Saturday, December 6, 2025

irredentist \ir-i-DEN-tist\, noun:

1. a member of a party in any country advocating the acquisition of some region included in another country by reason of cultural, historical, ethnic, racial, or other ties.(usually initial capital letter) 
2. a member of an Italian association that became prominent in 1878, advocating the redemption, or the incorporation into Italy, of certain neighboring regions (Italia irredenta) having a primarily Italian population.

adjective:

1. pertaining to or supporting such a party or its doctrine.

Irredentist entered English in the late 1800s from the Italian word irredent which literally meant "unredeemed" but more importantly referred to an adherent of a specific political party.

 

 

Cheerleader effect 

• It's when you see a group of girls or guys and they look hot, but when you see each person individually they are NOT, that an effect, when they are in groups they look hot.

I wish I was like those girls
What!, honey that the cheerleader effect, if you see them individually you will realize they are dorks and ugly bimbos.

sexting, v: 

• the act of text messaging someone in the hopes of having a sexual encounter with them later; initially casual, transitioning into highly suggestive and even sexually explicit; may contain pics.
• In a sentence: "He keeps sexting me saying how hard he is and how much he wants to tap my ass," Cindy said massaging her breasts unconsciously.

 

Sexting in action:
Nancy: "Wut do u want?"
Bob: "Cum over to my place now."
Nancy: "Is NE1 else there?"
Bob: "No. I need to c u."
Nancy: "K. Will b there soon."

 

 

Trivia

What U.S. city has more bridges than any other city in the world?

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with 446.

History

• Encyclopædia Britannica: first "number," or pamphlet, was offered for sale in Edinburgh for sixpence (1768)
• Halifax: a French munitions vessel exploded, killing about 1,800 people, injuring some 9,000 more (one-fifth of the population), and destroying the northern part of Nova Scotia's capital (1917)
• Irish Free State: precursor to today's Republic of Ireland was formed (1922)
• Ulysses: a United States judge ruled that James Joyce's novel, in which characters correspond to Homeric figures, was not obscene (1933)
• Mars Global Surveyor: NASA released pictures of the red planet that seemed to show the recent presence of water (2006)

Birthdays

• Henry VI (England) 1421
  
  
• William S. Hart 1870
• Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886
• Osbert Sitwell 1892
• Ira Gershwin 1896
• Alfred Eisenstadt 1898
• Agnes Moorehead 1906
• Dave Brubeck 1920
• Wally Cox 1924
• David Ossman 1936
• Helen Cornelius 1941
• Len Barry 1942
• Jonathan King 1944
• James Naughton 1945
• Tom Hulce 1953
• Kin Shriner 1953
• Wil Shriner 1953
• JoBeth Williams 1953
• Miles Chapin 1954
• Chris Stamey (dB's) 1954
• Tish Hinojosa 1955
• Steven Wright 1955
• Rick Buckler (The Jam) 1955
• Bill Lloyd (Foster and Lloyd) 1955
• Randy Rhoads 1956
• Peter Buck (R.E.M.) 1956
• Janine Turner 1962
• Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) 1962
• Ulf Ekberg (Ace of Base) 1970
• Ryan White 1971
• Lindsay Price 1976 (actress)