5/1/23 - Happy May! Rabbit Rabbit!
Monday
Celebrate:
Couple Appreciation Day
Executive Coaching Day
Frequent Flyer Day
Global Love Day
International Workers' Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Loyalty Day
May Day
Melanoma Monday - skin self-examination day
Mother Goose Day
National Chocolate Parfait Day
National Purebred Dog Day
New Homeowners Day
Phone in Sick Day
Save the Rhino Day
School Principal's Day
Therapeutic Massage Awareness Day
Worthy Wage Day
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Around 1,500 items that once belonged to the late British rock star Freddie Mercury are going up for auction. The items, which include handwritten lyrics to “We Are The Champions,” pink, star-shaped glasses, a Tiffany & Co. mustache comb, a guitar, and a coat, are being offered up by Mary Austin, a friend of Mercury who inherited his estate.
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Did your parents . . . or your friends' parents . . . have any weird rules when you were growing up? Someone online asked people to name the weirdest rules they had as kids. Here are the highlights . . .
1. A mom told her kids NOT to cover their mouth when they coughed or sneezed, because she didn't want their hands to get dirty.
2. A kid wasn't allowed to use the word "fart." They had to call them "fluffs."
3. A kid's mom thought drinking more than one glass of water a day would "dilute the nutrients" in their body. So after one glass, they had to drink 7-Up.
4. A guy's parents still enforced his bedtime when he was in his 20s. He partied at a friend's house for his 21st . . . and had to call his dad at 8:00 P.M. to say he was going to bed. He secretly stayed up later than that.
5. A kid's very religious parents wouldn't let him watch "SpongeBob SquarePants", because they thought the holes in SpongeBob's body would induce, quote, "lustful thoughts."
6. A kid's grandfather wouldn't let them finish their leftover cereal milk by drinking it from the bowl. They had to finish it off with their spoon.
7. A couple kept a running tab of all the money they spent on their kids for 18 years . . . from food and clothes to sports equipment . . . and told them they'd eventually have to pay them back. But when they graduated, they "cleared" their tab and called it their graduation gift.
8. Used Kleenex had to be flushed. It couldn't go in the trash.
9. A girl's mom made all her friends wear socks in their swimming pool, because she was paranoid everyone had plantar warts.
10. A girl's mom took the "don't swim after eating" rule to the extreme. She also had to wait at least 30 minutes to take a BATH. She didn't realize it was weird until she was an adult.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollycapobianco/bizarre-household-rules
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Cops in Florida got a call around 2:00 A.M. Friday morning about a guy breaking into houses in a suburb of Orlando called DeBary.
The guy's name is Blake Tokman, and he's 34. He smashed a window trying to break into someone's home. Then he left and tried to break into a second house.
But here's where things got fun: When police arrived, Blake was fully GREASED UP and NAKED. It turned out he'd covered himself in wheel-bearing grease and peppermint oil.
He tried to run away and jumped in someone's swimming pool . . . then climbed out of the pool and hopped on their TRAMPOLINE.
Police arrested him ON the trampoline, which wasn't easy because he was so slippery. Thankfully, he didn't have a chance to do any naked jumping.
A cop's chest-cam got the whole thing on video. The grease and oil made a weird paste, and they thought it was toothpaste at first.
They're pretty sure he was on something, but he wouldn't say what. He's facing a bunch of charges, including two counts of burglary.
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A new poll asked people if they've ever intentionally hit the button to close an elevator's doors . . . because they wanted to leave without the other person.
31% of people admit that they've done that . . . and 61% of people claim they haven't. The people MOST likely to admit to it are Millennials from the Northeast, while Boomers from the Midwest are the LEAST likely to do it.
And 36% of people say they think it's happened to them . . . someone else has closed the doors on THEIR face.
But here's the thing: Only 43% of people think those "close the door" buttons actually work. 25% think they "do nothing" . . . and 12% think they actually SLOW the process of closing the doors.
To be clear: The poll asked if you've EVER done this . . . not that it's something you ALWAYS do.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The sweet potato is one of the most valuable crops in the world. It provides more nutrients per farmed acre than any other staple.
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