Friday 1/12/24
Celebrate:
Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
International French Onion Soup Day
International Kiss a Ginger Day
National Curried Chicken Day
National Glazed Doughnut Day
National Hot Tea Day
National Marzipan Day
Naitonal Pharmacist Day
Stick To Your New Year's Resolution Day
Work Harder Day
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New in the Theaters
Mean Girls - This weekend we wear pink! It's the musical adaptation of Mean Girls.
The Beekeeper - Not a musical.starring Jason Statham (so someone gets punched in the face)
Also starring Jeremy Irons and Josh Hutcherson
The Book of Clarence - Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, and Alfre Woodward.
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According to new research, the average person gets a "perfect" night's sleep 132 times per year . . . a "good" night's sleep 120 nights . . . and a "bad" night's sleep 113 times a year.
That breaks down like this: 36% perfect sleeps . . . 33% good sleeps . . . and 31% bad sleeps. But those bad sleeps can be disruptive. 65% of people say that a bad night's sleep is enough to ruin the whole next day.
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A woman near Toronto broke the record for loudest nose whistle at 44.1 decibels. Guinness says it's as loud as some birdcalls.
She can do it intentionally and even whistle songs. She's not totally sure how, but says it has something to do with controlling the muscles in her throat.
She used to prank her teachers in school, and her five-year-old son just found out he can do it too.
They must be so fun at parties.
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Fruit Stripe Gum, you know, the one with the colorful zebra that has been around since 1969, is being discontinued.
Fruit Stripe came in five flavors — Wet n’ Wild Melon, Cherry, Lemon, Orange, and Peach Smash — and was striped in appropriately matching colors. Each stick contained a temporary tattoo of mascot Yipes the Zebra, too.
One Reddit user said “The wildest three second ride that your tastebuds ever knew.”
You'll have to replace it with others in the companies candy drawer, including Fun Dip, Gobstopper, Jujyfruits, Atomic Fireballs, Chuckles, Pixy Stix, and Nerds which will have their first Super Bowl Commercial.
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Wayne State University in Michigan just put out a list of "long-lost" words that should be resurrected in 2024. These aren't slang words that have faded . . . like "majorly" or "jiggy" . . . they're mostly very old words, teetering on extinction.
Here are a few along with their meanings:
Blatherskite . . . a person who talks at great length without making much sense. As in, "The cable TV commentator was a blatherskite who produced 30 minutes of angry nonsense each night."
Curglaff . . . the shock felt when you first plunge into cold water. As in, "He dove into the pool without thinking, and the curglaff caused him to shriek when he came up for air."
(I feel this one is still being used) Dollop . . . a shapeless mass or blob of something, especially soft food. As in, "He sat down to enjoy a nice steak, grilled asparagus, and a baked potato topped with a giant dollop of sour cream."
Pawky . . . having a mocking or cynical sense of humor. As in, "He had a pawky wit that undercut his superiors' self-importance."
Petrichor . . . a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. As in, "He walked outside after the storm, the petrichor lifting his spirits as he hiked around the campground."
Rawgabbit . . . a person who speaks confidently but ignorantly. As in, "My social media feed is filled with rawgabbits trying to explain everything from epidemiology to engineering."
Thunderplump . . . a heavy fall of rain during a thunderstorm. As in, "He'd hoped he could get home before the storm got too bad, but found himself instead jogging through a soggy thunderplump."
Twankle . . . to twang with the fingers on a musical instrument. As in, "He sat on the porch as dusk rolled in, twankling an old childhood favorite on the banjo."
(or an angry neighbor - "Hey, can you stop Twankling! I'm trying to sleep."
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Boy George and Janet Jackson have never hit it off. And things aren’t about to change, it seems.
"When it comes to me and Janet, let's wait a while," the British singer — who made his name with the band Culture Club — jokes in his autobiography Karma, out now.
The two pop stars met in their '80s heyday on Solid Gold and, loving her music (he had bought an armful of of her records), George writes that he approached her "without my face on."
"She wasn't friendly and didn't try to be.
Later, when he was "Boy George" one of her crew approached him with a video camera, asking for him to record a message for Jackson, he recalls saying, "Next time you meet someone, be nice." Later, George was ushered to her dressing room and Jackson said she didn’t recognize him earlier. "'Are you saying you would have been nice to me if you knew who I was?'
And the next time they saw each other at U.K. TV show Top of the Pops a few years later, "she looked straight through me."
You won't read this in his book Karma, but he says Tina Turner wasn't nice to me.
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Barbenheimer still rules.
After conquering the summer box office, "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" are now taking the Screen Actors Guild Awards by storm. And fittingly, they tied, with a leading four nominations each. Others in the big category are "Killers of the Flower Moon," "The Color Purple" and "American Fiction."
In the TV categories, "Succession" had the most nominations overall with five, with "The Bear," "The Last of Us" and "Ted Lasso" with four.
Watch The Screen Actors Guild Award Show streaming live on Netflix February 24th.
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The Guinness Book of World Records announced a woman from Utah named Dwan Jacobsen Young is officially the world's oldest woman to go waterskiing. She's 92 years old and still at it.
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We just beamed out the first ever travel ad meant for aliens and suggested they visit Lexington, Kentucky first. The city's tourism board is behind it.
They included a rough image of a human and TWO images of horses because Lexington is the "Horse Capital of the World."
It also shows the chemical formulas for the main molecules in Bourbon.
It's about 40 lightyears away, so any aliens out there won't get it until the year 2063, and the earliest visit would be in 2103.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Dogs can see blue and yellows, but NOT reds and greens. This makes their red-green color blindness similar to about 8% of men and 0.5% of women.
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