Turtle Apocalypse Thursday!

Florida man threatens to unleash army of turtles to cause destruction

Thursday, April 17, 2025

idiolect \ID-ee-uh-lekt\, noun:

• a person's individual speech pattern. Compare dialect

Idiolect is the blend of the Greek idio + legein literally meaning "personal speak."

 

poo parkour

• The action of climbing over or under the divider in a public restroom when you run out of toilet paper as to gain access to the toilet paper in an adjoining stall. Practitioners of poo parkour may be referred to as "shitraceurs".

Man 1: I ran out of toilet paper and was so desperate I did an Army low crawl into the next stall so I could wipe my ass.

Man 2: That's some serious poo parkour!

 

Trivia
According to researchers, what nut contains more naturally occurring radioactive material than any other commonly consumed food item?

• The Brazil nut. Among natural foods it has the highest known concentration of radon-226 (226Ra) and potassium-40 (40K). Other foods with significant concentrations of those two radioactive isotopes include lima beans, bananas, carrots, and white potatoes.

History

• Daffy Duck: was introduced on Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
• Mickey Mantle: MLB hall-of-famer made major league debut with the Yankees (1951)
• Bay of Pigs: unsuccessful invasion of Cuba was launched by US-supported exiles after JFK double crossed them and didn't send the back-up he promised. (1961)
  

  Ford Mustang: made its debut in US showrooms; by the end of the year, it had already starred in Goldfinger (1964)
• Shea Stadium: Queens, New York, baseball park opened (1964); it served the Mets for 44 years before being demolished to make room for parking for the new Citi Field
• Apollo 13: splashed down safely, ending the near-disastrous flight (1970)
• Cambodia: fell to the Khmer Rouge with the capture of Phnom Penh, resulting in genocidal killing fields (1975)

Birthdays

• • Henry Vaughan 1622
  • J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan 1837 - Financier
  • Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier
  • Thornton Wilder 1897 - Novelist, playwright
  • Gregor Piatigorsky 1903 - Cellist
  • Arthur Lake 1905 - Actor ("Blondie" series)
  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916 - Ceylon Prime Minister, the world's first woman prime minister
  • William Holden (Beedle Jr.) 1918 - Actor ("Stalag 17 [1953]", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Towering Inferno")
  • Harry Reasoner 1923 - Newsman ("Sixty Minutes")
  • Lon McCallister 1923
  • Solly (Solomon Joseph) Hemus 1923 - Baseball player
  • Lindsay Anderson 1923 - Director
  • Roy Gallant 1924 - Author
  • Chris Barber 1930 - Musician, bandleader
  • Don Kirshner 1934 - Music publisher, created The Monkees
  • Warren Chiasson 1934 - Jazz musician (Warren Chiasson Duo)
  • Lamar Lundy 1935 - Football player
  • Dennis Hextall 1943 - Hockey player
  • Bobby Curtola 1944 - Singer
  • Jan Hammer 1948 - Composer, musician
  • Pedro (Modesto Delfi) Garcia 1950 - Baseball player
  • Olivia Hussey 1951 - Actress ("Ice Cream Man", "Psycho 4: The Beginning")
  • Pete Shelley (McNeish) 1955 - Musician (The Buzzcocks)
  • Sean Bean 1958 - Actor ("Goldeneye", "The Lord of the Rings" series)
  • Teri Austin 1959
  • Stephen Singleton 1959 - Musician (ABC)
  • Boomer (Norman) Esiason 1961 - Football player, TV commentator
  • Lela Rochon 1964
  • William Mapother 1965 - Actor ("Lost)
  • Henry Cusick 1967 - Actor ("Lost")
  • Marquis Grissom 1967 - Baseball player
  • Liz Phair 1967 - Singer, songwriter
  • Redman 1970 - Rapper, actor
  • Jennifer Anne Garner 1972 - Actress ("Daredevil", "Electra", "Alias")
  • Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams) 1974 - Singer (Posh Spice of the Spice Girls) 
    Rebekah Parmar-Teasdale 1979 DJ, t3h pron
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Hasselhoff Wednesday: TAXES

Tax Day came and went.

Did you have to pay up?

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Easter is this weekend

Be blessed

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!?!?!

 

Tax season is over!

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

codicil \KOD-uh-suhl\, noun:

1. any supplement; appendix.
2. a supplement to a will, containing an addition, explanation, modification, etc., of something in the will.

Codicil, which entered English in the late 1400s, shares a root with code. Both are derived from the same Latin root, codex meaning "book of laws."

 

bio-illogical clock

• the internal physiological mechanism responsible for causing one to wake up at workday times on the weekend. also responsible for any low-grade sleep disorders and the inability to stay awake during any meetings held after lunch.

"it's saturday, go back to sleep!"

"i can't, it's my bio-illogical clock on the fritz again."

History

• Harriet Quimby: became the first female pilot to fly the English Channel (1912)
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: returned to Russia, ending an exile of some 20 years (1917)
• LSD: Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the drug (1943)
• Texas City Disaster: at least 580 were killed in the explosion of a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate, in America's worst industrial disaster (1947)
• cold war: term was coined by financier Bernard Baruch in a speech in South Carolina (1947)
• Walter Cronkite: the "most trusted man in America" began his 19-year run as anchor of CBS Evening News (1962)
• panda diplomacy: China sent the US two giant pandas as a gift after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China (1972)
• Virginia Tech: Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, eventually killing 32 students and himself in the US's most deadly shooting rampage (2007)

Birthdays

• Hans Sloane 1660 - Doctor, naturalist, instrumental in founding of the British Museum
• Sir John Franklin 1786
• Flora Batson 1864
• Jose de Diego 1866 - Patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico, April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in his honor
• Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers
• John Millington Synge 1871 - Poet, playwright
• Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, communist
• Les Tremayne (Henning) 1913 - Actor ("The War of the Worlds", "The Slime People")
• John Hodiak 1914 - Actor
• Spike Milligan 1918
• Merce Cunningham 1919 - Dancer, choreographer
• Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor
• Kingsly Amis 1922 - Novelist
• Bennie Green 1923 - Musician, lyricist
• Barry Nelson 1920 - Actor ("Airport", "The Shining"), first actor to portray Ian Flemming's James Bond.
• Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn")
• Joseph Alois Ratzinger 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
• Peter Mark Richman 1927
• Edie Adams 1929 - Actress
• Ed Townshend 1929
• Roy Hamilton 1929 - Singer
• Herbie Mann (Soloman) 1930 - Jazz musician,
• Ike Pappas 1933 - Singer
• Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer
• Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien) 1939 - Singer
• Queen Margrethe II 1940 - Queen of Denmark
• Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg 1942 - Baseball player
• Dave Peverett (Lonesome Dave) 1943 - Musician (Foghat)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)1947 - Basketball player
• Gerry Rafferty 1947 - Singer, songwriter
• Bill Spooner 1949 - Musician (The Tubes)
• Peter Garrett 1953 - Singer (Midnight Oil)
• Jay O. Sanders 1953 - Actor
• Ellen Barkin 1954 - Actress ("Eddie and the Cruisers")
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  Jimmy Osmond 1963 - Singer (The Osmonds), the youngest Osmond
• David Pirner 1964 - Musician (Soul Asylum)
• John Cryer 1965 - Actor ("Superman 4: The Quest for Peace", "Pretty in Pink", "Two and a Half Men")
• Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian
• Dan Rieser 1966 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
• Selena Quintanilla 1971 - Singer
• Peter Billingsley 1972 - Actor ("A Christmas Story")
• Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor
  Gina Carano 1982 - Actress
• Samantha Char 1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review Tuesday: Constellation (2024)

 

 

Constellation

(2024)

When astronauts return from space strange things are happening. 

This was another series suggested by my friend. Sci-Fi? Okay! I'm in!

 

In a nutshell, Jo is an astronaut on the ISS when an accident occurred. Or was she? She returned to Earth to find her family distant, expecting her to leave them. But she remembers nothing but a loving family, and a different color car. WTF?! 

 

I won't delve into the plot anymore than that because the entire show is a lot of twists and turns and WTFs. Did I like it? I would call it okay. Jo's character, played by Noomi Rapace, gets pretty annoying in her inability to communicate ANYTHING. She just sits there with her mouth gaping all the time. In my opinion, the best aspect of the show is that despite leaving a lot of loose ends, it does close things up pretty well and there's no need for a second season.  

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

ingratiate \in-GREY-shee-eyt\, verb:

• to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, especially by deliberate effort (usually followed by with): He ingratiated himself with all the guests.

Derived from the Latin in gratiam literally meaning "into favor," ingratiate entered English in the first half of the seventeenth century.

 

Netaflixia

• Netaflixia; a self-diagnosed non-medical term to describe people who are addicted to the Netflix video streaming service.

Patient A was diagnosed by his friends to have a severe case of Netaflixia, in which he is unable to avoid use of the service, and may behave violently towards himself and/or others if the services continue to go unused for a long period of time. (normally one week)

 

Trivia

What is taxonomy?

• The field of biology devoted to naming, describing, and classifying organisms.

IRS

• Income Removal System

The IRS folks tried to jack 5 grand off my bank account

 

Holiday (?!?!)

• Tax Day - USA - Due date for personal tax returns is usually held on April 15th.  Don't forget, TAXATION IS THEFT!!!

History

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet: opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut (1817)
• Titanic: the "unsinkable" luxury liner sank after hitting an iceberg; over 1,500 died (1912)
• Bergen-Belsen: Nazi concentration camp was liberated by British and Canadian forces (1945)
• Jackie Robinson: made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, scoring the game-winning run (1947)
• McDonald's: Ray Kroc opened the store that launched the empire (1955)
• Botox: botulinum toxin was approved by the FDA for treatment of moderate-to-severe frown lines (2002)
• Boston Marathon Bombing: terrorists set off explosives near the finish line just before 3 PM (2013) 

Birthdays

• Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper")
  

  
• Charles Peale 1741 - Artist, portrait painter, primarily created works of colonial and American Revolutionary War figures
• Henry James 1843 - Author ("The Turn of the Screw", "The Portrait of a Lady")
• Thomas Benton 1889 - Artist
• Bessie Smith 1894 - Blues singer
• Hans Conried 1917 - Actor ("Bus Stop", "Oh! God: Book 2")
• Jim Timmens 1920 - Composer, jazz musician, musical director
• Michael Ansara 1922
• Herb Pomeroy 1930 - Musician, bandleader
  Elizabeth Montgomery 1933 - Actress
• Roy Clark 1933 - Country musician, singer
• Bob Luman 1937 - Singer
• Claudia Cardinale 1939 - Actress ("The Pink Panther")
• Reginald Smith (Marty Wilde) 1939 - Singer, father of singer Kim Wilde
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  Willie (William Henry) Davis 1940 - Baseball player
• Clarence Satchell 1940 - Musician (The Ohio Plyers)
• Woody (Woodrow Thompson) Fryman 1940 - Baseball player
• Walt Hazzard 1942 - Basketball player
• Julie Sommars 1942 - Actress ("Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo")
• Allan Clarke 1942 - Musician (Hollies)
• Dave Edmunds 1944 - Musician (Rockpile)
• Ted Sizemore 1945 - Baseball player
• Amy Wright 1950 - Actress ("The Deer Hunter", "The Scarlet Letter")
• Dick (Richard Louis) Sharon 1950 - Baseball player
• Michael Tucci 1950 
  
• Heloise (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans) 1951 - Newspaper columnist, daughter of original Heloise
• Pete Shelley 1955 - Musician (Buzzcocks)
• Evelyn Ashford 1957 - Track athlete, 4-time Olympic gold medalist
• Emma Thompson 1959 - Actress
• Samantha Fox 1966 - Singer, Page 3 Girl, monster jugs
• Graeme Clark 1966 - Musician (Wet Wet Wet)
• Ed O'Brien 1968 - Musician (Radiohead)
• Seth Rogan 1982 - Actor, writer ("Knocked Up", "Superbad")
• Emma Watson 1990 - Actress ("Harry Potter" movie series)
  

  
  

  
  

  

 

 

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