Friday, October 6, 2023

druthers \DRUHTH-erz\, noun:

• One's own way, choice, or preference.

Druthers comes from a jocular American English formation of the phrase "I'd ruther" meaning "I'd rather."

 

shitload

• more than an assload but still less than a fuckton.

I have a shitload of beer, but down at my friend's place, they have a whole fuckton.

History 

• Moulin Rouge: France's most famous cabaret opened in the Montmartre section in Paris (1889)
• The Jazz Singer: first full-length talkie debuted with songs and 291 spoken words (1927)
• The Curse of the Billy Goat: began when Billy Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series; Sianis predicted that the Cubs would never again win a World Series, and, so far, they haven't even been in one since then (1945)
• Yom Kippur War: Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year (1973)
• Anwar Sadat: Egypt's president was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists while reviewing a military parade in Cairo (1981)

Birthdays

•  Wenceslas III (1289-1306): king of Hungary

• Jenny Lind 1820

  
• George Westinghouse 1846 - Founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems
• Reginald Fessenden 1866
• Le Corbusier 1887
• Jerome Cowan 1897
• Florence Seibert 1897
• Jack Sharkey 1902
• Helen Wills Moody 1905
• Janet Gaynor 1906
• Carole Lombard 1908
• Thor Heyerdahl 1914
• H.R. (Bum) Bright 1920
• Shana Alexander 1925
• Paul Badura-Skoda 1927
• Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930
• Fred Graham 1931
• Anna Quayle 1936
• Britt Ekland 1942
• Fred Travalena 1942
• Millie Small 1946
• Klaus Dibiasi 1947
• Thomas McClary (The Commodores) 1950
• David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) 1954
• Elisabeth Shue 1963
• Matthew Sweet 1964
• Tim Rushlow 1966
• Kitty (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971
• Bobby Farrell (Boney M) 1949
• Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) 1951
• Amy Jo Johnson 1970
  Olivia Thirlby 1986 (Cassandra Anderson in Dredd)