Wednesday 3/2/22
Celebrate Ash Wednesday (yep..Lent starts today. International Rescue Cat, Read Across America, Stop Bad Service, Old Stuff, National Banana Cream Pie, and World Teen Mental Wellness Day.
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The pizza app Slice has a rundown of the most popular pizzas in each state and Hawaiian pizza is #1 in four states, but strangely, Hawaii is not one of them.
The four states that order Hawaiian pizza more than anything else are: Oregon, North Dakota, Missouri, and Ohio. #1 in Hawaii, Thin Crust.
The most popular overall is Sicilian Pizza. It's the most popular in New York . . . Massachusetts . . . New Jersey . . . Delaware . . . West Virginia . . . Florida . . . Nevada . . . Arizona . . . and New Mexico.
Next is Deep Dish. And not surprisingly, it's big in Illinois. It's also #1 in Minnesota . . . Wisconsin . . . Michigan . . . Indiana . . . Georgia . . . Maine . . . and Alaska.
Seven states went with veggie pizza: California . . . Washington . . . Montana . . . Idaho . . .Mississippi . . . Vermont . . . and Nebraska.
Seven others love Supreme Pizzas: Tennessee . . . Arkansas . . . Louisiana . . . Oklahoma . . . Kansas . . . Texas . . . and Wyoming.
And only one state had Meat Lovers at #1, North Carolina.
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Love dogs? And movies? How about writing? Well, the Emotional Support Animal company Pettable is looking to pay someone $1,000 to watch six feel-good dog movies and write a review.
The movie list is: "Marley and Me" (2008) . . . "A Dog's Journey" (2019) . . . "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005) . . . "Eight Below" (2006) . . . "Lady and the Tramp" (1955) . . . and "The Call of the Wild" (2020).
Then you have to write a 1,000-word review and rank each movie, so it can be published on Pettable's blog. The main requirement is you must love dogs but you don't have to have one.
If this sounds like something you're interested in, you can fill out a "Director of Doggie Flicks" application at Pettable.com. It's open until March 7th.
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Norm drank a ton of beer on "Cheers" but the running gag was that he never paid So he must have run up a serious tab and someone decided to figure out just how serious it would be.
He went through all 275 episodes of the show and he also dug through message boards and consulted experts including one of the show's writers, and even Norm himself, George Wendt.
Now, there are several references throughout the series to Norm's tab going up and down and at times being wiped clean. But near the end of the series, it's stated that Norm has never paid for a beer.
So that was the assumption going in. The writer also used George's actual birthday to calculate that Norm became legal in 1966, and used several clues from the series to assume that Norm was a patron of Cheers since then.
He also estimated Norm drank 10 beers a day and he used both the average price of beer over the years and several clues from the show about how much a beer cost at Cheers at various times. And he came up with a final tab of: $124,406.90.
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Someone out there apparently said "Beetlejuice" three times recently. A report from The Ankler on Monday said a long-discussed second Beetlejuice film is moving forward with Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder returning, and it could begin shooting "as soon as this summer." Surprisingly, the report also said that Brad Pitt's production company Plan B — which has produced Oscar nominees and winners like 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight — is expected to produce. "I believe Tim Burton would once again direct," The Ankler's Jeff Sneider wrote.
A Beetlejuice sequel has repeatedly been in discussions going back to shortly after the original movie came out, and at one point, there were talks of making one called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. We'll have to see if the movie really, truly is happening this time or if it will end up rejoining all the other recently deceased Hollywood sequels.
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If you're 40 or older, you probably remember the days when you had all your friends' phone numbers memorized, and even if you didn't call people often, you at least knew your close family members' and coworkers' numbers.
But cell phones have essentially made that obsolete.
In a new poll, people were asked how many phone numbers they had memorized, other than their own, and 31% of people said zero.
38% said one or two
19% said they know up to five
6% said up to 10
and 1% said they know more than 10. (showoffs)
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Wildlife crossings—bridges, underpasses, and tunnels built specifically for animals to cross major roadways. Wildlife crossings, sometimes called “green bridges,” provide safe passage over or through major roadways and allow animals to migrate, hunt, and diversify their gene pools across previously untraversable landscapes. Built to look like a part of the natural area, wildlife crossings can help reconnect animal populations and reduce highway accidents. There are currently about 1,000 wildlife crossings in the US, but the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill has allocated $350 million over five years to fund more crossings in all 50 states. It’s the largest investment Congress has made in such projects, and environmentalists and transportation specialists alike are relieved.
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