Patience is a virtue

So I was in the McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the lady behind me honked at me and flipped me off because I was taking to long to order. Wow. (Take the high road). 

So I paid for her food. 

I moved up and she leaned out the window looking all crazy at me because the teller told her I paid for her food. She felt embarrassed. 

When I got to the second window to get my food, I showed them both receipts and took her food too! I paid for it, it’s mine! Now she has to wait even longer. So I Honked my horn and screamed back, “Patience is a virtue!” She's gonna learn today!

Saturday, March 7, 2026

moiety \MOI-i-tee\, noun: 

1. a half.
2. an indefinite portion, part, or share.
3. Anthropology. one of two units into which a tribe or community is divided on the basis of unilineal descent.

Moiety comes from Old French meitiet, from Late Latin medietas, from Latin medius, "middle."

sexsuade

• To convince someone to agree to, accept, or do something, usually by using the promise of sex (explicit or implicit) or by withholding sex until you get your way.

Girl 1: My bf won't take me out to dinner.
Girl 2: You need to sexsuade that man!

History

• Daniel Webster: orator delivered his Seventh of March speech defending the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• telephone: transmitter/receiver of sound was patented by Alexander Graham Bell (1876); exactly 50 years later, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London (1926)
• fair use: the US Supreme Court ruled in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies are not copyright infringements (1994)

Birthdays

• Luther Burbank 1849
• Pieter Mondrian 1872
• Maurice Ravel 1875
• Anna Magnani 1908
• Lee Young 1917 - Musician (Nat King Cole Trio)
• Mahlon Clark 1923 - Musician (Lawrence Welk's band)
• James Broderick 1927
• Lord Snowdon 1930 - Photographer
• Frank Morelli 1932
• Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today")
• Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer

  
• Homero Blancas 1938
• Daniel J. Travanti 1940 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
• Michael York 1942
• Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO
• Tammy Faye Bakker 1942
• Billy MacMillan 1943
• Chris White 1943 - Musician (The Zombies)
• John Heard 1946
• Peter Wolf 1946 - Musician (J. Geils Band)
• Matthew Fisher 1946 - Musician (Procol Harum)
• Donna Loren 1947
• Peggy March 1948
• Franco Harris 1950 - Football player
• Lynn Swann 1952 - Football player
• Ernie Isley 1952 - Musician (The Isley Brothers)
• Jules Shear 1953
• Bryan Cranston 1956
• Ivan Lendl 1960 - Tennis player
• Bill Brochtrup 1963
• Wanda Sykes 1964 - Comedian, actress
• Taylor Dayne 1965 - Singer
• Paul Davis 1966 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
• Randy Guss 1967 - Musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
• Jeff Kent 1968 - Baseball player
• Rachel Weisz 1971 - Actress
• Peter Sarsgaard 1971 - Actor
• Hugo Ferreira 1974 - Musician (Tantric)
• Jenna Fischer 1974 - Actress ("The Office")
• Laura Prepon 1980 - Actress ("That 70s Show")

   

 

 

 

  

Rock out for Clive's Birthday!

Some classic Iron Maiden to observe Clive Burr's birthday and to round out the week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jaRipA5_M&feature=related 

I love playing the drums in this song!

Phantom of the Opera

I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp

You've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask

And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last

Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past

Standing in the wings there you wait for the curtain to fall

Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all

Yeah, I know that you're going to scratch me, maim me and maul

You know I'm helpless from your mesmerizing cat call

Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait

Don't you stray, don't fade away
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may

Don't you stray from the narrow way

I'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there

You're the Phantom of the Opera, you're the Devil, you're just out to scare

You damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air
You haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair

You torture me back at your lair

 

 

Have a great weekend!

WTF: Good Times!

  

Don't ask me! 

 (pic by Lisa)

Friday, March 6, 2026

bestiary \BES-chee-er-ee, BEES-\, noun: 

• a collection of moralized fables, especially as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.

Bestiary is from the Latin bestiaries meaning "a fighter against beasts in the public entertainments." It entered English in the 1620s.

Lent Trap /lÉnt træp/ noun

• In couples where one party is Catholic and the other is not, the unwilling subjection of the non-Catholic to the 40-day ritual of penitence known as Lent.

1. We were going to have dinner at this great new steak place on Friday night, but Joe's got me stuck in a Lent Trap.

2. My wife Jane decided to give up sex for Lent. Worst. Lent Trap. Ever.

 

 

Trivia
How many amendments to the U.S. Constitution were proposed in the Bill of Rights passed by Congress in 1789?

• 12. The first two proposed—dealing with the number and apportionment of the House of Representatives, and Congressional pay raises—failed to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The remaining 10 were ratified and became the Bill of Rights.

History

• Toronto: Canada's largest city, and one of the most livable cities in the world, was incorporated (1834)
• the Alamo: fort was overrun by Mexican troops during the Texas revolution; all inside were killed (1836)
• La Traviata: Verdi's opera premiered in Venice (1853)
• Dred Scott case (1857): US Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens; the decision was overturned a decade later by the 14th amendment

Birthdays

• Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475

  
• Cyrano De Bergerac 1619
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
• Furry Lewis 1893
• Bob Wills 1905
• Lou Costello 1906
• Ed McMahon 1923
• Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman, possible zombie
• Wes Montgomery 1927
• Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927

  
• Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 1928 - Author ("Love in the Time of Cholera")
• Lorin Maazel 1930
• Marion Barry 1936
• Sylvia Robinson 1936
• Doug Dillard 1937
• Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva 1937
• Joanna Miles 1940
• Willie Stargell 1941
• Ben Murphy 1942
• Mary Wilson 1944 - Singer (Supremes)
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 1944
• Rob Reiner 1945
• Hugh Grundy 1945 - Musician (The Zombies)
• Kiki Dee 1947
• Dick Fosbury 1947
• David Gimour 1947 - Musician (Pink Floyd)
• Tom Arnold 1959 - Actor
• Skip Ewing 1964
• D.L. Hughley 1964 - Actor ("The Hughleys")
• Connie Britton 1968 - Actress
• Moira Kelly 1968 - Actress ("Caroline in the City")
• Amy Pietz 1969
• Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player
• Chris Tomson 1984 - Musician (Vampire Weekend)

  

 

   

Turtle Thursday: What do you love?

Turtle Thursday: Darwin's Nightmare

This isn't photoshopped at all!

Thursday, March 5, 2026

riposte \ri-POHST\, noun: 

1. a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
2. Fencing. a quick thrust given after parrying a lunge. 

verb:

1. to make a riposte.
2. to reply or retaliate.

Riposte comes from the French word of the same spelling which means "a prompt answer."

fappable

• Something that is sexually desirable, or deemed high enough quality that it can be used for masturbation purposes.

Man, that picture is really fappable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

History

• Boston Massacre: five colonists were killed when British troops fired into a rowdy crowd (1770)
• Stars and Bars: first of several Confederate flags was adopted (1861)
• Iron Curtain: phrase was coined by Winston Churchill in a speech in Missouri (1946) 
  Judge Joseph Dredd: the futuristic law man made his first appearance in 2000 A.D. Prog #2 (1977)
• North Korea: held peace talks with South Korea for the first time in 25 years; the representatives met in New York (1997)
• Martha Stewart: businesswoman was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the investigation of ImClone insider trading (2004)

 

 

Birthdays

• Gerhardus Mercator 1512 - Flemis mapmaker
• William Oughtred 1574
• William Blackstone 1595 - First settler in Boston
• Antoine Cadillac 1658 - Founder of Detroit, MI
• Lucy Larcom 1824 - Poet
• Elisha Harris 1824
• James Merrit Ives 1824 - Lithographer: Partner of Nathaniel Currier.
• Frank Norris 1870 - Author
• Hector Villa-Lobos 1887
• Emmett J. Culligan 1893 - Water treatment pioneer
• Rex Harrison 1908 - Actor
• James Noble 1922
• James B. Sikking 1934
• Dean Stockwell 1936 - Actor
• Paul Evans 1938
• Fred Williamson 1938
• Tommy Tucker 1939
• Samantha Eggar 1939 - Actress
• Paul Sand 1944 - Actor
• Murray Head 1946
• Michael Warren 1946 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
• Eddie Hodges 1947
• Eddy Grant 1948 - Singer
• Eugene Fodor 1950
• Alan Clark 1952 - Musician (Dire Straits)
• Marsha Warfield 1954 - Actress ("Night Court")
• Penn Jillett 1955 - Magician (Penn and Teller)
• Teena Marie 1956 - Singer
• Andy Gibb 1958 - Singer
  

  
  
• Craig Reid 1962 - Musician (The Proclaimers)
• Charlie Reid 1962 - Musician (The Proclaimers)
• Rome 1970
• John Frusciante 1970 - Musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Kevin Connolly 1974 - Actress ("Entourage")
  Jolene Blalock 1975 - Actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• Eva Mendes 1975 - Actress ("Hitch")
• Niki Taylor 1975 - Model
• Paul Konerko 1976 - Baseball player
• Jake Lloyd 1989