WTF Friday - Man Faye Returns!

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That guy is trying to be this:

Man Faye is actually a pretty famous character among co-splayers. But I think I prefer a FEMALE version instead.

Friday, October 23, 2026

geep \ geep \ , noun; 

• the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.

Origin: Geep is a portmanteau from the 1970s that combines the words goat and sheep.

Stoptional

• When the braking of a car is left to one's choice due to an unnecessary stop sign.

Passenger: Did you just blow through that stop sign?
Driver: Oh, no worries. It was stoptional.

October 23

• National Oral Sex day. Guys and Gals shriek with excitement as October 23 rounds the corner.

“Hey babe, October 23 is today! You know what that means.... 

History

• Brutus: committed suicide after losing to Mark Anthony and Octavian in the Second Battle of Philippi, a war fought to avenge the assassination of Julius Caesar (42 BCE)
• War of Jenkins' Ear: British PM Robert Walpole reluctantly declared war on Spain after a ship's captain brought in his ear, pickled, and told the House of Commons it had been severed by the Spanish coast guard (1739)
• suffragists: some 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote (1915)
• Hungarian Revolution: spontaneous protest began, marking the first anti-Soviet revolt; many thousands were killed or fled; the Hungarian Republic was declared exactly 33 years later (1956)
• iPod: digital music player was launched by Apple (2001)
• Moscow Theater Crisis: Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages; many died during a Russian raid the next day (2002)

Birthdays

• Nicolas Appert 1752
  
• Gertrude Ederle 1906
• 'Bruiser' (Frank) Kinard 1914
• James Daly 1918
• Ewel Blackwell 1922
• Ned Rorem 1923
• Johnny Carson 1925
• Sonny Criss 1927
• Boozoo Chavis 1930
• Diana Dors 1931
• Jim Bunning 1931
• Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez 1935
• Charlie Foxx 1939
  
• Pelé 1940
• Eleanor (Ellie) Greenwich 1940
• Michael Crichton 1942
• Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) 1943
• Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) 1947
• Michael Rupert 1951
• Pauline Black (Selecter) 1953
• Dwight Yoakam 1956
• Sam Raimi 1959
• "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959
• Doug Flutie 1962
• Mike Tomczak (NFL) 1962
• Roberto Agustin Trujillo 1964 - Musician (Metallica)

• Al Leiter 1965
• David Thomas (Take 6) 1966
• Brian Nevin (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1966
• Junior Bryant (Ricochet) 1968
• Jimmy Wayne 1972
• Keith Van Horn 1975
• Ryan Reynolds 1976
• Masiela Lusha 1985
• Jessica Stroup 1986
• Belle Delphine 1999 (cosplayer)

  

 

  

That time of year again!

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NYCC ends TODAY

 

Cosplay gone wrong!

TGIF / WTF: NYCC?

 

Nope, this goes on here too!

WTF Friday: NYCC is back!

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

arsy-varsy \ AHR-see-VAHR-see \ , adjective; 

• Informal . wrong end foremost; completely backward: an arsy-varsy way of doing things . 

adverb: 

• Informal . in a backward or thoroughly mixed-up fashion: The papers are all filed arsy-varsy . 

Origin: This term first came to English in the 1530s. It is probably an alteration of the Latin vice versa with arse substituted to make a facetious rhyming compound. 

making base contact

• Making Base Contact; "saying" meaning contacting your wife, girlfriend, or serious female relationship via your cellular phone, just like as paramedics make base contact to get additional orders for patient care, one can give ones female an updated status on what the boys and yourself are doing.

you: hey guys so are we getting ready to head to the bar now?
friends: yeah sure were leaving in ten, can't wait to get smashed!!
you: sounds great lemme just go "make base contact" first
ORyou: great if you leave any sooner Ill be over by the garage "making base contact"
 

History 

• federal income tax: was levied for the first time in the US; it aimed to help pay the bills for the Civil War and was rescinded in 1872 (1861)
• "Damn the torpedoes": famous order was given by Union Admiral David G. Farragut as he led his fleet at Mobile Bay during the Civil War (1864)
• Little Orphan Annie: Harold Gray's comic strip debuted (1924)
• Nelson Mandela: South African resistance leader and later president was arrested and jailed; his imprisonment lasted till 1990 (1962)
• Marilyn Monroe: was found dead after overdosing on sleeping pills (1962)
• Test Ban Treaty: the US, Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to prohibit nuclear weapon tests underwater, in the atmosphere and in outer space (1963)

Birthdays

• Guy DeMaupassant 1850
• Conrad Aiken 1889
• Andrew Alford 1904
• John Huston 1906
  
• Robert Taylor 1911
• David Brian 1914
• Jeri Southern 1926
• Richie Ginterh 1930
• Neil A. Armstrong 1930
• Vern Gosdin 1934
• Cammie King 1934
• John Saxon 1935
• Zakes Mokae 1935
• 
  Damita Jo 1940
• Bobby Braddock 1940
• Rick Huxley (Dave Clark Five) 1942
• Sammi Smith 1943
• Jimmy Webb 1946
• Erika Slezak 1946
• Loni Anderson 1946
• Greg Leskiw (Guess Who) 1947
• Rick Derringer 1947
• Holly Palance 1950
• Samantha Sang 1953
• 
  Maureen McCormick 1956
• Pat Smear (Foo Fighters) 1959
• Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive) 1959
• Mark O'Connor 1961
• Tawny Kitaen 1961
• Patrick Ewing 1962
• Adam Yauch (M.C.A. of the Beastie Boys) 1964
• Elvis Duran 1964
• Jonathon Silverman 1966
• Terri Clark 1968
• Brendon Ryan Barrett 1986
• Xenia Tchoumitcheva (model / blogger) 1987 
• Jessica Nigri (cosplayer) 1989