#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #October17 #BirthdayCohort with @Eminem & #WyclefJean @Wyclef & ... You?) on #WearSomethingGaudy Day | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates @WallPapersWide #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass

... or -on 'whichever of these holidays, awareness-dates &or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'

Holidays Calendar explains 'why you should wear something #Gaudy' 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 “Gaudy (\ #Gaudily #Gaudiness #Gaud #GaudyDay)” is built on ancient words that mean "Large Ornamental Bead in a Rosary (Rejoice, Joy, Jewel)" (or maybe the name of a Yellow-Green Dye from a Weld Plant).

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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: Evel Knevel, Irene Ryan, Chris Kirkpatrick, Jerry Siegel, Cameron Esposito, Norm MacDonald, Eminem, Rita Hayworth, Michael McKean, Mike Judge, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, George Wendt, Alan Jackson, Wyclef Jean, Pope John Paul I, Mae Jemison (black female astronaut) ...

but those are just the ones that I agree are famous;
You can add
 your- or your friends'- or famous people (whom YOU
recognize)
 in the comments!

My Heart of the Nation calendar says that we (Catholics) are celebrating with the clergy wearing Green Vestments for the day


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