Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  • On The Ticket yesterday morning, Craig Miller talked about buying new underwear and how often they should be replaced. He threw out all his old pairs and replaced them with new. That got me to thinking, when was the last time I bought underwear. I recall I did so through Amazon. That’s one thing I like about Amazon, you have a record of all your purchases from all the years you’ve been a customer and can easily search them. Let’s just stay I was surprised at how long I’ve had my underwear and how durable they are.
  • The 19-year-old fan who caught Roger Maris’ recording breaking homerun ball tried to give it to Marris. Maris told him to keep it and try to sell it for some money. Good guy, that Roger Marris.
    • ”He just said ‘Keep the ball and make yourself some money’,” remembered Durante. “To me, that was great. Roger could have taken the baseball, thank you very much. See, people don’t understand, they don’t realize. He was a very thoughtful person, he was.”
    • Later in the fall of ‘61, a small item appeared in New York papers about a Sacramento, Calif., restaurant owner named Sam Gordon offering $5,000 for the ball with the intention of returning it to Maris. Durante went out to California with Maris, where he gave the baseball to Gordon, who presented it to Maris and handed the teen-ager a $5,000 check. The agreement was contingent upon Maris participating in a photo shoot, and Durante was also comped for the trip and another to the West Coast. Maris later gave the ball to Cooperstown, while Gordon provided Durante and his wife-to-be with a two-week honeymoon.
  • For you Ticket and now Freak fans, the story of how Grubes made his way to the Freak.
  • The Python programming language is not named after the snake but the British comedy troupe.
  • My trivia team came in third last night. I ordered a burger plain and dry, but it tasted like bacon. I’m guessing back was earlier cooked on the grill.
  • I can’t name one Pink Floyd song. I’m not sure if I could recognize any. I have a feeling I’m familiar with their work, I just can’t identify it.
  • For the most part, when it comes to tickets, I’m old school. I prefer to print them out and have them scanned. I guess I suffer from performance anxiety relying on getting the barcodes to scan from my phone.
  • Whoopi Goldberg says she didn’t wear a fat suit for ‘Till,’ correcting a reviewer
  • The Onion tells the Supreme Court – seriously – that satire is no laughing matter
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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  • I’m sorry I didn’t post yesterday. Sometimes the grief over the loss of your family will sneak up on ya and grab your attention for much longer than you’d ever want.
  • I know it’s October, and the NFL has a campaign against cancer. But I don’t understand why so many coaches and personnel were wearing hoodies on the sidelines in a comfortable temperature-controlled environment. Was a shirt option not available?
  • I’m not a Washington Commanders fan, but I liked those all black uniforms.
  • I’m surprised at the number of holes and openings football helmets have these days. The way they are designed interferes with a lot of logos and decals. I have a feeling a lot of those holes and openings are cosmetic and don’t serve a real function. Or, that helmets could be made where the holes and openings don’t interfere with the decal. But, I suppose the other argument is why aren’t the decals simply modified?
  • I can’t remember the year. It was over a decade ago, and I was still driving my 4-Runner. But, I recall listening to football scores on the radio and realized I had what I refer to as a [insert your preferred rare-earth or precious metal here] sports weekend. My favorite college and pro football teams both won, and the teams I enjoy to root against (aTm, Oklahoma, Baylor) all lost. I remember in that moment wondering when such a series of events would happen again for me. For years I used to track those five scores (the Mavs and Rangers may have also been included for the ultimate sports weekend, so I guess it happened in mid to late October), and eventually gave up on it because those other teams were so good and built for the long haul and my teams stunk. But this oddity basically happened this past weekend. For the record, the Rangers lost their games over the weekend, my high school lost by a point, yet Hardin-Simmons pulled out a victory. I wonder if I’m the only person who looks for a perfect sports weekend where all my favorite teams win and all the ones I root for lose.
  • There’s a lot to digest here, and my immediate thought was the opening scene from the film Idiocracy – 22-Year-Old Rapper NBA Youngboy Welcomes 10th Baby
  • Good to hear something could be fun, viral, and do good – The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn’t just for social media. It helped fund a new ALS drug
  • I’ve always wanted to know the story behind those SNL photos you see of the guest hosts after a commercial break, this will be the closest I come to it. I can’t believe I never picked up on that turkey. – ‘SNL’ is back. Here are the stories behind the show’s iconic photos
  • I ain’t no zoologist, but that ain’t no cheetah.
  • I placed an online lunch order for some Boston Market. I had no problem placing the order of my credit card being charged, but I had a problem with the facility. No one was there. Someone didn’t open up the restaurant. All I could do was go to their website and fill out a comment card.
  • I caught a little bit of the new 97.1 after they stopped playing Waiting Is The Hardest Part on repeat. It was weird hearing Rhyner and another old Ticket personality on it.
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Bag of Randomness for Friday, September 30, 2022

  • DaughterGeeding and I like to watch certain television shows together. Young Sheldon is one of them and the season premiere was last night. The star of the show has gone through a growth spurt and his deeper voice is noticeable and a distraction.
  • DaughterGeeding, BoyGeeding, and I also like to watch She-Hulk. I was wondering how true it would hold up to the comic. I’m glad to say it does so quite well, especially when it comes to breaking the fourth-wall. I had fairly low expectations, but it’s been a delight.
  • I really wish I could make a major career change right now, but obligations like child-support makes that impossible.
  • Coolie died. Of all things I think about when it comes to him, I remember him being on Bill Maher’s first panel on his very first Politically Incorrect show on ABC.
  • If I coached the Cowboys, I would occasionally hold practices at AT&T Stadium during the same time a game would be played just to get used to how the sun comes radiating through. They should turn that distraction into an advantage.
  • The most diverse vending machine in the history of ever.
  • Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake FirmAction movie legend Bruce Willis has just become the first Hollywood actor to sell his rights to the possibility of a “digital twin” to the US firm Deepcake, with the use of deepfake technology, Willis has offered his likeness to be used onscreen for future projects.
  • Texas now the nation’s biggest emitter of toxic substances into streams, rivers and lakesA new report puts Texas above the Great Lakes states for industrial discharges into waterways for the first time since the analysis began in 2009.
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband is divorcing her. In a statement, she praised that despite the parting of ways, he is a great and loving father. Even she can end things amicably. You have no idea how much it hurts that the mother of your own children think you are a terrible dad. At least, as far as I know, a polyamorous tantric sex guru wasn’t involved.
  • Exploring abandoned Valley View Mall.
  • Queen Elizabeth II died of old age, death certificate shows
    • Death fascinates me, and I’ve done a lot of research on the subject. In the U.S., old age cannot be put on a death certificate as a cause of death.
      • “Old age” is not truly a cause of death in and of itself. To “die of old age” means that someone has died naturally from an ailment associated with aging. The same usually goes for “dying of natural causes.”
      • Today doctors and coroners are pressed to specify a cause of death, so the terms “old age” and “natural causes” are rarely used. They are expected to list both the immediate and underlying cause of death. For instance, a person who had a heart attack and died may have their immediate cause of death listed as “cardiac arrest” and their underlying cause of death as “heart disease.” In the past, an elderly person who died in such a manner may have had their death classified as a “natural cause” or “old age,” but this in increasingly less common.
      • In cases when the root cause isn’t clear, sometimes a generic term like “multiple organ failure” or “debility” will be listed, but “natural causes” or “old age” as an official cause of death has gone the way of the buffalo. That said, these terms live on in public discourse.
  • A girl in one of my college classes used to be in this show – ‘Barney’ documentary exposes dark side of beloved children’s series
    • They were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,” he says. “They were gonna come and find me, and they were going to kill me.
  • Wouldn’t a condom on a mic muffle the sound? I’m sure that’s the case and another mic is picking up her audio. Her reasoning doesn’t make sense to me.

  • I literally LOL’d at this.https://twitter.com/Wtfmomentes/status/1575298050632753152

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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, September 28, 2022

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