Friday, November 7, 2025

 

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."

 

loup-garou \loo-ga-ROO\, noun:

• A werewolf; lycanthrope.

Loup-garou stems from the French word of the same spelling which also means werewolf. The word loup also means "wolf" in French. It entered English in the late 1500s.

 

chattel \CHAT-l\, noun:

1. Law. a movable article of personal property.
2. any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and other things annexed to land.
3. a slave.

Chattel came to English in the 1400s and shares a root with the word cattle.

 
concert boyfriend

• A guy you meet at a concert or music festival that you dance (or whatever) with for one song or even the whole time you're there. Usually you pick a guy you've never seen and will probably never see again. Sometimes relationships or friendships can form. Sometimes this is more like a one night (concert) stand situation.

(At a concert)
Girl 1: Anyone see any potential concert boyfriends?
Girl 2: Right over there, I've never seen them around here lets go see if they want to be our boyfriends for tonight.
Girl 1: I like the brunette, maybe I'll even give him my number.

 

Trivia
When it comes to fables, what is an epimyth?

• The moral of a story.

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")