#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #October2 #BirthdayCohort with @KellyRipa & @LorraineBracco & ... You?) on #FriedScallops Day @NationalDayCaL | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass
... or -on 'whichever of these holidays &or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
National Day Calendar explains Fried #Scallops Day in a report linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Scallops (or #Scallop #Scalloped #Scalloping)” is probably built on ancient words that mean "to Cut" (|Sheath, Shell ... as the outer-covering (of the bivalve mollusk) was often used as cooking- & dining-utensils).
I sometimes get a little 'thrill' from realizing that I have the same birthday as several famous people, and enough other people get that thrill from seeing their birthday-cohort (both the currently-famous & the probably-not-yet famous) that I figure it's worth doing 'one of these entries for every birthday' ...
Today's Birthday-Cohort
Astrologically, their sign is Libra ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Kelly Ripa (Regis's replacement for Kathie Lee? 😋), Don McLean, researcher Jack Parsons, Ian McNeice (Winston Churchill on DOCTOR WHO?), Mahatma Gandhi, Sting, Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Jennifer Melfi in The Sopranos ... but I remember her as Angela Rizzoli in Rizzoli & Isles), lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Groucho Marx, Avery Brooks (Commander (or was it Captain?) Sisko (STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE)), Chris LeDoux, Persis Khambatta (bald Deltan navigator Lt. Ilia in STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE), Nat Turner (leader of slave-rebellion) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
(and--if you or someone you know about has a birthday today
--please mention them (and how you know them or -know
about them) in the comments, thanks)
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