THIS WEEK'S DEAR JOHN LETTER!
Dear John,
My husband gave me a beautiful necklace for our anniversary, but sadly, it isn’t my style. It was very thoughtful and it was quite expensive, but I’d prefer something more ‘me.’ Is it selfish to ask him to return it, or should I just be grateful he put in the effort? My mom says I’m being ungrateful if I say anything, but my best friend thinks honesty is better than pretending I like it. Would it be terrible to tell him the truth and ask him to exchange the necklace for another smaller piece of jewelry? I know I'm going to be afraid to wear this one. What should I do?
Signed – Grateful wife
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TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
vanilla pudding day
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SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
According to a 2022 poll, more than half of us believe we spend too much time on our smartphones. And a more recent survey found that smartphone users reach for theirs an average of 205 times daily – which works out to once every 5 minutes, except when you’re sleeping. So, it’s no wonder that even though it may sound drastic, some people are opting to trade their smartphone for a simpler “dumbphone”. People who want to break free from endless scrolling and algorithm overload are ditching their shiny screens for flip phones and minimalist gadgets like the Light Phone or Minimal Phone. One guy, Jose Briones, who was racking up a whopping 13 hours of screen time daily, finally decided to swap his Google Pixel for the “Light Phone II”, a tiny e-ink device (like the display on a Kindle) with just the basics: calls, texts, alarm, and directions. Since then, he says his days are filled with walks, hobbies, and real conversations. He enjoys the fact that, as he put it: “When you’re offline, things have a beginning and an end — no infinite scroll.” Plus, his friends actually call him now. Another bonus: A dumbphone costs way less than a new iPhone, and slashes your monthly bill too.
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
Tom Cruise might have never starred in “Rain Man” if not for his little sister. During a conversation at the British Film Institute, Cruise reflected on his career and told the story of his chance meeting with Dustin Hoffman. It was 1984 and Cruise had just shot Ridley Scott’s “Legend.” He was back in the US visiting his sister Cass, who spotted Hoffman from across a New York restaurant. Hoffman ended up offering Cruise and his sister tickets to “Death of a Salesman”, and invited them backstage after the show. Laughing, Cruise remembered: “As I was leaving, he said, ‘I want to make a movie with you.’ And I said, ‘That would be nice, sir’… and basically a year later he sent Rain Man.”
The Cannes Film Festival has issued an updated red carpet dress code that effectively bans full nudity and “voluminous” ensembles ahead of the start of the 2025 edition. On its official charter, the festival posted: “For decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other area of the festival.” It also mentions that garments “with a large train, that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theater are not permitted.” Cannes warned that festival teams will “prohibit red carpet access to anyone not respecting these rules.”
DID YA KNOW!?
Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. True, there are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
JOKE
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SCOOP
OF THE DAY
73-year-old Bill Belichick and 24-year-old Jordon Hudson have started the wedding rumor mill, as she’s been seen wearing an engagement ring.
I mean, sure, your Roomba vacuum does a great job of keeping your home dust and pet-hair free. But it could – and should – be doing so much more. That’s according to a group of British and Canadian scientists who managed to reprogram a robot vacuum cleaner to do a number of different household tasks, because, as they pointed out, the units are generally only in use for about 2 hours per day, and they could be doing so much more for us – with a few modifications. The scientists, from the University of Bath and University of Calgary, retrained a Roomba to do things such as charging a phone, for example. And if that’s not impressive enough, they also gave it the job of watering the plants. And playing with a cat – and assisting in a home workout. Also among the 100 functions that robot vacuums and other robotic devices could be handling for us, according to the scientists, are: providing a live monitor of what’s cooking in the oven, and carting groceries from the car to the kitchen.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Moley, moley, moley, moley, moley!" – Austin Powers, "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002)
NEWS TO ME
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FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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✓ Pigs can run about 11mph (17.7 km/h). Housecats? About 30mph (48km/h).
✓ Cranes are built…using cranes.
✓ Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
✓ The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
WEIRD NEWS
A restaurant in Thailand is being accused of “fat shaming” – because it offers diners discounts if they can fit their bodies through spaces of varying widths, as detailed in an Instagram post with nearly 8 million views. Video shows customers at Chiang Mai Breakfast World, which serves a smorgasbord of international breakfast foods all day, trying to squeeze through a series of metal multicolored “skinny discount” bars in the eatery’s courtyard, where the rule is “the smaller the gap, the bigger the discount”. There are 5 categories, ranging from 20% off for customers who can fit through the smallest space, a 10% discount for navigating the medium slots…and those who can only get through the largest gap have to pay full price. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2b89marv
QUESTION OF THE DAY
By the time school starts, the average family has 9 of these. What?
Answer: Things they wanted to do before the end of summer but didn’t.
HEIDI HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
PONDERABLES:
• What was Captain Hook’s name before he got the hook?
• How can one person be “dirt poor”, and another “filthy rich”?
• If Mars had earthquakes, would they be called marsquakes?
• Can you plan a surprise birthday party for a psychic?
• If you speak only one language, are you lingual?
• Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark? If so, where did he keep them?
• How does a real estate company sell its office?
• Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor, but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?
• Middle age is when you are warned to slow down by a doctor instead of a policeman.
• Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
• An escalator never actually breaks . . . it just becomes stairs.
• When you get older, lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
• People never grow up; they just learn how to act in public.
• No matter how bad it gets, I’m rich at the dollar store.
• The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn’t.
• The reason Las Vegas is so crowded is that no one has the plane fare to leave.
• If you want to know more about paranoids, follow them around.
• Today is the last day of your life, so far.
GOOD NEWS
Golf Star Bryson DeChambeau Gives Teen Fighting Leukemia An Unforgettable Day. https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/
