Friday 7/21/23
Celebrate:
Invite an Alien to Live with You Day
Legal Drinking Age Day
National Be Someone Day
National Junk Food Day
National Tug-Of-War Tournament Day
Take a Monkey to Lunch Day
National Lamington Day - "Those bloody, poofy, woolly biscuits" are celebrated today. You know, lamingtons. That's what Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland from 1896–1901, supposedly called these Australian cakes, and they were given his name. Lamingtons are butter or sponge cakes that are coated with or dipped in chocolate and then covered with fine desiccated coconut.
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Today is Invite an Alien to Live with You Day.
If there's an alien invasion in America, we're probably all doomed.
But some of us may be more doomed than others.
A website just conducted a "study" to determine which state's citizens would be better off in an alien invasion, taking into account things like: Landscape and terrain . . . defense . . . science and medical resources . . . plus food and beverage manufacturing.
In the end, Virginia had the best "alien survival score."
Georgia was second, followed by Massachusetts . . . New York . . . Louisiana . . . Illinois . . . Maryland . . . Missouri . . . Alabama . . . and Wisconsin.
The state where you have the LOWEST chance of survival is: Nevada. (Area 51 anyone?)
Arizona was the second most doomed, followed by Wyoming . . . Idaho . . . Nebraska . . . Oregon . . . Montana . . . New Mexico . . . Maine . . . and Utah.
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New movies this weekend.
I think you know, but...
Barbie - Margot Robbie, Will Ferrell, Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Rhea Pearlman, and so many more!
Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan's movie starring Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh,Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Robert Downey Jr., and many more.
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At the movies this weekend a comedy and a drama open, Mission Impossible was your action movie that opened last weekend, and Variety has done a list of the best action movies of all time.
1. "The Road Warrior", 1981 the follow-up to 1979's Mad Max
2. "Die Hard", 1988
3. "North by Northwest", 1959 Cary Grant in this awesome Hitchcock film.
4. "Raiders of the Lost Ark", 1981
5. "Enter the Dragon", 1973
6. "The French Connection", 1971
7. "The Matrix", 1999
8. "Aliens", 1986
9. "Seven Samurai", 1954
10. "Bullitt", 1968
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You didn't win Powerball Wednesday. Do not collect $1 Billion. Do Not Pass Go..no wait..that's Monopoly. Anyway, one California ticket won the $1.08 Billion Dollars.
Don't forget to check your tickets though, multiple numbers could win you some cash.
Mega Millions Friday Night is $720 Million or the $369.6 Million Cash Payout.
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Every now and then, people talk about retiring words and phrases . . . and usually it's teenage internet slang that has run its course, and starts annoying Everyone, even the generation that started it.
But there are more established, modern-day phrases that ALSO need to go. There's a thread online where people are suggesting the phrases that they'd love to get rid of forever . . . and here are some of the good ones:
1. "The customer is always right."
2. "Sorry, not sorry!"
3. "Money can't buy happiness."
4. "Everything happens for a reason."
5. "Welcome to the real world."
6. "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
7. The use of "mansplaining."
8. The misuse of "I could care less."
9. The overuse and misuse of "literally."
10. The overuse and misuse of "gaslighting."
11. "Thoughts and prayers."
12. "Just sayin'."
13. "It is what it is."
14. "Boys will be boys."
15. "Living the dream."
Check out the Reddit thread here.
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Vanna White has negotiated her deal with "Wheel of Fortune," but only the celebrity version, not the syndicated show, and we're told Sony has made it clear ... they're not receptive to her demands.
TMZ broke the story, Vanna has asked for half of what Pat Sajak makes, which we're told is around $15M a year. Vanna has made $3M for the last 18 years with no salary increase.
For the syndicated show, the negotiations said to be halted because of the writers' strike, but the parties are far apart.
As one Vanna source put it, "It's gonna get ugly if they [Sony] don't get more serious."
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A poll recently asked thousands of people if they thought tossing a banana peel on the ground was littering . . . and about half, 49%, said YES, it is.
36% said "it depends." For example, they'd say dropping a banana peel in the forest is NOT littering . . . but dropping it in the street IS.
And 14% said that it's never considered littering.
Some people in the poll pointed out that it's perfectly acceptable (and even encouraged) in "Mario Kart" . . others pointed out the insurance risks of the peel making people SLIP . . .
And some hard-liners warned that even though a banana peel is biodegradable, you shouldn't leave organic matter in a non-native environment, because it could disrupt the ecosystem.
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What do you prefer being too hot or too cold?
53% of Americans say being too COLD is the better option. 32% would rather be too hot. 15% aren't sure or hate both equally.
The only way most of us could be too cold right now is if we're blasting the A/C. And a lot of us definitely are.
10% of people say they usually set the temperature below 65, including 3% who said in the 50s. The #1 answer to that one was somewhere between 70 and 74.
So what else have you been doing to beat the heat this summer? Here are the top answers from the poll . . .
1. Drink more water. 68% of us have been.
2. Wear lighter clothing or less of it, 54%.
3. Keep your windows and doors closed to keep the hot air out, 52%.
4. Avoid doing anything physical outdoors, 46%.
5. Avoid hot drinks and hot food. 41% of us are opting for colder options.
6. Plan to do stuff in the morning or evening instead of mid-day, 35%.
7. Take a cold shower or bath. 24% of us have this summer.
8. More swimming, or water-based activities. 14% are doing more of that.
9. Buy a new fan or air conditioner. 13% of us have in the last month or so.
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Today's Barbie Useless Fact of the Day - Barbara Millicent Roberts has owned more than 40 pets, including 21 dogs, 14 horses, three ponies, six cats, a parrot, a chimpanzee, a panda, a lion cub, a giraffe, and a zebra. No wonder she holds so many jobs… that’s a lot of mouths to feed.
Oh, and if Barbie were a grown woman, her bust-waist-hip measurements would be an improbable 36-18-33.
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