Friday 11/26/21
Celebrate National Cake, Day of Listening, Native American Heritage, Buy Nothing, Flossing, Maize, Fur Free, Good Grief (celebrating Charles Schultz's b-day), International Systems Engineer, Leftovers, and Sinkie (a person who occasionally dines over the kitchen sink) Day.
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Your dog can now call you. Researchers have created a hi-tech option for canines left home alone: a ball that allows them to call their owners.
The device – nicknamed the DogPhone – is a soft ball that, when moved, sends a signal to a laptop that launches a video call, and the sound of a ringing telephone.
The owner can choose whether to take the call, and when to hang up, while they can also place a call to their pet – although the dog has to move the ball to pick up.
(great..now they can call to tell you about that squirrel in the yard, or that they are hungry. Cats would ignore this completely.)
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The city of Fitzgerald, Georgia, planned to construct a giant, chicken-shaped topiary that would be one of the largest in the world, and hopefully be a tourist destination, but in a recent election, voters let their displeasure be known.
The topiary chicken has been Jim Puckett's passion project. As mayor, he steered at least $300,000, raised via special local sales tax, into the topiary.
It seems that wild chickens were released near Fitzgerald decades ago. But you know what can happen to chickens on farms, don't you? So they flocked to the city.
These wild Burmese chickens ended up migrating to Fitzgerald and have made their home here, so much so that you go downtown to Main Street, pull up at a red light, and you're very likely to see a family of chickens cross in front of you.
Voters did not share his vision.
Jason Holt was elected mayor of the city of Fitzgerald and take office January 10 and says this month's election turned out to be a giant chicken referendum.
"There was a lot of - animosity's not the right word. But the community was not happy that funds were spent on it."
What does outgoing Mayor Jim Puckett say to those who voted him out over the gargantuan chicken? "I want to shake them and say, hey, we've been on the front page of the Wall Street Journal twice in four years because of this silly chicken. I'm doing an interview with NPR right now because of this silly chicken. It's doing exactly what we want it to do."
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The website Reviews.org is looking for a "Chief Holiday Cheermeister to watch 25 holiday movies in 25 days, and earn $2,500.
In addition to the cash, you also get a free one-year subscription to seven streaming services: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and Hallmark Movies Now.
Added bonus: You get to pick the movies. The only real catch is that you have to fill out a short survey about each movie. Applications are due by December 3rd, which is next Friday.
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Have you done the Urban Dictionary name game yet?
If you're not familiar, UrbanDictionary.com is an online dictionary dedicated to slang terms and all the definitions are crowdsourced, so anyone can submit words.
It launched in 1999, so it's got millions of definitions at this point . . . including silly, made-up definitions for most first names.
To play the name game, you just look up what your own name means, and post the definition on social media.
A lot of them are fairly nice definitions. For example, the definition for "Johanna" is "The most loyal person you can meet. She's very funny, attractive, and would make you laugh at any moment . . . but she has trust issues."
A lot of the other definitions we've seen are R-rated. But some of them are just weird. Like, the definition for "Ben" is, "The duck overlord. He can perform mind control on ducks."
Karen...you should probably not look up your name.
Apparently, this has been a thing for a while, it's just never gone viral before. We know because there's an old entry for "Elijah" from 2017, and the definition is someone who, quote, "doesn't [care] what your name means on Urban Dictionary."
So...here we go...Brian. One of the best guys you'll ever meet. He's the biggest dork with the biggest heart, and no matter what kind of mood or funk you're in he always manages to lift you out of it just with his presence. Brian is easily the type of guy that you could see yourself spending the rest of your life with, he's loyal, sweet, hardworking, and kind beyond all measures. Brian is an irreplaceable individual who makes more of an impact on people's lives than he knows of. If you have a Brian in your life, give him the absolute world because he deserves that and more.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be killed off by eating Cashews.
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