10/22/25 - Halloween Songs, Throning, and Your Toilet is Watching You Poop

Wednesday 10/22/25

Celebrate:

Clean Up the Earth Day

Eat a Pretzel Day

INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY

International Stuttering Awareness Day

Lung Health Day

Medical Assistants Recognition Day

National Color Day

National Knee Day

National Make a Dog's Day

National Nut Day

National Sparkling Water Day

National Tavern-Style Pizza Day

Smart is Cool Day

Unity Day

Wombat Day

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USAToday has a story on a new dating term called "throning" − which means dating someone to raise your social status. The goal for throners is to land a partner with clout, so their own image gets a boost by association. Unlike "Shrekking," which involves dating down in the hopes that person will treat you better in return, throning involves dating up − for all the wrong reasons.

"Basically, the date is a throne that is used to elevate the person who is doing the throning," one TikToker explains in a video. "The scenario focuses solely on social influence or status and not on building a real emotional connection."

It's not really a new concept, gold digging and clout chasing were older terms for this, but social media has made it worse as you are dating for followers and online influence.

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Kohler just debuted a new toilet camera that watches you go, then uses an algorithm to analyze the results and track your health.

It's called "Dekoda" . . . a play on the word "decode" . . . and costs $600. It fits on the side of most toilet bowls and uses optical sensors to scan your waste.  Then it spits out stats on your phone.

You sign in on a fingerprint scanner, so it knows whose waste it's scanning.  It can tell you whether you're dehydrated, and what percentage of your "sessions" are "regular" each week.  It also looks for signs of any blood.

No chance of your privates showing "Dekoda's sensors see down into your toilet and nowhere else."

Oh, and on top of the $600, there's also an annual subscription fee of $70 a year if it's just you, or $130 for the family plan. They're on sale at KohlerHealth.com.  The first orders start shipping today. 

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Billboard put together a list of the 25 biggest Halloween hits, based on their position on the Hot 100.  They also factored in the number of weeks each song spent at its respective peak position, and other criteria.   

Here's the Top 15:

1.  "Monster Mash",  Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers.  Peak Position:  #1.

2.  "Ghostbusters",  Ray Parker Jr.  Peak Position:  #1.

3.  "Frankenstein",  Edgar Winter Group.  Peak Position:  #1.

4.  "The Monster",  Eminem featuring Rihanna.  Peak Position:  #1.

5.  "On Our Own (From "Ghostbusters 2)", Bobby Brown.  Peak Position:  #2.

6.  "Somebody's Watching Me",  Rockwell.  Peak Position:  #2.

7.  "Dark Lady",  Cher.  Peak Position:  #1.

8.  "Black Cat",  Janet Jackson.  Peak Position:  #1.

9.  "Devil with a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly",  Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.  Peak Position:  #4.

10.  "Devil Inside",  INXS.  Peak Position:  #2.

The full list is here.

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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Collective Nouns are fun!

A group of parrots is called a pandemonium.

Business of Ferrets.

Labor of Moles.

Mustering of Storks.

Shrewdness of Apes.

Gam of Whales.

Smack of Jellyfish.

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