5/5/25 - Staying In or Going Out, Horsies Ran, and Lie Detectors

Monday 5/5/25

Celebrate:

Cinco de Mayo - Truly an American Holiday

Great Lakes Awareness Day

Hug a Shed and Take a Selfie Day

International Midwives Day

Melanoma Monday

Museum Lovers' Day

Nail Day

National Cartoonists Day

National Enchilada Day

National Hoagie Day

National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day

National Silence the Shame Day

Oyster Day

Square Root Day

Totally Chipotle Day

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A very muddy course at The Kentucky Derby!

Sovereignty wins!! and takes the $3.1 million prize at the 151st Kentucky Derby with (7-1) - $3,100,000

2 - Journalism (7-2) - $1,000,000

3 - Baeza (14-1) - $500,000

4 - Final Gambit (17-1) - $250,000

5 - Owen Almighty (39-1) - $150,000

Watch the race her.

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Weekend Box Office

1. Thunderbolts* $76.0M

2. Sinners $33.0M again doing very well with only a 28% drop in it's third week

3. A Minecraft Movie $13.7M

4. The Accountant 2 $9.5M

5. Until Dawn $3.8M

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A poll asked people if they thought they could pass a polygraph test, and 67% said YES . . . 8% said YES, even if they were lying . . . and 6% said NO.

The group most likely to think that they could beat a lie detector test even if they WERE lying is:  Men, between the ages of 18 and 29.

Many people don't seem to have a lot of faith in lie detector tests.

12% say they believe polygraph tests "often" wrongly label people who are telling the truth as lying.  Another 43% say it probably happens "sometimes."

And 13% say they think polygraph tests "often" wrongly label people who are lying as being truthful.  Another 45% say it probably happens "sometimes."

I would be so nervous that I would set it off just walking into the room!

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An 18-wheeler hauling millions of DIMES overturned on a highway in Texas . . . scattering dimes everywhere. A spokesperson for DPS said the eight million dimes totaled $800,000.  Officials had to collect them all, using their bare hands, vacuums, and rakes.

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Do you like going out or staying in?

According to a new survey, 72% of people prefer "staying in with friends," whenever possible, while just 28% prefer a night out. 

53% said hosting at home is a great way to save money, and 47% said it’s easier to hear each other.

Avoiding crowds (47%), having more control over ambiance, food, drinks and entertainment (42%) and not having to get dressed up (24%) are additional benefits to hosting at home.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - "Midnight Train to Georgia" was originally called "Midnight Plane to Houston" . . . because the songwriter was talking with Farrah Fawcett and she said she was taking a midnight plane to Houston to see her family.

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