Friday 8/4/23
Celebrate:
Assistance Dog Day
Hooray for Kids' Day
International Beer Day
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
National White Wine Day
Single Working Women's Day
US Coast Guard Day
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The latest trend..everything Barbie even pink Barbie-themed caskets
The Olivares Funeral Home in Mexico is offering them as a way for people to, quote, "Rest like Barbie."
Apparently, they're catching on elsewhere in Mexico, as well as other Latin American countries like El Salvador.
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It's been a long time since "Push" by Matchbox Twenty was every third song on every radio station. Long enough that some members of Gen Z had never even heard it before seeing the "Barbie" movie.
And some of them have been introduced not only to the song, but to Matchbox Twenty itself.
A TikToker who calls herself "Fat Megan" posted a video where she said, quote, "I thought they wrote this song for the movie the same way they wrote 'I'm Just Ken' but [IT'S] A REAL SONG.
Several people hit up the comments to express their SHOCK that she'd never heard the song. She added that she'd never even heard of the BAND. She even told one person, quote, "I'm not even embarrassed. It's not a popular song."
Well, Fat Megan, it was a smash in 1997 #1 Alternative Airplay, #5 Radio songs, #3 Mainstream Top 40, #4 Mainstream Rock. (didn't make the hot 100 as it didn't have a commercial single release)
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People online are talking about the "pre-'90s" everyday skills that they have . . . but are basically obsolete now. Here are the best ones:
1. Wrapping textbook covers with a brown paper bag. Textbooks are mostly online now . . . and there's no need to wrap a Chromebook in a paper bag.
2. Unknotting curly telephone wires to get all the curls facing the right way. Landline phones are gone . . . but untangling cords is still useful. For now.
3. Giving the TV a "karate chop" to fix the reception.
4. Remembering phone numbers.
5. The ability to make and count out change for a purchase. That's even an expiring skill for CASHIERS. One person joked, "The total was $9.91. I gave the cashier $10.01. And you'd think I handed them a live grenade."
6. Setting up a VCR to record a TV show in advance.
7. Writing in cursive. And reading it.
8. Using the Dewey Decimal System at the library.
9. Re-folding a map correctly. And maybe even USING one.
10. Developing and processing photographic film, and enlarging prints in a darkroom.
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Snacks are great and it's too hot to cook, so why not have a plate full of snacks for dinner? This concept, dubbed "girl dinner" on social media, has taken off as women all over share in the delight of a low-prep meal on a hot summer day.
One person interviewed said, “I would open the fridge, stand there to cool down, and start eating olives, pickles, a bite of cheese, a piece of salami — right out of the fridge". So she started regularly making herself plates out of her fridge-scavenges calling it "Snack Plates."
It all works if you're broke, exhausted, or it's too hot to cook.
The key is minimizing time and effort while optimizing the ingredients you already have.
It's actually easy to make a balanced snack plate with various meats, fruits, veggies, grain items, and dips.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - From 1948 to 1975, there was a federal holiday on the second Monday of August called Victory Day, to celebrate Japan surrendering in World War Two. It was abolished in 1975, but one state still celebrates it . . . Rhode Island.
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