Friday 2/25/22
Celebrate National Stand Up to Bullying, Let's All Eat Right, Skip the Straw, Pistol Patent, Chocolate-Covered Peanuts, Clam Chowder, and Quiet Day.
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From TMZ - Sally Kellerman -- famous for playing Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in 'M*A*S*H' -- has died at the age of 84.
The Oscar-nominated actress died early Thursday morning at an assisted care facility in Los Angeles, following a battle with dementia ... according to her son, Jack Krane.
We're told Sally was diagnosed with dementia around 2017 and wasn't doing well the last couple years. Her son says he last saw her Wednesday night, when it became clear to him it would be her last time seeing her, and he said his final goodbyes.
Sally also starred in "Back To School" as the love interest for Rodney Dangerfield's character ... and Trekkies will remember her for playing Dr. Elizabeth Dehner on the third episode of "Star Trek," when she sacrifices her life and has some last words for Captain Kirk.
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A 43-year-old woman in Georgia named Robin Folsom worked for the state of Georgia as a Director of External Affairs.
In October of 2020, she told HR she was pregnant and then announced that she'd given birth in May. She was then awarded seven weeks of paid leave.
Her story started to unravel partially because she sent pictures of her "new baby" to some of her coworkers, and the babies featured in the photos seemed to have "varying skin tones."
The office conducted an investigation and found that she'd not delivered a child, and this wasn't the first time. She pulled a similar scheme before falsely claiming to have given birth in July of 2020.
Robin was just indicted on three felony counts of making false statements. She's also charged with one count of identity fraud, which is also a felony.
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Bill the Cat, Opus the penguin, Steve Dallas, and the rest of the "Bloom County" crew are coming back, in an animated series being developed by Fox. Original creator Berkeley Breathed is co-writing and producing.
He says, quote, "At the end of 'Alien', we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world stuffed with far worse.
"Fox and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the Bloom County gang, may they forgive us."
And here's the show's official description: "'Bloom County' centers on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world's last boarding house in the world's most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country.
"To wit, today's America at a glance."
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Someone asked a bunch of nutritionists to name the best foods to eat if you're hungry before bed.
Here are their top five (no ice cream??? what??)
1. Walnuts. They're filling and full of nutrients. They might also help you sleep, because they're loaded with melatonin.
2. Chocolate-covered nuts. They're okay too, but it has to be dark chocolate. Don't eat to many, there's caffeine in dark Chocolate.
3. A banana. It's another one that might help you sleep. Potassium is a natural muscle relaxant, and there's also a little tryptophan in there.
4. Greek yogurt with berries and almonds. It helps you sleep by keeping your blood sugar balanced. There's protein in the yogurt, carbs in the berries, and fat in the almonds. Those three things together are good.
5. Peanut Butter, but on a rice cake, and it has to be "natural" peanut butter, not loaded with extra sugar. So, a big spoonful of Jif isn't the same.
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Taco-flavored Jelly Beans are on the way for Easter and Brach's is selling them.
They're called "Late Night Taco Truck Jelly Beans," and there are six flavors in each bag: Beef taco, guacamole, salsa, horchata, margarita, and churro.
Target is already selling 12-ounce bags for $3.
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I was going to take a funnier tack on the "We Can't Wait" app, an app users can use as a simple way to locate publicly accessible restrooms (and here's where I stop being funny about it) and helps identify sympathetic establishments.
Patients with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis (collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD) can have unexpected and urgent needs to find a restroom at a moment’s notice. For years, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation has provided their members with a physical “I Can’t Wait” card to help explain to businesses why they are urgently requesting access to a private restroom.
The Foundation has worked with volunteers in many states over the years to introduce legislation that will require public access to employee-only restrooms for those with a medical need. Now, this app will address the access challenge by increasing awareness among local establishments about patient needs.
This app also links back to the Foundation’s core education and resources for those looking for IBD support and information, as well as easy access to information on the status of restroom access legislation in each state.
I had no idea..and learned something today.
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From Gawker.com:
Just in time for his 31st birthday, Ed Sheeran has received the best present of all: permission from his local council to construct a burial chamber on his sprawling estate named “Sheeranville” near Framlingham, Suffolk.
The red-haired crooner applied last month to build the crypt on his 16-acre, £3.7 million property. The plan was to put it underneath the Sheeranville chapel, with blueprints designating the chamber as “burial zone beneath (penetration through slab).”
Construction is already underway on the private church, which was greenlit in 2019. The chapel will be in the shape of a boat, with a leaf-inspired roof, east-facing stained-glass windows to let in the sunrise, and two round towers. Completing this sanctuary for “contemplation, prayer, and relaxation” will be the newly approved tomb, which will measure approximately 9 feet by 6 feet, or, as the Sun puts it, “enough to fit two bodies.”
According to the Sun, one local penned in a letter of objection, “Are celebrities now so detached from reality that their every living breath, and now even the act of dying, be apart from the rest of us?”
This is not the first time that goings-on at Sheeranville have been the cause of neighborly strife. As the Daily Mail notes, the pop star has received pushback for objecting to a neighbor’s garden expansion, for hanging a large pub sign outside his estate’s drinking establishment, and for installing a sauna next to a private pool that was supposed to be meant strictly for wildlife, not for recreational activities such as swimming.
Regarding the pool hubbub, Sheeran has remarked in the past: “I just think people just need to mind their own business.” Amen! Enjoy that hard-earned corpse cellar, mate.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The country of Russia is bigger than Pluto.
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