Tuesday 12/5/23
Celebrate:
AFL-CIO Day
Bathtub Party Day
Day of the Ninja
International Volunteer Day
Krampusnacht!!!
National Blue Jeans Day
National Comfort Food Day
National Communicate With Your Kids Day
National Commute With Your Baby Day
National Sacher Torte Day
Pepeal (Prohibition) Day
World Soil Day
World Trick Shot Day
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Emily Blunt still deals with upset fans of "The Office" who think John Krasinski should be with Jenna Fischer in real life. (The show ended in 2013 with Jim and Pam married with two kids.)
She says, quote, "Whenever I walk beside him, people still shout out, 'I wish you were with Pam.' They ask, 'Where's Pam?' and I'm like, 'She's not here.'"
Emily adds that she and John adore Jenna and she's one of their closest friends. She and John have been married since 2010 and share two kids.
Jenna has also been married since 2010, and she and her husband also have two kids.
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Researchers in the journal Science reported that Antarctic chinstrap penguins take thousands of minuscule naps a day, each lasting about four seconds. These "micro-sleeps" add up to about 11 hours of sleep daily, a pattern the penguin parents can keep going for several weeks.
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The question is....why?
There's a guy in Florida named "J.D.," who says he's trying to collect 1 million copies of "Titanic" on VHS or around 1-in-25 copies that have existed. (25 million are out there)
He has 2,477 copies already, so he's got a long way to go. He playfully jokes around about his fandom but the dedication is REAL.
He's spent a few years collecting already, and "Titanic" was a DOUBLE VHS, meaning this is taking up serious space in his house.
And he claims he already has the world's largest collection of the "Titanic" soundtrack on CD.
Obviously, he won't get to 1 million by hitting up thrift shops. He needs YOUR help. He's asking people to donate their spare copies to him, by mailing them to him. You'll have to cover the shipping.
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With Cher releasing her Christmas album this year maybe adding to the list in the future, The AV Club has 30 essential Christmas Albums that will have you rockin' around the Christmas Tree.
Yes, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas from 1994 is on there, here's their top 5.
1. "A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector" (1963)
2. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" - The Vince Guaraldi Trio (1965)
3. "A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra (1957) I would also recommend the Christmas albums from Seth Mac Farlane. Very Sinatra-like, and done very well.
4. Elvis' (Presley) Christmas Album (1957)
5. "Christmas in the Heart" - Bob Dylan (2009)
Not to be left out, Entertainment Weekly has their list of the 25 best Christmas albums. Here's their top five.
1. A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957)
2. Elvis Presley, Elvis' Christmas Album (1957)
3. Nat King Cole, The Magic of Christmas (1960)
4. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960)
5. Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector (1963)
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For all you cotton-headed ninny muggins (wait..that's a bad thing..anyway) If you're a fan of the movie Elf, here's some trivia.
Buddy's costume was based on the outfits the elves wore in "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
Buddy's 12-second burp was actually performed by Maurice LaMarche, who did the voice of The Brain on "Pinky and the Brain".
The cotton balls Buddy eats in the doctor's office are actually un-dyed cotton candy.
Will Ferrell really ate all that sugar, including the maple syrup-coated spaghetti and candy.
Buddy's fight with the fake Santa played by Artie Lange was done in one take, because it took the art department weeks to decorate the department store. Favreau told them to just go nuts and wreck it.
Will turned down a reported $29 million to make a sequel because he was worried it would suck and people would accuse him of doing it for the money.
FYI: James Caan claims the REAL reason was because Will and Favreau didn't get along.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Simon Says has different names in many other countries, like Jacques Says in France, Teacher Says in China, and The King Commands in Norway.
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