chip (or other dippable food) is dipped, bitten, and then turned over so that the tainted, bitten, and saliva covered part isn't able to corrupt the dip.

Don: Hey man, no double dipping!

Mac: I'm not double dipping! I'm using strategic dipping!

History

• 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.
• 1935 - Monopoly: the popular board game first went on sale
• 1959 - The U.S., for the first time, successfully test-fired a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.
• 1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft (Apollo 14) and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
• 1990 - Billy Idol broke several bones in a serious motorcycle accident. As a result he could not appear in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" in a major role.
• 1998 - Washington National Airport was renamed for U.S. President Ronald Reagan with the signing of a bill by U.S. President Clinton.
• 1998 - Falco died in a traffic accident in the Dominican Republic.

Birthdays

• Christopher Marlowe 1564
• Aaron Burr 1756
• Babe Ruth 1895
• Ronald Wilson Reagan (U.S.) 1911
• John Lund 1913
• Zsa Zsa Gabor 1919
• Patrick Macnee 1922
• Sixten Jernberg 1929
• Rip Torn 1931
• Mamie Van Doren 1933
• Mike Farrell 1939
• Tom Brokaw 1940
• Gigi Perreau 1941
• Fabian Forte 1943
  

  
• Gayle Hunnicutt 1943
• Michael Tucker 1944
• Bob Marley 1945 - Musican (The Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers)
• Alan Jones (Amen Corner) 1947
• Jim Sheridan 1949
• Natalie Cole 1950
• Jon Walmsley 1956
• Kathy Najimy 1957
• Robert Townsend 1957
• Simon Phillips (Toto) 1957
• Barry Miller 1958
• Megan Gallagher 1960
• Axl Rose (Guns & Roses) 1962
• Richie McDonald (Lonestar) 1962
• Rick Astley 1966
• Tim Brown (Boo Radleys) 1969
• Alice Eve 1981
• Brandon Hammond 1984

  

 

  

Turtle Thursday: Uh oh

Thursday, February 5, 2026

perspicuous \per-SPIK-yoo-uhs\, adjective: 

1. clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
2. perspicacious.

Perspicuous stems from the Latin word perspicere meaning "to look or see through." It is related to the word inspect.

slurring your text

• when you're so drunk that you're texts are unreadable

(310) heryls so imsd gaonna bea tah the apartty tognlaoit!!!!

(510) chris, u gotta stop slurring your texts.

History

• United Artists: US film company was founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith; a current version of the studio is owned, in part, by Tom Cruise (1919)
• Reader's Digest: DeWittand Lila Wallace published their first issue of condensed articles; the pocket-sized volume cost 25 cents (1922)
• BBC pips: six short tones used to mark the end of the hour were broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1924)
• Tybee bomb: the US lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia; some 14 nuclear weapons are known to be missing from the US arsenal alone (1958)
• Kelly Ripa became Regis Philbin's cohost. The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly." (2001)
  Donald Trump: Impeachment in the Senate ended with an acquittal 2020

Birthdays

• John Jeffries 1744
• Robert Peel 1788
• Felix Mendelssohn 1809
• John Boyd Dunlop 1840
• Belle Starr 1848
• Andre-Gustave Citroen 1878
• Adlai Stevenson 1900
• John Carradine 1906
• William Burroughs 1914
• Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) 1919
• Andrew Greeley 1928
• Hal Blaine 1929
• Don Goldie 1930
• Claude King 1933
• Henry "Hank" Aaron 1934
• Stuart Damon 1937
• Jane Bryant Quint 1937
• H.R. Giger 1940
• Stephen Cannell 1940
• David Selby 1941
• Barrett Strong 1941
• Roger Staubach 1942
• Cory Wells (Three Dog Night) 1942
• Al Kooper 1944
• J.R. Cobb 1944
• Charles Winfield (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1944
• Charlotte Rampling 1946
• David Ladd 1947
• Barbara Hershey 1948
• Christopher Guest 1948
• Nigel Olsson (Elton John) 1949
• Jennifer Jason Leigh1962
• Duff McKagan (Guns 'N Roses) 1964
• Chris Baron (Spin Doctors) 1968
• Bobby Brown 1969
• Michael Sheen 1969 (Lucian from Underworld)
• Sara Evans 1971
• Bjorn Bores 1974

 

  

 

 

  

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