Saturday & Sunday 7/22 & 23/23
Celebrate:
Saturday
Hammock Day
Lion's Share Day
National Day of the American Cowboy
National Drowning Prevention Day
National Mango Day
National Penuche Fudge Day - Italian made with brown sugar, milk, butter, and a dash of vanilla.
National Ratcatcher's Day
Pi Approximation Day - Pi can be expressed as the fraction 22/7
Spoonerism Day - the initial consonant sounds in some words are reversed. One of his most famous was "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride."
Summer Leisure Day
Sunday
Auntie's Day
Gorgeous Grandma Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
Parents' Day
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day
Sprinkle Day
Yada, Yada, Yada Day - Yes the Seinfeld episode helped make it popular.
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The Briefing will be taking a break Monday. But here’s your to celebrate list.
Monday 7/24/23
Amelia Earhart Day - Born on this day and a champion in the advancement or women in aviation.
Cousins Day
National Drive-Thru Day
National Tell an Old Joke Day
National Tequila Day
National Thermal Engineer Day
Pioneer Day
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Taylor Swift has now broken the record for most No. 1 albums by a female artist, according to Billboard.
By notching her 12th No. 1 with “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” Swift has surpassed the former record holder Barbra Streisand, who had 11.
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She is now also the first living artist in almost 60 years with four concurrent albums in the top 10, while also becoming the first woman and living soloist to have 11 albums concurrently charting on the Billboard 200 chart.
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Tony Bennett has died at 96.
The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create "a hit catalog rather than hit records." He had a devotion to classic American songs, and a knack for creating new standards. He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.
Bennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”
His classic "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" will always endure.
Read more from ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/tony-bennett-masterful-stylist-american-musical-standards-dies-101548907
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Discovery's Shark Week starts Sunday! with Aquaman Jason Momoa hosting.
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Sorry, He-Man: Netflix doesn't want to play with you anymore. A live-action "Masters of the Universe" movie that was in the works at Netflix is dead, according to Variety.
Adam and Aaron Nee, the filmmakers behind "The Lost City," were expected to direct the film, and a recent New Yorker article talked it up as Mattel's "most anticipated project" after "Barbie." "It's as big as Marvel and DC," Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz claimed, referring to the He-Man lore.
It is being shopped around.
Sounds like Skeletor is behind this.
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For the last decade, a bunch of stray cats have been living at Coors Field in Denver, and earn their keep by catching mice. Now the oldest one is RETIRING. His name is "Smokey" or "Midnight" depending on who you ask.
An animal rescue group is finding him a forever home. They put out a statement saying he's "retiring from his unofficial post as head of pest control." So many people have been in touch, they've already stopped accepting applications.
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A young man in Wichita, Kansas robbed a CBD store early Friday morning . . . after kicking in a window. He was wearing FLIP-FLOPS at the time.
And instead of grabbing everything he could get his hands on, he only stole a "half-used bottle of Febreze."
It's unclear why.
The police caught up with him about 10 minutes later, and arrested him. They found the bottle of Febreze on him, and nothing else.
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Sometimes an album's cover is just as iconic as the music that's on it. On Ranker.com, people are voting on what they think is the greatest album cover of all time.
Here's the Top 10:
1. "Dark Side of the Moon", Pink Floyd
2. "Abbey Road", The Beatles
3. "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", The Beatles
4. "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd
5. "Physical Graffiti", Led Zeppelin
6. "Led Zeppelin 4", Led Zeppelin
7. "Led Zeppelin", Led Zeppelin
8. "Black Sabbath", Black Sabbath
9. "Queen 2", Queen
10. "Nevermind", Nirvana
See and vote on their list here.
https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-album-covers
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A survey asked people what they considered the "most satisfying food sound," and the top response was: Bacon sizzling in a pan. 33% of people said that's a sound that makes them happy.
Here's the rest of the Top 10:
2. Slicing a crusty loaf of bread.
3. Steak sizzling in a pan.
4. Butter being spread on toast.
5. The snapping of a chocolate bar.
6. French fries frying.
7. The first bite into a crisp apple.
8. Popping popcorn.
9. The rustling of a snack or potato chip bag.
10. Stir frying vegetables.
Clearly, the sounds were impacted by how delicious the food is
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