10/27/25 - Parent Hacks and Horror Comedies
- bribriny
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Monday 10/27/25
Happy Birthday, Mom!
Celebrate:
American Beer Day
Boxer Shorts Day
Cranky Co-Workers Day
National Civics Day
National Parmigiano Reggiano Day
National Potato Day
Navy Day
Sylvia Plath Day
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
World Occupational Therapy Day
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Weekend Box Office
1. Chainsaw Man $17.2M - Another anime opens at #1 from Sony/Crunchyroll.
2. Black Phone 2 $13M
3. Regretting You $12.85M
4. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere $9.1M
5. Tron: Ares $4.9M
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News came out this weekend that June Lockhart died at 100.
She became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers, whether at home in “Lassie” or up in the stratosphere in “Lost in Space.
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Gamesradar.com has a list of the 15 Best Horror Comedies:
1. "Ghostbusters" (1984)
2. "What We Do in the Shadows" (2014) which led to the TV show.
3. "Bride of Chucky" (1998)
4. "Teeth" (2007)
5. "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil" (2010)
6. "Night of the Comet" (1984)
7. "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)
8. "Braindead" (1992) (Peter Jackson's gory masterpiece actually released under the title "Dead Alive" here in the U.S.)
9. "Zombieland" (2009)
10. "Return of the Living Dead" (1985)
11. "The Monster Squad" (1987)
12. "Re-Animator" (1985)
13. "Beetlejuice" (1988)
14. "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (1990)
15. "Army of Darkness" (1992)
See their list and commentary here.
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Buzzfeed is sharing the most hilarious, unethical Parenting Hacks that ever existed. Most are little white lies that are harmless, some...are questionable!
"Ensure your kids won’t bother you by telling them to wake you up in an hour so we can start cleaning the house. They will do anything to avoid waking you up."
"We do something we call 'toy rotation.' When the kids start getting bored of the toys that they have out, we pack them up, pull the other boxes out of their closet, and unpack those. It's like Christmas all over again. No new toys; they're the same old toys, but they love them. We rotate them every month to two months."
"Told our daughter that kids' ears turn red when they lie, but only parents can see it. She would enter rooms with her hands covering her ears, and we knew we were in for a lie."
"My mom would literally change the clock so that it would display our bedtime. And then she'd be like, 'Oh, ten more minutes 'til 8:30, see?'"
"Living on the West Coast, my friend would show the East Coast feed of the New Year's Eve countdown to her kiddos. They were always in bed by nine. Brilliant parenting."
"I saw this one on Instagram: When it's past their bedtime, Dad changes the language on the TV to Spanish. When the kids act confused, he says, 'it must be because you're tired.'"
"If your toddler accidentally touches something hot, you have the opportunity to tell him that many things in the house are also hot and should be avoided."
"I had a friend whose parents told him he was allergic to alcohol. They said they found this out when he accidentally drank some as a toddler. They told him he was in intensive care and nearly died. On his 18th birthday, they told him they made it up so he didn’t drink when underage."
"Tell your kid that they snore in their sleep often; that way, you’ll know if they’re pretending to sleep because they’ll fake snore."
"I save all my 'tax office' envelopes (they are a distinct color in the Netherlands), and every time I hear my child swear…he randomly gets a letter fining him x amount from the tax office. He then hands the money over, and I pop it back in his piggy bank when he's not looking. It works!"
"My nephew refused to vacuum, so I told him the thing about the vacuum sucking up ghosts. I said that vacuuming kept houses from getting haunted; that's why haunted houses are so dusty. Ten years later, he is still a neat freak...and I feel responsible."
"My niece was told that when the ice cream truck made music, it was out of ice cream. She believed this until she was about nine years old."
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Back in 2020, a guy in England named Ryan McLeod got pinned under a car in a crosswalk, and a stranger named Kirsty Southern took care of him until paramedics arrived. Now five years later, they just got married.
She told a reporter she was instantly attracted to him . . . even with him lying there bleeding . . . and checked his hand for a wedding ring. They got married October 11th and went back to the same crosswalk for their wedding pics.
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Saw a map of the US and the most Dangerous Animals of Each State.
For New York and Pa it's White Tailed Deer!
Also making the list is Moose in New England, Copperhead snakes in the mid-east coast, Alligator in the South, Feral Hog in TX-OK-AR, in the Western US it's Bears, Lions and Rattlesnakes too.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - "Billboard" started in 1894 as a magazine about ACTUAL billboard advertising. It started focusing more on music in the 1930s.
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