#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #October20 #BirthdayCohort with @KamalaHarris & #ViggoMortensen @ViggoArt & ... You?) on #Sloth Day | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass
... or -on 'whichever of these holidays, awareness-dates &or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
Holidays Calendar explains the slow-motion mammal 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 “Sloth” is built on ancient words that mean "Laziness" (for the mammal-name; the sense of |Indolence or |Sluggishness (the Deadly Sin? #Slothful) is built on-an ancient word that means |Slow + the abstract formative -th.
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 (on the cusp of Scorpio) ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Jerry Orbach, wrestler Chavo Guerrero Jr., creationist evangelist Ken Ham, John Krasinski, Vice President Kamala Harris, Snoop Dogg, Viggo Mortenson, Tom Petty, Mickey Mantle, Bela Lugosi, Dr. Joyce Brothers ...
but those are just the ones that I agree are famous;
You can add
your- or your friends'- or famous people (whom YOU
your- or your friends'- or famous people (whom YOU
recognize)
in the comments!
in the comments!
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