4/30/26 - Bugs Bunny, Seagulls, and Mayo is an Instrument
- bribriny
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Thursday 4/30/26
Celebrate:
Adopt a Shelter Pet Day
Day of the child
Hairstyle Appreciation Day
International Jazz Day
National Animal Advocacy Day
National Bubble Tea Day
National Honesty Day
National Military Brats Day
National Mr. Potato Head Day
National PrepareAthon! Day
Spank Out Day
Thank You Thursday
National Oatmeal Cookie Day - they can make your day miserable if you don't look close enough and expect a Chocolate Chip Cookie. Why can't Chocolate Chips be in the Oatmeal Cookies instead of the raisins?
Oh....it's also National Raisin Day
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Bugs Bunny Day
While a "proto-Bugs" appeared in 1938's Porky’s Hare Hunt, the version of Bugs we know and love today—complete with his signature voice and personality—officially debuted on July 27, 1940, in the short A Wild Hare. This was also the first time he asked Elmer Fudd, "What’s up, Doc?"
Bugs was a mix of Clark Gable, Groucho Marx, and Charlie Chaplin.
In 1958, the short Knighty Knight Bugs won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
But who is #1, Bugs or Daffy Duck?
The Top Tens website says:
Daffy Duck is #1.
Reasons?? Funnier, Funny Laugh, More Talented, and Bugs Bunny stole his personality in his early years, and the producers had to make Daffy an ever-losing grouch just to create another enemy for Bugs.
#2. Bugs Bunny
#3. Wile E. Coyote
#4. Sylvester the Cat
#5. Marvin the Martian
#6. Yosemite Sam
#7. Elmira Fudd
#8. Porky Pig
#9 Foghorn Leghorn
#10. Taz the Tasmanian Devil.
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Contestants faced off in the Belgian coastal town of De Panne on Sunday at the annual European seagull screeching championship, which brought together more than 70 participants seeking to produce the best imitation of the bird's distinctive shriek.
Competitors from 15 countries took part in the sixth edition of the event.
The contest, which took place in a local pub, drew participants of all ages, including families with children, many in seagull-themed costumes. Each screech was met with cheers from the crowd.
No word on the winner, but the loser is the guy who has to clean the floor!!!!
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The shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world is between the Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray in northern Scotland, the flight is 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and takes around 1 minute!
The waters between them can be rough, windy, and unpredictable, making regular ferry service less reliable for such a short crossing.
The population is very small: Papa Westray has only a few dozen residents. Building and maintaining a bridge would be extremely expensive relative to the number of people using it.
Tourists ride it for the novelty: The route attracts visitors wanting to experience the world’s shortest commercial flight.
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A UK supermarket chain commissioned a survey and found that spicy food was the number one desire for women in the early stages of pregnancy. That craving soon gives way to a need for variety, with 75 percent of women saying they craved bizarre combinations like salmon and jelly sandwiches, or tuna with peanut butter. Cravings generally start around the 16th week of pregnancy and last until the end.
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Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds:(but is it??) Is mayonnaise an instrument?
The question was infamously first posed about 25 years ago by the lovable starfish Patrick on “SpongeBob Squarepants,” and now there’s finally an answer.
Yes, mayonnaise can function as an instrument.
What actually matters when determining whether something is a musical instrument is whether than object can produce or modify sound in a controlled and intentional way.
Food science and acoustic research has revealed that mayonnaise has measurable and reproducible acoustic properties because of its physical composition.
“The sounds it produces are not arbitrary — they are determined by its structure as an emulsion,” the study noted.
Hellman’s partnered with music content creator Andy Arthur Smith to bring the new findings to life and create an original track composed entirely from mayonnaise-generated sounds. The track, titled “Mayonnaise Is an Instrument,” is now available to stream.
This may be the first musical instrument that goes bad if you leave it sitting out.
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A jacuzzi for washing your tomatoes might seem odd, but new research finds that a bubble bath with a constant acoustic sound in the water may be the best chemical-free, gentle method for cleaning agricultural produce and possibly medical instruments and semiconductors.
Agricultural produce is currently cleaned by washing with bubblers for greens or soft brushes for root crops to clean off sediments. Chorine, ozone and peroxyacetic acid are often added to the water as sanitizers.
The new technique places vegetables in a bath with a bubbler, and then adds a constant acoustic drone at a low frequency with an underwater speaker. The sound creates resonance in bubbles that causes them to vibrate. Vegetables were 90% cleaner when washed with the resonating bubbles, as compared with bubbles without any sound waves or at frequencies that didn’t lead to resonance, according to the study.
The method works because the vibration of the bubbles as they resonate creates a scrubbing action.
All methods make your fruit cleaner than wiping it on your shirt.
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