7/7/25 - Dog Days, Video Games, and Walk Of Fame
- bribriny
- 6 hours ago
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Monday 7/7/23
Celebrate:
Chocolate Day
Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day
Global Forgiveness Day
National Dive Bar Day
National Macaroni Day
National Strawberry Sundae Day
Tell the Truth Day
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Weekend Box Office
People love their dinosaurs!!!
1. Jurassic World: Rebirth $91.5M and made $147 since Wednesday.
2. F1: The Movie $26.1M
3. How to Train Your Dragon $11.0M
4. Elio $5.7M
5. 28 Years Later $4.6M
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Summer has gone to the dogs!
The term “Dog Days” traditionally refers to a period of particularly hot and humid weather occurring during the summer months of July and August in the Northern Hemisphere.
In ancient Greece and Rome, the Dog Days were believed to be a time of drought, bad luck, and unrest, when dogs and men alike would be driven mad by the extreme heat!
It also has to do with the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star part of the constellation Canis Majoris or "Greater Dog."
In ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome, it was believed that Sirius’s dawn rising in mid- to late summer contributed to the extreme weather of the season. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, not including our own Sun.
In other words, the “combined heat” of super-bright Sirius and our Sun was thought to be the cause of summer’s sweltering temperatures.
The Dog Days are the 40 days beginning July 3 and ending August 11.
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The Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2026 was announced last week. There's a total of 35 who were selected by an independent committee, and received hundreds of nominations.
The Television category includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Gordon Ramsay, Melody Thomas Scott ("The Young and the Restless"), Bradley Whitford ("The Handmaid's Tale"), and Noah Wyle ("E.R.").
There will also be a double ceremony for "Good Morning America" co-anchors George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts.
The Motion Picture category includes Demi Moore, Emily Blunt, Timothée Chalamet, director Chris Columbus, Rami Malek, Rachel McAdams, Keith David, Italian actor Franco Nero, Molly Ringwald, Stanley Tucci, and the late director Tony Scott.
The Recording category includes Miley Cyrus, Josh Groban, Air Supply, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, The Clark Sisters, and Lyle Lovett.
The only one for the Sports Entertainment category is Shaq.
And last, but not least, the Live Theater and Live Performance category includes stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias and Broadway star Lea Salonga who is the singing voice of Princess Jasmin and Mulan.
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Remember going to the arcades back in the day to play video games? Ranker.com asked its readers to vote on the best old-school arcade games of all time. Here are the Top 20:
1. Pac-Man (I knew the pattern)
2. Galaga
3. Street Fighter 2
4. Donkey Kong (I was terrible)
5. Frogger
6. Space Invaders
7. Mortal Kombat
8. Asteroids
9. Ms. Pac-Man
10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game
11. Dig Dug
12. Double Dragon
13. Centipede
14. Defender
15. Mario Brothers
16. Gauntlet
17. 1942
18. Rampage
19. The Simpsons Arcade Game
20. Golden Axe
One of my favorites from college was Tempest, which was at #43.
Positions may be different since people are still ranking it, make your rank here.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The average American eats 19.8 pounds of pasta each year. The average Italian eats 62 pounds.
There are about 350 different “authentic” shapes of pasta, meaning ones that originated in Italy.
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