Monday, August 12, 2024

billet-doux \BIL-ey-DOO\, noun;

plural billets-doux \bil-ay-DOO(Z)\: 

• A love letter.

Billet-doux literally means "sweet note" in French. It entered English in the 1660s. 

 

gourd thumped 

• having your mind blown.

Alex: "holy tits dude. i can't believe that girl." 
Jordan: "i know dude. she wants my cock, big time." 
Alex: "you're my hero. all you did was play xbox and some random girl shows you her boobs." 
Jordan: "that's nothin nigga. look at this pic." 
Alex: "damn. my gourd is thumped. let's get drunk." 
Jordan: "i'm gonna carve a nigger beater." 
Alex: "gourd thumped. x2"

History

• Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)
• Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851) 
  Quagga: the last specimen of the zebra-like animal died, at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam (1883)
  

  
• Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)
• IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
• Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)
• Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)

Birthdays

• Thomas Bewick 1753
• Abbott Thayer 1849
• Christy Mathewson 1880
• Cecil B. DeMille 1881
• Cantinflas 1911
• Mario Moreno 1911
• Jane Wyatt 1912
• Michael Kidd 1919
• Majorie Reynolds 1921
• Joe Jones 1926
• John Derek 1926
• Porter Wagoner 1927
• Mstislav Rostropovich 1927
• Buck Owens 1929
• William Goldman 1931
• Parnelli Jones 1933
• Larry Ziegler 1939
• George Hamilton 1939
• Jennifer Warren 1941
• Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1949
• Kid Creole 1950

• Pat Metheny 1954
• Sam J. Jones 1954
• Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) 1956
• Suzanne Vega 1959
• Roy Hay (Culture Club) 1961
• Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963
• Peter Krause 1965
• Pete Sampras 1971
• Rebecca Gayheart 1972
• Linda O'Neil 1973: actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.
• Casey Affleck 1975
• Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) 1975
• Dominique Swain 1980