Hasselhoff Wednesday: Revenge of the Fifth (Yesterday)

Tuesday, May 6, 2026

dyad \ DAHY-ad \ , noun;  

1. a group of two; couple; pair. 
2. Biology . a. a secondary morphological unit, consisting of two monads: a chromosome dyad. b. the double chromosomes resulting from the separation of the four chromatids of a tetrad. 
3. Chemistry . an element, atom, or group having a valence of two. Compare monad, triad (def. 2a). 
4. Mathematics . two vectors with no symbol connecting them, usually considered as an operator. 
5. Sociology . a. two persons involved in an ongoing relationship or interaction. b. the relationship or interaction itself. 

adjective: 

1. of two parts; dyadic. 

Origin: Dyad is derived from the Greek word dyad- which meant "pair, equivalent." 

Immaculate Defecation

• Where one voids his or her bowels, only to find, by wiping one's anus, that no evidence of the event remains. Not as rare as immaculate conception, but still magical. 

Cletus found, after taking a huge shit, that his first wipe was completely clean. "Hallelujah!" He exlaimed, "Immaculate defecation!"

Seis de Mayo

• the 6th of May - a special holiday, devoted to nursing hangovers and otherwise dealing with the consequences of Cinco de Mayo

Tom: "Hey Dave, why didn't you show up for work yesterday?"

Dave: "It was May 6th, remember?"

Tom: "Duuude, you were so wasted on Cinco de Mayo- you downed like a full bottle of tequila! That must've been a killer hangover!" 
Dave: "That's what why we have Seis de Mayo and aspirin."

 

Holiday

• International No Diet Day

History

• Chinese Exclusion Act: barred Chinese laborers from the US for 10 years, despite President Chester Arthur's veto (1882)
• Eiffel Tower: was dedicated at the opening of the Universal Exposition in Paris (1889)
• Hindenburg: German dirigible caught fire as it landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey; 36 were killed (1937)
• Works Progress Administration: set out to employ scores of Americans in the post-Depression era (1935)
• Roger Bannister: Oxford medical student broke the four-minute mile, which was widely considered medically impossible (1954); in 1975, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
• Chunnel: the tunnel connecting France and England opened to traffic (1994)

Birthdays

• Maximilien Robespierre 1758 - French revolutionary
• Sigmund Freud 1856 - Psychiatrist, originated psychoanalysis
• Robert E. Peary 1856 - Explorer, discovered the North Pole, Greenland and the Melville meteorite.
• Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - Hindu poet, musical composer

  
• Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina) 1895 - Actor
• Toots Shor (Bernard Shor) 1903 - Restaurateur
• Weeb (Wilbur Charles) Ewbank 1907 - Football player
• Carmel Caballaro 1913 - Pianist
• (George) Orson Welles 1915 - Actor ("War of the Worlds", "A Man for All Seasons", "Catch-22")
• Fred Randall 1921
• Pat Harder 1922 - Football player
• Elizabeth Sellars 1923 - Actress ("A Voyage Round My Father", "Never Let Go")
• Harry (Percival) Watson 1923 - Hockey player
• Marguerite Piazza 1926 - Singer 

  
• Willie (Howard) Mays 1931 - Baseball player
• Bill (William Alfred) Hands - Baseball player
• Bob Seger 1945 - Musician, singer
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore 1945
• Grier Jones 1946 - Golfer
• Alan Dale 1947 - Actor
• Ben Masters 1947 - Actor ("Noble House", "Dream Lover")
• Mary MacGregor 1948
• Dennis Havig 1949 - Football player
• Davey Johnstone 1951 - Musician (Elton John's trio)
• Fred McNeil 1952 - Football player
• Gregg Henry 1952
• Tony Blair 1953 - British Prime Minister
• Tom Bergeron 1955 - TV Host ("Dancing with the Stars")
• Mare Winningham 1959
• George (Timothy) Clooney 1961 - Actor (TV: "The Facts of Life", "E/R", Movies: "Batman & Robin", "Ocean's 11"), son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney, nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney
• Lori Singer 1962
• Roma Downey 1963 - Actress ("Touched by an Angel")
• Mark Bryan 1967 - Musician (Hootie and the Blowfish)
• Martin Brodeur 1972 - Hockey player
• Adrianne Palicki 1972 - Actress ("The Orville")

   

  

  

 

 

 

  

Happy 5/5 @ 5:05 (2026)

 

Happy 05/05 @ 05:05

 

 

Review Tuesday: Moonfall (2022)

  

 

Moonfall

2022 

When the moon falls out of orbit, an unlikely team goes on a desperate mission to save the Earth.

I had never heard of this movie before. My BFF had decided that we were going to watch it regardless. Okay, why not? 

 

While on a routine repair mission a space shuttle crew seems to be overwhelmed by some strange technological wave coming from the moon. The result was one death and an immediate aborting of the mission. Of course, the US Government wants to place blame on someone so they scapegoated Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) because he was the mission commander. 

 

Fast forward a bunch of years and it appears that Harper was right and he's the key to saving the planet as the moon shifts from its orbit and into a collision course with the Earth. 

 

I had really low expectations for this movie. I never heard of it before. But it was a sci-fi / action / disaster movie starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson. I would've expected to have heard something about it. That aside, it exceeded expectations. It's your typical Armageddon type movie. It's the end of the world and only a few are clever enough to see it and figure out what to do about it. In addition, this one plays into the Hollow-Moon conspiracy theory which is always fun. Yeah, not bad.     

 

   

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

*5*5*

Revenge of the Fifth

analphabetic \ an-al-fuh-BET-ik, an-al- \ , adjective; 

1. not alphabetic: an analphabetic arrangement of letters . 
2. unable to read or write; illiterate: analphabetic peoples . 
3. Phonetics . of or constituting a system of phonetic transcription, as the one devised by Otto Jespersen, that for each sound indicates by separate sets of symbols the articulator, the point of articulation, and the size and shape of the mouth opening. 

noun: 

1. an illiterate person; analphabet.

Origin: Analphabetic comes from the Greek word analphábēt(os) which meant "not knowing the alphabet." The concept of an alphabet has existed since at least 1500 BCE.

cinco de gringo 

• play on words from the holiday cinco de mayo where the mexican town of puebla won a military victory over french forces. a relatively insignificant holiday to mexicans, especially in comparison to the day of mexican independence where there is much more emphasis and celebration among mexican communities in the united states. Cinco de Mayo, in short, merely acts as another holiday where people can party and get drunk. White people seem to like the holiday more than mexican immigrant families do, hence the name.
• Can also be called Cinco de Drinko.

Charlie: Yeah, cinco de mayo let's party

José: güerro, we don't celebrate that 
Charlie: Whatever, I'm gonna party and get smashed tonight 
José: Just go celebrate Cinco de Gringo already 

Holiday

• Cinco De Mayo: The day the Mexicans get to celebrate their turn defeating the French. I'll drink to that!

History

• Kublai Khan: followed his brother Möngke in becoming ruler of the Mongol Empire, which he expanded to include China (1260)
• Mary Dixon Kies: Connecticut woman became the first female to be granted a patent, for an innovation in weaving straw with silk and thread (1809)
• Carnegie Hall: opened in NYC; Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor (1891)
• Cy Young: threw the first perfect game in modern Major League Baseball history (1904)
• West Germany: became a sovereign state and a member of NATO (1955)
• Alan Shepard Jr.: America's first man in space piloted Freedom 7 in a 15-minute suborbital flight (1961)
• "Boy with a Pipe": Picasso masterpiece sold for a record $104,168,000 at Sotheby's (2004)

Birthdays

• Soren Kierkegaard 1813
• Karl Marx 1818 - Socialist writer ("Das Kapital", "The Communist Manifesto"), founder of communism, mentor of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders
• John B. Stetson 1830
• Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman) 1865 - Journalist, wrote about taboo subjects for her time period (divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity),women’s rights advocate
• Charles Bender 1883
• Christopher Morley 1890 - Writer (New York Evening Post, Saturday Review), novelist
• Rex Harrison 1908
• Tyrone Power (Tyrone Edmund Power Jr.) 1913 - Actor ("The Mark of Zorro", "The Eddie Duchin Story")
• Duane Carter 1913 - Auto racer
• Alice Faye (Alice Jeanne Leppert) 1915 - Actress ("State Fair")
• Arthur Schawlow 1921
• Ann B. Davis (Ann Bradford Davis) 1926 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
• Art Pollard 1927 - Auto racer
• Pat Carroll 1927 - Comedienne, actress ("The Ted Knight Show")
• Ace Cannon (John Henry Cannon Jr.) 1934 - Saxophonist
• Jose (Antonio Rodriguez) Pagan 1935 - Baseball player
• Sandy Baron (Sanford Beresofsky) 1937 - Comedian, actor ("This Must Be Belgium")
• Johnnie Taylor 1937
• Roni Stoneman 1938
• Michael Murphy 1938 - Actor ("Batman Returns")

• Lance Henriksen 1940 - Actor ("ALIENS")
• Tommy (Vann) Helms 1941 - Baseball player
• Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) 1942 - Country singer
• Michael Palin 1943 - Comedian, actor ("Monty Python’s Flying Circus", "A Fish Called Wanda")
• Roger Rees 1944 - Actor ("Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "If Looks Could Kill")
• John Rhys-Davies 1944 - Actor
• Jean-Pierre Léaud 1944 - Actor ("Last Tango in Paris")
• Larry (Eugene) Hisle 1947 - Baseball player
• John Hummer 1948 - Basketball player
• Bill Ward 1948 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
• Nick Bebout 1951 - Football player
• Richard E. Grant 1957 - Actor ("Ready to Wear", "Bram Stoker’s Dracula")
• John Miller 1958 - Broadcast journalist
• Annette Bening 1959 - Actress
• Ian McCullough 1959 - Musician (Echo and the Bunnymen)
• Cathy Moriarty 1960
• Gary Daly 1962 - Singer (China Crisis)
• Kevin Mooney 1962 - Musician (Adam & The Ants)
• Kevin James LaBrie 1963 - Musician (Dream Theater)
• Tina Yothers 1973 - Actress ("Family Ties")
• Craig David 1981
• Danielle Fishel 1981
• Adele 1988 Singer
  Hannah Davis 1990 Swimsuit model

   

  
  

  

  
  

  

 

  

 

  

Look forward to MUNNday! 05/04/2020

Today is May the 4th

So today we have

Olivia Munn

Dressed as Leia "Slave Girl"
 

Hotty of the day!

   

 

Unseen and untouched Jan Maxim pics