9/5/25 - 70s Cartoons, Powerball, and Sports
- bribriny
- Sep 5
- 4 min read
Friday 9/5/25
Celebrate:
Bring Your Manners to Work Day
International Day of Charity
National 401(k) Day
National Be Late For Something Day
National Cheese Pizza Day
National Chianti Day
National Food Bank Day
National Lazy Mom's Day
National Shrink Day
Wear Teal Day - in honor of Ovarian Cancer
World Samosa Day - a popular street snack food in India
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Need some cash..cough up $2 and play the Powerball for Saturday's drawing.
It's now up to $1.70 Billion. The Cash Value payout is $770.3 Million.
It's the third largest jackpot in both Powerball and US Lottery history.
The jackpot was last won on May 31 in California. The current streak is the game record for the most consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.
The odds of winning? A staggering 1-in-292 million.
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The new NFL season kicked off last night.
And in case there was any doubt, a new poll found that yes, football is still America's favorite sport. It's not even close.
48% of Americans follow football at least a little bit. That's almost 20 points higher than second place.
Here are the 10 sports they asked about, and how many of us pay attention to each one.
1. Football, 48%. That includes NFL and college games. Or if you somehow only follow Canadian Football, that counts too.
2. Baseball, 29%. Should it still be called "America's pastime"?
3. Basketball, also 29%. Technically, a tie for second. But baseball gets the nod because more people said they HATE basketball.
4. Ice hockey, 12%
5. Soccer, also 12%. Again, slightly more haters than hockey.
6. Golf, 11%
7. Auto racing, 10%
8. Tennis, 9%
9. MMA, 8%
10. Wrestling, 8%. It has the most haters of any sport on the list.
A third of Americans (32%) said they don't follow any of those 10 sports.
Wait...Marble Racing didn't make the list????
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The upcoming 34th season of Dancing With the Stars announced their celebrities yesterday.
Hilaria Baldwin - Alex's Wife
Jordan Chiles - Olympic gymnast
Baron Davis - NBA Player
Dylan Efron - Zach's brother
Corey Feldman
Danielle Fishel - Boy Meets World star
Elaine Hendrix - Parent Trap actress
Scott Hoying - from pentatonix
Lauren Jauregui - Fifth Harmony member
Andy Richter - Conan O'Brien's sidekick
Robert Irwin - Steve's son
Alix Earle TikTok
Two stars of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" – Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt.
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Yesterday we talked about the best 80s Saturday Morning cartoons.
Today..the 70s. It's from Ranker.com and it's the Best Cartoons from the 70s..some are not from Saturday Morning.
(I have made some editorial edits)
1. Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes
2. Scooby Doo
3. Flintstones
4. Jetsons
5. Tom and Jerry
6. Schoolhouse Rock
7. Pink Panther
8. Underdog
9. Super-Friends
10. Hong Kong Phooey
11. Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
12. Land of the Lost
13. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
14. Speed Buggy
15. Josie and the Pussycats
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There is a Michael Jackson biopic that is opening in April next year, and Colman Domingo who plays his father in the movie is claiming that Michael's kids Paris and Prince have been supportive. But Paris is denying that. Hard.
She says, quote, "I wasn't involved at all, aside from giving feedback on the first draft and then getting the feedback that [production] was not actually going to address your notes at all. So I just butted out . . . it's not my project . . .
"The narrative is being controlled and there's a lot of inaccuracy and there's a lot of just full-blown lies . . . I prefer honesty over sales and monetary gain. I kind of just don't want anything to do with that . . . I'm gonna keep minding my business."
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There's a HUGE trend on social media right now called "The Great Lock-In" . . . and the idea is similar: You commit to making a change NOW, and carrying it through to the end of the year.
It's supposed to be a way of "fully hyper-focusing on a task, goal, or activity" . . . across the final 100-plus days of 2025.
It doesn't have to be a traditional "resolution." It's just meant to be a way to shake off the summer laziness, and "lock in" on success for the next few months.
According to "Know Your Meme," the original "Great Lock-In" posts started gaining steam a few weeks ago . . . and now, a ton of people have joined. And "joining" publicly is just a way of holding yourself accountable.
People are pointing out that it's essentially a rebrand of last year's "Winter Arc" . . . "75 Hard" . . . and several other self-improvement online "challenges" over the years.
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A woman in Northern England named Julie Williams is selling her house. And it's in the news because it's got a ball pit for adults.
She added it as a birthday gift to herself. It's outside one of the bedrooms. She and her friends like to hang out in it and sip champagne.
She said whoever buys the place will probably get rid of the ball pit. But if they have kids, maybe not. The rest of the house is lovely and very adult. The list price is just over $1 million.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - 327 years ago - In 1698, Russia's Peter the Great imposed an Annual Tax of 100 Rubles on beards to try to force more men to be clean shaven.
The policy was highly unpopular, met with cultural and religious resistance, but remained in place for decades, with payers receiving a beard token as proof of payment. The tax was eventually abolished by Empress Catherine the Great in 1772.
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