Tuesday 8/17/21
Celebrate National Nonprofit, Massachusetts, I Love My Feet, Thrift Shop and Black Cat Appreciation Day
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Folk and country singer and songwriter Nanci Griffith, whose album “Other Voices, Other Rooms” won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, died on Friday. She was 68.
Griffith passed away in Nashville, Tennessee, according to her management company. A representative for Gold Mountain Media did not give a cause for her death.
Griffith was a Texas-born singer whose popular recordings include “Love at the Five and Dime,” “Once in a Very Blue Moon” and “Outbound Plane.”
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You think you're having a bad day...his ears came off!!!!!
A dangerous Chinese fugitive tried to cross illegally over the border with a passport belonging to another person. To complete his disguise he had asked a local surgeon to glue on fake ears. Unfortunately they came unstuck just as he was crossing passport control.
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Tweets aren’t always sweet — sometimes they’re just “pointless babble.” Actually, they are 40% of the time, based on a study of 2,000 random tweets over two weeks. The researcher deemed 811 tweets as babble, compared to 751 (38%) as conversational, 174 (8%) as moderately interesting and 117 (6%) as self promotional.
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No..Ross and Rachel are not dating!!! According to Entertainment Weekly, David Schwimmer is not currently dating Jennifer Aniston, despite online rumors that the Friends costars are seeing each other.
After tweets went viral last week claiming that the two stars were romantically involved, a rep for Schwimmer, 54, told the U.K. outlet The Sun that there is "no truth" to the rumors.
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A new study by someone at RushOrderTees revealed the most popular band tees across all genres. Here are the Top Ten:
1. AC/DC
2. Aerosmith
3. Queen
4. Pink Floyd
5. Green Day
6. Bob Marley
7. Foo Fighters
8. The Beatles
9. Prince
10. Ariana Grande
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A 67-year-old man in England named Alan Slattery decided to get into the bank-robbing business back in March and his first stop was a total bust.
He handed over a note to the teller, but they couldn't read his "poor handwriting." So, he left empty-handed. The employees later huddled together and figured it out. It said, quote, "Your screen won't stop what I've got, just hand over the 10s and the 20s. Think about the other customers."
Alan wrote a legible note at Bank #2, and got away with around $3,000. He also hit up a third bank, but the teller there refused to comply.
The police caught him, he was arrested, and pleaded guilty on robbery and attempted robbery charges. He'll do four years behind bars.
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Spiders are out of control this year..I don't know how many Daddy Longlegs I've encountered. Scientists have messed with one...like that's a good idea..
Scientists have created "daddy shortlegs," a stunted version of the common household pest daddy longlegs, by suppressing the genes behind the arachnid's famously elongated limbs. Read More from Livescience.com
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