Monday, October 16, 2023

lummox \LUHM-uhks\, noun:

• A clumsy, stupid person.

Lummox is of uncertain origin. It is perhaps from "dumb ox" or influenced by "lumbering."

 

Sounds like my first time

• "That's what he/she said." the phrase "sounds like my first time" can be used in lieu. By definition this refers to the first time one person has engaged in intercourse.

For example:

"I don't understand why the packaging is so tight. (Referring to something non-sexual) "

"Sounds like my first time."

History

• Marie Antoinette: extravagant queen was beheaded during the French Revolution (1793)
• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry: the abolitionist John Brown attempted to seize a US arsenal in West Virginia; his group was defeated and he was executed for treason (1859)
• birth control: nurse Margaret Sanger founded the first clinic in the US, in Brooklyn, New York, for which she was arrested (1916)
• Cuban missile crisis: cold war confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union began when Khrushchev installed ballistic missiles in Cuba (1962)
• Million Man March: black men rallied in Washington, DC, led by Louis Farrakhan, in an effort to increase voting and community involvement (1995)

Birthdays

• Noah Webster 1758
• Oscar Wilde 1854
• David Ben-Gurion 1886
• Eugene O'Neill 1888
• Linda Darnell 1921
• Bert Kaempfert 1923
• Angela Lansbury 1925
• Gunter Grass 1927
  
• Charles Colson 1931
• Tony Anthony 1937
• Nico (Velvet Underground) 1938
• Barry Corbin 1940
• Fred Turner (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1943
• Dwight Douglas Lewis 1945
• Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946
• Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) 1947
• Bob Collyard 1949
• Tim Robbins 1958
• Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1959
• Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
• Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1969
• B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971
• Kellie Martin 1975
• Jeremy Jackson 1980