Hasselhoff Wednesday: For Yom Kippur

 

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

klatsch \ klahch, klach \ , noun;

• a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.

Origin: Klatsch comes from the German word of the same spelling meaning "gossip." It entered English in the 1950s.

   

Enragement ring

• A piece of jewelry, typically a ring, that is purchased for a girlfriend in an effort to make her happy after you have made her angry.

A: Wow, your girlfriend is pretty pissed that you were out all night and didn't call her. What are you going to do?

B: Yeah, you're right, she's pretty mad. I might have to buy her an 'enragement ring' to smooth things over.

History 

• Boston: was founded by Puritan settlers (1630)
• General Motors: the world's largest automobile maker was founded by William C. Durant in Flint, Michigan (1908)
• Wall Street bombing: explosives detonated in a horse-drawn wagon killed 38 people in New York City's financial district; the perpetrators were never definitively identified but the FBI suspected Italian anarchists (1920)
• Vietnam War: President Gerald Ford announced conditional amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters (1974)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger: actor-turned-California-governor became a US citizen (1983)
• Montreal Protocol: treaty that aims to protect the ozone layer was signed (1987)

Birthdays

• Louis XIV (France) 1638
• Francis Parkman 1823
• J.C. Penney 1875
• George Whitney Calhoun 1890
• Buster Mills 1908
• Allen Funt 1914
• Arleen Whelan 1916
• Marvin Middlemark 1919
• Janis Paige 1923
• Lauren Bacall 1924
• B.B. King 1925
• Charlie Byrd 1925
• Morgan Woodward 1925
• John Knowles 1926
• Peter Falk 1927
• Jack Kelley 1927
• Anne Francis 1930
• George Chakiris 1933
• Elgin Baylor 1934
• Bernie Calvert (The Hollies) 1942
• Linda Henning 1944
• Betty Kelly (Martha and the Vandellas) 1944
• Susan Ruttan 1948
• Kenney Jones 1948 - Musician (Faces, The Who)
• Ed Begley, Jr. 1949
• David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) 1950
• Ron Blair 1952
• Earl Klugh 1953
• Colin Newman 1954
• Robin Yount 1955
• Mickey Rourke 1956
• David Copperfield 1956
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  Peter Zaremba (Fleshtones) 1956
• Terry McBride 1958
• Orel Hershiser 1958
• Rodney Franklin 1958
• Jane Brook 1962
• Richard Marx 1963
• Molly Shannon 1964
• Marc Anthony 1968
• Amy Poehler 1971
• Madeline Zima 1985
• Lorena B. Garcia 1986
• Jordana Lajoie 1988 (The Boys)
  

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

Review Tuesday: Rubber (2010)

 

 

Rubber

(2010)

A tire goes on a murder spree. 

For years I have been aware of the 2010 horror/comedy RUBBER. One time my BFF asked if there was any movie that I was interested in seeing and I named this one! 

 

So here it is. A tire is sentient. People pay to watch it go about its day. One day, it realizes it has destructive psychic abilities and goes on a murder spree. 

 

The movie was ridiculous, but fun and keeps your interest. I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. It, by far, exceeded all expectations. The strangest detail is that it's harder to find than you would expect and no one has it for free?!?! If you do track it down, I recommend it.  

 

Tuesday, September, 15, 2026

camelopard \ kuh-MEL-uh-pahrd \ , noun; 

• Archaic . a giraffe. 

Origin: Camelopard is a portmanteau of the words camel and pard , an archaic term for a leopard or panther. It entered English in the late 1300s.

conspicuous consumer

• someone who purchases at locations for an underlying purpose of being seen. Buying the label not the look. Someone who walks around with a Starbucks cup; Someone wearing a shirt with a very obvious logo (i.e.: ENYCE)

Mark is such a conspicuous consumer, look at his shirt.

History

• Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declared their independence of Spain (1821)
• Galápagos Islands: were reached by naturalist Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle (1835)

  
• Nuremberg Laws: deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany (1935)
• civil rights: a bomb killed four black girls when it exploded during Sunday services in a Birmingham, Alabama, church, sparking race riots (1963)
• USA Today: Gannett's national newspaper hit the stands; it's America's top-selling daily newspaper in print (1982)
• Lehman Brothers: the investment bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the largest bankruptcy in US history (2008)

Birthdays

• James Fenimore Cooper 1789
• William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857
• Robert Benchley 1889
• Agatha Christie 1890
• Jean Renoir 1894
• Roy Acuff 1903
• Fay Wray 1907
• Penny Singleton 1908
• Margaret Lockwood 1916
• Snooky Pryor 1921
• Jackie Cooper 1922
  
• Bobby Short 1926
• Norm Crosby 1927
• Cannonball Adderly 1928
• Gaylord Perry 1938
• Merlin Olsen 1940
• Jimmy Gilmer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs) 1940
• Les Braid (The Swinging Blue Jeans) 1941
• Carmen Maura 1945
• Jessye Norman 1945
• Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) 1945
• Oliver Stone 1946
• Tommy Lee Jones 1946
  
  
• Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) 1960
• Dan Marino (NFL) 1961
• Danny Nucci 1968
• Kay Gee (Naughty by Nature) 1969
• Josh Charles 1971
• Tom Hardy 1977 (Bane from The Dark Knight)
• Amy Davidson 1978
• Prince Harry of Wales 1984
• Jenna "Marbles" Mourey 1986 - blogger, model, comedian, go-go dancer
• Heidi Montag 1986 - nit-wit

  

 

 

  

Look forward to Sarah

 

 

SARAH SHAHI

 

        

 

Hotty of the day

 

 

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Monday, September 14, 2026

 

 [Pictured: Katie Fey, aka Jenya D]

fey \FAY\, adjective:

1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.

2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.

3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.

4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.

5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

Fey comes from Middle English feye, feie, from Old English fæge, "fated to die."

taradiddle \ tar-uh-DID-l \ , noun; 

1. Informal . a small lie; fib. 
2. Informal . pretentious nonsense. 

Origin: Taradiddle builds on the term diddle , "to cheat or swindle" or "a deception," however, the origin of the first element, tara , is uncertain. It entered English in the late 1700s.

liptease

• The act of putting on lipstick suggestively; The oral equivalent of a striptease.

Diane was giving me a liptease from across the room, so I went over and asked her out.

 

Trivia 

What product was ceremoniously unveiled to the public on September 4, 1957, a day its manufacturer hailed as “E-Day”?

• The Edsel, the Ford that never took off.  

History

• "The Star Spangled Banner": US anthem was written by attorney Francis Scott Key during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore (1814)
• 
  Selective Service Act: Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in US history (1940)
• Luna 2: the spherical Soviet spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon; it crashed onto the lunar surface (1959)
• Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: widow who founded the American Sisters of Charity was canonized by Pope Paul VI, becoming the first US-born saint (1975)
• 1994 Major League Baseball season: was officially canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig, 34 days after the players' strike began (1994)

Birthdays 

• Ivan Pavlov 1849
• Charles Dana Gibson 1867
• Margaret Sanger 1879
• Jack Hawkins 1910
• Clayton Moore 1914
• Kay Medford 1920
• Hughes Rudd 1921
• Constance Baker Motley 1921
• Bud Palmer 1923
• Jerry Coleman 1924
• Allan Bloom 1930
• Zoe Caldwell 1933
  
• Harve Presnell 1933
• Kate Millett 1934
• Walter Koenig 1936
• Nicol Williamson 1938
• Priscilla Mitchell 1941
• Joey Heatherton 1944
• Pete Agnew (Nazareth) 1946
• Sam Neill 1947
• John "Bowser" Bauman (Sha Na Na) 1947
• Steven Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949 
• Paul Kossoff (Free) 1950
• Barry Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1954
• Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) 1955
• Joe Penny 1956
• John Berry 1959
• Mary Crosby 1959
• Mary Frances 1959
• Morton Harket (a-ha) 1959
• Faith Ford 1964
• Don Cortese 1968
• Tyler Perry 1969
• Craig Montoya (Everclear) 1970
• Kimberly Williams-Paisley 1971
• Andrew Lincoln 1973 (Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead)
• Nas 1973
• Amy Weinhouse 1983 (singer turned zombie)
• Adam Lamberg 1984
  

Katie FEY

 

 

     

 

  

   

  

Jevgenija Diordijchuk (real name)

AKA: Yevgenia / Eugenia / Evgenia Diordiychuk, Jenya D, Shawnee, Katie Fey, Shawnee, Vanesa Gojgik