Sunday, January 18, 2026

inchoation \in-koh-EY-shuhn\, noun: 

• a beginning; origin.

Inchoation came to English in the 1500s from the Late Latin inchoātiōn-.

Cornbread Forehead

• Someone with a crusty or cellulite forehead.

Did you see that bitch's cornbread forehead?

 

History

• Lima: capital of the Spanish New World empire was founded by Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro after he defeated the native Incans; the now-sprawling metropolis is also known as El Pulpo ("the Octopus") (1535)
• Sandwich Islands: Hawaii was first visited by a European, Captain James Cook, who named it after one of his sponsors, the Earl of Sandwich (1778)
• Botany Bay: the first ship of the First Fleet arrived in Australia, bringing English convicts (1788)
• The x-ray machine was exhibited for the first time (1896)
• Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, MA, of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison. Desalvo was killed in 1973 by a fellow inmate. (1967)
• Marion Barry: the mayor of Washington, DC, was arrested on drug charges; after serving his sentence, he reentered politics and regained the mayoralty (1990)

 

Birthdays

• Peter Roget 1779
• Daniel Webster 1782
• A.A. Milne 1882
• Oliver Hardy (Laurel & Hardy) 1892
• Cary Grant 1904
• Danny Kaye 1913
• Berthold Goldschmidt 1903
• David Bellamy 1933
• Bobby Goldsboro 1941
• David Ruffin (The Temptations) 1941
• 'Legs' Larry Smith (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) 1944
• Brett Hudson (Hudson Brothers) 1953
• Kevin Costner 1955

• Mark Collie 1956
• Philip Boa 1962
• Jane Horrocks 1964
• Dave Bautista 1969
• Jessie L. Martin 1969
• DJ Quik 1970
• Jonathan Davis 1970 Korn
• Jason Segel 1980
• Samantha Mumba 1983

  

 

  

Yum!

Saturday, January 17, 2026

sozzled \SOZ-uhld\, adjective: 

• Slang. drunk; inebriated.

Sozzled is a dialectal word which entered English in the late 1800s meaning "confused state" or "sloppy person."

 

talibanter

• Banter that relates to the activities of Al-Qaeda, or more significantly the late Osama Bin-Laden.

You: Hey dude, what's the similarity between Kate Middleton and Osama Bin-Laden?

Someone: I dunno..

You: Last weekend a man from the Navy smashed their back door in and shot his load in their face.

Someone: Talibanter!!

History

• Queen Liliuokalani: queen of the Hawaiian Islands was deposed by sugar planters and other annexationists after she tried to return power to the monarchy (1893)
• Virgin Islands: prompted by fear of German expansion, the US bought the islands from Denmark for $25 million; its inhabitants became US citizens 10 years later (1917)
• Great Brinks Robbery: 11 men steal over $2 million in Boston in what was then the biggest US robbery; they were eventually caught (1950)
• Operation Desert Storm: air offensive was launched in the Gulf War to remove the Iraqi army from the Persian Gulf kingdom of Kuwait (local time; in the US it was still the previous day) (1991)

Birthdays 

• Benjamin Franklin 1706
• Anton Chekhov 1860
• David Lloyd George (Britain) 1863
• Noah Beery 1883
• Mack Sennet 1884
• Marjorie Gateson 1891
• Al Capone 1899
• Nevil Shute 1899
• Vido Musso 1913
• George Handy 1920
• Betty White 1922
• Moira Shearer 1926
• Eartha Kitt 1927
• Vidal Sassoon 1928
• Jacques Plante 1929
• James Earl Jones 1931
• Sheree North 1933
• Shari Lewis (Hurwitz) 1934
• Troy Donahue 1937
• Maury Povich 1939
• Muhammad Ali 1942
• Chris Montez 1944
• William Hart (Delfonics) 1945
• Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) 1948 
• Andy Kaufman 1949
• Steve Earle 1955
• Paul Young 1956
• David Caruso 1956
• Steve Harvey 1957
  
• Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) 1957
• John Crawford (Berlin) 1960
• Jim Carrey 1962
• Shabba Ranks 1966
• Naveen Andrews 1969 - Actor ("Lost") 
• Kid Rock 1971
• Zooey Deschanel 1980
• Ray J 1981
• Amanda Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) 1982

  

 

 

   

 

  

 

 

  

Rock out with your Gothic Lolita out!

I kinda hate admitting that I am in love with this brutally sad song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccUboIgbnQ

 

Gothic Lolita
Emilie Autumn

[Intro]
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
My Loli— my Lolita
My Loli— my Lolita
My Loli— my Lolita
My Loli— my Lolita

[Verse 1]
How old are you?
I'm older than you'll ever be
I've been dead a thousand years
And lived only two or three
I don't mind telling you
My life was ended by your hand
The kind of murder where nobody dies
But I don't suppose you'd understand

[Pre-Chorus]
Call off the search, we've found her

[Chorus]
If I am Lolita, then you are a criminal
And you should be killed by an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything any man wouldn't do
I'm Gothic Lolita and you are a criminal
I'm not even legal
I'm just a dead little girl
But ruffles and laces and candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand
So it's my fault
No, Gothic Lolita


[Post-Chorus]
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

[Verse 2]
Thank you, kind sirs
You've made me what I am today
A bundle of broken nerves
A mouthful of words
I'm still afraid to say
I don't mind telling you
Now that I'm old enough to love
I couldn't begin to, even if my pretty life depended on it
And funny thing, it does

[Pre-Chorus]
Call off the search, we've found her

[Chorus]
If I am Lolita, then you are a criminal
And you should be killed by an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything any man wouldn't do
I'm Gothic Lolita and you are a criminal
I'm not even legal
I'm just a dead little girl
But ruffles and laces and candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand
So it's my fault
No, Gothic Lolita

[Bridge]
I am your sugar, I am your cream
I am your anti-American dream
I am your sugar, I am your cream
I am your anti-American dream

I am your sugar, I am your cream
I am your anti-American dream
I am your sugar, I am your cream
I am your worst nightmare, now scream

[Pre-Chorus]
Call off the search, we've found her

[Chorus]
If I am Lolita, then you are a criminal
And you should be killed by an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything any man wouldn't do

I'm Gothic Lolita and you are a criminal
I'm not even legal
I'm just a dead little girl
But ruffles and laces and candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand
So it's my fault
No, Gothic Lolita

[Outro]
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

  

WTF Friday: Somewhere

I still can't find him.

Friday, January 16, 2026

Yarborough \YAHR-bur-oh, -buhr-oh or, esp. British, -ber-uh\, noun: 

• Whist, Bridge. a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.

Yarborough came to English in the late 1800s after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough, who was said to have bet 1000 to 1 against the occurrence of a card hand in which no card is higher than a nine.

 

polar vortex

• A weather system that results in record-breaking cold temperatures. Can also be used as euphemism for "really fucking cold" or "fucking freezing."

Schools are closed because the polar vortex dropped temperatures below zero F.

My heater broke, now my house is a polar vortex.

sideboob

• A view of the female breast seen from a side; generally under loosely-fitting clothes. Very titillating (pun intended) and sexual without showing any overt nudity.

There is so much sideboob at Los Angeles awards shows!

My brother's g/f's sideboob totally distracted me from my own g/f.

History

• Ivan the Terrible: grand prince of Moscow was crowned the first czar of Russia (1547)
• US civil service: US government commission was reestablished by the Pendleton Act, ending the spoils system; from then on, appointments to public office were to be made based on merit, not loyalty (1883)
  

  
• Amendment 18: the law beginning Prohibition was ratified (1920); it was repealed in 1933
• Mickey Mantle: signed a $75,000-a-year contract, becoming the highest-paid baseball player at the time (1961)
• Operation Desert Storm: the White House announced the start of the campaign to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait (1991)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: was sworn in as president of Liberia, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state (2006)

Birthdays

• Andre Michelin 1853
• Evelyn Levine 1902
• Ethel Merman 1909
• Dizzy Dean 1911
• Elliott Reid 1920
• Katy Jurado 1927
• Pilar Lorengar 1928
• William Kennedy 1928
• G.T. (Granville) Hogan 1929
• Norman Podhoretz 1930
• Susan Sontag 1933
• Marilyn Horne 1934
• A.J. Foyt 1935
• Bob Bogle (The Ventures) 1937
• Barbara Lynn 1942
• Bill Francis (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) 1942
• Jim Stafford 1944
• Ronnie Milsap 1943
  Dr. Laura Schlessinger1947 quack
• John Carpenter 1948 horror dude
• Caroline Munro 1949 
  Debbie Allen 1950
• Sade Adu (singer) 1959
• Paul Webb (Talk Talk) 1962
• Maxine Jones (En Vogue) 1966
• David Chokachi 1968
  John Davison 1971 Current singer of YES
• Kate Moss 1974
• Aaliyah 1979
• Yvonne Zima 1989