Monday 2/27/23
Celebrate:
International Polar Bear Day
National Kahlua Day
National Protein Day
National Retro Day
National Strawberry Day
No Brainer Day
Pokemon Day
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Award shows over the weekend
Producers Guild of America Awards
Best Picture - Everything Everywhere All At Once
TV - Drama - The Bear Drama - The White Lotus
Best win of the night - Best TV Movie - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Producers_Guild_of_America_Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards - See the winners here.
https://sagawards.org/
The biggest sale in Walmart's history was made by Shaquille O'Neal. He spent $70,000 at one store when he was traded from Miami to Phoenix in 2008 and he bought everything for his new house there.
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A new bill could land Florida pet owners in the dog house.
The legislation, SB 932, would make it illegal to let a dog "extend its head or any other body part outside" a moving car window along with other "animal welfare" provisions.
This part of the law i get - The bill would also ban drivers from holding a dog in their lap or keeping the animal in a trunk or truck bed. We have the no trunk bed here in NY.
People complained about that part of the bill and it has since been scrapped.
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Weekend Box-Office:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania $32.2 Million
Cocaine Bear $23.1 Million
Jesus Revolution $15.5M Million
Avatar: The Way of Water $4.7 Million
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish $4.1 Million
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There's a woman in one neighborhood known as "Grandma" . . . and last Friday she was on her way to chemotherapy when a 15-year-old boy tried to carjack her.
He walked up to her and demanded her keys . . . saying he had a gun. But Grandma didn't care. She told him, "Baby, you better shoot me, because you're not taking my car." He grabbed at her hand . . . and they started brawlin'.
She told the news, "He pushed me to the door, and I got up and I grabbed him and was hitting his [butt] . . . I was hitting him and fighting him, and I said, 'you not going to take my car, youngin.'"
Grandma called for help, and her neighbors came out. The kid ran across the street . . . but the neighbors caught up with him. Between them, and Grandma, the kid got roughed up, because he left in an ambulance, before going to jail.
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Time moves fast, but technology can move even faster. So it's always fun to check in on what old tech people have NEVER used . . . or the old tech that people are still using.
For example, in a comprehensive new survey on technology use, 69% of American adults have never sent a telegram. Which isn't shocking. But 5% claim they ARE still currently sending telegrams.
Yes, you CAN still send old-school telegrams . . . but 5%? Maybe people just mixed this up with the app Telegram?
Here are some other results:
1. 7% of adults have never sent a letter in the mail. 55% still do.
2. 11% of adults have never owned a landline phone. 29% still do.
3. 18% of adults have never used dial-up internet. 5% still do.
4. 14% of adults have never used a public pay phone. 4% still do.
5. 6% of adults have never watched a DVD. 41% still do.
6. 16% of adults have never played music on a vinyl record player. 18% still do. And younger folks are into it. When broken down by age, 20% of people between 18 and 29 are playing vinyl, while it's just 17% for everyone else.
7. 22% of adults have never played video games at an arcade. 11% still do.
8. 10% of adults have never used a printer at home. 57% still do.
9. 15% of adults have never paid for something with a check. 42% still do.
10. 21% of adults have never typed on a typewriter. 6% still do.
11. 9% of adults have never owned a dictionary. 48% still do.
12. 16% of adults have never used a physical road map to get somewhere. 23% still are using them for some reason.
13. 15% of adults have never purchased a newspaper. 23% still do.
14. 11% of adults have never used a phone book. 15% still do.
See the full article here.
https://today.yougov.com/topics/technology/articles-reports/2023/02/16/enduring-appeal-classic-technology-poll-americans
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - People have been metal detecting since 1881, when Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to find the bullet lodged in President James A. Garfield.
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