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July 25, 2019 9:30 amMore than 40,000 people are now saying they plan to storm the Bermuda triangle. A Facebook user created an event titled “Storm the Bermuda Triangle, It Can’t Swallow Us All,” and it’s quickly gone viral. It comes following the “Storm Area 51” event, which more than 1.6 million Facebook users have expressed interest in attending. But while plans for the Area 51 event have been revealed to be a joke, the creator of the Bermuda triangle event says he’s serious. A GoFundMe has been set up to help fund the event, which is scheduled for October 1st.
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A guy in a white van sideswiped two cop cars in Sydney, Australia on Monday. Then he got arrested for drugs when it turned out he was hauling $140 million worth of meth. Police say it’s one of the biggest and easiest busts they’ve ever made.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Jeff Foxworthy was on “The Tonight Show” last night and told a story about the first time he was on Johnny Carson, who invited him to sit down after his act. During the commercial break, Ed McMahon asked why he was never on “Star Search” and he said it’s because they rejected him six times.
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“The Big Bang Theory” star Kaley Cuoco has a new gig. She’ll be starring in a 1-hour drama series titled “The Flight Attendant”, which will air on WarnerMedia’s forthcoming streaming service. At this point, there is no announced premiere date for the show.
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TODAY IS……………….
- “Merry-Go-Round Day” (or “Carousel Day”), the anniversary of the mechanical carousel’s first patent in 1871 by William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa. He did not invent it, however, as carousel rides may go back as far as 500 AD.
- “Wine and Cheese Day”.
1978 [41] World’s first ‘Test Tube Baby’ is born (Louise Brown of Oldham UK, who had been conceived outside her mother’s body using the new technique of ‘in-vitro fertilization’)
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
2003 Referring to Dixie Chick Natalie Maines comment about United States President George W. Bush and the situation in Iraq: Merle Haggard, who had released a song critical of US media coverage of the Iraq War, issued a press statement saying: “I don’t even know the Dixie Chicks, but I find it an insult for all the men and women who fought and died in past wars when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for voicing an opinion. It was like a verbal witch-hunt and lynching”
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RANDOM REPORT
- “Tron”was not nominated for a special effects Oscar in 1983 . . . because the Academy thought using computers to make effects was “cheating.”
- The trend of men leaving the bottom button of their suit unbuttoned started in the early 1900s, when King Edward the Seventhof England was too chubby to button the bottom of his jacket . . . which started a fashion trend.
- On men’s dress shirts, the buttons are on the right and the holes are on the left. But on women’s shirts, it’s the opposite. Supposedly it was to help chambermaids who dressed rich people, so they knew which shirts were for which person.
- The highest-rated TV movie ever was “The Day After”on ABC in 1983. It was about a nuclear war between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Steve Guttenberg was in it, and more than 100 million people watched.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
A Minnesota toddler has been found after he took a joyride on his battery-powered John Deere tractor to the county fair.
The 2.5-year old wanted to go back to the county fair, and drove from his home to the fair without telling his parents, Chisago County Sheriff Sgt. Jason Foster said. Dispatchers got a call that the toddler was missing and found him safe minutes later in the middle of the fairground.
The boy’s family said their home was about a block and a half from the fairgrounds and he had seen the rides being set up during the previous days.
Foster said the child drove the tractor down the sidewalk, through a back gate and navigated through a heavy crowd there for motocross races before he arrived at the Tilt-a-Whirl, which he wanted to ride. However, before he got on the ride, State Rep. Brian Johnson, a former Islanti County deputy, saw him and determined the boy was alone.
Johnson flagged down a deputy, who helped reunite the boy with his father. The father suspended his son’s driving privileges by pulling out the tractor’s battery.
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BIRTHDAYS
[52] Matt LeBlanc, TV personality (BBC’s “Top Gear” 2012, 2016-18)/TV actor
(“Man With a Plan” since 2016, “Friends” 1994-2004)
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How Gross Are You Compared to Everyone Else?
Do you think you’re cleaner or dirtier than the average person? Well now you can find out. Almost 500,000 people recently took an online poll on hygiene and cleanliness. Here are seven questions and how people answered them . . .
- How often do you change your sheets? 50% of us usually go more than a month, including 6% who said they “pretty much never” change them.
- How often do you brush your teeth? Only 48% said they ALWAYS brush twice a day. Another 38% said once or twice “depending on the situation.”
- How often do you clean your bathroom? 71% said at least once a month . . . 22% said a few times a year . . . and 7% said never.
- How often do you shower? 57% said once a day . . . 7% said twice a day . . . 35% DON’T shower every day . . . and 1% said they don’t even shower every WEEK.
- Do you ever wear a shirt twice without washing it? 87% said yes. And 27% would also wear UNDERWEAR a second time. That includes 4% who do it “ALL the time.”
- Do you always wash your hands after using the bathroom? 56% said yes, always . . . 41% said they sometimes skip it . . . and 3% RARELY wash their hands.
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Morning Routines Required for a Good Day
2,000 people were recently asked to name the top morning routines that help them have a good day. Here are the top five . . .
- A cup of coffee. It’s the #1 thing we need to get our day off to a good start.
- Waking up after getting enough sleep. The fact that this is #2 is a testament to how much we love coffee.
- A morning shower.
- Listening to music while you’re getting ready, or in your car.
- Eating a light breakfast, but nothing too heavy.
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HAVE LOVE, WILL TRAVEL?
How far would you be willing to go for love? The moving company “Hire a Helper” polled 1,000 Americans and found that about two-thirds of online daters would travel no more than 30 miles to meet a potential partner.
Among millennials, 49 per cent set their limit at just 20 miles or less. 35% of respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to go outside their city in their search for love, and about 29% set their limit to within their home state.
Among the more adventurous, just 9 per cent said that distance wasn’t a consideration at all.
And perhaps surprisingly, men were more likely than women to say they would only consider matches within the general vicinity of where they live, by a margin of 43 to 37%.
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THURSDAY JULY 25TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[52] Matt LeBlanc, TV personality (BBC’s “Top Gear” 2012, 2016-18)/TV actor
(“Man With a Plan” since 2016, “Friends” 1994-2004)
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- MLB
Cleveland 4 Toronto 0
Philadelphia 4 Detroit 0
- Thieves stole a trailer belonging to the Cincinnati Circus Company that had about $10,000 worth of performance items in it, including a bed of nails, a coffin and an electric chair. The Ringmaster, Dave Willacker, shared a photo on social media and is hoping the thieves will just dump the trailer somewhere and call in an anonymous tip.
- A carjacker in Orlando tried to steal an elderly guy’s car last Tuesday, but kept stalling it because he didn’t know how to drive a stick. He ran off on foot, and cops arrested him nearby.
- Jim Gaffigan says people always give him donuts as a gift after his shows. Once he put a box of donuts in his carry-on and it was weird with the TSA agent.
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RASCAL FLATTS CONSIDER EXTENDING VEGAS RESIDENCY
Rascal Flatts already have two Las Vegas residencies under their belt and they’re considering a third. The group would likely be up for a longer stay in Sin City, too, as Gary LeVox tells us: [“Yeah, we’ve actually talked about it, and it’s tough because the people that have residencies out there, like our residency, they don’t tour the West Coast, so you can only see them in Vegas. So with us, we just so live for live performance and being in front of our fans and stuff, so we always tour the West coast. So it’s kind of difficult for us, but we love it and that’s definitely something in the future that we’re … we’re talking about going back in February. The Venetian’s been great and we love it there, and it’s nice to set up and just play. And hopefully we’ll lengthen that out later on down the road.”]
For now, fans can see Rascal Flatts performing their latest single, “Back to Life,” as well as their other hits, all over the country on their Summer Playlist Tour.
DAN + SHAY’S LATEST HIT STARTED OUT SOUNDING NOTHING LIKE IT DOES TODAY
Dan + Shay‘s latest hit, “All To Myself,” is a far cry from the song the duo co-wrote with Jordan Reynolds and Nicolle Galyon, the same two with whom they co-wrote their crossover hit “Tequila.” Shay Mooney tells us that the version on the album and on radio is quite different thanks to Dan Smyers‘ production. [“The version that we demoed out was actually much different than the record version. I remember being in Mexico and Dan was talking to me about the production of ‘All To Myself’ and how he was imagining this new production on it and he was playing it on acoustic and saying, ‘I kind of want this to be how it is.’ If you heard the demo it was just so different. I was like, ‘Man, I hope that’s cool. I don’t know. You’re the one that has such a great imagination on that stuff,’ so he put that together and just crushed it and really completely changed the song for me. It just completely changed everything.”]
PATSY CLINE & LORETTA LYNN
The official trailer for the upcoming Lifetime movie, Patsy & Loretta, has been released. The movie focuses on the close friendship between Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn up until Patsy’s untimely death in 1963 in a plane crash.
Megan Hilty (Smash) plays Patsy, and Broadway star Jessie Mueller takes on the role of Loretta.
Patsy & Loretta is set to air on the Lifetime network this fall.
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This post was written by Dave Palmer