8/28/25 - Exercise Trend, Untrending, and No Mayo?

Thursday 8/28/25

Celebrate:

Crackers Over the Keyboard Day

Dream Day Quest and Jubilee

International Cabernet Sauvignon Day

International Read Comics in Public Day

National Bow Tie Day

National Cherry Turnovers Day

National Power Rangers Day

National Thoughtful Day

Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day

Radio Commercial Day (It's how I get paid)

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

Red Wine Day

Thoughtful Thursday

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Time to check out the latest hot new exercise trend

The "New York Post" says the latest is, quote, "Running and jumping on all fours like animals."

It's called "quadrobics" . . . and it's "gaining traction on social media," where people are showing off their "bear crawls" and "cat leaps" . . . sometimes while "wearing furry masks and tails."

And a personal trainer says quadrobics "overlaps heavily" with "primal movement," and it's becoming more popular because "people are craving more functional, holistic, and playful ways to move."

People say you should start slow . . . maybe with easier things like "bear crawls, beast holds, leopard crawls, kick-throughs, and crab reaches."  If you try to do "cat leaps" before you're ready, you could hurt yourself.

Watch this!

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Someone polled 1,000 Americans and asked, "When staying at a hotel that offers toiletries, do you take [them] with you when you leave?"

Turns out one in three people never do.  32% said no, not even sometimes.

58% of us do take those tiny bottles of shampoo and conditioner home.  That includes 16% . . . or one in six people . . . who always do. 

Women were twice as likely to say they always take that stuff home with them.  11% of guys said yes, and 21% of women.

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A middle-aged man in Spain was arrested last week, after he set fire to a café . . . when he was told they were out of mayonnaise.  He was NOT messing around.

Surveillance cameras show him getting up from his table and talking to a waiter.  That's when he was told they didn't have mayo.  Then, he went over to ANOTHER waiter.  Same thing.

He stormed out of the place . . . walked over to a gas station next door . . . came back with a can of gas . . . and poured it on the bar . . . then, he set it on fire.

No one got hurt...well, the guy did accidentally set his own hand on fire before fleeing the scene . . . but he was caught shortly afterward.  The damage is estimated to be around $10,000.

Imagine what he would have done if they offered him Miracle Whip!!

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They call them "trends" for a reason, because they don't stick around.  Here are three more things that were huge this year, but they're already trending down.

1.  Lobster sweaters.  "Fishermancore" was big this spring.  Everyone wanting to pretend they summered in Cape Cod bought a cable-knit sweater with a lobster on it.  But interest has been on the decline since May.

2.  Bubble skirts.  They keep coming back, first in the '50s, then the '80s, then the early 2000s.  Search interest peaked in April and May after a bunch of brands had them in their spring collections.  "Elle" and "Vogue" did stories declaring bubble skirts were "back."

3.  Beaded bags.  Purses covered in colorful bead designs took off on TikTok.  Search interest peaked in June after "InStyle" ran a headline saying you'd find the trend in "every cool girl's closet."

They also looked at some "forgotten trends" from the past few years:  "Whipped coffee" was big in 2020 . . . "birria tacos" in 2021 . . . "Barbie pink" in 2023 . . . and the "mob wife" look was big for a minute last year.

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The long nightmare is over….Cracker Barrel announced that they were caving, and would scrap plans to replace their classic logo with a less-dated refresh.

They said, "We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel.  We said we would listen, and we have.   Our new logo is going away and our 'Old Timer' will remain . . .

Cracker Barrel didn't say this explicitly, but it sounds like the attempted logo refresh was part of an effort to modernize the brand . . . to appeal to a broader and younger group of customers.

But they didn't handle the new roll-out well, and Cracker Barrel enthusiasts FREAKED OUT.  Clearly, nostalgia is important to these folks.

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Google looked at the top trending "how to stop buying [BLANK]" searches we've been googling this year.  And unless you're a kid, #1 on the list is one of the nerdier addictions you can have.

Here are five things Americans can't stop buying in 2025 . . .

1.  "How to stop buying Pokémon cards."  It's become a real problem, with full-grown adults FIGHTING each other for boxes of them at Walmart and Costco.  One woman recently turned to Reddit for advice after her husband racked up $100,000 in debt.

2.  "How to stop buying water bottles."  It seems like everyone has 10 of them now.  You'd think ONE water bottle would be enough, but it just isn't.

3.  "How to stop buying books."  You might want to google the word "library."

4.  "How to stop buying clothes."  If you can't find room in your closet or dresser, you've probably got enough clothes.

5.  "How to stop buying fast fashion."  Same as the last one, just CHEAP clothes you buy to keep up with the trends.

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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - In Argentina and Spain, Tuesday the 13th is considered unlucky, not Friday. 

We are safe. There are no Tuesday or Friday the 13th the rest of this year.

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