Sunday 8/22/21
Celebrate National Surgical Oncologist (one who treats cancer), Be an Angel, Bao (ancient Chinese gastronomic delicacies), Bean Better, Tooth Fairy, and Pecan Torte Day.
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Something new has been happening across NFL training camps this preseason. A clause in the latest collective-bargaining agreement fines players in the process of renewing their contracts $50,000 a day if they don’t show up to camp while those negotiations play out. The change was meant to fix the problem of big-name players refusing to show up to practice until their new contracts are signed, sealed and delivered. But the savviest stars have found a workaround: they show up, but don’t actually do anything. In Pittsburgh, T.J. Watt has been running laps around the practice field. In Seattle, Duane Brown and Jamal Adams have both been reporting for camp and doing everything but touching a football. And in Miami, Xavien Howard had been sitting on the sidelines with an ankle injury that miraculously disappeared as soon as his new deal was signed.
(sounds like the government....you just try this tactic at work and see how far you get)
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A writer for a Minnesota newspaper called the "Morrison County Record" asked his readers to name the Dumbest Songs of All Time.
With their help, he came up with a list of the (i guess) bottom 40.
1. "They're Coming to Take Me Away", Side B by Napoleon XIV (1966) (This was just the song played backwards. It appeared on the B-side of the single.)
2. "Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen (1963)
3. "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" by Ylvis (2013)
4. "Earache My Eye" by Cheech & Chong (1978)
5. "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots (1976)
6. "Call Any Vegetable" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1970)
7. "Existential Blues" by Tom T-Bone Stankus (1980)
8. "Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out)" by the Hombres (1967)
9. "Bicycle Race" by Queen (1977)
10. "Chick A Boom" by Daddy Dewdrop (1971)
11. "Star Trekkin'" by The Firm (1987)
12. "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen (1963)
13. "They're Coming to Take Me Away", Side A by Napoleon XIV (1966)
14. "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris (1968)
15. "Take Me to the River" (Talking Wall Fish) by Big Mouth Billy Bass (1998)
16. "Blue" by Eiffel 65 (1999)
17. "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (1965)
18. "Chicken Song" by the Spitting Image (1986)
19. "Leader of the Laundromat" by the Detergents (1965)
20. "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Brian Hyland (1960)
(a lot of this sounds like a Dr. Demento playlist)
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