Ready for the football?

The 26/27 season opens this week

Sunday, September 6, 2026

favonian \ fuh-VOH-nee-uhn \ , adjective; 

1. of or pertaining to the west wind. 
2. mild or favorable; propitious. 

Origin: Favonian comes from Favonius , the ancient Roman personification of the west wind. The word entered English in the mid-1600s. 

Bus Surfing

• The act of attempting to ride a bus by standing in the aisle like a surfer. The goal is to stand for as long as possible without touching anything (seats, poles, people) for support. Often a competition between two people to see who can stand the longest..

''On the way home last night I was bus surfing for a full 3 minutes!''

History

• 
  William McKinley: US president was shot by an anarchist; he died eight days later (1901)
• Piggly Wiggly: the first self-service supermarket opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
• Queen Juliana: popular monarch assumed the throne of the Netherlands, which she retained until 1980 (1948)
• Hendrik Verwoerd: South African prime minister was stabbed to death by a deranged parliamentary messenger in parliament in Cape Town (1966)
• Saint Petersburg: the original name was restored after the Russian city had been Leningrad since 1924 (1991)
• Cal Ripken Jr.: played in his 2,131st consecutive game and broke Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record (1995); his streak ended at 2,632 games on September 20, 1998

Birthdays

• Marquis de Lafayette 1757
• Jane Addams 1860
• 
• Max Schreck 1879 
• Otto Kruger 1885
• Joseph P. Kennedy 1888 - bootlegger
• Billy Rose 1899
• Morgan Beatty 1902
• Maxie ‘Slapsie’ Rosenbloom 1904
• Vince DiMaggio 1912
• Jimmy Reed (Matthew James Reed Leland) 1925
• JoAnne Worley 1937
• David Allen Coe 1939
• Brian Smith 1940
• Mel McDaniel 1942
• Swoosie Kurtz 1944

• Roger Waters 1944 - Musician (Pink Floyd) 
• Ron Boone 1946
• Jane Curtin 1947
• Claydes Smith 1948 - Musician (Kool & the Gang)
• Banner Thomas 1954 - Musician (Molly Hatchet)
• Joe Smyth 1957 - Musician (Sawyer Brown)
• Jeff Foxworthy 1958
• Michael Winslow 1960
• Perry Bamonte 1960 - Musician (The Cure)
• Paul Waaktaar 1961 - Musician (a-ha)
• Mark Chestnut 1963
• Rosie Perez 1964
• William DuVall 1967 - Musician (Alice in Chains, Comes With The Fall)
• CeCe Peniston 1969
• Darryl Anthony 1969 - Musician (Az Yet)
• Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) 1971
• Justin Whalen 1974
• Nina Persson 1974 - Musician (The Cardigans)
• Foxy Brown 1979

  

  

 

  

See me?

Saturday, September 5, 2026

euthenics \ yoo-THEN-iks \ , noun; 

• a science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.

Origin: Euthenics entered English in the early 1900s from the Greek word euthēn(eîn) meaning "to be well off, prosper."  

fexpensive, (adj.) 

• Fucking expensive

A: Oh man, look at the price! 200 bucks for a shirt!

B: Wow, it does look fexpensive.

Holiday

• International Bacon Day or Bacon Day is an unofficial observance held on the Saturday before Labor Day in theUnited States. (Labor Day is traditionally the first Monday of September). Bacon day celebrations typically include social gatherings during which participants create and consume dishes containing bacon, including bacon-themed breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, and drinks 

History

• Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)

  
• Continental Congress: delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) convened in Philadelphia to seek repeal of the British Intolerable Acts (1774)
• Sam Houston: was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas (1836)
• On the Road: Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness novel, considered a defining work of the Beat Generation, was published (1957)
• Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics (1972)

Birthdays

• Louis VIII (King of France) 1187
• Louis XIV (King of France) 1638
• Johann Christian Bach 1735
• Jesse James 1847
• Morris Carnovsky 1897
• Arthur Charles Nielsen 1897
• Florence Eldridge 1901
• Darryl F. Zanuck 1902
• Arthur Koestler 1905
• John Cage 1912
• Gail Kubik 1914
• Jack Buetel 1917
• Jack Valenti 1921
• Bob Newhart 1929
• Andrian G Nikolayev 1929
• Robert Dennard 1932
• Carol Lawrence 1935
• John Ferguson 1938
• William Devane 1939
• Clay Regazzoni 1939
• Susumu Tonegawa 1939
• John Stewart (The Kingston Trio) 1939


• Raquel Welch 1940
• Eduardo Mata 1942
• Steve Miller 1943
• Al Stewart 1945
• Buddy Miles 1946
• Loudon Wainwright III 1946
• Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946
• Kathy Cronkite 1950
• Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950
• Jamie Oldaker (The Tractors) 1951
• Sandra Guiboard 1956
• Kristian Alfonso 1964
• Terry Ellis (En Vogue) 1966
  
• Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine) 1968
• Dweezil Zappa 1969
• Tina Yothers 1973
• Rose McGowan 1974
• Andrew Ducote 1986

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

Rock out for the (unofficial) end of summer!

Can you think of a better song to mark this occasion?

Don Henley

The Boys Of Summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqcDXizFmE

Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach

I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach

Empty lake, empty streets, the sun goes down alone

I'm drivin' by your house, though I know you're not home

But I can see you, your brown skin shinin' in the sun

You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby

And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

After the boys of summer have gone

I never will forget those nights, I wonder if it was a dream

Remember how you made me crazy?

Remember how I made you scream?

Now I don't understand what happened to our love

But baby I'm gonna get you back

I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

I can see you, your brown skin shinin' in the sun

I see you walkin' real slow and you're smilin' at everyone

I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

After the boys of summer have gone

Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

A little voice inside my head said

"Don't look back you can never look back"

I thought I knew what love was, what did I know?

Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go but

I can see you, your brown skin shinin' in the sun

You got that top pulled down and that radio on baby

And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

After the boys of summer have gone

I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun

You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby

I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

After the boys of summer have gone

TGIF: HOLIDAY WEEKEND!

Friday, September 4, 2026

aglet \ AG-lit \ , noun; 

1. a metal tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace. 
2. (in the 16th and 17th centuries) an ornament at the end of a point or other ribbon used to secure a garment.
3. aiguillette (def. 1). 

Origin: Aglet is derived from the Middle French word aiguille meaning "needle."

 

interneuter

• Losing your connection to the internet

Johnny was interneutered suddenly by his cable company which left him feeling much like his cat who was neutered a few days ago.

History

• Roman Empire: came to an end — or at least the Western part did — when emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed (476)
• Los Angeles: the US's No. 2 city, the City of Angels, was founded by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve (1781)
• Geronimo: Apache chief became the last Native American warrior to surrender to US troops (1886)
• Edsel: the most famous American automotive design that was reviled by the public despite having all the qualities that testing found that they wanted, was introduced by Ford; it was named for Henry Ford's son, Edsel (1957)
• Mark Spitz: swimmer won his seventh gold medal (1972); this record for the most golds at a single Olympics stood until it was broken by Michael Phelps in August 2008
• Google: the Internet's foremost search engine was introduced by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (1998)

Birthdays

• Anton Bruckner 1824
• Daniel Burnham 1846
• Richard Wright 1908
• Henry Ford II 1917
• Paul Harvey 1918
• Howard Morris 1919
• Craig Claiborne 1920
• Dick York 1928
• Mitzi Gaynor 1931
• Dawn Fraser 1937
• Leonard Frey 1939
• Ken Harrelson 1941
• Raymond Floyd 1942
• Merald "Bubba" Knight (Gladys Knight & The Pips) 1942
• Jennifer Salt 1944
• Gene Parsons (The Byrds) 1944
• Gary Duncan (Quicksilver Messenger Service) 1946
  Michael Berryman 1948

  
• Tom Watson 1949
• Ronald LaPread (Commodores) 1950
• Judith Ivey 1951
• Martin Chambers (Pretenders) 1951
• Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs 1953
• Khandi Alexander 1960
• Damon Wayans 1960
• Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) 1960
• Mike Piazza 1968
• Ione Skye 1971
• Ty Longley (Great White) 1971
• Donny Ponce 1972
• JeLana LaFleur (Quad City DJ's) 1973
• Stacy Sanches (playmate) 1973
• Wes Bentley 1978
• Dan Miller (O-Town) 1980
• Beyoncé Knowles (Destiny's Child) 1981
  Whitney Cummings (comedian) 1982