Wednesday 9/20/23
Celebrate:
National Care for Kids Day
National Fried Rice Day
National Gibberish Day
National LGBTQ Veteran's Day
National Pepperoni Pizza Day
National Punch Day
National School Backpack Awareness Day
National String Cheese Day
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A bear was spotted and caught at Disney World the other day, and two bears in Alaska raided a Krispy Kreme van that was making a delivery to a military base. The driver pounded on the side of the van to try to scare them away, but he was no match for a bunch of delicious doughnut holes.
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Katy Perry is the latest music artist to sell her music rights to Litmus Music, the Carlyle-backed company announced Monday; multiple sources put the price at $225 million.
The deal includes Perry’s stakes in master recordings and publishing rights for the five albums she released between 2008 and 2020: “One of the Boys,” “Teenage Dream”, “Prism,” “Witness” and “Smile.” Universal Music Group continues to own the masters to those albums.
She joins artists like Paul Simon, Sarah McLachlan, Metro Boomin, Justin Bieber, Dr. Dre, Keith Urban, Huey Lewis and the News, Justin Timberlake, and more.
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If you walk around your house and think, this place is NEVER clean . . . well, you're not TOO far away from normal.
According to a new report, the average person considers their home to be "completely clean" only 11 DAYS out of the year. That's not even one day per month . . . and it also comes out to just 3% of the time.
People spend an average of SIX days per year cleaning and sanitizing their homes.
When it comes to cleaning, the average person has six items on their to-do list. The things more likely to be done are: Vacuuming rugs and carpets . . . mopping floors . . . and laundry.
The things that are most likely to be overlooked include: Thoroughly cleaning appliances . . . wiping down countertops . . . and dusting shelves.
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Elon Musk wants to make X, a.k.a Twitter, a subscription-based service . . . meaning ALL users would have to pay a fee.
In a roundtable yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about A.I. safety, he said moving to a small monthly payment would be a way to fight against the "vast armies of bots".
Elon didn't say WHEN users would start getting charged or HOW MUCH the fee would be, besides it being "small".
Death Knell!!!!!
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On Sunday afternoon, the Marines LOST an F-35 stealth fighter jet in South Carolina, when the pilot ejected. The pilot parachuted into a North Charleston neighborhood, and was taken to the hospital. He's in stable condition.
Over 24 hours later, Monday, at about 6:30 P.M., they announced that they'd found the F-35 in a debris field, about two hours northeast of Joint Base Charleston. They say the "mishap" is under investigation.
A mishap??? A mishap is when you wear two different shoes to work (it's happened) A mishap is not when you have a crash of a $2.5 Million dollar jet.
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There's a YouTube video from The Cut making the rounds, where people are asked to share their "unpopular opinions."
Obviously there are some political opinions and we won’t go there.
Some of them are not so unpopular like "dating apps have made dating worse."
Here are some of the more fun ones.
1. "I think it's weird that babies can't just walk right out of the womb, like every other animal in the world."
2. "I don't understand why garbage cans are round. They should be square so they can fit in a corner."
3. "I say T-MO-bile, instead of T-Mobile."
4. "Zodiac signs are B.S."
5. "I don't like peanut butter, but I like peanuts."
6. "Nuts are delicious, brownies are delicious. They don't go together."
7. "I really like McDonald's French fries that are from the refrigerator and cold."
8. "Milk is the best drink."
9. "I don't believe in secret-keeping."
10. "Mexican food is spicier than Vietnamese food."
And this one is a little more deep, but it's an interesting comment:
"When people do things, I understand that they're making the best decision that they could at that time for themselves . . . whether it's the right decision or not is different than whether they're making the best decision for themselves."
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Someone polled 2,000 Americans, and asked which historical event . . . or "historical scene" they'd want to travel back to and see in person. (I'll fire up the TARDIS.)
I guess we're assuming you couldn't DIE, because most of the top picks wouldn't exactly be safe.
First place is a tie between Ancient Egypt and the American Revolution.
The rest of the top picks, in order, are: Ancient Greece . . . the Viking Age . . . Italy during the Renaissance . . . Europe during World War Two . . . Normandy on D-Day . . . and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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The blogger The Vulgar Chef has a Spooky Grilled Cheese. WITH CANDY CORN!!!!
It's just a regular toasted cheese but with a handful of candy corn sandwiched in between!
One of my friends on Facebook reposted it, and one of the comments was...I wonder if you could flatten Circus Peanuts out enough to be the “bread.”
I know..I have disturbing friends.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Aomori, Japan is the snowiest city in the world. It gets an average of 312 inches of snow per year. That's the equivalent of 26 feet.
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