Monday 9/30/24
Celebrate:
Ask a Stupid Question Day
Chewing Gum Day
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day
International Podcast Day
International Thunderbirds Day
International Translation Day
National Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Love People Day
National Mud Pack Day
National Souffle Potato Day
The Time for Yoga
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Kris Kristofferson, the soulful country music superstar who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” performed with the supergroup The Highwaymen and made audiences swoon in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born, has died. He was 88.
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Wild Robot had the third-best opening for an animated movie in September with $35 Million.
2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $16 Million
3. Transformers One $9.3 Million
4. Devara Part 1 $5.6 Million (an Indian action movie)
5. Speak No Evil $4.3 Million
6. Megalopolis $4 Million
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People on social media are sharing "simple pieces of advice" that have "significantly improved their life." And here are the best ones:
1. If you can't beat the fear, do it scared.
2. Talk yourself into doing things by saying, "just do it as a joke."
3. It's better to ASK stupid than to DO stupid.
4. You can't control the emotions you feel . . . but you can control the actions you do regarding those emotions.
5. Never accept criticism from someone you wouldn't accept advice from.
6. You don't want to enter your golden years thinking that you spent your life worrying about things that MIGHT happen, but never did.
7. Self-abuse is also abuse. Talk kindly to yourself.
8. Don't compare your "behind-the-scenes" to someone else's highlight reel.
9. It's okay to be jealous of someone, but you have to be jealous of the whole package, not just part. For example, if you want to be jealous of their nice house, you have to be jealous of their soul-crushing job too.
10. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
11. Don’t light yourself on fire to keep others warm.
12. Try to be the person YOU needed when you were younger.
13. The biggest lie we tell ourselves every day is: "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."
14. Don't argue with idiots. The best result you can hope for is that you've won an argument with an idiot.
15. Instead of using a plain chocolate bar when making s'mores, use a peanut butter cup.
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A take-out place called Birdbox opened in midtown Manhattan in July. And they're going viral for their $19 fried-chicken sandwich that's so gourmet . . . it comes with a foot attached.
The chicken's entire leg . . . foot and all . . . pokes out the side of the bun. The place is run by a Michelin-star chef, and everyone says the sandwich is great . . . if you can stomach it.
It's actually not brand new. They've been selling it at their other location in San Francisco for a while. But it's all over social media right now.
What's worse is they gave the sandwich a name. It's called "Claude the Claw". So you're not just eating a chicken, you're eating Claude.
For people who don't want that much anatomy in their lunch, they also offer a normal chicken sandwich without the leg.
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We are thrilled to have two zoos have Giant Pandas again, but not so for other countries.
Back in 2017, China gave a zoo in Finland two giant pandas as a gift to mark Finland's 100 years of independence. Well, they were just on-loan until 2033, when they would be returned to China.
But Finland basically called China to ask for their return policy on pandas because they've become too expensive for the facility to maintain, and China agreed to take them back.
Pandas ARE very pricey.
The zoo built a $9 million habitat for them to live in when they first arrived and on top of that, they cost about $2 million a year to care for. The bamboo that giant pandas eat was flown in from the Netherlands. The zoo has also been dealing with sagging attendance ever since the pandemic.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Have you ever learned about something new, like a word or a name . . . then suddenly found it keeps coming up in your life? That's called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
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