Friday, June 5, 2026

forenamed \ FAWR-NEYMD, FOHR- \ , adjective; 

• named before; mentioned before in the same writing or speech; aforementioned.

Origin: Forenamed has been in English since the 1100s. It's derived from prefix fore- meaning "before" and the common word name.

 

beef walk

• Going outside or away from the group in order to fart with less consequence.

Person A: "Where did you just go?"

Person B: "I had to go on a beef walk, PF Changs for lunch gave me the Dali Chicken farts"

  

Holiday

• National Doughnut Day (US) (1st Friday of June, annually)
  

  

 

History

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier: took the first successful balloon flight (1783)
• gold standard: was abandoned by the United States (1933)

  
• Marshall Plan: Secretary of State George Marshall outlined his aid program for Europe in a speech at Harvard (1947)
• Six-Day War: began; Israel was victorious against Egypt, Syria and Jordan; Jerusalem was reunited (1967)
• Robert Kennedy: US presidential candidate was shot by Sirhan Sirhan; he died the next day (1968)
• AIDS: first cases were reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; they were five people in Los Angeles (1981)

Birthdays

• Adam Smith 1723 - Author

  
• "Pancho" Villa (Francisco Villa, José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) - Mexican Revolutionary general
• John Maynard Keynes 1883 - Economist
• William Boyd (William Lawrence Boyd) 1895 - Actor
• Dennis Gabor 1900 - Electrical engineer, inventor of holography
• Eddie Joost 1916 - Baseball player
• "Specs" Powell (Gordon "Specs" Powell) 1922 - Drummer
• Bill Hayes (William "Bill" Foster Hayes III) 1925 - Actor
• Tony Richardson (Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson) 1928 - Director, producer
• Robert Lansing (Robert Howell Brown) 1929 - Actor

  
• Jacques Demy 1931 - Filmmaker
• Pete Jolly 1932 - Musician
• Bill Moyers 1934 - Broadcast journalist
• Spalding Gray 1941 - Actor, playwright, screenwriter
• Floyd Butler 1941 - Musician (Fifth Dimension)
• Don Reid 1945 - Musician (The Statler Brothers)
• Fred Stone 1946 - Musician (Sly & The Family Stone)
• Gail Davies 1948 - Country singer
• Ken Follet 1949 - author
• Laurie Anderson 1950 - Singer
• Wayne Wood 1951 - Hockey player
• Marva Jean Brooks 1954 - Wife of Muddy Waters
• Michael Henry Nicko "Boomer" McBrain 1954 - Drummer (Iron Maiden)
• Kenny G. 1956 - Musician
• Richard Butler 1956 - Musician (Psychedelic Furs)
• Karen Sillas 1965 - Actress
• Ron Livingston 1967 - Actor ("Band of Brothers," "Office Space")
• Brian McKnight 1969 - Singer
• Mark Wahlberg 1971 - Actor, singer (Marky Mark)
• Chad Allen 1974 - Singer
• P-Nut 1974 - Musician (311)
• Torry Holt 1976 - Football player
• Liza Weil 1977 - Actress ("The Gilmore Girls")
• Pete Wentz 1979 - Musician (Fall Out Boy)
• Seb Lefebvre 1981 - Musician (Simple Plan)

 

 

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Turtle Thursday: Tama Chan (2008)

Say hello to Tama Chan. She's a Red Footed Tortoise. Red Foots are indigenous to South America, specifically Brazil, which is precisely where she resides. She is the pet of my friend Maira. The reptile is allowed to roam all over the home and property. In a town where homeless people frequently make her brethren dinner, Tama Chan lives a pretty good life of chewing up vegetation and playing with the kittens. It certainly sounds better than working on tax returns for twelve hours a day seven days a week!

You can read up a bit more on this breed of turtle here:

http://www.answers.com/topic/red-footed-tortoise

Thursday, June 4, 2026

spumescent \ spyoo-MES-uhnt \ , adjective; 

• foamy; foamlike; frothy.

Origin: Spumescent entered English in the mid-1800s. It came from the Latin word spūma which meant "foam" along with suffix -escent which is added to adjectives borrowed from Latin. 

 

bacon tetris

• The act of arranging bacon strips on a frying pan in the most efficient way possible given the dimensions of your pan. The goal is to maximize the number of bacon strips on the heating surface without leaving any part of any strip uncooked.

I have 100 square inches of bacon and only 36 square inches of frying pan area. Time to play bacon tetris.

 

History

• quadricycle: Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive (1896)
• Pulitzer Prizes: were first awarded, for biography, history and journalism (1917)
• Battle of Midway: began overnight; the Allies' victory marked the turning point of the naval war in the Pacific (1942)
• Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen's hit album was released; it became one of the best-selling albums of all time (1984)
• Tiananmen Square massacre: crowds of pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by Chinese troops (1989)

Birthdays

• George III (England) 1738
• Carl Gustaf Mannerheim 1867

  
• Rosalind Russell 1908
• Charles Collingwood 1917
• Robert Merrill 1919
• Russell Train 1920
• Bobby Wanzer 1921
• Gene Barry 1922
• Dennis Weaver 1924
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1928
• Morgana King 1930
• John Drew Barrymore 1932
• Bruce Dern 1936 - Actor
• Freddy Fender 1937
• Robert Fulghum 1937
• Roger Ball 1944 - Musician (Average White Band)
• Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam) 1944 - Singer (The Mamas and the Papas), actress ("The Last Movie", "Knot's Landing")
• Anthony Braxton 1945
• Gordon Waller 1945 - Musician (Peter and Gordon)
• Bettina Gregory 1946
• Danny Brown 1951 - Musician (The Fixx)
• Parker Stevenson 1952 - Actor
• Keith David 1954
• Eddie Velez 1958
• Julie Gholson 1958
• El DeBarge 1961 - Singer (DeBarge)
• Julie White 1961 - Actress
• Andrea Jaegar 1965
• Scott Wolf 1968 - Actor ("Party of Five")
• Horatio Sanz 1969 - Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
• Noah Wyle 1971 - Actor ("ER")
• Darin Erstad 1974
• Stefan Lessard 1974 - Musician (The Dave Matthews Band)
• Russell Brand 1975 - Actor, hack-comedian, socialist
• Angelina Jolie 1975 - Actress
• Bar Refaeli 1975 - Model
  Josh McDermott 1978 - The Walking Dead
  

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KNIGHT RIDER

The '80s. Those were the Hasselhoff glory days to be sure. When Knight Rider was running, he might've been the coolest dude on TV...

At least to a bunch of pre-teen boys he was.

And all of Germany.

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

grimalkin \ gri-MAL-kin, -MAWL- \ , noun; 

1. a cat.
2. an old female cat.
3. an ill-tempered old woman. 

Origin: Grimalkin is apparently an alteration of the words gray and malkin , which is a diminutive form of the name Maud.

Rebound Job

• A job you take knowing that it isn't long term. Often due to an emergency situation where you know your losing your current job. It provides a paycheck while you take your time looking for a better job.

Starbucks was totally a rebound job, I was minutes from getting fired and needed something fast!

History

• ''Casey at the Bat'': was first published, in the San Francisco Examiner (1888)
• Duke of Windsor: the former King Edward VIII wed American divorcee Wallis Simpson, for love of whom he abdicated the throne of England (1937)
• Edward White: Gemini 4 astronaut became the first American to walk in space (1965)
• Tupolev Tu-144: Soviet jet crashed at the Paris Air Show; it was the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft (1973)
• The Producers: Broadway musical by Mel Brooks won a record 12 Tony Awards (2001)

Birthdays

• William Hone 1780
• Richard Cobden 1804
• Jefferson Davis 1808
• Maurice Evans 1901
• Jan Pierce 1904
• Josephine Baker 1906
• Ellen Corby 1911
• Paulette Goddard 1911
• Leo Gorcey 1915
• Lily St. Cyr 1917
• Tony Curtis 1925 - Actor
• Allen Ginsberg 1926
• Colleen Dewhurst 1926
• Boots Randolph 1927
• Chuck Barris 1929 - Game show host ("The Gong Show")
• Dakota Stanton 1932
• Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author
• Curtis Mayfield 1942
• Billy Cunningham 1943 - Basketball player
• Emmit Thomas 1943 - Football player
• Mike Clark 1944 - Musician (The Byrds)
• Ian Hunter 1946 - Musician (Mott the Hoople)
• John Paul Jones 1946 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
• Michael Burton 1947
• Too Slim 1948 - Musician (Riders in the Sky)
• Suzi Quatro 1950 - Singer
• Deniece Williams 1951 - Actress
• Billy Powell 1952 - Musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Dan Hill 1954
• Scott Valentine 1958
• Charles Hart 1961 
  Kerry King (1964): guitarist, Slayer
• Mike Gordon 1965 - Musician (Phish)
• Anderson Cooper 1967 - Broadcast journalist
• Gabriel Hernandez (No Mercy) 1971
• Ariel Hernandez (No Mercy) 1971
• Rafael Nadal 1986 - Tennis player
  Imogen Poots 1989 - Actress