All-Time Box Office Leaders – Adjusted for Inflation

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* Adjusted to the estimated 2016 average ticket price of $8.61. Inflation-adjustment is mostly done by multiplying estimated admissions by the latest average ticket price. Where admissions are unavailable, adjustment is based on the average ticket price for when each movie was released (taking in to account re-releases where applicable).

^ Indicates documented multiple theatrical releases. Most of the pre-1980 movies listed on this chart had multiple undocumentented releases over the years. The year shown is the first year of release.

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2016 Movie Super Trailer

There are plenty of videos that look back on last year’s movies, so we decided to look forward to all the movies coming out in 2016.

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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, January 7, 2015

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  • I helped a neighbor retrieve a drone out of a tree yesterday before the storm hit. It involved the use of three poles duct taped together which extended about thirty-feet.
  • I had a reader contact me about an old post I made about easy to install replacement mailbox doors for mailboxes that are contained in a brick and mortar structure. For anyone else that is interested, here is the product website, and here is a competitor. From my limited research, both of them also sell through Amazon.
  • I tweeted Sports Illustrated’s Peter King yesterday and he actually replied. That’s twice he’s responded to one of my tweets.
  • I watched ‘The Daily Show’ for the first time in a long time. The open is new, Trevor Noah does a stand-up intro and the music is a bit more urban sounding but still the same.
  • Ted Cruz’s comment about his pen having an eraser was funny. I understand the point he was making, but he didn’t stick the landing. Out of all the Republican candidates, I was actually proud of Donald Trump tactfully saying the President’s tears were sincere, and then disagreeing with the stance. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be President and then meeting the parents of 20 murdered six and seven-year-olds who ask you to “do something”. Surely that sort of thing just sticks with him, as I’m sure George W. Bush still thinks about the families of the 9/11 victims he met every day.  I’m not trying to support or disagree with any policy here, I don’t want to get into any political argument since they never end in any resolution, I’m just saying it must be really difficult as President to console when it comes to national tragedy and how it impacts them personally and is probably the one thing most candidates don’t think often about before making the decision to run.
  • The only thing weirder than seeing local film guy Gary Coghill on NBC5 is seeing Jane McGarry on WFAA.  The only local personality that seemed to navigate from station to station the best would have to be Chip Moody, with honorable mentions going to John Criswell, and Iola Johnson. Sure, others have made the switch (Dale Hansen started at KDFW), but it didn’t seem “weird” seeing these folks go from one station to another. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Mike Burger, Tammy Dombeck, Rebecca Miller, Suzy Solis, and Brendan Higgins that have gone from one station to another, though I’m sure there are many more.
  • Van Halen opinion – Sammy Hagar was the better lead singer, David Lee Roth was the better entertainer.
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! – CBS11’s Chelsey Davis showing some patriotism back in the day, but don’t click on this link if you are offended by short jean shorts and a bikini top, or in a setting in which it could get you in trouble.
  • Telegraph.co.uk – German carpenter invents on-off contraception switch for sperm –The tiny valves are less than a inch long and weigh less than a tenth of an ounce. They are surgically implanted on the vas deferens, the ducts which carry sperm from the testicles, in a simple half-hour operation. They are controlled with a simple on-off switch which the man can reach under the skin of his scrotum.
  • Dallas Morning News – Greeters at Texas Wal-Mart’s have gone from giving stickers to checking gun licenses
  • GIF – This dog is a problem solver and possible my hero.
  • GIF – A sinkhole appears on a road during stopped traffic, car scoots out of the way.
  • GIF – These cows are intrigued by a remote controlled car which they decided to chase.
  • I ran across this question on Reddit yesterday and it really made me ponder – How many random people’s vacation photos have I been in?
  • Mike Piazza is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. That’s remarkable considering he was drafted in the 62nd round by Tommy Lasorda as a favor to his Piazza’s father. Getting drafted is one thing, having the work ethic to make the squad and then have such a career speaks of his work ethic.
  • The first and only baseball jersey of a player I ever had was of Ken Griffy Jr. One time while he was playing at the old Arlington Stadium, a friend told me he and his group kept calling his name to get his attention but he wouldn’t bite. Well, not until my friend shouted, “Hey God!” He turned around and did a small tip of the cap with a smile. At least, that’s the story.
  • I thought there would have been at least one more – @ESPNStatsInfo – Ken Griffey Jr. is the first No. 1 overall draft pick in MLB history in the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Jayson Stark, ESPN – If we’ve calculated this correctly, a fully healthy Ken Griffey Jr. would have hit another 147 home runs in his career. Add those 147 homers to 630 and what do you get? You get 777 — or 15 more than Barry Bonds.
  •  –  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott backs crosses on police cars
  • Last night, WFAA aired the incorrect Powerball numbers and then corrected it twelve minutes later. I hope no one with the incorrect numbers were watching WFAA during those twelve minutes.
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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, January 6, 2016

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  • This comment was posted yesterday and I wanted to share it in case it got overlooked. It’s raw and helped me gain some perspective and I want to thank the person for taking the time to write it. It was a response to Gordon Keith’s loss of his parents and my thoughts of being “orphaned” or without any living parents.
    • I’ve been nobody’s son for several years now, and both my parents are still alive. You spend a lot of time missing them, and I suppose that’s admirable in some ways, but you should spend more time being grateful for having had great parents. I realize those two emotions may be inseparable, and it’s not meant as a criticism. But for those of us who have had drunk assholes as parents, then spend a significant number of years trying to be the good son, then finally decide to cut the dead weight from our lives, it’s liberating. I’m not sure I will know when my parents die. I know for certain I won’t grieve for them.
  • I too had to part ways with a close family member, one that I idolized as a kid and teen. And as much as I miss the relationship, I’m thankful I no longer feel like I’m walking on eggshells or trying to make it work. Sometimes you do have to cut the dead weight, and it is liberating.
  • For those of you that have gotten a lot out of Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’, I think you’d enjoy the series ‘Rectify’ which is also streaming on Netflix. At least, give the pilot a try. In short, the main character, Daniel Holden, was imprisoned as a teenager for the rape and murder of his 16-year-old friend, Hanna. After 19 years on death row, new DNA evidence vacates his original trial, and he returns to his small Georgia hometown. The DA that tried him is now a senator trying to reopen the case with other small town politics coming into play, and you get to see Daniel try to adjust to a world which passed him by, by 19-years.
  • Natalie Cole died on the last day of 2015 at the age of 65. I bet many folks would be surprised to her that her legendary father, Nat King Cole, died at the age of 45.
  • I never knew that former President George H.W. Bush resigned from the NRA back in 1995.
  • If you want to win a Ted Cruz engraved shotgun, enter for a chance to win at his website – TedCruz.org/l/gun-raffle/
  • Nigerian email scammer faces 30 years in Texas jail
  • Josh Hamilton must be devasted – Sherlock’s on Central Expressway closes as lease expires
  • An interactive chart of causes of death in the U.S.
  • Buzzfeed – This Mayor Had Been In Office Less Than A Day When She Was Gunned Down – Gisela Mota, 33, was in charge of Temixco, Mexico, for only hours before she was killed.
  • According to this Dallas Morning News interview, a $510 million data center by Digital Lewisville LLC is going to be built in Lewisville.
  • Shepherds pie is back at Costco, you have no idea how happy that makes me.
  • WifeGeeding should know better than let me shop at Costco alone. I was asked to just pick up toilet paper, green tea, and protein shakes, and I left with much more than that.
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