Saturday, March 21, 2026

cockalorum \kok-uh-LAWR-uhm, -LOHR-\, noun:

• a self-important little man.

This mock Latin term is a derivative of cock, meaning "a male chicken." It came to English in the early 1700s. 

Restless Dick Syndrome

• When you try and and wake up your bed-mate in the middle of the night by poking her in the back with your burgeoning hard on.

Cathy: "I didn't get a wink of sleep last night. Fuckin' 3 a.m. and Ronnie gets a bad case of the Restless Dick Syndrome! There oughta be a pill!"

 

History

• Archbishop of Canterbury: Thomas Cranmer, who helped move England towards Protestantism, was burned at the stake (1556)
• Code Napoléon: the first modern legal code of France took effect; it was divided into laws of personal status, laws of property, and laws of acquiring property (1804)
• Henry Stanley: journalist began his trek in Africa to locate missing Scottish missionary/explorer David Livingstone; his quest ended with the famous and possibly fictitious words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (1871)
• "Who shot JR?": J.R. Ewing, the character played by Larry Hagman on Dallas, was shot by an unidentified attacker; a summer of intense curiosity ensued and an advertising catchphrase was born (1980)
• Rick Hansen: set off on his Man in Motion tour to circumnavigate the world in his wheelchair (1985); he returned to Vancouver 2 years and 2 months later, having raised millions for spinal cord research

Birthdays

• Johann Sebastian Bach 1685
• Benito Juarez 1806
• James Jesse Strang 1813
• Modest Mussorgsky 1839
• Florenz Ziegfeld 1869
• Bascom Lunsford 1882
• Phyllis McGinley 1905
• Julio Gallo 1910
• Fonty Flock (Truman Fontello) 1921
• Mort Lindsey 1923
• James Coco 1929
• Joseph Silverstein 1932 - Violinist, conductor
• Al Freeman, Jr. 1934 - Actor
• Kathleen Widdoes 1939 - Actress ("As the World Turns")
• Timothy Dalton 1944 - Actor
• Marie-Christine Barrault 1944 - Actress
• Rose Stone 1945 - Musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
• Bill Plummer 1947
• Eddie Money 1949 - Singer
• Roger Hodgson 1950 - Musician (Supertramp)
• Conrad Lozano 1951 - Musician (Los Lobos)
• Russell Thompkins, Jr. 1951 - Singer (The Stylistics)
• Gary Oldman 1958 - Actor
• Sabrina LeBeauf 1958 - Actress ("The Cosby Show")
• Robert Sweet 1960 - Musician (Stryper)
• Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - hack-comedian
  

  
• Matthew Broderick 1962 - Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
• Cynthia Geary 1966
• Maxim 1967 - MC (Prodigy)
• Jonas "Joker" Berggren 1967 - Musican (Ace of Base)
• Andrew Copeland 1968 - Musician (Sister Hazel)
• Albert Khan 1969
• DJ Premier 1969 - DJ (Gang Starr)
• Ronaldinho 1980 - Soccer player
  Sonequa Martin-Green 1985 Actress (The Walking Dead)
• Adrian Peterson 1985 - Football player

  

 

  

Nicholas Brendon dead at 54

 

Nicholas Brendon, best known for his role as Xander Harris from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer passed away at the age of 54. It's reported that he died from natural causes.  

Rock out on a LOVELY DAY!

SPRING has SPRUNG!!!

 

Front 242

Lovely Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hw_ZsbXVi4

It will never be like before

Lovely day

He never expected such a lovely day

Be sure he'll find you back someday

It was a lovely day

The day you walked away

Revenge came out to play

When you refused to stay

He walks through empty lanes

Cold anger, bursting veins

Now that I've lost your track

How could I bring you back

Be sure he won't forget

'coz the last words you said

Disrupt his head with morning quivers

Dissect his heart like golden scissors

Make him regret each

moment spent with you

Make him regret what he intended to do

Too late to stop this agony

Please Don't Ask Me For More

Lovely day

He never expected such a gift

It was a lovely day

The day you walked away

There's too much on my mind

To leave it all behind

Just hoping that I find

There's too much on my mind

Wait now for the night

The prey, the kill, the flight

Return then of the light

Won't reveal any displeasure

Don't ask me for more

It will never be like before

See the clouds gather low

He's walking in the lanes

His new life is so cruel

When there's sun it still rains

Chuck Norris dead at 86

 

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris died after a medical emergency in Hawaii. He was 86. Norris was best known for his acting career that spanned decades and including many action and martial arts roles.  

Spring has SPRUNG 2026!

Spring 2026

Friday, 20th March 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026

hoodwink \HOOD-wingk\, verb:

1. to deceive or trick.
2. Archaic. to blindfold.
3. Obsolete. to cover or hide.

This portmanteau of hood and wink came to English in the mid-1500s.

 

pillow lust

• That feeling that overworked individuals (eg: college students, tax accountants, etc.) experience where they feel so exhausted that the idea of their face hitting their pillow sounds so utterly fantastic, it's almost sexual.

Oh dude, it's been such a long week. I've got pillow lust, and I've got it bad.

History

• Dutch East Indies Company: megacorporation was formed; it grew to control most of the European trade with Asia before expiring, bankrupt, after 200 years (1602)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: antislavery novel was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom Lincoln called "the little woman who started this big war" (1852)
• "I shall return": was spoken by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as he left the Philippines during WWII; he did return, two years later (1942)
• John Lennon: wed Yoko Ono in Gibraltar (1969)
• Tokyo subway gas attack: Aum Shinrikyo group released sarin, killing 12 and injuring thousands (1995)

Birthdays

• George Bingham 1811
• Henrik Ibsen 1828
• Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856
• Lauritz Melchior 1890
• B.F. Skinner 1904
• Ozzie Nelson 1906
• Sir Michael Redgrave 1908
• Wendell Cory 1914
• Dame Vera Lynn 1917
• Marian McPartland 1920
• Carl Reiner 1922 - Director, producer
• Ray Goulding 1922
• Larry Elgart 1922
• Jack Kruschen 1922
• Fred "Mr." Rogers 1928
• Sonny (Santo) Russo 1929
• Hal Linden 1931 - Actor ("Barney Miller")
• George Altman 1933
• Ted Bessell 1935 - Actor
• Jerry Reed 1937 - Singer, actor ("Smokey and the Bandit")
• Don Edwards 1939 - Country singer
• Brian Mulroney 1939 - Canadian prime minister
  

  
• Paul Junger Witt 1943 - TV producer
• Pat Riley 1945
• Ranger Doug 1946 - Country musician (Riders in the Sky)
• Bobby Orr 1948 - Hockey player
• Marcia Ball 1954 - Blues singer, musician
• William Hurt 1950 - Actor
• Jimmy Vaughn 1951 - Musician (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
• Carl Palmer 1950 - Musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Asia)
• Jimmy Seales 1954 - Country musician (Shenandoah)
• Spike Lee 1957 - Movie director
• Theresa Russell 1957 - Actress
• Vanessa Bell Calloway 1957 - Actress
• Holly Hunter 1958 - Actress
• John Clark Gable 1961 - Actor, auto racer
• Slim Jim Phantom 1961 - Musician (The Stray Cats)
• Kathy Ireland 1963 - Model
• Tracy Chapman 1964 - Musician
• Adrian Oxxal 1965 - Musician (James)
• Liza Snyder 1968 - Actress ("Yes, Dear")
• Michael Rapaport 1970 - Actor ("Boston Public")
• Alexander Chaplin 1971 - Actor
• Chester Bennington 1976 - Singer (Linkin Park)
• Michael Genadry 1978 - Actor ("Ed")
• Bianca Lawson 1979 - Actress

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

Rest In Peace, Randy Rhoads

REMEMBERING

RANDY RHOADS

Over 40 years since rock n roll lost you

December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982

Turtle Thursday: Play nice!

Thursday, March 19, 2026

epitome \ih-PIT-uh-mee\, noun:

1. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness.
2. a condensed account, especially of a literary work; abstract.

Epitome came to English in the 1500s from the Greek meaning "abridgment" or "surface incision."

fornever

1. Never occurring, nor having the potential to do so.
2. A seemingly non-existent period of time.

1. Hanson will fornever be the greatest band this country has ever known.
2. "I could watch Passions fornever and never."

History

• bank robbery: the first recorded bank heist took place in NYC; Edward Smith escaped with some $245,000, but was later caught and imprisoned (1831)
• SS Georgiana: Confederate ship was wrecked (1863); it was discovered on the same date in 1965 by underwater archeologist E. Lee Spence in his teenage years
• 25th Academy Awards: was the first televised Oscar ceremony (1953)
• Sarajevo: became a reunited city after four years when the Serbs were ousted by the Moslem-Croatians
• invasion of Iraq: began (on March 20 local time in Iraq, 2003)
• GRB 080319B: gamma-ray burst was detected, thus setting a record for farthest object that could be seen by the naked eye (2008)

Birthdays

• William Bradford 1589

  
• David Livingston 1813
• Sir Richard Burton 1821
• Albert Ryder 1847
• Wyatt Earp 1848
• William Jennings Bryan 1860
• Charles M. Russell 1864
• Edith Nourse Rogers 1881
• Earl Warren 1891
• Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley 1894
• John Sirica 1904
• Adolph Eichmann 1906
• Patricia Morrison 1914
• Irving Wallace 1916
• Martha Carson 1921
• Tige Andrews 1923
• Hans Kung 1928 - Theologian
• Patrick McGoohan 1928 - Actor, director
• Gene Taylor 1929
• Bill Henderson 1930
• Ornette Coleman 1930 - Jazz saxophonist
• Gay Brewer Jr. 1932
• Philip Roth 1933 - Author
• Renee Taylor 1933 - Actress
• Nancy Malone 1935
• Phyllis Newman 1935 - Actress, singer
• Ursula Andress 1936 - Actress
• Clarence "Frogman" Henry 1937 - Singer
• Robin Luke 1942
• Paul Atkinson 1946 - Musician (The Zombies)
• Ruth Pointer 1946 - Singer (The Pointer Sisters)
• Glenn Close 1947 - Actress
• Chris Brubeck 1952
• Bruce Willis 1955 - Actor ("Die Hard", "The Sixth Sense")
• Derek Longmuir 1955 - (The Bay City Rollers)
• Terry Hall 1959 - (Specials, Fun Boy 3, Colourfield)
• Gert Bettens 1970 - Musician (K's Choice)
• Vida Guerra 1974 - bootay model
• Zach Lind 1976 - Musician (Jimmy Eat World)
• Anne V 1987 - Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
• Craig Lamar Traylor 1989 - Actor ("Malcolm in the Middle")
  Caylee Cowan 1998 - Actress