OMG. It's FRIDAY!

 

Finally a weekend off!!

Friday, April 19, 2024

bona fides \BOH-nah FEE-des\, noun:

1. Good faith; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate.
2. (Sometimes italics) (used with a plural verb) the official papers, documents, or other items that prove authenticity, legitimacy, etc., as of a person or enterprise; credentials.

Originally bona fide, bona fides was accidentally pluralized by the 1830s and subsequently was used as a synonym for credentials.

 

Reverse Mormon

• The Reverse Mormon is a term to describe any obscure sex position. Used when you have no idea what you just did with your partner but you feel as if there should be a name. The origins of the word play upon the fact that the Mormon religion practices abstinence and, thus the Reverse Mormon.

Well, we just definitely did the Reverse Mormon.

History

• "shot heard 'round the world": was fired, starting the American Revolution (1775)
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: the Jews began an armed resistance against the Nazis (1943)
• "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away": General Douglas MacArthur bid farewell to Congress (1951)
• The Simpsons: the animated dysfunctional family debuted on The Tracy Ullman Show (1987)
• Oklahoma City Bombing: truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 (1995)

Birthdays

• David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author
• Ole Evinrude 1877
• Eliot Ness 1903
• Tommy Benford 1905 - Musician (Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers)
• Frank Fontaine 1920
• Kenneth Battelle 1927
• Don Barbour 1927 - Singer (The Four Freshmen)
• Alexis Korner 1928 - Musician, singer
• Hugh O'Brian 1930 - Actor ("The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp")
• Alex Webster 1931 - Football player
• Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jane Palmer) 1932 - Actress ("It Takes a Thief")
• Dick Sargent 1933 - Actor ("Bewitched", "Fantasy Island")
• Dickie Goodman (Richard Dorian Goodman) 1934 - Entertainer (Buchanan and Goodman)
• Dudley Moore 1935 - Actor ("Arthur", "Bedazzled")
• Wilfried Martens 1936 - Belgium Prime Minister
• Elinor Donahue 1937 - Actress ("Father Knows Best", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Pretty Woman")
• Bobby Russell 1941
• Alan Price 1942 - Musician (Alan Price Combo, The Animals)
• Larry (Hilario) Ramos Jr. 1942 - Musician, singer (The Association)
• Czeslaw Bartkowski 1943 - Jazz composer, musician
• Eve Graham 1943 - Musician (The New Seekers)
• Mark "Flo" Volman 1944 - Musician (Crossfires, Phlorescent Leech and Eddy, Turtles, Nightriders)
• Tim Curry 1946 - Actor ("Stephen King’s It", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Legend")
• Paloma Picasso 1949
• Lynn Powis 1949 - Hockey player
• Tony Plana 1952 - Actor ("Ugly Betty")
• Sue Barker 1956 - Tennis player
• Paul Mario Day 1956 - Musician (the original lead vocalist of Iron Maiden from 1975 to 1976)
• Al Unser, Jr. 1962
• Suge Knight 1965 - Record company executive (Tha Row)
• Ashley Judd 1968 - Actress
• Bekka Bramlett 1968
• Luis Miguel (Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri) 1970 - Singer
• James Franco 1978 - Actor ("Milk", "Spider-Man")
• Kate Hudson 1979 - Actress
• Hayden Christensen 1981 - Actor ("Life as a House", "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones", "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith")
• Catalina Sandino Moreno 1981 - Actress
• Troy Polamalu 1981 - Football player
• Courtland Mead 1987
• Maria Sharapova 1987 - Tennis player

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turtle Thursday: THIS STILL GOES ON?!?!

Yes, that's EXACTLY what it looks like. A red ear slider hatchling encased in a sealed plastic envelope of colored water. They are sold LIVE, supposedly for good luck. I know those poor little guys have no luck.

I've seen similar stories before, but here's a recent one from facebook:

On a commercial street in China, little tortoises are found packaged as souvenir!!! These little tortoises are still alive and swimming inside a herbal solution. The store owner says it can live for 1-3 months. 5 RMB a piece.

This is too cruel and unacceptable!!! God knows how many little lives were slowly suffocated to silent death; their fate sealed in a bag!!!

Has the commercial world no more other ideas to make money!!!

Please help "Share" this. Hopefully some media or government will pick up this news and step in to stop this animal cruelty! Perhaps find the real victim and put an end to such uncivilized act.

Please help this little lives. Small as they may be, they are still lives!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, April 18, 2024

reconnoiter \ree-kuh-NOI-ter\, verb:

1. To make an inspection or observation.
2. To inspect, observe, or survey (the enemy, the enemy's strength or position, a region, etc.) in order to gain information for military purposes.
3. To examine or survey a region or area for engineering, geological, or other purposes.

Reconnoiter comes from the French word reconnoître meaning "to explore."

 

First world injury

• An injury mostly likely to occur in an advanced first world country due to the high standard of living.

Karma suffered a first world injury walking into a dumpster while tweeting on her smart phone.

 

Trivia

What 1980–82 sitcom used Billy Joel’s 1979 hit “My Life” as its theme song during the opening credits?

• Bosom Buddies, starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari.

 

History

• San Francisco earthquake: ignited an inferno, killing hundreds and reducing the city to shambles (1906)
• washateria: the first laundromat opened, in Fort Worth, Texas (1934)
• Éire: formally withdrew from the British Commonwealth and became the Republic of Ireland (1949)
• London Bridge: the Thames crossing was sold to American Robert T. McCulloch, who later had it rebuilt in Arizona (1968)
• Wayne Gretzky: NHL legend played his last pro hockey game at NYC's Madison Square Garden (1999)

Birthdays

• George Henry Lewes 1817
• Clarence Darrow 1857 - Attorney, famous for his part in the Scopes 'monkey trial'
• Sam (Samuel Earl) Crawford 1880 - Baseball player
• Leopold Stokowski 1882 - Conductor
• Sylvia Fisher 1910
• Tony Mottola 1918 - Guitarist, arranger for Perry Como's TV variety show
• Hal Galper 1938
• Barbara Hale 1922 - Actress ("Perry Mason", "Airport")
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 1924
• Clive Revill 1930 - Actor ("The Sea Wolf", "The Empire Strikes Back")
• James Drury 1934
• Don Ohl 1936 - Basketball player
• Robert Hooks 1937 - Actor ("Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", "Passenger 57")
• Hal Galper 1938 - Jazz pianist (Hal Galper Quintet), author ("The Touring Musician")
• Richie Pettibone 1938 - Football player
• Mike Vickers 1941 - Musician (Manfred Mann)
• Walt Sweeney 1941 - Football player
• Steve Blass 1942 - Baseball player
• Pete Gogolak 1942 - Football player
• Jochen Rindt 1942 - Auto racer
• Hayley Mills 1946 - Actress ("The Parent Trap"), singer
• Alexander "Skip" Spence 1946 - Musician (Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane)
• James Woods 1947 - Actor ("The Onion Field", "Casino")
• Dorothy Lyman 1947 - Actress ("All My Children")
• Cindy Pickett 1947
• Walt Richmond 1947 - Musician (Tractors)
• Nate Archibald 1948 - Basketball player
• Catherine Malfilano 1948
• Geoff Bodine 1949 - Auto racer
• Rick Moranis 1954 - Actor ("Parenthood", "Ghostbusters" series, "Spaceballs")
• John James 1956 - Actor ("Search for Tomorrow", "As the World Turns")
• Eric Roberts 1956 - Actor ("Doctor Who", "The Coca-Cola Kid"), brother of actress Julia Roberts
• Melody Thomas Scott 1956
• Les Pattinson 1958 - Musician (Echo and the Bunnymen)
• Wilbur Marshall 1962 - Football player
• Jane Leeves 1963 - Actress (TV: "The Benny Hill Show" "Frazier")
• Conan O'Brien 1963 - Television personality ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien")
• Mike Mangini 1963 - Drummer (Dream Theater)
• Eric McCormack 1963
• Maria Bello 1967
• Greg Eklund 1970 - Musician (Everclear)
• Trina 1974 - Singer (Trina and Tamara)
• Mark Thomas Tremonti 1974 - Guitarist (Creed)
• Sean Maguire 1976
• Melissa Joan Hart 1976 - Actress ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")
• Kourtney Mary Kardashian 1979
• Alia Shawkat 1989 

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Hasselhoff Wednesday: TAXES

Tax Day came and went.

Did you have to pay up?

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!?!?!

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

xenophilia \zen-uh-FIL-ee-uh\, noun:

• An attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.

The opposite of xenophobia, xenophilia has the same Greek roots. It literally means "attracted to strangers." It first appeared in English in the 1920s and was used heavily after the Second World War.

 

taxable

• if someone meets your personal criteria for having sex with, he or she is 'taxable.'

I think he is so sexy, definitely taxable!

History

• Daffy Duck: was introduced on Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
• Mickey Mantle: MLB hall-of-famer made major league debut with the Yankees (1951)
• Bay of Pigs: unsuccessful invasion of Cuba was launched by US-supported exiles after JFK double crossed them and didn't send the back-up he promised. (1961)
  

  Ford Mustang: made its debut in US showrooms; by the end of the year, it had already starred in Goldfinger (1964)
• Shea Stadium: Queens, New York, baseball park opened (1964); it served the Mets for 44 years before being demolished to make room for parking for the new Citi Field
• Apollo 13: splashed down safely, ending the near-disastrous flight (1970)
• Cambodia: fell to the Khmer Rouge with the capture of Phnom Penh, resulting in genocidal killing fields (1975)

Birthdays

• • Henry Vaughan 1622
  • J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan 1837 - Financier
  • Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier
  • Thornton Wilder 1897 - Novelist, playwright
  • Gregor Piatigorsky 1903 - Cellist
  • Arthur Lake 1905 - Actor ("Blondie" series)
  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916 - Ceylon Prime Minister, the world's first woman prime minister
  • William Holden (Beedle Jr.) 1918 - Actor ("Stalag 17 [1953]", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Towering Inferno")
  • Harry Reasoner 1923 - Newsman ("Sixty Minutes")
  • Lon McCallister 1923
  • Solly (Solomon Joseph) Hemus 1923 - Baseball player
  • Lindsay Anderson 1923 - Director
  • Roy Gallant 1924 - Author
  • Chris Barber 1930 - Musician, bandleader
  • Don Kirshner 1934 - Music publisher, created The Monkees
  • Warren Chiasson 1934 - Jazz musician (Warren Chiasson Duo)
  • Lamar Lundy 1935 - Football player
  • Dennis Hextall 1943 - Hockey player
  • Bobby Curtola 1944 - Singer
  • Jan Hammer 1948 - Composer, musician
  • Pedro (Modesto Delfi) Garcia 1950 - Baseball player
  • Olivia Hussey 1951 - Actress ("Ice Cream Man", "Psycho 4: The Beginning")
  • Pete Shelley (McNeish) 1955 - Musician (The Buzzcocks)
  • Sean Bean 1958 - Actor ("Goldeneye", "The Lord of the Rings" series)
  • Teri Austin 1959
  • Stephen Singleton 1959 - Musician (ABC)
  • Boomer (Norman) Esiason 1961 - Football player, TV commentator
  • Lela Rochon 1964
  • William Mapother 1965 - Actor ("Lost)
  • Henry Cusick 1967 - Actor ("Lost")
  • Marquis Grissom 1967 - Baseball player
  • Liz Phair 1967 - Singer, songwriter
  • Redman 1970 - Rapper, actor
  • Jennifer Anne Garner 1972 - Actress ("Daredevil", "Electra", "Alias")
  • Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams) 1974 - Singer (Posh Spice of the Spice Girls) 
    Rebekah Parmar-Teasdale 1979 DJ, t3h pron
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