Tuesday, February 17, 2026

posy \POH-zee\, noun: 

1. a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
2. Archaic. a brief motto or the like, as one inscribed within a ring.

Posy is a variant of the word poesy, meaning "poem, poetry." Sometimes called nosegays or tussie-mussies, posies were popular accessories among fashionable women in Victorian England, and, harkening the word's literary origin, became vehicles for the floral "language of love."

that's crazy

• It's the perfect response when you haven't been listening at all. It works whether the other person has been saying something funny, or sad, or infuriating, or boring....

Them: 'my girlfriend dumped me last night'
You (thirsty, not paying attention): 'oh man, that's crazy'

Them: 'I won 500 bucks at craps last weekend'
You (hungry, daydreaming about a tasty sandwich, not listening): 'wow, that's crazy'

 

Holiday

• Lunar New Year - aka Chinese New Year —the second new moon after the winter solstice: Year of the Fire Horse

 

 

Holiday

• Shrove Tuesday: aka Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras season, and Carnival season, in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi gras is French for Fat Tuesday, referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foodsbefore the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday.

History

• Madama Butterfly: Giacomo Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala in Milan (1904)
• Newsweek: news-magazine was published for the first time (1933)
• Voice of America: government network began broadcasting to the Soviet Union (1947)
• Vanguard 2: the first weather satellite was launched; its time in orbit is intended to last 300 years (1959)
• Deep Blue: world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer, winning a six-game match in Philadelphia (1996)
• London congestion charge: fee for motorists driving into Central London went into effect; the price is £8 per day, Monday — Friday (2003)

Birthdays

• Thomas Malthus 1766
  

  
• Raphael Peale 1774
• Rene Laennec 1781
• Montgomery Ward 1843
• H.L. Hunt 1889
• Marian Anderson 1902
• Red Barber 1908
• Marjorie Lawrence 1909
• Arthur Kennedy 1914
• Wayne (DeWayne) Morris 1914
• Raf (Raffaele) Vallone 1918
• Kathleen Freeman 1919
• Buddy (Boniface) DeFranco 1923
• Hal Holbrook 1925 - Actor
• Chaim Potok 1929
• Bobby Lewis 1933
• Alan Bates 1934
• Dame Edna 1934 - Comedian
• Johnny Bush 1935 - Country singer
• Jim Brown 1936 - Football player
• Mary Ann Mobley 1939 - Actress
• Gene Pitney 1941
• Brenda Fricker 1945
• Dodie Stevens 1947
• Zina Bethune 1950
• Rene Russo 1954 - Actress
• Richard Karn 1956
• Lou Diamond Phillips 1962 - Actor
• Larry the Cable Guy 1963 - Actor, comedian ("Blue Collar TV")
• Michael Jordan 1963 - Basketball player
• Michael Bay 1964 - Director
• Timothy J. Mahoney 1970 - Musician (311)
• Denise Richards 1971 - Actress
• Taylor Hawkins 1972 - Musician (Foo Fighters)
• Billie Joe Armstrong 1972 - Musician (Green Day)
• Bryan White 1974
• Jerry O'Connel 1974 - Actor
• Kelly Carlson 1976 - Actress
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt 1981 - Actor ("3rd Rock From the Sun")
• Paris Hilton 1981

     

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

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