Thursday, March 19, 2026

epitome \ih-PIT-uh-mee\, noun:

1. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness.
2. a condensed account, especially of a literary work; abstract.

Epitome came to English in the 1500s from the Greek meaning "abridgment" or "surface incision."

fornever

1. Never occurring, nor having the potential to do so.
2. A seemingly non-existent period of time.

1. Hanson will fornever be the greatest band this country has ever known.
2. "I could watch Passions fornever and never."

History

• bank robbery: the first recorded bank heist took place in NYC; Edward Smith escaped with some $245,000, but was later caught and imprisoned (1831)
• SS Georgiana: Confederate ship was wrecked (1863); it was discovered on the same date in 1965 by underwater archeologist E. Lee Spence in his teenage years
• 25th Academy Awards: was the first televised Oscar ceremony (1953)
• Sarajevo: became a reunited city after four years when the Serbs were ousted by the Moslem-Croatians
• invasion of Iraq: began (on March 20 local time in Iraq, 2003)
• GRB 080319B: gamma-ray burst was detected, thus setting a record for farthest object that could be seen by the naked eye (2008)

Birthdays

• William Bradford 1589

  
• David Livingston 1813
• Sir Richard Burton 1821
• Albert Ryder 1847
• Wyatt Earp 1848
• William Jennings Bryan 1860
• Charles M. Russell 1864
• Edith Nourse Rogers 1881
• Earl Warren 1891
• Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley 1894
• John Sirica 1904
• Adolph Eichmann 1906
• Patricia Morrison 1914
• Irving Wallace 1916
• Martha Carson 1921
• Tige Andrews 1923
• Hans Kung 1928 - Theologian
• Patrick McGoohan 1928 - Actor, director
• Gene Taylor 1929
• Bill Henderson 1930
• Ornette Coleman 1930 - Jazz saxophonist
• Gay Brewer Jr. 1932
• Philip Roth 1933 - Author
• Renee Taylor 1933 - Actress
• Nancy Malone 1935
• Phyllis Newman 1935 - Actress, singer
• Ursula Andress 1936 - Actress
• Clarence "Frogman" Henry 1937 - Singer
• Robin Luke 1942
• Paul Atkinson 1946 - Musician (The Zombies)
• Ruth Pointer 1946 - Singer (The Pointer Sisters)
• Glenn Close 1947 - Actress
• Chris Brubeck 1952
• Bruce Willis 1955 - Actor ("Die Hard", "The Sixth Sense")
• Derek Longmuir 1955 - (The Bay City Rollers)
• Terry Hall 1959 - (Specials, Fun Boy 3, Colourfield)
• Gert Bettens 1970 - Musician (K's Choice)
• Vida Guerra 1974 - bootay model
• Zach Lind 1976 - Musician (Jimmy Eat World)
• Anne V 1987 - Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
• Craig Lamar Traylor 1989 - Actor ("Malcolm in the Middle")
  Caylee Cowan 1998 - Actress

   

  

  

 

  

 

  

  

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Happy BOOZE Day!!!

From a man proven to know all about drinking!

(St. Patrick's Day was yesterday)

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

comport \kuhm-PAWRT, -POHRT\, verb:

1. to bear or conduct (oneself); behave: He comported himself with dignity.
2. to be in agreement, harmony, or conformity (usually followed by with): His statement does not comport with the facts.

Comport is derived from the Latin word comportāre which meant "to transport."

(See today's Review Tuesday for a reference to this word in the world of Judge Dredd)

Social Notworking

• The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working.

Joe - Hey, Mark is constantly updating his Facebook status, does he not have any work to do?

John - His company obviously doesnt realise how much Social Notworking he is doing!

St. Patrick's Day Shits

• Anytime someone has an unusually green shit. Such an act is likely to take place the day after St. Patrick's Day because of the high amount of green food dye consumed.

Dude 1: Wow, I don't know what I ate yesterday, but I had a mad case of St. Patrick's Day shits this morning and got it all over the bathroom wall.

Dude 2: Holy shit! It looks like Gumby exploded in the your bathroom!

 

Trivia

Which planet experiences 42 earth years of constant summer followed by 42 earth years of dark winter?

• Uranus, because of its unusual (almost 90-degree) tilt as it orbits the sun.

History

• Tri-State Tornado: the deadliest tornado in US history hit Missouri, Illinois and Indiana; nearly 700 were killed (1925)
• Gideon v. Wainwright: the US Supreme Court ruled that poor defendants in felony cases have the right to a court-appointed lawyer (1963)
• spacewalk: cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first walk in space; he spent 20 minutes outside, tethered to the spacecraft (1965)
• art theft: the largest museum heist in history took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with the thieves dressed as police officers; it remains unsolved and a $5 million reward is still offered (1990)

Birthdays

• Grover Cleveland 1837
• Rudolf Diesel 1858

  
• Neville Chamberlin 1869
• Edward Everett Horton 1886
• William H. Johnson 1901
• Smiley (Lester) Burnette 1911
• Andy Granatelli 1923
• Peter Graves 1926 - Actor
• John Kander 1927 - Composer ("Chicago")
• George Plimpton 1927
• John Updike 1932 - Author
• Frederick W. de Klerk 1936 - Former South African president
• Mark Donohue 1937
• Shashi Kapoor 1938

  
• Charlie Pride 1938 - Country singer
• Margie Bowes 1941
• Wilson Pickett 1941 - Singer
• Leslie Parrish (Fleck) 1943
• Kevin Dobson 1944 - Actor
• Barrie (B.J.) Wilson (Procol Harum) 1947
• Brad Dourif 1950 - Actor
• John Hartman (The Doobie Brothers) 1950
• Ingemar Stenmark 1956
• Irene Cara 1959 - Singer

  Patricia Farinelli 1960
• James McMurtry 1962
• Thomas Ian Griffith 1962 - Actor
• Jeff LaBar 1963 - Musician (Cinderella)
• Vanessa Williams 1963 - Singer, actress
• Bonnie Blair 1964 - Olympic gold medal speed skater
• Scott Saunders 1964 - Country musician (Sons of the Desert)
• Jerry Cantrell 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
• Miki Berenyi 1967 - Musician (Lush)
• Queen Latifah 1970 - Rapper, actress
• Stuart Zender 1974 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
• Brian Griese 1974 - Football player
• Devin Lima 1977 - Singer (LFO)

  

 

  

Happy Paddy - 2026

 

 

Review Tuesday: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (1969)

  

 

DUNE

MESSIAH

by Frank Herbert

1969 

Conspirators devise a plan to unseat Emperor Paul Atreides from his throne. 

Many years ago a friend of mine suggested that I should read the DUNE series of books. He recommended the first SIX in the series and that the others start getting off into the weeds. Okay, then, years ago I read the original DUNE book and loved it. However, since I read slowly, I didn't want to commit any more time to this series until I got some other reading out of the way. Recently the media buzz around DUNE: PART 3 has been abound, so I figured it was time to read the second novel and get ahead of the curve.

 

The plot is pretty easy to follow. A group of conspirators assembled to work out a plan to remove Muad'Dib as Emperor, or at least remove his power. It's a clever multi-layered plan with contingencies built in. Of course, none of it is exposed at the beginning, you get see how it all falls into place as the pages turn. 

 

I won't give anything away other than this is an easier to read book than the original DUNE. It moves at a good pace and it's very clever. The ending was a surprise and has me wanting to read the next book in the series.  

 

   

  

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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