How to hack the electronic road signs

Saturday, July 18, 2026

gnomist \ NOH-mist \ , noun; 

• a writer of aphorisms. 

Origin: The term gnomist entered English in the late 1800s. It finds its roots in the Greek gnṓmē meaning "thought, opinion, intelligence."

Fuckit List

• A list of people, male or female, you want to have sexual intercourse with before you die.

G-Mo: Bob has an awesome Fuckit List:

1. Gal Gadot

2. Megan Fox

3. Kate Beckinsale

4. Olga Kurlyenko

5. Margot Robbie

History

• Great Fire of Rome: a conflagration that destroyed Rome began; Nero (who probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned) blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecutions of them (65)
• secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
• Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco led an uprising in Spanish North Africa, beginning a war that lasted for three years; at the war's end, Franco became dictator of Spain until his death in 1975 (1936)
• FDR: the 32nd POTUS was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940) 
  Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy (a married man) killed Mary Jo Kopechne after leaving a party with her at 11:15 PM. After submerging his car, he escaped, leaving her in it at Chappaquiddick after a night of drinking. She was alive for at least two hours in the submerged car. He didn't report the accident and didn't surrender to the police until the car and her body were already discovered. He ended up getting away with vehicular homicide (1969)
• Nadia Comaneci: 14-year-old Romanian earned the first perfect 10 in Olympics gymnastics (1976)

  

Birthdays

• Gilbert White 1720
• William Makepeace Thackeray 1811
  
• Vidkum Quisling 1887
• Chill Willis 1903
• S.I. Hayakawa 1906
• Clifford Odetts 1906
• Lou Busch 1910
• Hume Cronyn 1911
• Harriet Nelson 1912
• Marvin Miller 1913
• Richard "Red" Skelton 1913
• Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa
  
• John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut
• Dick Button 1929
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1929
• 'Papa Dee' Allen (War) 1931
• Tenley Albright 1935
• Hunter S. Thompson 1937
• Brian Auger (Mahavishnu Players) 1939
• Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) 1939
• James Brolin 1940
• Lonnie Mack (Memphis) 1941
• Martha Reeves (Martha and the Vandellas) 1941
• Robin McDonald (Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas) 1943
• Kurt Mann 1947
• Glenn Hughes 1950
• Ricky Skaggs 1954 - Singer
• Terry Chambers (XTC) 1955
• Nigel Twist (The Alarm) 1958
• Audrey Landers 1959
• Elizabeth McGovern 1961
• Jack Irons (Pearl Jam) 1962
• John Herman (Widespread Panic) 1962
• Vin Diesel 1967 - Actor
• Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) 1978
• Jason Weaver 1979
• Kristen Bell 1980
  

  

 

  

  

 

  

Happy Berfday FR!!!

Today my little Blue Ford turns TWENTY-ONE years old. The car is clocking in at around 179,000 miles and still runs like a champ.

HAPPY BERFDAY,

LITTLE BLUE CAR!!!

Friday, July 17, 2026

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braggart \ BRAG-ert \ , noun;

• a person who does a lot of bragging. 

adjective:

• bragging; boastful. 

Origin: Braggart entered English in the 1500s. It finds its roots in the French term braguer meaning "to brag."

Bachelor Wash 

• A quick soap-free rinse of a plate, cup, or utensil which had recently been used. This is most useful for low-oil, water based, or dry foods. Wiping with a paper towel will usually remove residual food particles missed by the bachelor wash.

1. Since we were out of coffee cups, I bachelor washed the ones from breakfast and filled them up.

2. After a quick bachelor wash, the drinking glass went back in the cupboard.

3. I didn't want my date to think I was a pig, so I bachelor washed the dishes and tossed them in the cupboard.

History

• Spanish-American War: ended when Spanish troops surrendered to US in Santiago, Cuba (1898)
• House of Windsor: in the wake of anti-German sentiment, British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1917)
• Potsdam Conference: world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill begin the final Allied summit of WWII (1945)
• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: for the first time, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit; it marked the warming US-USSR relationship (1975)
• Woolworths: the last of the company's five-and-dime stores closed; over 9,000 employees went jobless (1997)

Birthdays

• John Astor 1762
• Luis Munoz-Rivera 1859

  
  
• Erle Stanley Gardner 1889
• Berenice Abbott 1898
• James Cagney 1899
• Christina E. Stead 1902
• William Gargan 1905
• Art Linkletter 1912
• Eleanor Steber 1916
• Lou Boudreau 1917
• Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian
• Gordon Gould 1920
• Niccolo Castiglioni 1932
• Mimi Hines 1933
• Pat McCormick 1934
• Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor
• Diahann Carroll 1935 - Actress, singer
• Peter Schickele 1935 - Musician (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Spencer Davis 1939 - Musician, singer (Spencer Davis Group)
• Connie Hawkins 1942 - Basketball player
• Camilla 1947 - Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Britain's Prince Charles
• Cathy Ferguson 1948
• Mick Tucker 1949 - Musician (Sweet)
• Terence 'Geezer' Butler 1949 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
• Mike Vale 1949 - Musician (Tommy James and the Shondells)
• Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress
• Phoebe Snow 1952 - Singer

  
• David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, actor, living legend 
• Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor
• Bryan Trottier 1956 - Hockey player
• Nancy Giles 1960
• Regina Belle 1963
• Alex Winter 1965
• Guru (Keith Elam) 1966 - Rapper (Gang Starr)
• Stockley (David "Stokley" Williams) 1967 - Singer (Mint Condition)
• JC (Jarret Cordes, J.C. the Eternal) 1971 - (PM Dawn)
• Kitten Jones 1982

  

 

  

  

 

  

Turtle Thursday: JAWS! (2026)

The pocket shark rises...
 

...emerges from the pocket...

 
 

...to strike out at his prey!

 pics by Mrs Bax0jayz taken with an Olympus FE-230

Thursday, July 16, 2026

penultimate \ pi-NUHL-tuh-mit \ , adjective; 

1. next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play . 
2. of or pertaining to a penult. 

noun: 

1. a penult. 

Origin: Penultimate combines a variation on the Latin paene meaning "almost" with ultimus meaning "final." It entered English in the mid-1500s. 

poopular, adjective; 

• Popular on the outside, poopy on the inside.

Everyone likes Ben but he's a real asshole. I guess he's just poopular.

History

• Czar Nicholas II: ruler of Russia was executed, along with his family, by the Bolsheviks, a year after having abdicated (1918)

  
• parking meter: was first installed, in Oklahoma City (1935)
• Trinity test: US exploded the first trial atom bomb in the New Mexico desert, less than a month before bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
• Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger's novel about adolescent antihero Holden Caulfield was published; it was controversial at the time but is now a staple of school curricula (1951)
• Apollo 11: the first manned flight to the moon took off from the Kennedy Space Center (1969)
• Saddam Hussein: became president of Iraq (1979)
• JFK, Jr.: died with wife Carolyn and her sister in a plane crash (1999)

Birthdays

• Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723
• Mary Baker Eddy 1821
• Ida Bell Wells 1862
• Roald Amundsen 1872
• Trygve Lie 1896
• Barbara Stanwyck 1907
• Orville Redenbacher 1907
  
• Ginger Rogers 1911
• Barnard Hughes 1915
• Bess Myerson 1924
• Nat Pierce 1925
• Cal Tjader 1925
• Joey Giardello 1930
• William Bell 1939
• Corin Redgrave 1939
• Tony Jackson (Searchers) 1940
• Desmond Dekker 1942
• Margaret Court 1942
• Jimmy Johnson (NFL) 1943
• Ruben Blades 1948
• Pinchas Zukerman 1948
• Stewart Copeland (Police) 1952
• Michael Flatley 1958
• Phoebe Cates 1963
• Will Ferrell 1967
• Barry Sanders 1968
• Ed Kowalczyk (Live) 1971
• Corey Scott Feldman 1971
• Rosa Salazar 1985 - Battle Angel Alita