10/4/25 - Horror Movies, Halloween, and Dad Jokes
- bribriny
- Oct 4
- 4 min read
Saturday 10/4/25
Sunday 10/5/25
Celebrate:
Cinnamon Roll Day
Digital Scrapbooking Day
eDay
Improve Your Office Day
Inter-American Water Day
International Frugal Fun Day
International Toot Your flute Day
National Golf Day
National Ships-in-Bottles Day
National Taco Day
National Vodka Day
Ten-Four Day
World Animal Day
World Card Making Day
Sunday
Change a Light Day
Chic Spy Day
Country Inn Bed and Breakfast Day
Do Something Nice Day
Global James Bond Day
International Blessings of the Fishing Fleet Day
National Apple Betty Day
National Get Funky Day
National Kiss a Wrestler Day
National Storytelling Day
Rocky Mountain Oyster Day
World Communion Sunday
World Teachers' Day
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New in Theaters:
Taylor Swift - Release Party of a Showgirl - Heads up..NO TRAILERS!!!! Celebrate her 12th album.
The Smashing Machine - Action movie about legendary mixed martial arts & UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Starring Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson, and Lyndsey Gavin.
Good Dog - Horror film where a loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.
The Re-release of Avatar: The Way of Water.
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Hyacinth Bucket (that's said bouquet) took her Royal Dalton tea set with the hand painted perrywinkles to heaven.
Dame Patricia Routledge has died at the age of 96.
The actress was best known for her iconic performance in the BBC's classic '90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
Other roles included the title character in crime drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and her BAFTA-nominated work in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.
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The newest health "hack" going around TikTok is the "50-jump" trend.
The idea is simple: The minute you get out of bed, you jump in place 50 times. That's it.
It's supposed to be a quick way to increase your heart rate and get the blood flowing, which gets oxygen to your brain first thing after waking up.
If you're not in the habit of exercising, it's something quick and easy you can do, and you're more likely to follow through with it, since it doesn't involve putting on shoes or going outside.
So is it effective? One specialist weighed in to say that movement is movement, and in general, movement is good for us.
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There's a new study in the journal "Intelligence", about a metric called the "cognitive-personality functioning index" . . . a "measure of how intelligence, judgment, and other key traits evolve over the average lifespan."
This isn't just a random theory, it's based on decades of psychological research.
It shows a pattern: The overall functioning of the human brain reaches its peak between the ages 55 and 60.
But not everything follows the same trajectory.
1. "Fluid intelligence," including "reasoning, memory span, and processing speed," tends to peak in the early twenties. It then fades steadily.
2. "Crystallized intelligence," which is "the accumulation of knowledge and experience" continues to build for decades.
3. Personality traits also mature and increase through early adulthood before leveling off later in life . . . like "conscientiousness" (the diligence to see things through) and "emotional stability" (the ability to keep calm under stress).
4. "Moral reasoning" . . . the ability to weigh competing principles . . . deepens with experience, "producing sounder judgments about fairness and duty."
5. Financial literacy also builds into a person's late-60s . . . reflecting a lifetime of dealing with bills. People also get better at avoiding the "sunk-cost fallacy," the human tendency to "throw good money after bad."
6. Cognitive flexibility, "the ability to shift smoothly between tasks or strategies when circumstances change" . . . and cognitive empathy, "the ability to 'get' what others are thinking" . . . both fade with age.
Throughout middle age, the GAINS more than offset the losses. The late-50s emerge as the sweet spot: The point when hard-won wisdom compensates for dwindling speed. But it's downhill from there.
The report notes that this up-and-then-down mental prowess has the most "obvious implications for the worlds of business and politics."
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An early Halloween poll found 79% of adults plan to celebrate it this year. But that doesn't mean they're dressing up for it. Most of us won't.
Less than half of adults planning to celebrate Halloween will wear a costume, 39%. And two things can predict how into Halloween you are . . . age and kids.
93% of Gen Z adults will celebrate in one way or another, compared to 66% of Boomers. That includes dressing up, handing out candy, or just putting a pumpkin on your doorstep.
People with kids at home are also more likely to go big on Halloween. 52% of parents will dress up, compared to 29% of people without kids. Half of parents will also go trick-or-treating . . . and so will 17% of adults without kids.
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If you ever want to embarrass your kid in public, just toss out a "dad joke." It's still the most efficient way to do it.
One in six parents say "bad jokes" and "awful puns" are the top things that can make their kids cringe.
The survey specifically looked at family vacations and found the average parent embarrasses their child two to four times per trip.
Other things that can tick off your kids on a trip include making them wake up early . . . taking too many photos . . . and posting shots of them on social media.
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UltimateClassicRock.com has a list of the Best Horror Movie from Every Year. From 1920 - today!
Titles include
2022 Nope
2017 Get Out
2014 it Follows
2011 The Cabin in the Woods
2010 Insidious
For older ones,
The Exorcist, Jaws, and Carrie in the 70's
Evil Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Fly in the 80's
Misery, Silence of the Lambs, and Scream in the 90's
The Others, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, ans Pan's Labyrinth in the early 2000's
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