Friday 10/1/21
Celebrate National Black Dog, Hair, Fire Pup, Homemade Cookies, Manufacturing, Body Language, and World Smile Day.
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If the Yankees go far in the postseason, they can thank their new team pet. The Bombers are 7-0 since players adopted a turtle named Bronxie, who lives in the clubhouse. Bronxie was on hand when the Yanks swept the Rangers at home and then traveled with the team to Boston, where they swept the Red Sox. The “rally turtle” was roaming the locker room for the Yanks’ win against the Blue Jays last night and has become something of a full-fledged mascot in the American League wild-card race.
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DUN-DUN is back! Wolf Entertainment announced Tuesday that Law & Order, the original incarnation of its flagship series, will be returning to air for a 21st season, more than a decade after it initially handed in its badge and gun.
No premiere date or casting information was made available, but the original Law & Order, which launched in September 1990, featured a host of memorable characters over the years, drawn from "the police who investigate the crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders," as the narration at the start of the show memorably noted.
The police side of the cast featured the late Jerry Orbach as Det. Lennie Briscoe, The Flash's Jesse L. Martin as Det. Ed Green, Chicago Med's S. Epatha Merkerson as Lt.. Anita Van Buren, Sex and the City's Chris Noth as Det. Mike Logan, and Benjamin Bratt as Det. Rey Curtis, to name a few. On the legal side were Sam Waterston's Jack McCoy, who held various positions, Jill Hennessy as ADA Claire Kincaid, Angie Harmon as ADA Abbie Cramichael, Elisabeth Rohm as ADA Serena Southerlyn, Alana de la Garza as ADA Connie Rubirosa, and more.
It also remains one of the longest-running dramas to ever air on television. Gunsmoke, which ran from 1955 to 1975, still has the most episodes at 635, but the L&O spin-off Law and Order: SVU is now the longest-running scripted live-action TV series, as it's now in its 23rd season.
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The website BabyCenter.com does a list each year of the most popular baby names. This year's top names were Olivia and Liam.
Google Trends looked at the top baby names we've been googling over the past year, most likely for upcoming baby names. And Olivia is still number one, but Liam didn't even make the top ten for boys.
Luca, Aiden, Kai, Caleb, Maverick, Levi, Jaxon, Jaxson, Logan, and Hunter.
The top-trending girl names are Olivia, Autumn, Everly, Isla, Naomi, Ariana, Amelia, Eliana, Mila, and Aria.
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Centerville, Iowa is about 75 miles outside Des Moines, and only around 5,000 people live there, and they just set a world record for the largest serving of pancakes.
A hundred volunteers from local businesses cooked 14,280 pancakes and served them to employees.
They used 2,400 pounds of batter, and each pancake had to be at least 0.4 inches thick and five inches in diameter. The previous record of 13,000 pancakes just happened in Blue Springs, Missouri this past June. So it only stood for about three months.
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If you could only keep one streaming service, which one would it be? 41% of people in a new poll said Netflix. Hulu is next at 21%, followed by HBO Max, 13%, Disney-Plus, 9%, and Prime Video, 6%. Only 1% said Apple TV.
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