Thursday, July 10, 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025
fen \fen\, noun:
- low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- the Fens, a marshy region W and S of The Wash, in E England.
Fen came from the Old English term fenn, and ultimately comes from the Proto-Indo-European root pen- meaning "swamp."
Porno elbow
- An medical variant of the condition known as 'tennis elbow' primarily affecting the dominant arm of hyperactive males who don't play tennis.
Jim: What's going on Doc? I can barely bend my right elbow.
Doctor: It's obviously a severe case of tennis elbow.
Jim: I don't play tennis, Dude.
Doctor: Do you stay up late, alone with a computer?
Jim: Uhh Maybe
Doctor: Are you right handed Jim?
Jim: Uhh Ya
Doctor: Jim, sorry to tell you but it looks like you've got a severe case of porno elbow. Unplug the computer for two weeks and you'll be fine.
History
- Meher Baba: Indian spiritual master began a silence "to save mankind from monumental ignorance," which ended up lasting 44 years till his death (1925)
- Battle of Britain: German began to attack Britain by air (1940)
- Telstar: the first communications satellite was launched into orbit (1962)
- Coca-Cola Classic: the Coca-Cola Co. announced it would bring back its original formula after customers reacted negatively to New Coke (1985)
Birthdays
- Camille Pisarro 1830 (impressionist painter)
- James Whistler 1834
- Aldolphus Busch 1842
- Nikola Tesla 1856 (genius)
- Marcel Proust 1871
- Mary McLeod Bethune 1875
- John Gilbert 1897
- Ljuba Welitsch 1913
- Milt Buckner 1915
- Dick Cary 1916
- Don Herbert 1917
- David Brinkley 1920
- Jake LaMotta 1921
- Jeff Donnell 1921
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921
- Jean Kerr 1923
- David N. Dinkins 1927
- Ivan Passer 1933
- Jerry Herman 1933
- Sandy Stewart 1937
- Lawrence Pressman 1939
- Mills Watson 1940
- Robert Pine 1941
- Ian Whitcomb 1941
- Arthur Ashe 1943
- Ron Glass 1945
- Virginia Wade 1945
- Hal McRae 1946
- Sue Lyon 1946
- Arlo Guthrie 1947
- Ronnie James Dio 1949 - Musician (DIO)
- Cheryl Wheeler 1951
- Neil Tennant 1954 - Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
- Bela Fleck 1958
- Hawkshaw Wilson 1960 - Musician (BR5-49)
- Peter DiStefano 1965 - Musician (Porno for Pyros)Peter Serafinowicz 1972 - Actor / comedian (The Tick)
Sofia Vergara 1972





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Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
poniard \PON-yerd\, noun:
1. a small, slender dagger.
verb:
1. to stab with a poniard.
Poniard entered English in the 1500s and ultimately comes from the Latin pungus meaning "fist." The Old French word poignal literally refers to something held by the fist.
greeting orbit
- When you're with someone and run into an acquaintance of his/hers. They exchange greetings, which leads to a conversation, and you stand there smiling like a dummy wondering if you'll ever be introduced.
We strolled through the crowd arm in arm, she knowing everyone and stopping to chat - me knowing nobody and in perpetual greeting orbit.
Trivia
What triggered the first recorded student protest in U.S. history?
What triggered the first recorded student protest in U.S. history?
- Sour butter served in Harvard University’s dining rooms in 1766. The protest, known as the Great Butter Rebellion, resulted in the suspension of half the student body and lasted a month. Years later, the protest leader, student Asa Dunbar, would be the grandfather of Henry David Thoreau.
History
- Wimbledon: the precursor to the tennis tournament first began; only Gentlemen's Singles was played (1877)
- cross of gold: William Jennings Bryan delivered a speech to the Democratic National Convention supporting bimetallism, advocating a silver standard in addition to the gold standard (1896)
- Johnny Weissmuller: swam 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, thus breaking the minute barrier (1922)
- Grateful Dead: psychedelic rock-country-jazz band played its last concert, a month before the death of lead singer Jerry Garcia (1995)
- Midsummer Classic: MLB All-Star game ended in a tie after 11 innings; both sides had run out of pitchers (2002)
Birthdays
- Ann Radcliffe 1764
- Ottorino Respighi 1879
- Clara Bow 1907 - Actress (Down to the Sea in Ships, The Plastic Age)
- Harold C. Fox 1910
- Leonard Pennario 1924
- Red Kelly 1927
- Ed Ames 1927 - Actor, musician (The Ames Brothers)
- Lee Hazlewood 1929
- Jesse McReynolds 1929
- James Hampton 1936
- Brian Dennehy 1938 - Actor
- Richard Roundtree 1942 - Actor
- Dean Koontz 1945 - Author
- Bon Scott (AC/DC) 1946
- O.J. Simpson 1947 - Football player, actor, murderer
- Chris Cooper 1951 - Actor
- John Tesh 1952 - Musician, television personality
- David Ball 1953
- Tom Hanks 1956 - Actor
- Kelly McGillis 1957 - Actress
- Jimmy Smits 1958 - Actor
- Jim Kerr 1959 - Musician (Simple Minds)
- Marc Almond 1959 - Musician (Soft Cell)
- Courtney Love 1964 - Musician (Hole)
- Frank Bello 1965 - Musician (Anthrax)
- Scott Grimes 1971 - Actor
- Enrique Murciano 1973 - Actor ("Without a Trace")
- Jack White 1975 - Musician (White Stripes)
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Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Review Tuesday: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (2025)

Mobile Suit Gundam:
GQuuuuuuX
2025
When a teen joins in on underground mecha battles on a space colony, things take a strange turn.
I don't get to watch much Japanese animation. I just don't have time to binge watch a long series. But when Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX came to AMAZON PRIME and only ran twelve episodes, and I saw all the strange designs coming out of it, I decided to give it a shot.
Right off the bat this show had a major problem that I have with a LOT of anime:
THE CHILDREN ARE THE BESTEST EVAR!
Ugh! There's underground mecha fighting and this little girl, despite never being in a cockpit before is better than EVERYONE! Plus, her backup dude is flying the RED GUNDAM. The fabled mobile suit used by Char Aznable to win the war! But Char vanished? How did this emo kid get his hands on it? How is he so good too?
The show jumps around a lot. The exposition scenes with Char during the war are great. You figure out quickly that this is some alternate universe that Zeon won the great war. Apparently, without their great weapon, Gundam: The White Devil, Zeon was able to combine their superior high-mobility technology with the advanced weapons systems of the Federation's flagship mobile suit and win the war. Char, however, vanished before the end of the war, along with his mobile suit. So the re-appearance of thew Red Gundam has piqued the interest of several officer.
The little girls and the emo dude are all bummers. Some of the mobile suit re-designs are pretty cool while others are seriously WTF. Why is this thing that looks exactly like a GM called a Gelgoog??? That aside, the Char storyline makes it worthwhile. When they finally reveal what this alternate storyline is really all about, the show gets better, and the ending is perfect.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
balk \balk\, verb:
- to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- (of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
- to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
- Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.
noun:
- a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment.
- a strip of land left unplowed.
Balk comes from the Old Norse balkr meaning "ridge of land." The modern figurative senses of this term relate to obstructions in passage resulting from unplowed land.
Nuts to Butts, adjective:
- used in a very crowded or tight situation.
hey, you don't wanna get in on that one (subway car), it's nuts to butts.
Sarah Palin Effect
- The principal that expertise on a certain subject can be gained through geographical proximity to it
Gov. of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is a proclaimed expert on foreign affairs with Russia due to Alaska`s proximity to Russia and can thus be called the "Sarah Palin Effect"
History
- Liberty Bell: was rung to call Philadelphia citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
- The Wall Street Journal: began publication (1889)
- Ziegfield Follies: producer Florenz Ziegfield staged his first "follies" on the roof of New York City's New York Theater (1907)
- Roswell UFO Incident: A report appears in newspaper Roswell Daily Record announcing "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region." (1947)
- Oklahoma!: the Broadway musical's soundtrack became the first album to go gold (indicating one million sales), as certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (1958)
- The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane (1960)
- Vietnam War: U.S. troops begin withdrawing from Vietnam. (1969)
- The Solar Impulse completed the first 24-hour flight by a solar powered plane. (2010)
Birthdays
- Jean La Fontaine 1621
- John D. Rockefeller 1839
- Louis Jordan 1908
- Billy Eckstine 1914
- Faye Emerson 1917
- Pamela Brown 1918
- Craig Stevens 1918
- Harrison Dillard 1923
- Shirley Ann Grau 1929
- Roone Arledge 1931
- Jerry Vale 1932
- Marty Feldman 1933
- Steve Lawrence 1935
- Barbara Loden 1937
- Faye Wattleton 1943
- Jeffrey Tambor 1944
- Johnny Jai Johnson (Allman Brothers Band) 1944
- Kim Darby 1948
- Raffi Cavoukian 1948
- Wolfgang Puck 1949
- Anjelica Huston 1951
- Margaret Stowe 1952
- Marianne Williamson 1952
- Kevin Bacon 1958
- Toby Keith 1961
- Andy Fletcher 1961 - Musician (Depeche Mode)
- Rob Burnett 1962
- Joan Osborne 1962
- Corey Parker 1965
- Billy Crudup 1968
- Beck 1970
- Drew Womack 1970 - Musician (Sons of the Desert)
- Kathleen Robertson 1973
Mindy Vega 1974 (t3h pr0n) - Tavis Werts 1977 - Musician (Reel Big Fish)




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