Happy Birthday HOOTERS!

Happy Birthday Hooters!

2026

  

  

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Hooters!

 

 

 

 

Cuz who doesn't love buffalo wings and cold beer?

 

 

 

Sunday, October 4, 2026

ethos \ EE-thos, EE-thohs, ETH-os, -ohs \ , noun; 

1. Sociology . the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period: In the Greek ethos the individual was highly valued.
2. the character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc. 
3. the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion.

Origin: Ethos comes from the Greek term meaning "custom; habit; character," and provides the root for the term ethics . It entered English in the 1600s.

manicorn

• a mythical male creature who is successful (read: pursuing his passion and can pay his electric bills/rent), funny, chivalrous, masculine (read: not chauvinistic), adventurous, artistic (read: not suicidal). See any John Cusack film (or Chuck Klosterman's witty commentary on Fake Love in Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Pops), any romantic comedy where the flawed guy comes through in the end...

"Where is my manicorn? I keep going out with all these losers!"

"Too bad I settled when I got married, I just met my manicorn."

Trivia

What was Hannah Montana TV star Miley Cyrus’ given name at birth?

• Destiny. Her childhood nickname, Smiley, morphed into Miley, which legally became her first name in 2008 when she was 15.

 

 

History

• Gregorian calendar: was proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII; this date, October 4, was followed immediately by October 15 in Spain, Portugal, Poland and most of Italy (1582)
• US Open golf tournament: was played for the first time; the $150 prize was won by Horace Rawlins (1895)
• Sputnik: the space race began when Russia launched the first man-made satellite into orbit (1957)
• Pope Paul VI: became the first pontiff to visit the US when he addressed the UN General Assembly in New York (1965)
• Hooters, the delightfully tacky yet unrefined restaurant chain came into being (1983)
  

  

   

  

  
  

  

   

Birthdays

• Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S.) 1822
• Frederic S. Remington 1861
• Edward L. Stratemeyer 1862
• Damon Runyon 1884
• Buster Keaton 1895
• Frankie Crosetti 1910
• Jan Murray 1917
• Charlton Heston 1924
• Alvin Toffler 1928
• Leroy Van Dyke 1929
• Felicia Farr 1932
• Sam Huff 1934
• Eddie Applegate 1935
• Anne Rice 1941
• Lori Saunders 1941
• Jackie Collins 1941
• Nona Hendryx 1944
• Clifton Davis 1945
• Susan Sarandon 1946
• James Fielder (Buffalo Springfield) 1947
• Armand Assante 1949
• Alan Rosenberg 1950
• Barbara McDonald (Timbuk 3) 1958
• Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys) 1959
• Greg Hubbard (Sawyer Brown) 1960
• Jon Secada 1961
• David W. Harper 1961
• Liev Schreiber 1967
• Alicia Silverstone 1976
• Rachael Leigh Cook 1979
• Jimmy Workmann 1980
• Michael Charles Roman 1987

  

 

  

DAYAM!

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Salchow \SAL-kou\, noun:

• Ice Skating. a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.

Salchow entered English courtesy of Swedish figure skater Ulrich Salchow, who invented the jump and first performed it in 1909.

 
maybe later

• a slightly less (or more) dick way of saying "no fucking way."

"Hey man wanna come over later and catch Dancing With the Stars?"

"Maybe later."

"You fuckin' dick."

History

• The Mickey Mouse Club: children's variety show debuted on ABC (1955)

  
• German Unity Day: marks the date that East and West reunited after 45 years (1990)
• O.J. Simpson: after a sensational trial, the former football player was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend (1995)
• Siegfried and Roy: On Roy Horn's 59th birthday, a tiger grabbed him by the neck and dragged him offstage in the middle of a performance (2002); Roy was critically injured, and only returned to the stage in 2009 to briefly reunite with Siegfried and the tiger that had caused Roy's injuries.

Birthdays

• Emily Post (Price) 1873
• Thomas Wolf 1900
  
• Harvey Kurtzman 1902 - Founder of "Mad" magazine
• James Herriot 1916
• Gore Vidal 1925
• Erik Bruhn 1928
• Andy Hebenton 1929
• Glenn Hall 1931
• Harold Henning 1932
• Neale Fraser 1933
• Madlyn Rhue 1934
• Eddie Cochran 1938
• Felix Pappalardi (Mountain) 1938
• Alan O'Day 1940
• Barbara Ferris 1940
• Chubby Checker 1941
• Michael Gallagher 1941
• Alan Rachins 1942
• Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) 1947
• Ronnie Laws 1950
• Pamela Hensley 1950
• Dennis Eckersley 1954
• Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954
• Peter Frechette 1956
• Jack Wagner 1959
• Louis Marchiony Jr. 1960
• Tommy Lee 1961 "Musician" (Motley Crue)
• Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) 1969
• Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) 1971
• Lena Headey 1973 Actress (300, Dredd)
• Neve Campbell 1973
• Shannyn Sossamon 1978 
  
• Erik Von Detten 1982