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Tuesday, 20th March 2025

Rest In Peace, Randy Rhoads

REMEMBERING

RANDY RHOADS

Over 30 years since rock n roll lost you

December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

scupper \SKUHP-er\, verb:

1. Informal. to prevent from happening or succeeding; ruin; wreck.
2. Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.

Scupper first entered English as a nautical noun in the late 1400s. The verb senses did not enter English until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

 

Irish handcuffs

• when a person is carrying an alcoholic beverage in both hands at the same time.

Hemish O'Maley was in Irish handcuffs last night at the pub. He always had a Guinness in each hand.

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

   

  

 

 

 

Review Tuesday: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 2024

 

 

Ghostbusters

Frozen Empire

2024

The Ghostbusters re-assemble in time to battle an ancient force looking to bring another ice-age. 

Since my BFF were already having a convesation about Ghostbusters, it was only logical to see the 2024 follow to Afterlife -- FROZEN EMPIRE. 

 

So now the family is back in NYC and the Ghostbusters is re-established helping the city deal with paranormal matters. It appears that in the years between, Winston had been not only maintaining the station, but also developing technology. When a ghost tricks Phoebe into deactivating the tech, an ancient evil is set forth on NYC that wants to bring a new ice age. 

Again, this movie is a lot of fun with call-backs to the original movies while NOT making it tiresome in the process. Another fun film worth your time to watch!

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

tertiary \TUR-shee-er-ee, TUR-shuh-ree\, adjective:

1. of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.

2. Chemistry. A. noting or containing a carbon atom united to three other carbon atoms. B. formed by replacement of three atoms or groups.

3. (initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the period forming the earlier part of the Cenozoic Era, occurring from 65 million to 2 million years ago, characterized by the development and proliferation of mammals.

4. Ornithology. tertial.

5. Ecclesiastical. noting or pertaining to a branch, or third order, of certain religious orders that consists of lay members living in community (regular tertiaries) or living in the world (secular tertiaries).

noun:

1. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Tertiary Period or System.

2. Ornithology. a tertial feather.

3. (often initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. a member of a tertiary branch of a religious order.

4. tertiary color.

Since entering English in the mid 1500s, tertiary, which comes from the Latin tertius meaning "third," has been applied as a technical term for many different subject matters.

 

madam of bracelets

• A group of gay men.

"That's gayer than a madam of bracelets."

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 - 2025

 

 

Look forward to Denise in red!

Denise Milani

Close to me

  

   

        

Hotty of the day

 

 

Monday, March 17, 2025

rialto \ree-AL-toh\, noun:

• an exchange or mart.

Rialto comes from the name for the mercantile quarter of Venice during the middle ages. Shakespeare is thought to have brought the term into widespread usage from his play the Merchant of Venice, first performed at the turn of the seventeenth century. While it initially referred only to the specific marketplace in Venice, rialto soon took on a broader sense and could be applied marketplaces elsewhere.

 

it's been real 

• A phrase used as a farewell, when the experience shared has been of unique, experimental, or strange phenomenon. Also, a manner of stating that surreal time frame has been shared between two or more peeps.

Cunt: "Thanks for meeting me"

Bax: "I am outtie to NYC. Peace out, yo. It's been real."

 

quaff \KWOFF; KWAFF\, intransitive verb:

1. To drink a beverage, esp. an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.

transitive verb:

1. To drink (a beverage) copiously and heartily

noun:

• 1. An act or instance of quaffing.
• 2. A beverage quaffed.

Quaff is of unknown origin.

 

libation \ly-BAY-shun\, noun:

1. The act of pouring a liquid (usually wine) either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice to some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.
2. A beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage.
3. An act or instance of drinking.

Libation is from Latin libatio, from libare, "to take a little from anything, to taste, to pour out as an offering."

St Patrick

• A servant of God who was ordered to convert the snakes and drive out the Irish. Unfortunately like most of the Irish he was drunk and got it reversed.

St Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland is a myth. The Irish ate them all during a famine.
 

Saint Patrick's Day

• A day when you gather around a keg of Guinness and drink [like there's no tomorrow].

Bill Lumbergh: "Yeah, and I'd like to remind you that tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, so if you'd like to, you can go ahead and come to work...uh...shit-faced. Yeah, that'd be greeaat."

Irish twins

• Children, born in succession within one year

They were like rabbits. Now their Irish twins are six and seven.

 

Trivia

What was the original significance of the “O” and “Mac” in Irish surnames?

• “O” meant grandson of; “Mac” meant son of.

Trivia 
What color, historically associated with St. Patrick, is on the ancient Irish flag, the Irish presidential standard, and Ireland’s coat of arms?

• St. Patrick’s Blue. The flag, standard, and coat of arms all depict a golden Gaelic harp on a background of St. Patrick’s Blue. A lighter blue is the official color of the Order of St. Patrick, a chivalrous order established in Ireland in 1783.

Holiday

• St. Patrick's Day: Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland. It takes place on 17 March, the date on which Patrick is held to have died.

History

• Italy: the modern Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed; it lasted until the Republic was formed in 1946 (1861)
• National Gallery of Art: museum designed by John Russell Pope was dedicated in Washington, DC (1941)
• californium: creation of radioactive element was announced by scientists at UC Berkeley; it was made by bombarding curium with helium isotopes (1950)
• Mount Agung: stratovolcano on Bali erupted, killing 1,500 (1963)

Birthdays

• Roger Taney 1777
• Gottlieb Daimler 1834
• Jim Bridger 1881
• Paul Eliot Green 1894
• Shemp Howard 1895
• Bobby Jones 1902
• Marquis Childs 1903
• John Pastore 1907
• Bayard Rustin 1910
• Frederick Brisson 1913
• Mercedes McCambridge 1918 - Actress
• Nat "King" Cole 1919
• Paul Horn 1930
• Dick Curless 1932
• Adam Wade 1937
• Rudolf Nureyev 1938
• Paul Kantner 1941 - Musician (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
• Jim Weatherly 1943 - Singer, songwriter
• Patrick McCauley (Them) 1944
• John Sebastian 1944 - Singer, songwriter (Lovin' Spoonful)
• Harold Brown 1946 - Musician (War)
• Patrick Duffy 1949 - Actor
• Kurt Russell 1951 - Actor
• Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) 1951
• Susie Allanson 1952 - Country singer
• Lesley-Anne Down 1954 - Actress
• Gary Sinise 1955 - Actor ("C.S.I: NY")
• Paul Overstreet 1955 - Country singer
• Mike Lindup 1959 - Musician (Level 42)
• Vicki Lewis 1960 - Actress
• Casey Sirmaszko 1961 - Actor
• Claire Grogan (Altered Images) 1962
• Rob Stich 1962 - Writer, director
• Rob Lowe 1964 - Actor
• Van Connor 1967 - Musician (Screaming Trees)
• Billy Corgan 1967 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins), Uncle Fester Look-Alike
• Mathew St. Patrick 1968 - Actor ("Six Feet Under")
• Patricia Ford 1969 (super hot exotic model)
• Yanic Truesdale 1969 - Actor ("Gilmore Girls")
• Bill Mueller 1971 - Baseball player
• Mia Hamm 1972 - Soccer player
• Melissa Auf der Maur 1972 - Musician (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins)
• Caroline Corr 1973 - Musician (The Corrs)
• Marisa Coughlan 1974 - Actress
• Stephen Gately 1976 - Singer (Boyzone)
• Swifty 1977 - Rapper (D12)
  John Boyega 1991 - Actor (Star Wars)