"He heard one guitar just blow him away..."

Name that Band!

So last night it rained a lot, and there were huge puddles all around, so we (me and Ryan and Julie and Kim and Erin) decided after watching to go drive through them (obvious choice).  We drove through a couple in the parking lot, but then we saw this big ol' fatty fountain.  So we all took our shoes off (I didn't have to deal with this) and ran around in it and got completely soaked.  And of course it was still raining.  And then we found some huge puddles in the Centennial parking lot, so Julie drove through that and the splash covered the whole car, and it was way sweet, but we didnt really get to see just how big the splash was, so Ryan and I got out and watched, and once again got completely soaked.  and cold.  and giddy.  So we got back in the car and drove kim home, but first we drove through this big puddle by her house, and it looked even bigger than the one at Centennial, and so Ryan and I got out again and stood on the sidewalk next to it and got completely soaked again.  Heehee!  It was a blast.  And by that time it was about 12:45am so i went home and went to bed.  I think it was the most fun i've ever had in the rain.  I think next time, I'll take Brock's plan and go sit on some curb by a big puddle with a sign that says Splash Me.  That would be cool.

 

Today is Amnesty International Day.  Their website is HERE.  If you care about the human race, you should at least check it out.

 

Words of the day:

Kibosh - something that serves as a check or a stop

Olla podrida - A stew of highly seasoned meat and vegetables; a mixture; a hodgepodge

 

Today's Birthdays:

Joseph Ignace Guillotin, 1738

Andy Kirk, 1898

Phil Regan, 1906

Ian Lancaster Fleming, 1908 (creator of James Bond)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 1925

Dionne Quintuplets, 1934

John Fogerty, 1945 (CCR vocals)

Damian Rhodes, 1969 (Sens goaltender)

Pat Peake, 1973 (Caps center)

 

Today's Deathdays:

Noah Webster, 1843 (HAHAHA!!! THIS GUY IS MY HERO!!!)

Walter Connolly, 1940

Jacques Lipchitz, 1973

Joseph Hardy, 1990

Sidney Greenbaum, 1996 (he's a grammarian!)

 

Today in History:

1st Baptist Church organizes, 1664

1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London), 1742

1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War, 1863

Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent, 1918

Armenia declares it's Independence, 1919

Eisenhower signs farm bill allows govt to store agricultural surplus, 1956 (Farms Christina!!)

Amnesty International founded, 1961 (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate, 1972

Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5", 1980

Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain, 1982

"Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63, 1983 (hehe, wierd al rocks my world!)

Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time, 1997

Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis, 1997 (histoplasmosis -

A disease caused by the inhalation of spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, most often asymptomatic but occasionally producing acute pneumonia or an influenzalike illness and spreading to other organs and systems in the body.)

I listened to Linkin Park and annoyed my mother, 2004

 

Hm...

 

Focal an Lae: (Irish word of the day)

cú - hound

Usage:  Probably most familiar outside the language in the name of themythical Ulster hero "Cú Chulainn" (KOO XOO-liny - first OO as in moon,second OO as in book, x as the guttural in loch, ny as in the middle ofonion, meaning "The Hound of Culann". Cú was not an uncommon element in names in the heroic old days: Cú Roí and Cú Chonnacht, for example.While "cú" means "hound" in Irish, in Scottish Gaelic it just means "dog".

History:  Old Irish "cú" derives from Indo-European *kwon- (dog). Thederivation is more apparent in the genitive plural form of the Irishword, which is "con". Welsh for "dog" is "ci" (cf. "corgi" <- cor(dwarf) + ci). English cognates are "canine" and "kennel".

 

And quotes.

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

             James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."

             John Erskine (1879 - 1951)

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

             Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

            Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

             George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

Wurd.  It's raining, and I'm going to a party this afternoon.  possibly outside.  Oh, and all you Centennial people (or ex-Centennial people, rather) I am coming tomorrow night! :) 

Ooh, i forgot to mention something else i did last night.  I watched Braveheart, and it re-inspired me to give up my worldly life and become a highlander.  I could raise sheep and vegetables in a little village and fight the English.  Wouldnt that just be the coolest?  I'm not a big fan of the English.  They caused a lot of trouble in pretty much every corner of the world.  But they're all right now.  Tony Blair is one of my heroes, but their history is a little upsetting.  The whole Plantagenet line was rotten, and in general, the whole country was pretty vile for about 1.000 (notice my European punctuation on that) years.  The one thing i do wish we had here though is public execution.  If we had torturing/executions out in the streets now, I would so be there!  I wonder what the requirements are to become an executioner...

 

Anyway, on to a happier paragraph.  that msn reality show thing is gaytarded-lamehead-sauce.  i was kidding about being addicted to it, but nobody called me a freak.  i was surprised :)  nobody ever doesnt call me a freak.  wow.  that didnt even make sense, and if it did, it probably wasnt true.  Actually i'm sure it wasnt true.  some people i dont think have ever called me a freak.  sorry about that.  So anyway, my friends are coming to visit me this weekend!  and i'll finally get to meet Christina!  I've talked to her at least a hundred times, but i have yet to meet her, so its going to be happy fun time.  She likes playing in the rain probably more than I do, so we'll have a little party out in the street or something.  maybe jump around on top of cars or something.

 

So until next time, Go gcreime cúnna ifrinn do chroí.  actually not.  that means "may the hounds of Hell gnaw at your heart"  I'm not that cruel.

 

Beir bua agus beannacht, (Best Wishes,)

Brian

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