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September 13, 2021 9:35 am Published by

➢  Have you seen the video from the University of Miami football game on Saturday?  A stray CAT somehow got into the stadium, and ended up dangling from the upper deck by its claws.  Then it FELL . . . but fans below used an American flag to CATCH it.

A guy named Craig Cromer works for the university and has season tickets.  He and his wife always bring a flag to the game to hang over the railing in front of their seats.

When the cat fell, the whole stadium gasped, but the flag broke its fall just enough.  Then a fan held it up like Simba in “The Lion King”, and everyone cheered. 

 

➢ Someone filled a pothole in Florida with a banana tree.  The county says it’s a private drive, so it’s up to the residents to fix it.  (Here are some of the neighbors talking about it.)

 

➢ Here’s an unlikely victim of the pandemic:  FAX MACHINES might finally go away for good, and almost everyone agrees it’s overdue.  But hospitals still use them for test results and medical records, so it’s not as easy as it sounds.

A lot of medical info hasn’t been digitized, so doctors still rely on paper records.  And it’s caused huge bottlenecks during Covid.  So why do we still use them?

Well, faxes can’t be hacked, and you get a receipt when they’re delivered.  So that’s why hospitals and lawyers still use them.  And until now, the mentality was “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”  But the pandemic showed the system IS broken.  So now there’s a big push to finally move on from fax machines and find a better solution.

 

➢ On “The Tonight Show”, Pete Davidson explained why he had to get three dogs during the pandemic.  (It was because whenever he would leave for an extended period, the dog would get attached to whoever was watching it, so he would leave it and go get another one.  

 

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Fortune Cookie Day”, celebrating the tasty little treat with a slip of paper inside that brings you good luck, a whimsical saying, or a philosophical thought. It’s thought they were invented in San Francisco around 1914 

 

1956 [65] IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage. It weighs over a ton

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

Clint Black scored his first triple-platinum album with Killin’ Time in 1994.

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A Judge Rejected a Couple’s Divorce Filing, and Told Them to “Work It Out”

A divorce is never easy, but it’s even more complicated when a judge REFUSES to let you go through it.

 

A couple in Kentucky separated last November after 12 years of marriage.  They filed for divorce saying that their marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

 

It’s unclear what went wrong . . . but they’d already ironed out the terms of the divorce, and even agreed on a co-parenting plan for their young daughter.

 

But when they went to court to get it approved, the judge DENIED it.  She said, “I get the vibe that you all might be able to work this out . . .

 

“Would it be beneficial to either of you all if I order you to go to reconciliation counseling or are you past that?”  The wife said they WERE past that . . . but the judge ordered it anyway.

 

The wife’s attorney said, “Being told to stay with your ex when you both agree it’s over is pretty stunning.”  The husband’s lawyer added, “This is something really nobody would’ve seen coming.”  Both attorneys are asking the judge to reconsider.

 

(The couple is Doug and Nicole Potts, the judge is Judge Monika Meredith, Nicole Potts’ attorney is Sidney Vieck, and Doug Potts’ attorney is Dorothy Walsh Ripka.)

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS 

  1. Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.  It was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French, who were the island’s first European settlers.

 

  1. Half of your ice cream is just air.

 

  1. The necktie was invented in Croatia.  Their troops wore them as part of their uniforms in the 1600s . . . and when the French saw them, they liked them so much that neckties started selling in France almost immediately.

 

  1.  Some of the names Disney considered for the Seven Dwarfs include Chesty, Tipsy, Jumpy, Dirty, Sleazy, and Awful.

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BIRTHDAYS 

[52] Tyler Perry, TV/film actor-producer (“Madea” movies)/named highest-paid man in entertainment by Forbes magazine in 2011

 

[48] Joe Don Rooney, country guitarist (Rascal Flatts)

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SCIENCE NEWS 

  1. Danish researchers discovered a new islandin the Arctic by mistake.  They thought they landed on an island near Greenland that we’ve known about since 1978, but it was a different one.  They say it’s the new record holder for northernmost island in the world.

 

  1. In space news:  China wants to build a new spacecraftthat’s over a half-mile long.  They’re in the early stages, but they’d assemble it in orbit like the Space Station.

 

  1. After a big earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, people saw flashing blue lightson the horizon . . . and some thought it was the apocalypse.  But it’s actually fairly common.  Experts think rocks grind against each other, and the friction causes bursts of electricity.
  2. In other animal news:  A team in Australia found that female octopuses will throw stuff at males if they won’t stop harassing them.  And a study in the journal “Nature” found dogs can tell when we do something on purpose, or by mistake.

 

  1. And in health news:  Doctors in Canada found a weakness in the specific enzyme that lets cancerous tumors spread.  They’re calling it cancer’s Achillles’ heeland say it could lead to new treatments that would stop cancer in its tracks.

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Ten Car Repairs We Can Do Ourselves

Car prices are crazy because of the big computer chip shortage, and now experts think it might last another year or more.  So if you can keep your old junker going a little bit longer, you might save a few bucks.

A recent poll asked people what type of car repairs they can do THEMSELVES.  Here are ten things people said they’ve done without the help of a mechanic . . .

 

  1. Install new windshield wipers.  36% of Americans have done it before.
  2. Add more wiper fluid, 34%.
  3. Change your own oil?  28% of Americans have done it themselves.
  4. Install a new battery, 27%.
  5. Change your air filter, 26%.
  6. Change a tire, 21%.
  7. Replace a headlight, 21%.
  8. Replace a spark plug, 15%.
  9. Change a fuse, 14%.
  10. Replace a side mirror.  Only 6% have done that one. 

 

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH 

 

  1.   Blue Jays 22  Orioles 7 Tigers 8  Rays 7

 

49’ers 41  Lions 33

 

  1.   A Texas father is going viral after stripping down to just his swimsuit during a school board meeting to show his support for mask mandates in school.  Here’s the interaction between James Akers and School Board President Barbara Stroud.

 

  1.   A 13-year-old girl in England has a weird new pet. . . a BUMBLEBEE that won’t stop following her around.  She found it in the middle of the road with a broken wing.  So she tried to put it in a safe spot, but it clung to her.  Now its wing is healed, and she leaves the door open all day so it can fly off, but it never does.  She’s even taken it bowling.

 

  1.   Here’s comedian Dana Carvey on when our parents get older.  (How they get “pissed” when you don’t know what they’re talking about.)

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $31.8 million jackpot in Friday’s Lotto Max draw.

The jackpot for the next draw TOMORROW will grow to an estimated $50 million.

There will also be two Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs.

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $11 million jackpot in Saturday’s Lotto 649 draw.

However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in the Prairies.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw WEDNESDAY will be an estimated $14 million.

 

RASCAL FLATTS’ JOE DON ROONEY ARRESTED FOR DUI 

Rascal Flatts‘ guitarist Joe Don Rooney was arrested Thursday (September 9th) morning for DUI after driving his car into a line of trees just outside Nashville. He was uninjured in the crash and was released from the Williamson County Jail on Thursday morning after posting $2500 bond.

According to reports, a Williamson County Sheriff’s Office deputy arrived on the scene in Franklin, Tennessee just after 4 a.m. on Thursday. 

At this point RASCAL FLATTS’ public relations reps aren’t saying much.  Same with Joe Don’s people. 

Joe Don celebrates his 46th birthday today (Monday, September 13th).

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TRACE ADKINS LANDS ROLE ON NEW FOX DRAMA 

Trace Adkins‘ next acting project is a Fox drama series called Monarch. Variety reports that the series will debut midseason on January 30th immediately after the NFC Championship game.

Adkins will star alongside Susan Sarandon and Anna Friel. He plays Albie Roman, who with his wife, played by Sarandon, have created a country music dynasty. 

Adkins’ new album, The Way I Wanna Go, was released last month.

FAST FACTS

The Way I Wanna Go is Adkins’ 13th studio album.

The project celebrates the 25th anniversary of his debut LP, Dreamin’ Out Loud, and includes special guests Luke Bryan, Pitbull, Blake Shelton, Melissa Etheridge, Keb’ Mo’ and Stevie Wonder on harmonica, and Snoop Dogg.

Adkins is back on the road with a full slate of live performance dates including Blake Shelton’s Friends & Heroes Tour 2021.

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Kacey Musgraves Is Not Interested in the “Hookup Culture”

There’s a person out there somewhere . . . we don’t know their name . . . who was dating KACEY MUSGRAVES last year, and then blew her off.  She talked about it in an interview with Apple Music.

Quote, “It was on Thanksgiving Day, and I had been let down by someone who was going to come visit me . . . and it was kind of my first few steps into exploring being a single 30-something-year-old person, after a marriage.” 

This was almost five months after she and Ruston Kelly split up.  She was “kind of excited” about dating, but was surprised by how much things had changed.

Quote, “We live in this hookup culture, and I’m for it.  I’m for whatever makes you feel happy, as long as it’s safe, and doesn’t hurt other people.  But I’ve never experienced that, the dating app culture and all that. 

“I mean, I’m not going to.  But what I’m saying is, it was just shocking.  It was a little shocking.  It was surprising.  And it made me just think that we all have flaws.” 

As far as we know, Kacey is still dating Cole Schafer.

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer