
Sunday, February 08, 2026
Sunday, February 8, 2026
aphesis \AF-uh-sis\, noun:
- Historical Linguistics. the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in the formation of the word slant from aslant.
Aphesis is derived from the Greek word of the same spelling meaning "a letting go."
teafragging
- It's [teabagging], but in video games. When playing online or split-screen in a First person shooter game, and you've just [frag]ged someone, you walk over the opponent's digital carcass, and then press the crouch command repeatedly to embarass the victim while he or she respawns.It is truly embarassing, and should only be done by professionals. This means you need to earn some respect before you teafrag somebody, or else you will face the wrath of the victim.
1: "Dammit! I just got teafragged by some [noob]!"
2: "That was me, stupid!"
1: "Fuck."

History
Birthdays

- Mary, Queen of Scots: was beheaded after being implicated in the Babington plot against Elizabeth I (1587)
- The Devil's Footprints: 100 miles of hooflike prints appeared in the snow in Devon, England (1855)
- Russo-Japanese War: began with a surprise attack by Japan on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur (now Lüshun) (1904)
- The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith's controversial epic, produced for the evil racist President Woodrow Wilson, premiered in Los Angeles (1915)

Birthdays
- William Tecumsen Sherman 1820 - Union General during U.S. Civil War
- Jules Verne 1828
- Dame Edith Evans 1888
- Lyle Talbot 1902
- Chester F. Carlson 1906
- Buddy Morrow 1919
- Lana Turner 1921
- Audrey Meadows 1924
- Jack Lemmon 1925
- Alejandro Rey 1930
- James Dean 1931
- John Williams 1932 - Composer (Star Wars)
- Larry Verne 1936
- Ray Sharpe 1938
- Ted Koppel 1940
- Brian Bennett 1940 - Musician (The Shadows)
- Nick Nolte 1941
- Robert Klein 1942
- Creed Bratton 1943 - Musician (The Grass Roots)
- Bunky Henry 1944
- Dan Seals 1948
- Ron Tyson 1948 - Singer (The Temptations)
- Brooke Adams 1949
- Mary Steenburgen 1953
- John Grisham 1955
- Vince Neil 1961 Musician/Singer (Motley Crue)
- Sammy Llanas 1961 - Musician (The BoDeans)
- Gary Coleman 1968
- Mary McCormack 1969
- Seth Green 1974
- Abi Titmuss 1976 (actress / model)



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Saturday, February 07, 2026
Saturday, February 7, 2026
idem \AHY-dem, ID-em\, pronoun:
- the same as previously given or mentioned.
Idem stems from the Latin word of the same spelling which meant essentially "it."
Hangry
- When you are so hungry that your lack of food causes you to become angry, frustrated or both. An amalgam of hungry and angry invented to describe that feeling when you get when you are out at a restaurant and have been waiting over an hour to get the meal that you have ordered.
"Damn! Where is that steak I ordered? We've been waiting for an hour and a half here. The service here is terrible! I'm starving! I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel really hangry!"
- 1940 - "Pinocchio" world premiered at the Center Theatre in Manhattan.
- 1962 - The U.S. government banned all Cuban imports and re-export of U.S. products to Cuba from other countries.
- 1964 - British invasion: The Beatles arrived in US for the first time and were mobbed at JFK International Airport
- 1977 - Russia launched Soyuz 24
- 1979 - Pluto: the dwarf planet moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the first time since its discovery
- 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.
- 1985 - "Sports Illustrated" released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages.
- 1992 - Maastricht Treaty: was signed in the Netherlands; it created the European Union as a successor to the European Community, and established a central banking system and a common currency — the euro
- 1993 - Carmen Electra's self-titled debut album was released.
- 1995 - Tupac Shakur was sentenced to 1 to 4 1/2 years in jail for sexual abuse.
Birthdays
- John Deere 1804
- Charles Dickens 1812
- Frederick Douglas 1817
- Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867
- Eubie (James Hubert) Blake 1883
- Sinclair Lewis 1885
- Larry "Buster" Crabbe 1908
- Oscar Brand 1920
- An Wang 1920
- Eddie Bracken 1920
- Wilma Lee Cooper (Leary) 1921
- Keefe Brasselle 1923
- Gay Talese 1932
- Earl King 1934
- Dieter Bohlen 1944
- Sammy Johns 1946
- Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night) 1948
- Alan Lancaster (Status Quo) 1949
- Marilyn Cochran 1950
- Miguel Ferrer 1954
- Brian Travers (UB40) 1959
- James Spader 1960
- David Bryan (Bon Jovi) 1962
- Chris Rock 1966
- Jason Gedrick 1967
- Edward Bergenholz 1974
- Ashton Kutcher 1978
- Tina Majorino 1985
Friday, February 06, 2026
Rock out with your GROUNDHOG out!
Those fucking overgrown rats did their thing this week. Might as well dust this tune off...
Groundhog's Day
Primus
When I woke up this mornin' I felt a pang.
I was hungerin' for some apple pie.
Stumble in the bathroom, hung my hog a little bit.
Washed the sleep out of my eye.
Oh yeah, it's gonna be a fine day.
Scratched myself a bit.
Poured me out a bowl-a corn chex.
Closest thing I could find to apple pie.
Lingerin' taste of toothpaste
Made the milk go down a bit funny.
But you know, them chex they do satisfy.
Oh yeah, this'll be a fine day.
So, after my mornin' rise-n-shine and eat-n-clean.
Had my mind set to hit them streets.
Drizzle from the night left cold puddles out.
Had my black stomp-boots on my feet.
It's my day.
Since I was in kneepants my pop had tried to make me realize.
If I set my mind down to it I could be a big man in the public eye.
So with my big blue collar on,
I set out to find the easy way. What an
Ice cold bath it was when I found you had to pay to play.
To taste the taste it's a tease that never would subside.
The taste is strong but soured by my learned eyes.
Well, if a woodchuck could chuck wood,
He'd get down on his knees to pray.
This little snappy boy might see
The light this ground hog's day.
I was hungerin' for some apple pie.
Stumble in the bathroom, hung my hog a little bit.
Washed the sleep out of my eye.
Oh yeah, it's gonna be a fine day.
Scratched myself a bit.
Poured me out a bowl-a corn chex.
Closest thing I could find to apple pie.
Lingerin' taste of toothpaste
Made the milk go down a bit funny.
But you know, them chex they do satisfy.
Oh yeah, this'll be a fine day.
So, after my mornin' rise-n-shine and eat-n-clean.
Had my mind set to hit them streets.
Drizzle from the night left cold puddles out.
Had my black stomp-boots on my feet.
It's my day.
Since I was in kneepants my pop had tried to make me realize.
If I set my mind down to it I could be a big man in the public eye.
So with my big blue collar on,
I set out to find the easy way. What an
Ice cold bath it was when I found you had to pay to play.
To taste the taste it's a tease that never would subside.
The taste is strong but soured by my learned eyes.
Well, if a woodchuck could chuck wood,
He'd get down on his knees to pray.
This little snappy boy might see
The light this ground hog's day.
Rock out and I wonder...
This weekend marks 36 years since he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...
Del Shannon
As I walk along,
I wonder what went wrong,
With our love, a love that was so strong.
And as I still walk on,
I think of the things we've done
Together, a-while our hearts were young.
I'm a-walkin' in the rain,
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain,
Wishin' you were here by me,
To end this misery
And I wonder--
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,
Why,
Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,
Yes, and I wonder,
A-where she will stay-ay,
My little runaway,
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
I'm a-walkin' in the rain,
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain,
Wishin' you were here by me,
To end this misery
And I wonder--
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,
Why,
Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,
Yes, and I wonder,
A-where she will stay-ay,
My little runaway,
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Friday, February 6, 2026
williwaw \WIL-ee-waw\, noun:
- a violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes, as in the Strait of Magellan, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
Williwaw entered English in the 1830s. It is of unknown origin.
Strategic Dipping
- Not double dipping! When a chip (or other dippable food) is dipped, bitten, and then turned over so that the tainted, bitten, and saliva covered part isn't able to corrupt the dip.
Don: Hey man, no double dipping!
Mac: I'm not double dipping! I'm using strategic dipping!History
- 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.
- 1935 - Monopoly: the popular board game first went on sale
- 1959 - The U.S., for the first time, successfully test-fired a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.
- 1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft (Apollo 14) and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
- 1990 - Billy Idol broke several bones in a serious motorcycle accident. As a result he could not appear in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" in a major role.
- 1998 - Washington National Airport was renamed for U.S. President Ronald Reagan with the signing of a bill by U.S. President Clinton.
- 1998 - Falco died in a traffic accident in the Dominican Republic.
Birthdays
- Christopher Marlowe 1564
- Babe Ruth 1895
- Ronald Wilson Reagan (U.S.) 1911
- John Lund 1913
- Zsa Zsa Gabor 1919
- Patrick Macnee 1922
- Sixten Jernberg 1929
- Rip Torn 1931
- Mamie Van Doren 1933
- Mike Farrell 1939
- Tom Brokaw 1940
- Gigi Perreau 1941
- Gayle Hunnicutt 1943
- Michael Tucker 1944
- Bob Marley 1945 - Musican (The Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers)
- Alan Jones (Amen Corner) 1947
- Jim Sheridan 1949
- Natalie Cole 1950
- Jon Walmsley 1956
- Kathy Najimy 1957
- Robert Townsend 1957
- Simon Phillips (Toto) 1957
- Barry Miller 1958
- Axl Rose (Guns & Roses) 1962
- Richie McDonald (Lonestar) 1962
- Rick Astley 1966
- Tim Brown (Boo Radleys) 1969
- Alice Eve 1981
- Brandon Hammond 1984
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