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October 24, 2019 9:35 am Published by

Some high school students in Downingtown, Pennsylvania hacked into their school’s computer system last week and accessed a bunch of other kids’ personal information.

But it turns out they weren’t doing it for a malicious reason.  Once the school finally traced the hack, the kids admitted it was to . . . get an advantage in a WATER GUN FIGHT.

Apparently this school does something called the Senior Water Games, where the students go around town and shoot each other with water guns.  So by having access to things like other kids’ schedules and addresses, it gave these kids an advantage they’re considering pressing charges against the kids.

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Norwegians have been told to urinate in the shower to save water and help the environment by an Oslo council official he said Norway uses nearly double the amount of water of nearby Denmark. He said: ‘We could, for example, pee in the shower. ‘It’s a fine idea. We can also brush our teeth in the shower.’ Another councilor disagrees saying that urinating in the shower might be a step too far. He said: ‘It’s not what I’d start with.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Kate Beckinsale was on “The Tonight Show” and told Jimmy she thinks she looks like Ryan Reynolds.  She was serious.  She’s posted about it before on social media.

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Aaron Paul nearly missed out on his iconic role as ‘Jesse Pinkman’ in “Breaking Bad” because, as he puts it, “no one wanted him”. Paul played the crystal meth cook and dealer in all five seasons of the hit show, and recently reprised the role for spin-off movie “El Camino”. He says it was show creator Vince Gilligan who insisted he take on the career-changing role. Quote: “Vince played his trump card and said, ‘I’m not doing the show unless he’s the guy’. So, they were like, ‘Alright!’”

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “United Nations Day”, honoring the 74th anniversary of the day in 1945 that the majority of the world’s countries adopted the charter that formed the UN.

 

1929 [90] “Black Thursday”, when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange (more than three times the normal volume at the time), and investors suffered $5 billion in losses, kicking off the Great Depression

 

2008 [11] ‘Bloody Friday’ as many of the world’s stock exchanges crash, experiencing the worst declines in their histories.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

Eddie Rabbitt earned the first two gold albums of his career, for Horizon and The Best Of Eddie Rabbitt in 1980.

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RANDOM REPORT

  1. The Backstreet Boyswere named after an outdoor flea market in Orlando, Florida called the Backstreet Market.  Teenagers would hang out there in the ’80s and ’90s.

 

  1. The fountain from the opening credits of “Friends” is in Burbank, California, not New York City.

 

  1. The Buffalo Sabres drafted an imaginary Japanese guy in the 11th round of the 1974 NHL draft.  It’s because their general manager was bored with how long the draft was taking, and he invented a player named Taro Tsujimoto as a protest.

The NHL didn’t realize it was fake until the next year.

 

  1. The Secret Service agent who saved Ronald Reagan’slife during an assassination attempt in 1981 said he was inspired to become an agent when he was a kid and he saw the movie “Code of the Secret Service” . . . starring Reagan.

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GOOD NEWS

Earlier this year, a house in Akron, Ohio caught fire.  And a six-year-old girl named Zhiouli Wilson was trapped inside.  (Pronounced Zah-OO-lee)  But luckily, she knew what to do because of a fire safety class she’d JUST gone through in school.

 

Barb Fisher is Zhiouli’s first-grade teacher.  And two weeks earlier, she’d gone over a bunch of fire safety tips.

 

One of them was to stay low if there’s smoke, so you can find your way out.  And so you don’t breathe as much of it in.

 

Apparently Zhiouli was trapped in the basement.  But she remembered to stay low and cover herself up until firefighters got there.  And it saved her life.

 

She still ended up with serious smoke inhalation, but made a full recovery.  And the teacher was recently honored for it as well.

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BIRTHDAYS

[72] Kevin Kline, actor

 

[30] Shenae Grimes, Toronto ON, actress (“90210″ 2008-13, “Degrassi: The Next Generation” 2004-08)/movie actress (“Empire State”)

 

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WHAT WOULD BE YOUR WALK-UP BASEBALL MUSIC?

The World Series begins Tuesday night between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros, and this year’s previews include a strange explainer: why the song “Baby Shark” is such a hit with Nationals fans.

 

It began in low-key fashion in June when Nats player Gerardo Parra adopted the kids’ ditty as his walkup song before at-bats.

 

At the time, both Parra and team were slumping. He got a hit the first time the song played, the team started winning, and the song stayed.

 

Now, it’s a thing. Fans not only sing along, they do the hand motions. In fact, the players have adopted the hand motions after base hits: small “baby shark” finger pincers for a single, bigger “daddy shark” hand motions for a triple, etc.

 

So why did Parra choose the song? His 2-year-old daughter, Aaliyah Victoria, loves it.

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HAVE YOU EVER HAD ROMANTIC FEELINGS FOR A PERSON WHO ONLY VIEWED YOU AS A PLATONIC FRIEND? (YouGov)
An on-going, online poll shows how many people say they’ve been “friendzoned” before:

 

52% this has happened to me previously, but not currently

 

28% this has never happened to me

 

9% this is currently a situation I find myself in

 

11% Don’t know

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14 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS BROKEN DURING MARATHON IN TORONTO

This is impressive. Guinness World Records announced that 14 records were broken at a Toronto marathon.

 

The organization says 22 participants in the 2019 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon attempted world records during the race, and 14 were successful.

 

The records officially broken in the full marathon were: running dressed as a super villain, dressed as a tennis player, dressed in a full Quidditch uniform, dressed as an Aztec, dressed in a baseball uniform and dressed in a soccer uniform.

 

Those broken for the half-marathon were: running the race dressed as a fruit, dressed as a cartoon character, dressed as a cowboy, dressed as a vegetable, dressed in a martial arts costume, running the race with a spouse, running with a sibling and skipping without a rope.

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THAT THING YOU BREW:
A new study of 2,000 examined the personality differences in people based on their morning beverage of choice: coffee or tea.

 

And oddly, while you might expect coffee drinkers to be the “wired” ones, tea drinkers were found to be more likely to be extroverted, adventurous night owls.

 

Other findings of the survey:

  • The average coffee drinker downs 3.4 cups per day, tea drinkers: 2.7 cups.
  • Coffee drinkers are more likely to be “light sleepers”.
  • Coffee drinkers are more likely to say they are “always” on time.
  • Coffee drinkers are more likely to enjoy “Grey’s Anatomy”, The Office” and “Seinfeld”.
  • Tea drinkers prefer “The Walking Dead”, “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory”.
  • Coffee drinkers like punk, rock, blues and jazz music.
  • Tea drinkers like classical, country, pop or hip-hop/rap.
  • Coffee fans are 96% more likely to drink their brew black.
  • Tea fans are 35% more likely to add sugar to their drinks.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 24TH                                             

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[72] Kevin Kline, actor

[30] Shenae Grimes, Toronto ON, actress (“90210″ 2008-13, “Degrassi: The Next Generation” 2004-08)/movie actress (“Empire State”)

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  1. MLB

Washington 12 – Houston 3.  Game 3 is tomorrow night on Fox.

Game 2 of the World Series was a blowout, with the Washington Nationals beating the Houston Astros.  The series travels to Washington D.C. for game 3 tomorrow night.

 

NHL

OTT 5                     DET 2

TBL 3                      PIT 2

  1. With Halloween just around the corner, Jimmy Fallon read a bunch of “My Worst Costume” Tweets from viewers last night.  (From “The Tonight Show” on Wednesday, October 23, 2019)

 

  1. A St. Louis Football team decided to play a student who was supposed to be suspended that game under a different name . . . and it cost them big-time.  The rest of the season was cancelled and the coaches were all fired.

 

  1. Tiffany’s $112,000 Advent calendar, a playground in the Netherlands gets closed down

(From Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers on Wednesday, October 23, 2019)

 

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CARRIE UNDERWOOD CELEBRATES NUMBER ONE HIT WITH NASHVILLE PARTY

Carrie Underwood celebrated her career 27th Number One hit, one of the 14 that she had a hand in writing, with a party at Nashville songwriting organization BMI yesterday (Monday, October 21st) afternoon. She was joined by her “Southbound” co-writers David Garcia and Josh Miller. “Southbound” is the third single and first Number One from her Cry Pretty album.

With all the accolades and awards that Carrie has racked up over the years you’d think that Number One hits would take a backseat but Carrie tells us they’re just as important now as they were in the beginning of her career. [“I mean, it’s great at any point in your career. I was really lucky early on to have success early on and then now, you want people to still like what you’re doing, and I mean I personally see that every night when I’m on stage, but it’s really great when radio gets behind what you’re doing and when it gets to the top it takes a lot of work and (I) don’t take any of that for granted.”]

FAST FACTS

Carrie will host the CMA Awards for the 12th consecutive year this November, with a little help from special co-hosts Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire.

The winners will be announced during the live CMA Awards broadcast on November 13th on ABC.

 

 

HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH RELEASE FIRST NEW SINGLE

Hootie & The Blowfish are releasing the first single off their upcoming album, Imperfect Circle, due out on November 1st. The song is called “Hold On,” and it was co-written by Chris Stapleton and is the only song the group did not write on the entire project.

Group member Jim “Soni” Sonefeld tells us about finding “Hold On.” [“‘Hold On’ came very late in our recording sessions, but I don’t think there was a song that summed up more of a vibe of our band going back to the early ’90s of sort of lifting each other up and looking out for one another and a spirit of sort of helping each other as a way of therapy and just a way of rebuilding your heart.”]

Imperfect Circle is Hootie & The Blowfish’s first studio album since 2005’s Looking For Lucky.

 

 

ERIC CHURCH, CHRIS STAPLETON & P!NK TO PERFORM ON CMA AWARDS

Eric Church, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Maren Morris, Dolly Parton with for KING & COUNTRY and Zach Williams, P!NK and Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban have all been announced as performers for The 53rd Annual CMA Awards. The show will be hosted by Carrie along with special guest hosts Reba and Dolly. The CMA Awards will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, Nov. 13th at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

 

Eric will perform his hit “Some Of It.”

Luke Combs will take the stage performing fan favorite “Beer Never Broke My Heart.”

Reba will perform her classic hit, “Fancy.”

Miranda will sing her latest hit, “It All Comes Out In The Wash.”

Maren will perform her three-time nominated hit, “Girl.”

Additional performers and presenters will be revealed in the coming weeks.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer