Saturday, May 4, 2019

MAY THE FOURTH

 

bushwhack \BOOSH-hwak\, verb:

1. To defeat, especially by surprise or in an underhanded way.

2. To make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.

3. To travel through woods.

4. To pull a boat upstream from on board by grasping bushes, rocks, etc., on the shore.

5. To fight as a bushwhacker or guerrilla in the bush.

Bushwhack is a backformation from the Dutch bosch-wachter, "forest-keeper," which, during the American Civil War was adopted as bushwhacker to describe patriot guerillas or freebooters.

 

don't cross the streams

• What you tell two people peeing at urinals next to each other to save them from untimely death, in reference to crossing the streams in Ghostbusters.

Whoa! Watch out! Don't cross the streams!

Holiday 

• Star Wars Day aka May The Fourth - Get it? May 4th? May the Fourth? May the Force be with you!

May the 4th...

History 

• Manhattan: Dutch colonist Peter Minuit landed on the island; he later bought it for $24 in trade goods (1626)
• Rhode Island: declared its independence from England, becoming one of the original Thirteen Colonies (1776)
• Al Capone: after many arrests, the crime boss known as Scarface was finally jailed for tax evasion (1932)
• Grammys: were first awarded (1959)
• Freedom Riders: students joined members of CORE to ride from Washington, DC, across the south toward New Orleans, protesting racial segregation on public interstate buses (1961)
• Kent State: four university students were killed and nine wounded by members of the Ohio National Guard, who were quashing a campus protest against the US invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War (1970)

Birthdays 

• Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769 
• Horace Mann 1796 - Educator, father of public education in the U.S., author 
• Joseph Whitaker 1820 
• Thomas Huxley 1825 
• John Hanning Speke 1827 
• Um Kalthum 1904 
• Howard DaSilva (Silverblatt) 1909 - Actor ("The Lost Weekend", "The Great Gatsby") 
• Heloise 1919 
• Ed "Cass" Cassidy 1923 - Musician (New Jazz Trio, Taj Mahal, Spirit) 
• Betsy Rawls 1928 - Golfer 
• Hosni Mubarak 1928 - Egyptian president 
• Maynard Ferguson 1928 - Jazz trumpeter, bandleader 
• Audrey Hepburn (Edda Kathleen Hepburn van Heemstra) 1929 - Actress ("Monte Carlo Baby", "Breakfast at Tiffany's") 
• Roberta Peters 1930 - Opera singer 
• Harlon Hill 1932 - Football player 
• El Cordobés (Manuel Benítez Pérez) 1936 - Spanish bullfighter 
• Dick Dale 1937 - Musician 
• Ron Carter 1937 - Jazz bassist 
• Tyrone Davis 1938 
• George F. Will 1941 - Columnist ("Newsweek"), editor 
• David LaFlamme 1941  
• Nick Ashford 1942 - Singer, songwriter (Ashford and Simpson) 
• Ronnie Bond 1943 - Musician (The Troggs) 
• Paul Gleason 1944 - Actor 
• Peggy Sanntiglia 1944 - Singer
• Richard Jenkins 1947 - Actor ("The Visitor") 
• Stella Parton 1949 - Country singer 
• Hilly Hicks 1950 - Actor, minister 
• Jackie Jackson 1951 - Singer (The Jackson Five, The Jacksons) 
• Oleta Adams 1953 - Singer 
• Julie Budd 1954 
• Danny Brubeck 1955 - Drummer, Dave Brubeck's son 
• Mick Mars 1955 - "Musician" (Motley Crue) 
• Pia Zadora 1954 - Actress ("Hairspray"), singer 
• Randy Travis (Randy Bruce Traywick) 1959 - Country singer
• Mary McDonough 1961 - Actress ("The Waltons") 
• Jay Aston 1961 - Musician (Bucks Fizz) 
• Ana Gasteyer 1967 - Comedian ("Saturday Night Live") 
• Dawn Staley 1970 - Basketball player 
• Will Arnet 1970 - Actor ("Arrested Development") 
• Chris Tomlin 1972 - Singer 
• Mike Dirnt 1972 - "Musician" (Green Day) 
• Kimora Lee Simmons 1975 - Television personality, fashion designer 
• Jose Castellanos 1977 - Musician (Save Ferris) 
• Lance Bass 1979 - Singer ('N Sync) 
• Alexander Gould 1994 - Actor ("Weeds," "Finding Nemo")

WTF Friday: CUNT

Friday, May 3, 2019

crawfish \KRAW-fish\, verb:

1. Informal. to back out or retreat from a position or undertaking.

noun:

1. crayfish.

A North American variant of crayfish, crawfish entered English in the mid-1800s as both a verb and a noun meaning "to act cowardly," "to retreat from a position," or to describe a person who acts in this manner. Crayfish comes to English from the Old High German krebiz meaning "crab" or "shellfish."

 

Fuck outta here

• The cool way of saying "Get out?!" Or "No way!" Also a way of saying "Shut the fuck up." Like in disbelief or pure pissed offedness.

Jimmy: "Yo I drank five whole beers and I ain't even buzzin."

Tyler: "Fuck outta here."

Jimmy: "Wait, 5 times 5 is 25.. Right?"

Tyler: "Fuck outta here."

Jimmy: "Lil Wayne is by far the best rapper of all time."

Tyler: "Fuck outta here."

Jimmy: "Dude I got head from that dime you were hitting on last night!"

Tyler: "Fuck outta here."

 

Trivia

What does the menacing-looking deep-sea vampire squid do when startled?

• It turns itself “inside out,” defensively curling its web and arms around the rest of its body in what researchers refer to as its pineapple posture.

History

• Jamaica: Christopher Columbus sighted the island while seeking China (1494)
• Nellie Tayloe Ross: the nation's first female governor was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as director of the US Mint — another first for women (1933)
• The Fantasticks: began its record off-Broadway run, playing for nearly 42 years and over 17,000 performances (1960)
• NPR: America's noncommercial radio network began programming (1971)
• Margaret Thatcher: Conservative Party leader became Britain's first female prime minister (1979)
• UN Commission on Human Rights: the US lost its seat for the first time in more than 50 years (2001); it was restored a year later
• Old Man of the Mountain: New Hampshire's symbol — a mountainous outcrop — collapsed in the White Mountains (2003)

Birthdays

• Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer
• Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel
• Bing Crosby 1903 - Singer, according to Bing Crosby his birthday is May 2nd, his birthday is actually May 3
• Norman Corwin 1910 - Writer, screenwriter, producer
• Virgil Fox 1912 - Organist
• Pete Seeger 1919 - Folk singer
• Betty Comden 1919 - Comden of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green
• Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.) 1921 - Boxer
• Joe Ames 1924 - Musician (The Ames Brothers)
• Jimmy Cleveland 1926 - Trombone player
• Dave Dudley 1928 - Country music singer
• James Brown (James Joseph Brown, Jr.) 1933 - Singer
• Joe Layton 1931 - Director, choreographer
• Alex Cord 1933 - Actor ("Airwolf")
• Frankie Valli 1934 - Musician (The Four Seasons)
• Rudolf "Rudy" Jacobs 1938 - Chemist, received Nobel Prize in 1992
• Samantha Eggar 1939 - Actress
  Pete Staples 1944 - Musician (The Troggs)
• Greg Gumble 1946 - Sportscaster
• Doug Henning 1947 - Magician, illusionist, escape artist
• Mary Hopkin 1950 - Folk singer
• Christopher Cross (Christopher Charles Geppert) 1951 - Singer, songwriter
• Bruce Hall 1953 - Musician (REO Speedwagon)
• Cactus Moser 1957 - Musician (Highway 101)
• David Ball 1959 - Musician (Soft Cell)
• Bobby Cannavale 1970 - Actor
• Christina Hendricks 1975 actress
• Dule' Hill 1975 - Actor ("The West Wing")
• Farrah Destiny Franklin 1981 - Singer (Destiny's Child)
• Joseph Addai 1983 - Football player
• Cheryl Burke 1984 - Dancer ("Dancing with the Stars") 

        

Turtle Thursday: Resting Mitch face

Thursday, May 2, 2019

quoin \koin, kwoin\, noun:

1. one of the stones forming an external wall; cornerstone.

2. an external solid angle of a wall or the like.

3. any of various bricks of standard shape for forming corners of brick walls or the like.

4. a wedge-shaped piece of wood, stone, or other material, used for any of various purposes.

5. Printing. a wedge of wood or metal for securing type in a chase.

verb:

1. to provide with quoins, as a corner of a wall.

2. to secure or raise with a quoin or wedge.

Quoin, which entered English in the sixteenth century, shares its root with the word coin. They both come from the Latin cuneus meaning "a wedge."

sober wasted

• to feel the symtoms of intoxication while being completely sober ( sometimes caused by sleepyness)

*dude r u okay ur not usually like this

*braa i dunno im sober wasted

History

• Martin Luther: the 23-year-old German theologian and future Protestant reformer was ordained (1507)
• Good Housekeeping: first went on sale (1885)
• Berlin: surrendered to Russian forces during WWII; the war in Europe ended less than a week later (1945)
• Nelson Mandela: won in South Africa's first multiracial election (1994)
• GPS: President Bill Clinton announced that US citizens and the military would have equal access to the positioning system (2000)
• Osama Bin Laden was killed in a raid by American Special Forces: Seal Team 6 (2011)

Birthdays

• Catherine The Great (Ekaterina Alekseevna) 1729 - Russian leader Catherine II
• Henry M. Robert 1837 - U.S. Army General, author
• Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry) 1890 - Actress and gossip columnist
  

  
• Vernon Castle 1887 - Dancer, actor ("The Whirl of Life")
• Baron Von Richthofen (The Red Baron) 1892 - German fighter pilot
• Lorenz Hart 1895 - Composer, lyricist, half of Rodgers & Hart
• Brian Aherne 1902 - Actor ("A Night to Remember", "The Best of Everything")
• Dr. Benjamin Spock 1903 - Baby doctor, author ("The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care")
• Bing Crosby 1903 - Singer, according to Bing Crosby his birthday is May 2nd, his birthday is actually May 3, real name: Harry Lillis Crosby
• Pinky Lee (Pincus Leff) 1907 - Entertainer ("The Pinky Lee Show"), burlesque
• Nigel Patrick 1913 - Actor ("The Jack of Diamonds", "The Mackintosh Man"), director, writer
• Theodore Bikel 1924 - Singer, actor ("Fiddler on the Roof", "The African Queen")
• Roscoe Lee Browne 1925 - Actor
• Françoise Fabian (Michele Cortes De Leon y Fabianera) 1932 - Actress ("Reunion", "Dressmaker")
• John Lee Gardner 1933 - Musician (Mothers of Invention)
• Link Wray (Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr.) 1935 - Musician, composer (Link Wray and His Ray Men)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey) 1936 - Singer
• Lorenzo Music 1937 - Actor, voice of Garfield, producer
• Gates (William James) Brown 1939 - Baseball player
• Clay (Palmer) Carroll 1941 - Baseball player
• Mickey (Lee Oddis) Bass III 1943 - Jazz composer, musician (New York Powerhouse Ensemble)
• Hilton Valentine 1943 - Musician (Animals)
• John Verity 1944 - Musician (Argent)
• R.C. Bannon 1945 - Country singer
• Bianca Jagger 1945 - Model, human rights activist, was married to Mick Jagger
• Goldy McJohn 1945 - Musician (Steppenwolf)
  
• "Rudy" Randy Cain 1945 - Musician (The Delfonics)
• Lesley Gore 1946 - Singer
• David Suchet 1946 - Actor
• Robert Henritt 1946 - Musician (The Kinks)
• Gerald Irons 1947 - Football player
• Larry Gatlin 1948 - Singer (Gatlin Brothers)
• Lou Gramm 1950 - Musician (Foreigner)
• Joe Callis 1951 - Musician (Human League)
• Christine Baranski 1952 - Actress ("The Good Wife")
• Angela Bofill 1954 - Singer
• Bruce Robert Howard 1961 - Musician (Blow Monkeys)
• Elizabeth Berridge 1962 - Actress
• Ty Herndon 1962 - Country singer
• Todd Sucherman 1969 - Musician (Styx)
• Dwayne Johnson 1972 - Wrestler, actor, known as The Rock
• David Beckham 1975 - Soccer player
• Jenna Van Oy 1977 - Actress
• Gaius Charles 1983 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")
• Ashley Harleroad 1984 - Tennis
  Sarah Hughes 1985 - Figure skater
• Lily Allen 1985 - Singer
• Kay Panabaker 1990 - Actress

Hasselhoff Wednesday: May Day

 

Another working man

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

soigné \swahn-YEY; Fr. swa-NYEY\, adjective:

1. carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
2. well-groomed.

Soigné came to English in the 1800s from the French word soigner meaning "take care of."

 

E-void

• Avoiding someone electronically such as on Facebook, e-mail, IM, or text messages.

Guy #1: I sent Laura a message on facebook two weeks ago asking her what her plans are for New Years but she still hasn't responded.

Guy#2: Dude, it sounds like you're being e-voided.

 

Trivia
Whose presidential portrait, rejected by its subject as “the ugliest thing I ever saw,” now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.?

• Lyndon B. Johnson’s. Artist Peter Hurd had been commissioned to paint it as Johnson’s official White House portrait. Since it was ugly, it was clearly an accurate portrayal of the man from the inside and outside.

Holiday

• May Day aka International Worker's Day (Socialists)

History

• Act of Union: England and Scotland joined to form Great Britain (1707)
• Marriage of Figaro: Mozart's opera premiered in Vienna (1786)
• Empire State Building: world's tallest building (at the time) opened after 410 days of construction (1931)
  
• Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' film masterpiece loosely depicting — and criticizing — newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst debuted in New York City (1931)
• Cheerios: General Mills introduced the first oat-based ready-to-eat breakfast cereal (1941)
• North Korea: was established with Kim Il Sung as premier; he maintained power for the next 46 years (1948)
• Iraq War: George W. Bush declared the successful end of major combat operations in Iraq (2003)

Birthdays

• Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764 - Architect known for his design of the United States Capitol and the Baltimore Basilica
• George Inness 1825 - American landscape painter
• James Graham 1878 - Scottish nobleman, politician
• Leo Sowerby 1895 - Composer, musician, won Pulitzer Prize fro music in 1946
• Kate Smith 1909 - Singer
• Archie Williams 1915 - Olympic athlete
• Glen Ford 1916 - Actor ("Gilda", "The Courtship of Eddie's Father")
• John Beradino (Giovanni Berardino) 1917 - Baseball player, actor
• Jack Paar 1918 - Radio and television comedian, talk show host ("The Tonight Show")
• Harry Caray 1919 - Baseball broadcaster
• Dan O'Herlihy 1919 - Actor ("Macbeth (1948)", "Robinson Crusoe")
• Julian Goodman 1922 - CEO for NBC, was on Richard Nixon's master list of political opponents
• Joseph Heller 1923 - Novelist, short story writer, playwright
• Terry Southern 1924 - Author, essayist, screenwriter
• Scott Carpenter 1925 - One of NASA's original seven astronauts
• Chuck Bednarik 1925 - Football player
• Sonny James (James Loden) 1929 - Country music singer and songwriter
• Ollie Matson (Ollie Genoa Matson II) 1930 - Football player
• Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) 1930 - Musician
• Judy Collins (Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins) 1939 - Singer and songwriter
• Bobbie Ann Mason 1940 - Novelist, short story writer, essayist, literary critic
• Stephen Macht 1942 - Actor
• Mimi Farina (Mimi Baez Fariña) 1945 - Singer, songwriter
• Rita Coolidge 1945 - Singer

  
• Nick Fortune 1946 - Musician (The Buckinghams)
• Jerry Heard 1947 - Golfer
• Douglas Barr 1949 - Actor, writer, director
• Dann Florek 1951 - Actor ("Law and Order: SVU")
• Ray Parker Jr. 1954 - Singer (Raydio)
• Nick Feldman 1955 - Musician (Wang Chung)
• Steve Farris 1957 - Musician (Mr. Mister)
• Phil Smith 1959 - Musician (Haircut 100)
• Wayne Hancock 1965 - Country musician
• Charlie Schlatter 1966 - Actor ("Diagnosis: Murder")
• Johnny Colt 1966 - Musician (The Black Crowes)
• Tim McGraw 1967 - Country musician
• D'Arcy Wreztky 1968 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
• Wes Anderson 1969 - Director
• Julie Benz 1972 - Actress ("Dexter," "Angel")
• Curtis Martin 1973 - Football player
• Darius McCrary 1976 - Actor ("Family Matters"), singer