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The mayor of Jamaica, Iowa was busted last Wednesday for growing marijuana in her basement. The cops received a tip about a fugitive hiding in her house, but when they arrived, they smelled a whole lot of weed instead. They found 18 marijuana plants in her basement, and a couple pounds that were pre-packaged. Now the mayor and her husband are in custody.
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Netflix is brining back “Unsolved Mysteries”!! It started as a series of specials on NBC in 1987, then became a regular series in ’88. It ran for nine seasons, then moved over to CBS for two more. The new show will be like the old one: Spotlighting unsolved mysteries and asking the public to help crack the case. There will be 12 episodes, and each one will focus on a single case. It’s being done by the same people, and they promise to, quote, “maintain the chilling feeling” of the original. (Which might be hard to do without the foreboding voice of host ROBERT STACK. He died in 2003.)
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ENTERTAINMENT
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” (PG-13, Drama): Tracing the meteoric rise of Queen through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound, their near-implosion, and their triumphant reunion at Live Aid, where Mercury, facing a life-threatening illness, leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music.
- “The Grinch” (PG, Animation/Kids): Each year at Christmas they disrupt his tranquil solitude with their increasingly bigger, brighter and louder celebrations. The Grinch realizes there is only one way for him to gain some peace and quiet: he must steal Christmas. (Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones)
- “First Man” (PG-13, Drama): A look at the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon. (Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy)
- “Widows” (R-Rated, Drama): Set in contemporary Chicago, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities, take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. (Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez)
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TODAY IS……………….
“Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day”, a day to concentrate on your feline and answer the questions you think it’s asking. People often consider cats unaffectionate, not true companions. But the truth is, they only talk to humans. Studies show they rarely ‘meow’ at other cats.
“Hot Sauce Day”, if you are one of those people who feels that “spicy” is never quite spicy enough, Hot Sauce Day is the perfect holiday for you! Current best-rated hot sauce on Amazon: “Secret Aardvark Habanero Sauce”
2008 Australian actor Heath Ledger (Oscar-“The Dark Knight”) dies in NYC of a pharmaceutical overdose at age 29
2006 LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant scores 81 points against the Toronto Raptors.
The 2nd-most points in a single NBA game in history behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 in 1962
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
January 22nd, 1994 Hal Ketchum performs “Small Town Saturday Night” as he joins
the Grand Ole Opry
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WEATHER BE WEATHERIN’
Ottawa as the coldest capitol city in the world on Saturday
The temperature in Ottawa fell below every other national capital in the world on Saturday morning — and that doesn’t include the wind chill.
Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is on average the coldest capital city in the world.
But the temperature in Ottawa — ranked the seventh coldest capital based on annual average temperature — dipped to –24 C, compared to –23 C in Ulan Bator.
While much of Canada has been in the grip of intense cold, it’s been quite the other story on the opposite side of the globe, where Australia has been smashing all-time records in the midst of a ferocious heat wave.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said the six days between January 12 and 17 marked the hottest ten days on record in the country; even the hottest-on-record minimum temperature was toppled by a scorching 35.9ºC
You’ve likely seen cookies baked in cars and eggs fried on sidewalks amid our own heat waves here at home, but with temperatures topping 40ºC for 37 days and counting since December 16 in some places, Aussies are finding new ways to showcase the searing heat — quite literally. One pub cooked a steak in a pan inside a vehicle.
While a cool-down was expected this weekend, it won’t be long-lived.
The heat wave has been blamed for massive die-offs of bat and fish populations, and losses for farmers who are seeing fruit still on the tree cook from the inside out.
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Guy Was Accidentally Invited to a Stranger’s Bachelor Party . . . Now He’s Going
There’s a 35-year-old guy named Will Novak in Phoenix, and he recently got an email about a bachelor party for a guy named Angelo.
Will doesn’t know Angelo, and it turns out Angelo’s friends sent him the invitation by mistake . . . they meant to send it to their friend who’s also named William Novak, and his email was only one letter different than Will’s.
But when Will read the email, he thought the bachelor party sounded GREAT. The guys were going on a ski trip in Vermont and they’re supposed to, quote, “bring . . . ’80s attire [and] ridiculous awesome get-ups.”
So Will wrote back and said, quote, “I am Will Novak who lives in Arizona. Vermont seems like a very far way for me to travel for the bachelor party of a guy I’ve never met. That being said: count me in!”
He set up a Go Fund Me to pay for the plane ticket, car rental, lift tickets, and a wedding present for Angelo . . . and because his situation was so ridiculous, he hit his $750 goal in a few hours. (Will says any additional money raised will go into a fund for Angelo’s first child.)
Will Novak got off the plane at Boston’s Logan International Airport Friday evening and was greeted in baggage claim with six cases of beer from a local brewer.
The 35-year-old Phoenix man doesn’t drink.
When he went to pick up his rental car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, they upgraded him to an $75,000+ Maserati SUV. When the two-night bachelor party wrapped on Sunday, Novak was up to 11,700 Instagram followers and exhausted, un showered and still dressed in the white-and-rainbow striped ski suit he wore most of the weekend.
And the trip wasn’t over. Novak’s flight back to Phoenix Sunday was canceled due to storms.
Novak, said he met Angelo at 3 a.m. Saturday morning when he arrived at the group’s ski chalet. Despite the social media storm surrounding the accidental bachelor party guest, Novak said Onello didn’t find out until shortly before the party. The organizers wanted to keep it a secret. The group didn’t get to sleep the first night until 5:30 a.m.
Novak slept through a ski lesson he had scheduled for 7:30 a.m. at Okemo Mountain Resort.
Novak’s only mishap: he ran into a man on one run and they tumbled together into a fence.
“I would call it more of a fender bender than a crash,” he said.
Will wasn’t so lucky. He dislocated his shoulder on a run and had to go to the infirmary for a sling.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
A guy in Pittsburgh named Michael Klimkos is recovering and doing well after donating one of his kidneys to SANTA CLAUS last week.
Back in the mid-70s, he was in a fraternity at Clarion University in Pittsburgh. And one of his frat brothers was a guy named Ott Quarles.
Ott now works as a professional Santa Claus around the holidays. And he’s a QUALITY Santa too.
They lost touch after college but recently connected on Facebook, and Ott mentioned he was looking for a kidney. He was on dialysis four hours a day, three days a week at that point.
Michael immediately said he wanted to donate . . . asked how to get tested . . . and they were a match. The surgery happened last Tuesday, and they’re both doing great.
Ott says they may have been frat brothers 46 years ago. But he feels like he’s gained an ACTUAL brother after this.
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BIRTHDAYS
[67] Teddy Gentry, bass player, singer (Alabama)
[60] Linda Blair, actress (“The Exorcist”)
[54] Diane Lane, actress (“Under the Tuscan Sun”, “Unfaithful”)
I’M TOO OLD FOR THAT…..
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People Increasingly Not Using or Carrying Cash
People are increasingly not using or even carrying cash, with a Pew Research Center poll finding that about 30 percent of Americans say they don’t make any purchases with cash in a typical week, up from 25 percent in 2015.
Another survey by U.S. Bank found that 50 percent said they carry cash less than half of the time when they are out, and when they do, 76 percent said they have less than $50 and nearly half said they have less than $20. Millennials are unsurprisingly most likely to be using credit, debit or digital payments, through apps like Venmo and Apple Pay, instead of cash.
Income also plays a role, with adults who have a household income of over $75,000 more than twice as likely as those making less than $30,000 to say they don’t make any purchases using cash in a typical week.
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SAD TIME OF YEAR:
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a kind of depression that appears at certain times of the year. It usually begins in the fall when the days get shorter and lasts through the winter in northern countries. Here are some tips to Ease Winter SAD Symptoms:
► Spend more time outdoors during the day.
► Try to arrange the spaces you spend time in to maximize sunlight exposure
► Keep curtains open during the day.
► Build physical activity into your lifestyle preferably before SAD symptoms take hold.
► Make a habit of taking a daily noon-hour walk, particularly if you commute to school or work in the dark hours of the day.
► Try to resist the carbohydrate and sleep cravings that come with SAD.
► When all else fails, try a winter vacation in sunny climates—if the pocketbook and work schedule allow. There are professional treatments for SAD as well, including light therapy, medication and counselling.
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TUESDAY JANUARY 22ND
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[67] Teddy Gentry, bass player, singer (Alabama)
[60] Linda Blair, actress (“The Exorcist”)
[54] Diane Lane, actress (“Under the Tuscan Sun”, “Unfaithful”)
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- NFL Commissioner Roger GoodellDOES have the power to turn back time and either change the outcome of the Rams / Saints game, or reschedule it, either from the beginning or from the point of the botched call at the end of the game. But there’s basically a 0% chance of that happening
CNBC estimates the cost of attending this year’s Super Bowl at somewhere between $3,928 and $18,087 . . . depending on how high-end you go for tickets, lodging, travel, and food.
- • “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Brothers Osborne
• “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” (CBS): Celebrities live together in a house; and each week one or more of them will be voted out. - There’s an annual event in Montreal called the Festival of Snow. And the 36th one was set to happen this past weekend.
But it was cancelled . . . because of a snowstorm.
Apparently the organizers want to celebrate snow . . . but they felt like a major snowstorm with freezing temperatures was too much snow for the festival to handle. They’re going to give it another shot this weekend.
- A neighborhood in Englewood, Colorado has had the nickname “Swastica Acres” for over 100 years, before the Nazis even existed. It’s not listed on any map, but it’s on the deeds of dozens of homes. And people in the area are finally working to change it.
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Here’s How Your Favorite Country Bands Came Up With Their Names
The Boot has a great story about how different country bands came up with their names.
Here are two that most people seem to know about: The Dixie Chicks got their name from the Little Feat song Dixie Chicken and Florida’s Brian Kelley partnered up Georgia’s Tyler Hubbard to form Florida Georgia Line. Here are some you may not know:
LADY ANTEBELLUM That name originated at a publicity shoot that featured a pre-Civil War Southern mansion for a scenic backdrop.
LITTLE BIG TOWN: They heard about a Nashville music publisher called Little Big Town Music Group, and then got the okay to go ahead and use it.
LANCO: They started out as Lancaster & Co. thanks to lead singer Brandon Lancaster. They eventually shortened it to Lanco.
LOCASH: When Preston Brust was a kid he hung out with a bunch of friends that called themselves LoCash Money Boys. He and Chris Lucas turned that into LoCash Cowboys before settling on LoCash.
MIDLAND: No, they’re not named after Midland, Texas. They’re all from the West Coast and their name comes from the Dwight Yoakam song Fair to Midland.
ELI YOUNG BAND: You may know this one: It’s a combination of lead singer Mike Eli and guitarist James Young. They eventually added bassist Jon Jones and drummer Chris Thompson to the band . . . but NOT to the band’s name.
SHANIA TWAIN PUTS BAHAMAS HOME ON THE MARKET – (01/21/2019)
Shania Twain‘s vacation home in the Bahamas can be yours if you got about $10 million to spend.
The superstar has put her the 7,000 square foot villa in the exclusive Old Fort Bay development on the market.
The property boasts six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a media room and a freshwater pool. The official asking price is $10.95 million.
Carly Pearce Got Body-Shamed?
CARLY PEARCE is starting to experience the downside of being famous. After a recent show somebody sent her photos of her performance . . . but they weren’t trying to flatter her. In fact, it’s just the opposite.
The pics are close-ups of her stomach, and the person wrote, “Are you pregnant?” at the top of the page . . . and . . . “Cause you run 10 miles a day” at the bottom.
It bothered her so she did a screen shot, covered up name of the person, and then posted it. Then she wrote this caption, “I got these last night after my show.
“Honestly I’m still in disbelief but I wanted to share this with you because I feel this is important [especially] to see that words are powerful and no matter what, think before you speak and be kind. Body-shaming and bullying are NEVER okay.”
