Tuesday, November 7, 2023

 

lycanthrope, \LAHY-kuhn-throhp, lahy-KAN-throhp\, noun, 

1. a werewolf or alien spirit in the physical form of a bloodthirsty wolf. 
2. a person affected with lycanthropy. 

Origin: Lycanthrope comes from the Greek word lykánthrōpos meaning "wolf-man."

 

canny \KAN-ee\, adjective:

1. Careful; cautious; prudent.

2. Astute; shrewd; knowing; sagacious.

3. Skilled; expert.

4. Frugal; thrifty.

5. Scot. A. Safe to deal with, invest in, or work at (usually used with a negative). B. Gentle; careful; steady. C. Snug; cozy; comfortable. D. Pleasing; attractive. E. Archaic. Having supernatural or occult powers.

adverb:

1. In a canny manner.

2. Scot. Carefully; cautiously.

Canny is derived from the Middle English word ken meaning “knowledge or understanding.” It is related to the verb kennen meaning “to see, know, or make known.”

 

Ring Rage

• That feeling you get when your cell phone rings from someone actually "calling" you.

Joe's ring rage is out of control when his iPhone rings while he is updating his Facebook page.

 

 

Holiday

• Election Day USA

 

 

History

• Canadian Pacific Railway: transcontinental system was completed, linking Montreal with Port Moody, British Columbia (1885)
• Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin's forces overthrew Kerensky's government (1917)
• Blue law: overturned in Pennsylvania, permitting sports on Sunday (1933)
• Galloping Gertie: suspension bridge over the Tacoma Narrows collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter, killing a cocker spaniel and becoming a textbook engineering disaster case (1940)
• Richard Nixon: quit politics, saying "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" (1962); he was elected US President on the same date (1972)
• African-American civil rights movement: Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city, Cleveland (1967); Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor of a US state, Virginia (1989)

  
• Magic Johnson: LA Lakers basketball star announced he had AIDS and was retiring (1991)

Birthdays

• Madame Curie 1867
• Ed Dodd 1902
• Dean Jagger 1903
• Albert Camus 1913
• Billy Graham 1918
• Al Hirt 1922
• Dame Joan Sutherland 1926
• Barry Newman 1938
• Dee (Delectus) Clark 1938
• Johnny Rivers 1942
• Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) 1943
• Joe Niekro 1944
  
• Nick Gilder 1951
• Christopher Knight 1957
• Christopher Pallies (King Kong Bundy) 1957
• Keith Lockhart 1959
• Todd McKee 1963
• Dana Plato 1964
• Cathleen Raymond (aka Gabrielle Scream, Kathleen, Noelle) 1971 t3h pr0n
• Robin Rinck (NIN) 1971
• Jason London 1972
• Jeremy London 1972
• Kim Yun-jin (Yunjin Kim) 1973 - Actress ("Lost")

 

 

 

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