Saturday 10/19/24
Sunday 10/20/24
Celebrate:
Saturday
Bridge Day
Dress Like a Dork Day
Evaluate Your Life Day
I Love Yarn Day
International Gin and Tonic Day
International Independent Video Store Day
International Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day
International Repair Day
International Sloth Day
LGBT Center Awareness Day
National Fetch Day
National Seafood Bisque Day
New Friends Day
Rainforest Day
Sweetest Day
World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day
Sunday
Community Media Day
International Chefs Day
Miss American Rose Day
National Brandied Fruit Day
National Call-in Day for Health Reform
National Chicken and Waffles Day
National Day on Writing
National Mozzarella Stick Day
National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
National Suspenders Day
National Youth Confidence Day
Office Chocolate Day (notice it's on a Sunday..nobody's sharing that)
The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller
World Osteoporosis Day
World Toy Camera Day
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New in the Theaters
Smile 2 - Horror with Rosemarie DeWitt, Naomi Scott, Kyle Gallner, Lukas Gage, and Dylan Gelula.
Goodrich - Comedy with Michael Keaton, Mila Kunis, Andie MacDowell, Carmen Ejogo, and Laura Benanti.
Looks like Hocus Pocus is being released on the big screen as well. Enjoy the Halloween season!
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A random new poll asked, "When you make a credit card purchase and are offered a space to sign, what do you typically do?"
68% say they sign an actual signature . . . 19% draw a line or scribble . . . 3% leave the space blank (which, I guess is an option) . . . and 2% say they just "do something else." It's unclear what THAT would be.
Not surprisingly, older folks are more likely to use an actual signature.
Some Boomers might blame this on cursive not being emphasized in schools . . . but I think the REAL killer was those HORRIBLE "signature screens" at checkout counters, which would turn your signature into scribble no matter what.
This is coming up now because there have been some articles online asking if signing for transactions is being PHASED OUT COMPLETELY.
If you think about it, the times when you're asked to sign have been declining rapidly over the past five years . . . ever since the credit card companies stopped requiring signatures in 2018, because they don't even look at them anymore.
They have other ways of detecting fraud . . . and are able to reach out to you immediately on your phone . . . so signatures are really just there to make YOU feel more secure. Or, when they want you to leave a tip.
Of course, there are still "official" documents that require people to have a signature . . . but even that doesn't seem as important and special as it once did. Especially since you can pretty much do anything online with DocuSign.
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Halloween is now less than two weeks away, so a new survey asked if we are excited about that. 23% of Americans say they're looking forward to it MORE this year . . . 24% say they're looking forward to it LESS . . . and 53% said their excitement level is the same as usual.
Of those who ARE looking forward to it, 56% say they expect to spend more on Halloween . . . 28% say they'll spend about the same . . . and 10% say they plan on spending less.
As for spending on CANDY, 54% of people say they're going with mixed mini-candy bars . . . 22% will get regular-sized candy bars . . . and 10% plan on really treating kids with king-sized candy bars.
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Last year, an 11-year-old girl named Rosili Olson showed up at city hall in Clearfield, Utah, and asked for a meeting with the parks department.
She said a playground near her house wasn't good for kids under five years old, so her little sister couldn't use it. She'd drawn a picture of some changes she had in mind.
It turned out they couldn't change the park she was talking about, but they loved the initiative. So they designed another new park based on her drawing. She was there for the ribbon-cutting last month.
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100% chance this becomes a movie: Back in 1999, a guy in Brazil was shot dead at a bar over a $30 debt. Now his killer is finally behind bars, all because the guy's daughter vowed to avenge his death.
Her name is Gislayne Silva de Deus. She was 10 when he died. His killer was originally caught and sentenced in 2013 to 12 years in prison. But he was out on parole while appealing it, and disappeared.
She went to school to become a lawyer, but then quit her job two years ago to become a homicide cop. And 25 years after her dad's death, she just caught the guy.
She made sure she was at the station when they brought him in, so she could tell him SHE was the one who tracked him down.
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A man in Greece was convicted of disturbing his neighbors by repeatedly sneaking onto their properties . . . to SMELL THEIR SHOES.
The man said he couldn't explain his actions but admitted he was "greatly embarrassed." He added that he had no intention of breaking the law or harming anybody, and victims confirmed that he'd never been aggressive.
Apparently he smelled the shoes of entire families. So no one in particular, just whatever shoes he came across.
It's unclear if he actually got INSIDE homes, or if he just sought out opportunities to smell shoes that were left outside doors. He was given a suspended one-month sentence and ordered to get therapy.
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