Saturday, October 17, 2026

troth \ trawth, trohth \ , noun;

1. one's word or promise, especially in engaging oneself to marry. 
2. faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty: by my troth.
3. truth or verity: in troth.

Origin: Troth entered English in the 1100s from the Middle English trowthe, trouthe meaning "truth." It ultimately comes from the Old English trēowth.

The Spousal We

• The opposite of the royal we, meaning "you". Used by your significant other to get you to do something.

The Spousal We: "We should clean the bathroon today", or "we should get Johnny to practice his viola more".
 

October 17

• National girl hug a boy day, girls get to hug any boy they want :)

"Nation Girl Hug a Boy day is October 17!"

 

Trivia

What now extinct flightless bird weighed close to a half-ton and stood 10 feet tall?

• The elephant bird of Madagascar. A relative of the ostrich and emu, it’s believed to have been the largest bird ever. It disappeared soon after Madagascar was colonized in the 17th century. Scientists hope to bring the gigantic bird back through DNA extracted from eggshell fossils.
  

underboob

• cleavage visible from the part of the shirt that covers the bottom of the female breasts

If that is not a deliberate underboob, I don't know what is.

 

History

• Battle of Saratoga: key battle of the American Revolutionary War ended with a major British surrender (1777)
• Al Capone: mobster called Scarface who ruled much of Chicago was finally convicted — of income tax evasion; he served eight years of an 11-year sentence (1931)
• 1973 Oil Crisis: was sparked when OPEC cut oil supplies to nations that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War

Birthdays 

• Jupiter Hammon 1711
• Charles Kraft 1880 - Founder of Kraft
• Spring Byington 1893
• Jean Arthur 1900
• Irene Ryan 1902
• Cozy (William) Cole 1909
• John Mosley 1914
• Jerry Siegel 1914
• Arthur Miller 1915
• Marsha Hunt 1917
• Rita Hayworth 1918
• Elie Abel 1920
• Montgomery Clift 1920
• Julie Adams 1926
• Beverly Garland 1926
• Tom Poston 1927
• Johnny Klippstein (MLB) 1927
• Jimmy Breslin 1930
• Evel Knievel (Robert Craig) 1938
• James Seals (Seals and Crofts) 1940
• Earl Thomas Conley 1941
• Gary Puckett (The Union Gap) 1942
• Bob Seagren 1946
• Jim Tucker (The Turtles) 1946
• Michael McKean 1947
• George Wendt 1948
• Margot Kidder 1948
• Bill Hudson (The Hudson Brothers) 1949
  
• Howard Rollins 1950
• Sam Bottoms 1955
• Mae Jemison 1956
• Vincent Van Patten 1957
• Alan Jackson 1958
• Mike Judge 1962
• Norm MacDonald 1963
• Ziggy Marley 1968
• Chris Kirkpatrick ('N Sync) 1971
• Marshall "Eminem" Mathers 1972
• Rosa Azorra 1978 (t3h pr0n)
  
• Felicity Jones 1983
  
  
  

 

 

Pseudonyms:

Rosa Azorra
Clarissa | Christine | Chrystal | Cindy | Crystal | Laura | Linda P. | Louise | Rebecca | Susan
Suzanna | Storm A. | Victoria | Viktoria | Vikki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

  

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

blithesome \ BLAHYTH-suhm \ , adjective; 

• lighthearted; merry; cheerful: a blithesome nature . 

Origin: Blithesome entered English in the early 1700s from the Gothic term bleiths meaning "kind, merciful."

Magic Toaster 

• A derogatory term describing an un-savvy computer users view of what a computer is.

Why my magic toaster no come on? I plug in, but no toast!

 

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 / Pamela Laveux 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

  

 

  

Saturday, April 25, 2026

deke \ deek \ , verb; 

1. Ice Hockey . to deceive (an opponent) by a fake. noun: 
2. Ice Hockey . a fake or feint intended to deceive a defensive player, often drawing that player out of position.

Origin: Deke originally was a Canadian English term. It's a shortening of decoy that arose in the 1950s. 

 

(_*_)

• emoticon asshole symbol

sometimes u are such an (_*_)

Holiday

• World Penguin Day

History

• guillotine: highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was beheaded in France's first public execution-by-guillotine (1792)
• Suez Canal: ground was broken on the waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (1859)
• license plates: were required on cars in New York State — the first time in the US (1901)
• United Nations: delegates met in San Francisco to organize the international body (1945)
• double helix: in the magazine Nature, Francis Crick and James D. Watson published their "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid," which described the structure of DNA (1953)

Birthdays

• Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader
• Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system)
• Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist
• Earl Bostic 1913 - Musician
• Sal Franzella 1915 - Musician
• Jerry Barber 1916 - Golfer
• Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella"
• Robert Q. Lewis 1920 - Radio and television personality, game show host, actor
• Albert King 1923 - Musician
• Anita Bjorak 1923 - Actress
• Melissa Hayden 1923 - Dancer
• Vassar Clements 1928 - Musician
• Paul Mazursky 1930 - Actor, director
• Willis "Gator" Jackson 1932 - Saxaphonist
• Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters
• Jerry Leiber 1933 - Songwriter
• Anthony Lukas 1933 - Journalist, author
• Al Pacino 1940 - Actor
• Stu Cook 1945 - Musician (CCR)
• Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)
• Talia Shire 1946 - Actress ("The Godfather", "Rocky" film series)
• Jeffrey De Munn 1947 - Actor ("The Green Mile", "The Shawshank Redemption")
• Michael Brown 1949 - Musician (The Left Banke)
• Hank Azaria 1964 - Actor
• Andy Bell 1964 - Musician (Erasure)
• James Barbour 1965 - Actor, singer ("A Tale of Two Cities")
• Eric Avery 1965 - Musician (Jane's Addiction)
• Jane Clayson 1967 - Television host, journalist, author
• Renée Zellweger 1969 - Actress
• Jason Lee 1970 - Actor ("My Name is Earl")
• Emily Bergl 1975 - Actress ("The Rage: Carrie 2")
• Tim Duncan 1976 - Basketball player
• Sara Paxton 1988 - Actress
  Adria Arjona 1992 - actress