Friday 4/21/23
Celebrate:
Big Word Day
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
Keep Off the Grass Day
Kindergarten Day
National Chocolate=Coverd Cashews Day
National Tea Day (UK)
National Yellow Bat Day - The Army Security Agency (ASA) was the signals intelligence branch of the United States Army from 1945 - 1976. The insignia of the 265th ASA Company (Airborne), which was painted on all unit equipment, was a bat with outstretched wings on a yellow moon background. Why a bat? As bats are nocturnal and represent secrecy and mystery,
Thank You for Libraries Day
Tuna Rights Day
World Creativity and Innovation Day
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Move over Cocaine Bear...Now there's Pop or (Soda) Bear.
On April 13, Sharon Rosel was alerted by her hunting dog to a noise outside. It was almost 3 a.m., and a black bear was outside her Earls Cove home.
Then it was inside her vehicle. The bear broke through one of the Suzuki’s windows with a noise that sounded “like a gunshot,” Rosel told Coast Reporter. It was after the six cases of pop she’d purchased for Sharon's Grill-It!, her food truck.
Rosel has lived in bear country for a long time and practices bear aware techniques. She makes sure not to leave food inside her vehicle, especially after a bear once broke in for a goldfish cracker stuck in the folds of her grandchild’s car seat. But she thought the pop could be OK for one night before she brought it down to her business.
The bear drank 69 of the 72 cans of pop, leaving behind three diet pops. Rosel said it seemed to prefer the Orange Crush flavour, which the bear dripped all over the white leather seats.
the bear came back the next night.
“I don’t want to do anything that compromises the bears. I know they’ll move on if they don’t find a food source,” Rosel said. Her dog scared it off during the bear's second visit.
https://www.coastreporter.net/local-news/bc-bear-breaks-into-car-to-drink-nearly-six-cases-of-pop-6857443?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email
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A pizza spot in New Orleans has a clever idea to try and get tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour.
Zander White, the owner of Zee’s Pizzeria on Baronne Street, is offering free pizza for a year in exchange for the highly coveted concert tickets.
“We’d scream if we could go,” White told WGNO. “Me and my wife are big fans, and we’d love to go. I don’t see a way to get tickets because they are way too expensive and too hard to get.”
"We’d do at least a year of free pizza for two Swift tickets,” White said.
“I thought it would be funny, hoping Taylor would find out. Taylor just owns it really good,” White explained. “She’s so talented and doesn’t care what people say, and just does her thing.”
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There's a "Twilight" TV series in the works.
It's still in the early stages so there's no word if it's a direct remake of the books or a spin-off.
Author Stephanie Meyer is expected to be involved.
That's all I have...stay tuned. Stay Sparkly!!!!
I love how Marketing Brew put it - Your entire middle-school bookshelf is coming to the small screen. The Twilight series will compete for ratings glory against two familiar foes with equally devoted fans: a 10-year Harry Potter series on HBO Max and Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+. The latter finished filming and will premiere next year.
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Walkable cities.. Thrillist.com has an article about the best. Taken by combining two exhaustive studies on pedestrian accessibility: Smart Growth America’s “Foot Traffic Ahead” and Redfin’s annual Walk Score rankings. These are places where you can get around cheaply, boost your health, and steer clear of ozone-depleting emissions—all while seeing the sights from the comfort of your own sneakers.
New York City - good thing since 55% of NYC residents don't have access to a car.
San Francisco
Boston
Washington, DC
Chicago
Philadephia
Seattle
Long Beach California
Portland
Denver
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Godzilla and King Kong's friendship remains very much intact. Warner Bros. has unveiled the title of the sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong, the next installment in the MonsterVerse: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
A teaser video revealing the title pans back from a giant ape-like creature, possibly the film's villain, to show Godzilla and Kong's skulls lying on the ground. Dropping the "vs." from the title fits with the idea that the sequel won't come up with some weird new reason for Godzilla and Kong to be fighting each other after the last movie ended with them having formed a weird sort of alliance.
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4/20 was yesterday, and is slang for pot, and Rotten Tomatoes has a list of the best stoner movies for to celebrate with. Wait a minute...Essential stoner movies.
(They also have a list of the movies to watch while you're high..which is a really great list of movies even if you aren’t.)
I noticed that Seth Rogan showed up a couple times.
Dazed and Confused
Superbad
This is the end
Big Lebowski
Easy Rider
Bad Trip
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Friday
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Inherent Vice
Ted
Pineapple Express
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From IDRlabs.com I ran across the Food Disgust Test.
They've found it can be broken into eight distinct scales.
32 Questions testing triggers such as the following: Animal Flesh sensitivity denotes the tendency to experience disgust at raw meat or the less commonly eaten parts of animals (such as organs, jaws, etc.). This disgust may also extend to other impressions related to animal flesh, such as the odors of frying or cooking meat or seeing the parts of animals that remind a person that they resemble us.
I'll post the link, you take it and tomorrow we reconvene and see where we sit.
I got around a 37% and really don’t like mold.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Most watches are set to 10:10 in advertisements because it gives a nice symmetrical look, it makes sure the hands aren't blocking the company's logo on the watch, AND it sort of makes it look like the watch is "smiling."
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