When we were kids, we didn't need a groundhog to tell us when Spring had started.
All we needed was this guy...
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Dateline, circa 1983 - Angelinos may have gone to sleep in Hollywood,
but they woke up in "Hollyweed." Overnight, someone altered the famous hilltop sign using tarp to turn the O's into E's.
The man responsible was caught on security cameras messing with the sign at around 2 a.m. local time. His handiwork remained up for nine hours before authorities took it down. Even though most of the sign is rigged to alert the police if anyone tampers with it, there are also apparently ways to get up behind the sign without triggering any alarms. This is what authorities believe happened. The Hollywood sign has been vandalized to read "Hollyweed" before, once in 1976 and again in 1983.
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Brothers Eric and Marc Staal, who both play for the Florida Panthers, did not participate in the pregame skate Thursday night because they declined to wear the team's LGBTQIA+ Pride Night warmup sweaters, citing their religious beliefs. The brothers were in the lineup for the 6-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, as they also were participants during team's morning skate.
"After many thoughts, prayers and discussions we have chosen not to wear a pride night jersey tonight," the brothers said in a statement released by the Panthers. "We carry no judgement on how people choose to live their lives, and believe that all people should be welcome in all aspects of the game of hockey. Having said that, we feel that by us wearing a pride jersey it goes against our Christian beliefs.
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who wrote - and the ones who drew - comic books like Archie and Jughead and all the other spin-off ones like Josie and the Pussycats were all just a bunch of degenerate - but very talented - dirty old men. And god bless them for having been so.
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NYPD (before they had PA Cops) riding in a “catwalk car” in the Holland Tunnel, New York in 1954. They must have been around a while longer because I can remember seeing them zipping back and forth when I was a kid riding in to the city to see my grandmother with my parents.
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Walmart to close a series of stores across nine states this year due to falling profits - after announcing hundreds of layoffs at fulfilment centers
Walmart announced they're shuttering 12 stores across nine states and Washington DC this year due to failing profits - on the same day they announced hundreds of layoffs at fulfilment centers.
The big box chain has been closing a handful of stores annually in recent years, always citing the location 'underperforming.' The retail behemoth is also closing two stores in Illinois and Arkansas that were 'pick-up only.'
The main locations ending their run are in Washington DC, Florida, Illinois, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington State and Wisconsin. It comes the same day the company announced hundreds of workers at five facilities that fulfill e-commerce orders are being asked to find jobs within 90 days at other company locations. About 200 workers at Pedricktown, New Jersey, and hundreds of others at Fort Worth, Texas; Chino, California; Davenport, Florida; and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania were let go due to a reduction or elimination in evening and weekend shifts.
The layoffs at Walmart, a retail bellwether because of its size, could be a harbinger of further turmoil in the U.S. economy, which many economists predict could enter recession this year.
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If you're Irish you celebrate that all
year long. Here's a nice little gift
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The woman in this picture is Gail Brown. She is
The World’s Very First Ford Mustang Owner.
Sixty or so years ago, a 22-year-old Chicago schoolteacher traded in a $400 Chevy and borrowed the rest of the money to cover the $3,419 Mustang on an egg-shell blue convertible. “I was the coolest teacher in the school that year,” said Gail. And yes, she still owns the car. The Ford Motor Company has offered to buy it from her numerous times, to no avail.
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A Florida state representative was hilariously duped into reading the names “Anita Dick” and “Holden Hiscock” into the record during a committee meeting this week. Republican Will Robinson Jr., who represents Florida House District 71 (the area around Bradenton), read a list of people into the record aloud - including the dirty fake names - during the House Civil Justice Subcommittee meeting on Monday, according to Insider Paper. “Anita Dick,” he reads, pausing and looking around as a woman next to him holds up her hand to her mouth. “Is an opponent. Waives in opposition,” he finishes.
“Holden Hiscock is also an opponent,” Robinson continued, seemingly unaware of the euphemisms. “Waives in his opposition.” After video of the gaffe circulated on social media, Robinson invited Ms. Dick and Mr. Hiscock to stop by the next meeting.
You can see it on video here:
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My mom grew up in the forties and fifties on Virginia Street in Jersey City. In the mid-sixties, we were living in Oakland and she taught me to listen for the twinkling notes of the ice cream man. She would be outside with me to welcome the truck and I would get an unexpected afternoon ice cream. It's a good memory.
ReplyDeleteI'll guarantee you most of the Walmart closures are stores that some of these cities or states made them open in order for them to obtain other plum locations. That game has been going on for years with big retailers. They merely open in what we politely refer too as "under served areas" then when the stores secure the locations they wanted all along they merely pull the plug on the losers. Just once I'd love to see a CEO of a big chain come out and say that the reason we're closing is because it seems colored folks don't believe in paying for anything. I don't know about you but that store would have my life long loyalty after that
ReplyDeleteAh, that "Mr. Softee" theme music ...... that brings me back !
ReplyDeleteI remember those little carts running in the Lincoln Tunnel when I was young , so they were still running at least into the early/mid 60s .