Spring is in the air, with it and April showers, brings Easter, the Oscars, and some big dates & dinosaurs throughout our history. Let’s take a look at the month that was. And some bad jokes to go with it.
To start us off, fun fact: In case you missed it, the first Thursday of April is "National Burrito Day. Also meaning, the first Friday is National Toilet Paper Day.
Following the death of Prince Philip, the BBC received over 100,000 complaints over its excessive coverage. Secretly, don’t we all hope to achieve the same when we die.
At age 65, Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown also passed away. When’s the funeral?
Saturday Night.
The Oscars came and went. The big winners were, essentially, those expected. The big losers were, essentially, the audience, and, lack of audience. Thanks to an award order switch up, lots of folks felt shafted when Best Picture wasn’t presented last. And, seems it’s a race to the bottom for ratings. First the Golden Globes laid a golden turd (Tina & Amy were great hosts, btw), now the Academy Awards. The Oscars lost more viewers since last year then people who actually tuned in this year. Final viewer numbers came in under 10 million. How much longer till the Oscars are done via podcast.
The annual Best Countries report came out, stating Canada is the best country to live in. They obviously didn’t check housing prices. Canada, Come for the Maple Syrup, stay for the taxes
Latest research is, billions of Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs once roamed Earth. The discovery happened when someone noticed ‘billions of T-Rex served’ on the burger joint sign in a Flintstones episode
Some interesting tidbits of history hit us in April.
In 1970, the 13th was the day an oxygen tank blew up on Apollo 13, the historic rescue story would follow. This is one of those weird ones: Released in 1995, the movie ‘Apollo 13’ has now been out longer than the time between the real event happening, and the movie coming out. Yes, we are getting old.
April 14th 1912 marked the sinking of the Titanic. Word is if you start the James Cameron movie at 11:26pm, the ship will sink in the movie right around 2:20 a.m., the exact time the real Titanic went down. And, 14 minutes into the movie, you can take a moment and mark the exact time, 11:40pm, when the ship hit the iceberg. Coincidentally, anyone who actually does any of this is a Titanic loser
It was 2009 when CTV aired the series finale for Corner Gas. Of course, as the show was based in a prairie town, they saw it coming from miles away.
Following the death of his father, John Hinkle, Jr. had the thumbhole of his dad’s bowling ball filled with his ashes. Then, he used the ball to bowl a perfect 300 game. When reached for comment: “I couldn’t have done it without my father’s ash hole”…. awkward.
More food news, IHOP has announced a new "Bacon Obsession" menu featuring top end bacon with a maple glaze, and, limited menu items like a Steakhouse Premium Bacon Burger, Candied Bacon Pancakes and a Maple Bacon Milkshake. Also announced, a slight restaurant rebrand to: International House of Pulmonary events.
In honor of National Grilled Cheese Day, Kraft launched Kraft Singles Grilled Cheese-cense this year. Yes, a grilled cheese sandwich scented incense. Light this, spill some beer in the corner, and your nose will think you are back in your college dorm all over again
Taco Bell has announced they're going to start recycling their sauce packets. Fitting, as their meat tastes like it already has been.
And a new study says you don’t hit peak self esteem until age 60. Don’t tell the emo teenagers
Finally, Not wanted, yet, I gotta put them somewhere. Here’s some bad COVID jokes:
People are pointing to a 'Betty' comic book from 1997, showing the "future", and turns out, it's our current reality: kids attending virtual school, via computer video chat, instead of physically going to a building. Gotta wonder if Jughead would be eating veggie burgers by now. Also notable, Betty, cute then, still now, and always will be in the future.
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a nationwide ketchup shortage. The top condiment, restaurants are now scrambling to get a hold of Ketchup supply. If vegemite was ever gonna catch on in North America, Australians this is your chance!
And word is, a nasal spray developed by a Canadian company actually kills 99% of the coronavirus. It stops the virus in the upper airways, preventing it from incubating and going to your lungs. If anything like the vaccines, the rest of the world will have access to it before Canadians do.
- Gilmore
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