Turtle Thursday: Avoid This

 

Thursday, May 19, 2022

fey \FAY\, adjective:

1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.
3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.
5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

Fey comes from Middle English feye, feie, from Old English fæge, "fated to die."

 

Hobson's choice (HOB-sonz chois)

• noun: An apparently free choice that offers no real alternative.

Etymology: After Thomas Hobson (1544?-1630), English keeper of a livery stable, from his requirement that customers take either the horse nearest the stable door or none.

 

Girlfriend-proof

• v. To hide any objects that you would rather your girlfriend not see. These objects usually include porn, childish things (dolls, small toys, etc), and Pokemon memorabilia. You can girlfriend-proof your car, room, house, and really just about anything. Similar to parent-proof

Mitch: Hey man want to play me in a Yu-Gi-Oh match?

Mike: Sorry dude I just got done girlfriend-proofing my room. All my cards are in a shoe-box under my bed.

Mitch: Oh alright. Hey, did you remember to take down your Justin Timberlake poster?

Mike: Oh shoot. Thanks for reminding me. I'll get home and take care of that right away.

 

Trivia

Who was the first villain Superman faced when he made his movie debut in 1948?

• Spider Lady. She appeared in the 15-episode Superman serial adventure.

History

• Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's second wife was beheaded (1536)
• New England's Dark Day: clouds, smoke and fog combined to obliterate the sun over the northeastern United States (1780)
• Tariff of 1828: was passed to protect US industry; it was denounced as a "tariff of abominations" by critics in the South (1828)
• Marilyn Monroe: crooned ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' to John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser (1962)

Birthdays 

• Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, most noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Sarah Peale 1800 - Portrait painter
• Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president
• Bruce Bennett 1906 - Shot putter, actor

  
• George Auld 1919 - Musician
• Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist
• Jim Lehrer (James Charles "Jim" Lehrer) 1934 - Journalist, news anchor
• David Hartman 1935 - Television personality
• James Fox 1939 - Actor
• Nancy Kwan 1939 - Actress
• Stephen Young (Stephen Levy) 1939 - Actor
• Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger
• Mickey Newbury 1940 - Songwriter
• Nora Ephron 1941 - Diretor, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist
• Peter Mayhew 1944 - Actor ("Star Wars")
• Pete Townsend 1945 - Musician (The Who)
• David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist
• Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
• Grace Jones 1952 - Singer, model, actress
• Joey Ramone 1951 - Musician (The Ramones)
• Phil Rudd 1954 - Musician (AC/DC)
• Steven Ford (Steven Meigs Ford) 1956 - Actor, son of U.S. President Gerald Ford
• Martyn Ware 1956 - Musician (The Human League)
• Iain Harvie (Del Amitri) 1962
• Jenny Berggren 1972 - Musician (Ace of Base)
• Kevin Garnett 1976 - Basketball player
• Eric Lloyd 1986 - Actor
  Anna Carina "Ophelia Overdose" Jahns 1989 - stunning fetish model
  
   

  

  

  
  

  

   

  

 

 

 

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Sound of Awesome

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Free Time!

And I can hide my head in the sand!

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

tipple \TIP-uhl\, verb:

1. To drink intoxicating liquor, esp. habitually or to some excess.
2. To drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.

noun:

1. Intoxicating liquor.
2. A device that tilts or overturns a freight car to dump its contents.

Tipple is a back formation from the Middle English tipeler, "to tap." Tipsy is also related.
 
Drunken Immunity

• Complete disregard on the part of a friend, girlfriend or ex-girlfriend for any minor stupid thing you said or did while drunk (i.e. drunk texting, drunk calling, drunken Facebook status updates, drunken confession, ETC).

Ex-girlfriend: "We broke up two days ago. Why did you call me at 3 A.M. for a booty-call?"
You: "I plead drunken immunity."

 

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 Maryjane's beautiful badunkadunk.

 

History 

• Montreal: the French founded the Quebec city as Ville Marie de Montréal (1642)
• Napoleon Bonaparte: crowned himself emperor (1804)
• Plessy v. Ferguson: the concept of separate but equal racial segregation in public places was affirmed by the US Supreme Court (1896)
• Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens, a stratovolcanic peak in Washington State, erupted, shooting a plume of gases 63,000 feet high and killing more than 50 people (1980)
• Les Misérables: closed after 16 years on Broadway (2003)
  Chris Cornell of Soundgarden committed suicide (2017)

Birthdays

• Frank Capra 1897
• Meredith Wilson 1902
• Big Joe Turner 1911
• Perry Como 1912
• Pierre Balmain 1914
• Margot Fonteyn 1919
• Dame Margot Fonteyn 1919
• Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyla) 1920
• Bill Macy 1922
• Kay Winding 1922
• Marquita Rivera 1922
• Jack Whitaker 1924
• Pernell Roberts 1930 - Actor ("Bonanza," "Trapper John, M.D.")
• Robert Morse 1931 - Actor ("Mad Men," "How to Succeed in Business ...")
• Dwayne Hickman 1934
• Brooks Robinson 1937 - Baseball player
• Albert Hammond 1942
• Rodney Dillard 1942 - Musician (The Dillards)
• Reggie Jackson 1946 - Baseball player
• Joe Bonsall 1948 - Musician (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Dave Atkins 1949
• Candice Azzara 1949
• Rick Wakeman 1949 - Musician (Yes)
• Rodney Milburn, Jr. 1950
• James Stephens 1951
• George Strait 1952 - Country musician
• Butch Tavares 1953 - Musician (Tavares)
• Wreckless Eric 1954
• Chow Yun-Fat 1955 - Actor
• Michael Cretu 1957 - Musician (Enigma)
• Toyah Wilcox 1958
• Page Hamilton 1960
• Jari Kurri 1960 - Hockey player
• Yannick Noah 1960 - Tennis player
• Martika 1969 - Singer
• Tina Fey 1970 - Actress, comedian ("30 Rock," "Saturday Night Live")
• Special Ed 1974
• Darryl Allen 1980 - Musician (Mista)
• Spencer Breslin 1992 - Actor

 

 

Review Tuesday: The Innkeepers (2011)

 

The Innkeepers

When a quaint old hotel is set to shut down, the last two employees decide to investigate the place's reputation. 

Quite a while back Mrs Baxojayz selected this movie for date night viewing. It's called a horror / thriller so it's what we like to see. 

 

The setting is nice, it takes place in an old hotel that's been sold and being renovated. The two employees are there for the final weekend, 24 hours a day to take care of the few final guests before shutting down. With an abundance of down-time, the workers investigate the strange things that have been known to go on in this place. 

 

The move is more than one and three quarters hours of development and suspense. It probably could've been less long-winded and would've been improved with some editing. But they didn't. It was just a slow paced horror movie that finally comes to its conclusion and you are glad it's finally over. 

 

The cast do a fine job and the movie is nicely polished, but was simply too long.  

Not a bad movie to watch for free, but I wouldn't spend any money on it. 

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

majuscule \MAJ-uh-skyool\, adjective:

1. Of letters written either as capitals or uncials.

noun:

1. A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.

Majuscule derives from the Latin majuscula, related to "major."

CUL8R

• In order to save time (like 4 seconds, tops) people leave out letters while trying to type sentences. CUL8R directly translates to 'see you later'

Danny : G2G, CUL8R
TriggerHappy : ooooooo kk

 

History

• Buttonwood Agreement: 24 prominent brokers created the foundation of the NYSE (1792)
• Kentucky Derby: horse race was run for the first time; Aristides won (1875)
• Brown v. Board of Education: the US Supreme Court unanimously banned segregation (1954)
• Watergate: the US Senate began hearings about the Nixon-era scandal (1973)
• Laurent Kabila: rebel leader declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), deposing Mobutu (1997)
• wedding vows: Massachusetts became the first US state to legally allow same-sex marriages (2004)

Birthdays

• Sandro Botticelli 1444 

  
• Edward Jenner 1749
• Joseph Norman Lockyer 1836
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 1900
• James Bell 1903
• Carl McIntire 1906
• Maureen O'Sullivan 1911
• Archibold Cox 1912
• Stewart Alsop 1914
• Carl Lipscombe 1915
• Brigit Nilsson 1918
• Bob Merrill 1921
• Kanid Burruss 1921 - Musician (Xscape)
• Dix Hixson 1924
• Jackie McLean 1932
• Dennis Hopper 1936 - Actor
• Pervis Jackson 1938 - Musician (The Spinners)
• Taj Mahal 1942 - Singer
• Jesse Winchester 1944
• Bill Bruford 1948 - Musician (Yes, King Crimson)
• Kathleen Sullivan 1953 - Television personality
• Bill Paxton 1955 - Actor
• Bob Saget 1956 - Actor, comedian ("Full House")
• Sugar Ray Leonard 1956 - Boxer
• Audie Desbrow 1957 - Musician (Great White)
• Paul Di'Anno 1958 - Musician (Iron Maiden)
• Jim Nantz 1959 - Sports announcer
• Enya 1961 - Musician
• Craig Ferguson 1962 - Television host ("The Late Late Show")
• Page McConnell 1963 - Musician (Phish)
• O'Dell 1965 - Musician (Mint Condition)
• Trent Reznor 1965 - Musician (Nine Inch Nails)
• Hill Harper 1966 - Actor ("CSI: NY")
• Thom Filicia 1969 - Television personality ("Queer Eye For the Straight Guy")
• Darnell Van Rensalier (Shai) 1970
• Jordan Knight 1970 - Singer (New Kids on the Block)
• Sendhil Ramamurthy 1974 - Actor ("Heroes")
• Matt Cassel 1982 - Football player
• Tahj Mowry 1986
• Nikki Reed 1988 - Actress