3/9/26 - Inconvenience, Meatballs, and A Sweet Video

Monday 3/9/26

Celebrate:

Bang-Clang Day

Barbie Day - 1959

Commonwealth Day

False Teeth Day

Fill Our Staplers Day

Get Over it Day

Joe Franklin Day

National Crabmeat Day

National Meatball Day

National Workplace Napping Day - A "NASA-approved" power nap lasts exactly 26 minutes. Their research found that pilots who napped for this specific amount of time showed a 34% increase in alertness and a 54% increase in job performance.

Panic Day

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Weekend Box Office

1. Hoppers $46.0M

2. Scream 7 $17.3M

3. The Bride! $7.3M

4. GOAT $6.6M

5. Wuthering Heights $3.8M

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What "back then" inconvenience would break people today in 10 minutes?

Dialup

A lot of answers were related to the internet and not having it and all the things you had to do other ways.

Waiting for your song to play on the radio.

Having to go to the local video shop to rent the latest film on VHS and then having to take it back the next day. (oh and rewinding)

Having to actually learn and remember phone numbers, waiting for a specific tv show or movie showing time on tv, actual research in libraries, newspaper for a school assignment.

Not having caller ID

Related phone, If you called out of your town, it most likely was long distance.

Using the Yellow Pages

A physical map (yea..try folding that you youngins!!!)

Not being able to record tv so of your 3 channels if you were watching a program on one channel (ads and all) if there’s something on another channel then that missed out.

Trying to re spool a cassette tape with a pencil

Winding the car windows up/down

Manual typewriter, make a mistake and start all over (and carbon paper..ugh)

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I wasn't expecting the best Facebook post to be this!

AMAZING on so many levels.

At the Edinburgh Zoo, Penguins choose pebbles to start their breeding season and the pebbles are painted by the kids at the Edinburgh Children's Hospital. The kids regularly watch the penguins and get to watch them pick the rocks!

Pebbling is a penguin thing..it's a gift to their mate.

See the video here.

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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Today is National Meatball Day.

Spaghetti and meatballs is not a traditional Italian dish. In Italy, meatballs (polpette) are usually eaten as a stand-alone meal or in soup. The pairing with a massive pile of pasta was an Italian-American invention created by immigrants in New York who found meat to be much cheaper and more plentiful than it was back home.