Monday, February 9, 2026

banal \buh-NAL, -NAHL, BEYN-l\, adjective: 

• devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.

Banal originally comes from the French word ban which referred to compulsory military service. Since this law applied to everyone, the word came to be associated with what was commonplace.

snowpocalypse

• snow + apocalypse = snowpocalypse. When weathermen predict large amounts of snowfall in a short period of time.

Clint: Dude, I heard on the weather channel you had a snowpocalypse last night in your area 

Paul: Naw, just a couple inches, the weather man is an idiot.

 

Super Bowl Monday

• The Monday after the Super Bowl where you are still hung-over and wondering what you actually did, who won, and why you had so much to drink. You often must go back to work, school, etc. which makes it that much worst. It's a specific Case of the Mondays.

Dude 1: Hey dude. I saw you making out with Jill in Lori's kitchen yesterday. Now that's what I call a Touchdown.

Dude 2: Oh, that's what I was doing durring the last quarter. Who ended up winning again?

Dude 1: The Colts man. You're havin' one bad Super Bowl Monday.

 

Holiday

• World LADY DEATH Day - character was first published on this date in 1994. More HERE.

 

 

 

 

History

• John Quincy Adams: the House of Representatives chose America's sixth POTUS, when no candidate received a majority of electoral votes (1825)
• National Weather Service: then known as the United States Weather Bureau, was founded under the US Army Signal Corps; it used to alert fruit growers to the approach of stormy weather by telegraph (1870)
• Volley Ball was invented by W.G. Morgan (1895)
• Davis Cup: international tennis competition was played for the first time; its donor, Dwight F. Davis, won (1900)
• Hollywood Walk of Fame: the first embedded star was awarded, honoring Joanne Woodward (1960)
• The Beatles: the Fab Four appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
• Satchel Paige: became the first Negro League player elected into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame (1971)

Birthdays

• William Henry Harrison (U.S.) 1773
• George Ade 1866
• Amy Lowell 1874
• Ronald Colman 1891
• Brian Donlevy 1899
• Carmen Miranda 1909
• Bill Veeck 1914
• Ernest Tubb 1914
• Gypsy Rose Lee 1914
• Kathryn Grayson 1922
• Brendan Behan 1923
  Frank Frazetta 1928
• Roger Mudd 1928
• Robert Morris 1931
• Jo Ann Prentice 1933
• Janet Suzman 1939
• Barry Mann 1942
• Carole King 1942
• Joe Pesci 1943
• Barbara Lewis 1943
• Alice Walker 1944
• Mia Farrow 1945
• Joe Ely 1947
• Major Harris 1947
• Judith Light 1949
• Dennis "DT" Thomas (Kool & the Gang) 1951
• Charles Shaughnessy 1955
• Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1960
• Travis Tritt 1963
• Julie Warner 1965
• Dannie Leigh 1970
  Tom Hiddleston 1981 (Loki) 
• David Gallagher 1985