Wednesday 10/12/22
Celebrate:
Cookbook Launch Day
Emergency Nurses Day
Freethought Day
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
International Top Spinning Day
National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day
National Farmer's Day
National Fossil Day
National Gumbo Day
National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
National Savings Day
National Stop Bullying Day
National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
Pulled Pork Day
Stop America's Violence Everywhere Today
World Arthritis Day
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Angela Lansbury, the London-born actress who for seven decades brought a commanding, ladylike presence to stage, screen and television — especially over the 12 years she played dauntless mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS' Murder, She Wrote — has died. She was 96.
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A vending machine in Glasgow, Scotland, claims to be able to serve up a pizza in three minutes and unsurprisingly this has left many people feeling curious. Journalist John McCarthy was among those curious to see what would happen if you ordered from the machine, so he gave it a go and documented the process on Twitter.
… He tweeted: “This week. I hit my lowest culinary point after a couple of cans. In Glasgow, there’s a pizza vending machine, in the wall of an abandoned shop. It’s a curious thing. It MUST be bad. But how bad??? Let’s find out.” John proceeded to order a $9 pizza and then waited to see what would happen next. After a few minutes a pizza that was “smaller” and “lighter” than he expected came out in a box. He opened it and found an uncooked pizza inside.
… He says he took the pizza home to cook it and it wasn’t half bad.
But does the machine promise you a cooked pizza????
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iPhone 14’s new Crash Detection feature, which is supposed to alert authorities when it detects you’ve been in a car accident, has an unexpected side effect: it dials 911 on rollercoasters.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the feature has had law enforcement sent to amusement parks on numerous occasions after mistaking a thrill ride’s twists, turns, and hard braking for a real emergency. If the sensors detect that you’ve been in an accident, your iPhone will display an alert and call emergency services if you don’t dismiss it within 20 seconds. When it calls law enforcement, it will play an audio message that alerts authorities you’ve been in a crash, and also provides them with your location.
… Warren County, Ohio, where Kings Island is located, received six emergency calls triggered by park rides since the iPhone 14’s release. Other users have experienced similar issues in amusement parks across the country.
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A very strange survey asked pet lovers to imagine that their animals could talk and what the positives and negatives would be.
First off, people believe that, hypothetically, dogs would be most likely to start speaking to us. And the biggest concern is that they'd gossip and reveal all our secrets.
The next most popular concern is that your dog wouldn't stop talking once it started. And the third biggest worry is that the dog wouldn't be politically correct, and would insult someone.
Also, people think dogs would be more likely to say something mean than cats.(I think cats would be very sarcastic.)
The biggest benefits of having a talking pet would be: They could explain their food preferences . . . they could let us know if something was wrong . . . and they could tell us if they're feeling sick or tired.
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From the I have too much time on my hands file:
A grocery shopper in California has filed a class-action lawsuit against the T.W. Garner Food Co., alleging false advertising over their Texas Pete brand of hot sauce. His issue? Texas Pete hot sauce is not made in Texas, but rather North Carolina. Philip White claims he was under the impression that Texas Pete hot sauce was produced in Texas when he purchased a $3 bottle in September 2021.
… His lawsuit says: “White relied upon the language and images displayed on the front label of the product, and at the time of purchase understood the product to be a Texas product. The label includes “the famed white ‘lone’ star from the Texan flag together with a ‘lassoing’ cowboy,” which are images White assumed to be distinctly Texan, the lawsuit stated. White said he was later surprised to learn that Texas Pete is not a product of Texas, but manufactured in Winston-Salem, North Carolina — a fact T.W. Garner Food Co. readily admits on its website.
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They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But even then, some events are just too bizarre to stay within the confines of Sin City.
Like when a camel walked up to an eatery, presumably to get a piping hot order of french fries. The video of the animal walking straight to the drive-thru along with its handler and patiently waiting for food has gone viral. The video shows staff at the restaurant laughing out loud after spotting the unusual customer. The camel is seen peeking into the restaurant putting its head inside the window. The animal handler said that the camel is a rescue from Colorado that now lives in a sanctuary in the Las Vegas area and loves to eat french fries.
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When you feel like you need something, but you can't figure out what it is, it's water. It's always water.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - When Ulysses S. Grant was president in the 1870s, he once got a speeding ticket from a cop in Washington D.C. for riding his horse and buggy too fast.
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