Monday, October 23, 2023

ferly \FER-lee\, noun:

1. Something unusual, strange, or causing wonder or terror.

2. Astonishment; wonder.

adjective:

• 1. Unexpected; strange; unusual.

Ferly is derived from Old English fǣrlīc meaning fǣr (fear) and -līc (-ly). It was related to the German gefährlich meaning dangerous.

 

Groutfiti

• A form of graffiti. It involves writing in the tiny space of grout in between tiles in public toilets. The phrases always are made up of some pun using the word grout. Other examples include movie titles, like "The grout, the bad, and the ugly" or simple words, like "groutrageous." This type of graffiti has no deep meaning, but it is a great example of intellectual fun. It makes sense that it exists primarily around Universities where people are intelligent, yet very young and therefore still trying to amuse themselves and others by doing things like writing on walls. It all starts when one person makes one of these grout puns and it is seen by another student who, while urinating, who then thinks of another pun and writes it on another section of grout. Soon the "groutfiti" spreads and people spontaneously think of puns while pissing.

"Threre stikes and you're grout"

"The Grout Gatsby"

"The Grout Barrier Reef"

"The Groutain of Youth"

October 23

• National Oral Sex day. Guys and Gals shriek with excitement as October 23 rounds the corner.

“Hey babe, October 23 is today! You know what that means.... 

History

• Brutus: committed suicide after losing to Mark Anthony and Octavian in the Second Battle of Philippi, a war fought to avenge the assassination of Julius Caesar (42 BCE)
• War of Jenkins' Ear: British PM Robert Walpole reluctantly declared war on Spain after a ship's captain brought in his ear, pickled, and told the House of Commons it had been severed by the Spanish coast guard (1739)
• suffragists: some 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote (1915)
• Hungarian Revolution: spontaneous protest began, marking the first anti-Soviet revolt; many thousands were killed or fled; the Hungarian Republic was declared exactly 33 years later (1956)
• iPod: digital music player, mp3 rip-off,  was launched by Apple (2001)
• Moscow Theater Crisis: Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages; many died during a Russian raid the next day (2002)

Birthdays

• Nicolas Appert 1752
  
• Gertrude Ederle 1906
• 'Bruiser' (Frank) Kinard 1914
• James Daly 1918
• Ewel Blackwell 1922
• Ned Rorem 1923
• Johnny Carson 1925
• Sonny Criss 1927
• Boozoo Chavis 1930
• Diana Dors 1931
• Jim Bunning 1931
• Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez 1935
• Charlie Foxx 1939
  
• Pelé 1940
• Eleanor (Ellie) Greenwich 1940
• Michael Crichton 1942
• Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) 1943
• Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) 1947
• Michael Rupert 1951
• Pauline Black (Selecter) 1953
• Dwight Yoakam 1956
• Sam Raimi 1959
• "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959
• Doug Flutie 1962
• Mike Tomczak (NFL) 1962
• Roberto Agustin Trujillo 1964 - Musician (Metallica)

• Al Leiter 1965
• David Thomas (Take 6) 1966
• Brian Nevin (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1966
• Junior Bryant (Ricochet) 1968
• Jimmy Wayne 1972
• Keith Van Horn 1975
• Ryan Reynolds 1976
• Masiela Lusha 1985
• Jessica Stroup 1986
• Belle Delphine 1999 (cosplayer)