Monday 4/22/24
Celebrate:
"In God We Trust" Day
April Showers Day
Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day
Earth Day
Girl Scout Leader Day
International Mother Earth Day
National Jelly Bean Day
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Weekend Box Office
1. Civil War $11.1M
2. Abigail $10.2M
3. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire $9.5M
4. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare $9.0M
5. Spy x Family Code: White $4.9M
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2024 is finally here!
In the performer category,
Mary J. Blige
Cher
Dave Matthews Band
Foreigner
Peter Frampton
Kool & the Gang
Ozzy Osbourne
A Tribe Called Quest
The late Alexis Korner, John Mayall and the late Big Mama Thornton will receive the musical influence award, while the late Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and the late Norman Whitfield will receive the musical excellence award.
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A 69-year-old man in Australia named David Clarkson just broke a world record by hitting 120 different bars in a single day. The previous record was 99.
He started at a hotel bar in Sydney and spent the next 24 hours walking around to 119 more bars around the city.
The rules said he had to order a drink at each place and consume at least 125 milliliters of each one. That's just over 4 ounces, or about a third of a beer.
The rules didn't say the drinks had be alcoholic though. So we're guessing . . . and hoping . . . he mixed in plenty of water.
If he'd had a third of a beer at each place, he would have taken down 40 in a single day. It looks like he did order beer at plenty of them though, and he finished with a full pint.
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Idioms are by definition non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely think about just how nonsensical these sayings can sometimes be. For instance, using the cat’s pajamas—a phrase popularized by flappers during the Roaring Twenties—to describe something as amazing doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Think of some others, like Cold Turkey, The elephant in the room, Earworm, Monkey Business, and Bull in a china shop.
They make sense to us, but to foreigners... probably not.
But they have them too.
Thinking about the immortality of the crab // Spanish - someone is daydreaming
Take your pants off to fart // Mandarin - doing something over the top
Don’t push granny into the nettles // French - “don’t exaggerate” or “don’t push it.”
There are owls in the bog // Danish - describing something as suspicious or fishy
Lid shut, monkey dead // German - end of story
Take the little horse out of the rain // Portuguese - telling someone to give up on an idea
Should I sniff my nails? // Greek - If a Greek person is asked a question that they couldn’t possibly know the answer to. basically means how would i know?
To show someone where the crayfish are wintering // Ukrainian - telling someone that you’re going to teach them a lesson in a threatening, rather than an educational, way.
The apparent reasoning behind this phrase is that catching crayfish in winter is an unpleasant job due to freezing temperatures, so anyone forced to do it sees it as a punishment.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Americans throw away up to $68 MILLION in coins every year.
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