Friday 2/10/23
Celebrate:
International Cribbage Day
International Winter Bike to Work Day
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
National Flannel Day
National Home Warranty Day
National No One Eats Alone Day
Plimsoll Day - we remember Samuel Plimsoll and the fight he undertook to improve and save the lives of sailors. he became a member of the House of Commons in the English Parliament, where he focused on sailor and ship safety.
Teddy Day
The Inbox Day
Umbrella Day
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Superbowl
Country star Chris Stapleton, who will sing the national anthem Babyface is going to sing America The Beautiful, and of course, Rihanna is doing the half-time show.
Then there are the crazy bets. Called Prop Bets. Check out this article to see what they are….why not pick your answers!!!! Check them out here.
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Yesterday was National Pizza Day! A personal trainer in the U.K. named Ryan Mercer just finished a 30-day "PIZZA DIET," where he ate it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for a month. And he somehow managed to LOSE seven-and-a-half pounds.
He ate other stuff too, like protein bars when he needed a snack. But every meal was pizza. He averaged 10 slices a day, so 300 slices in one month.
One reason he was still able to lose weight was he made every pizza himself at home. Obviously, that's gonna be healthier than the stuff you get at Domino's. But mainly, he just made sure he still only ate around 2,000 calories a day.
He says he did it to show people you don't have to sacrifice your favorite foods to lose weight. You just can't overdo it. He was already in great shape before the diet. But he posted some before-and-after shots, and he does look a little more trim.
Now he's already moving onto his next idea . . . The Burger Diet. This month, he's eating burgers for every meal.
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Some of Michael Jackson's iconic music catalog is up for grabs and the asking price is just shy of $1 billion. The King of Pop's estate is reportedly in talks with an unnamed entity to sell off half of his catalog. The actual dollar amount in the proposed sale is estimated to be between $800 million and $900 million. It would be the largest music catalog sale to date, surpassing Bruce Springsteen's, which was estimated to be around $600 million.
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Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American popular music for half a century, died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He was 94.
His songs — many of them written with lyricist Hal David — became chart-topping successes, particularly in the hands of vocalist Dionne Warwick.
He collected six Grammys as a writer, arranger and performer from 1967-2005.
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A new survey asked people what they'd give up to never have to worry about various ailments, including COVID-19.
On average, Americans would pay more than $13,500 to be cured of Covid forever. But there are two conditions that we'd pay MORE to be rid of.
1. Insomnia. On average, we'd pay $27,400 to never deal with insomnia again.
2. Allergies . . . $13,900
3. Covid . . . $13,500
4. Stomach aches and cramps . . . $12,100
5. Acne and pimples . . . $11,200
6. Throwing up . . . $10,300
7. Migraines and other intense headaches . . . $9,300
8. Hangovers . . . $3,200
The responses varied from state to state. For example, people in Mississippi would shell out $69,000 to be permanently immune to Covid. More than five times the national average. People in Massachusetts would pay $65,000.
But people in Connecticut . . . literally next door to Massachusetts . . . would only pay $591 for a Covid cure. It's also worth less than $1,000 for people in North Carolina, Idaho, Rhode Island, and Arizona.
In a separate question, people were asked what they'd give up for permanent immunity to Covid.
78% said they'd give up "brunch" . . . 60% would give up coffee . . . 35% would give up the internet . . . 29% could go without desserts . . . 17% said they'd give up sex . . . 5% would give up their partner altogether, and 4.2% would give up "working out."
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Colgate-Palmolive is recalling 4.9 million bottles of its Fabuloso Multi-Purpose Cleaner for potential of infection from bacteria.
The cleaning product, used to clean most residential hard surfaces and sold in various sizes and scents, was sold from December 2022 to January 2023 for $1-$11 at Amazon.com and other online sites. Affected products were also sold at Dollar General, Family Dollar, The Home Depot, Sam’s Club, Walmart, and other major U.S. retailers nationwide, according to recall posted by Consumer Product Safety Commission.
During manufacturing, a preservative was not added to the affected products, which led to a risk of bacteria growth.
If you have these products, you can go to this website and see names, scents, and UPC codes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/02/08/infection-risk-recall-4-9-m-fabuloso-cleaner/11211071002/
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So Groundhog Day was last week, and i'm sure you know that a groundhog's lifespan is only a few years, seems this year we are reminded of that in Quebec, Canada.
Their famous groundhog is Fred la Marmotte. (Marmotte is French for groundhog.) But the night before Groundhog Day, they discovered that he'd passed away.
There wasn't time to get a replacement, so they announced the sad news at the ceremony. But they did have a Plan B: Instead of a real groundhog, they used a child and a stuffed animal as a stand in.
They DID see a shadow . . . predicting six more weeks of winter.
There WILL be a new groundhog next year . . . Fred Junior, one of Fred la Marmotte's sons. No funeral arrangements have been announced for Fred.
By the way, here's how the results shook out elsewhere:
Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania . . . six more weeks of winter.
Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia, Canada . . . six more weeks of winter.
Lucy the Lobster, also in Nova Scotia . . . six more weeks of winter.
Wiarton Willie in Ontario, Canada . . . early spring.
Manitoba Merv in, well, Manitoba, Canada . . . six more weeks of winter.
Balzac Billy in Alberta, Canada, who's always just a person in a groundhog costume . . . early spring.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The Super Bowl didn't start out as the Super Bowl. It was first called The Championship for the first match up in 1967. Oh and the Kansas City Chiefs were in it.
It started being called the Super Bowl in 1969 for the third game.
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