DAILY DIRT: Do you suffer from dysania, or does a wamble occasionally wake you up?

February 22, 2025 | By Steve Eighinger, Muddy River News Minister of Culture and Doctor of Love

The condition of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning is called dysania. Photo by Miriam Alonso/PEXELS

Daily Dirt for Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025

It’s been a long, long time since a vagitus has awakened me in the middle of the night … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,211 of The Daily Dirt.

1. Awhile back we offered a list of items that actually HAVE names that seemed to surprise some readers. Today we are expanding that list.

The following are legitimate names for some of most of the more bizarre and mildly absurd things in life:
The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow.
The cry of a newborn baby is called a vagitus.
Illegible handwriting is called griffonage. (My wife definitely has griffonage.)
That tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza is called a box tent.
When you combine an exclamation mark and question mark (!?) it is referred to as an interrobang. (I think this has become more popular in the age texting.)
That utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence.
When your stomach rumbles, that is called a wamble.
The condition of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning is called dysania. (I’ve had dysania my entire life.)
The space between your nostrils is called columella nasi.
Speaking of space, that area between your eyebrows is called a glabella, unless you have a unibrow.

2. Did you know (Part 284)

That MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer never gave a home run with the bases loaded. Palmer worked innings 3,948 innings in a career that spanned 1965 to 1984. He faced 213 batters with the bases full. The closest he came to giving up a grand slam was on 1977 in Cleveland when Rico Carty hit a ball OVER the center-field fence, but Al Bumbry leaped, reached over the fence and pulled the ball back.
That Krispy Kreme Doughnuts now have four movie snacks flavors: Caramel Popcorn, Candy Double Feature, Cookie Dough Superstar and Blue Raspberry Slush.
That Taco Bell’s next addition will be a Milk Bar Birthday Cake Churro.
That Dairy Queen is rolling out a new Crunchin’ Cookie dipped cone. Cookies and Cream pieces are inside the dip.
That the film “Napoleon Dynamite” was made on a $400,000 budget and star Jon Heder was only paid $1,000. The film went on to gross more than $46 million.