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1/15/24 - Blue Monday, MLK, Jr. Day, and Sneezes (Let It Fly)

Monday 1/15/24


Celebrate:

Blue Monday - usually the third Monday of the month— said to be the "most depressing day of the year"

There is even a formula including weather, debt, monthly salary, time since Christmas, time since the failure of New Year's resolutions, low levels of motivation, and the feeling of a need to take action.


Elementary School Teacher Day

Humanitarian Day

National Bagel Day

National Booch Day - celebrating kombucha

National Day of Service

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day

National Hat Day

National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

Wikipedia Day


Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - honors the legacy and celebrates the birthday of the iconic civil rights leader.

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The Honeymooners star Joyce Randolph has died at the age of 99.

She played Trixie, the wife of Art Carney's Ed Norton, on the classic 1955-56 sitcom.

Randolph was the last surviving member of the cast, which included Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows.


Also, Peter Crombie died at 71. You might remember him as "Crazy" Joe Davola on Seinfeld. 

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Award season continues. Tonight it's The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Anthony Anderson is the host and it's on FOX at 8pm.

For details and nominees, check out https://www.emmys.com/

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The weekend box office

1. “Mean Girls,” $28 million about $4 million more than the original did in 2004.

2. “The Beekeeper,” $16.8 million.

3. “Wonka,” $8.4 million.

4. “Anyone But You,” $6.9 million.

5. “Migration,” $6.2 million.

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Don't hold it in!!!!!

A guy in his 30s was recently driving in Scotland when he had to sneeze and decided he'd try to hold it in.

He closed his mouth and pinched his nose, but still sneezed . . . and it tore a hole in his THROAT.

The technical term is "spontaneous tracheal perforation." It rarely happens this way. Doctors could only find a handful of cases.

By the way, if you plug your nose, the pressure in your upper airway can be 20 times what it normally is.

He was lucky it wasn't worse.  It can also cause ruptured eardrums, broken ribs, or even an aneurysm.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Jell-O created four flavors to use in salads in the 1960s:  Celery . . . Italian salad . . . mixed vegetables . . . and seasoned tomato.  But they all flopped and were discontinued.

As well it should. Fruit..only fruit should be in Jello. (if that)

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