Paul Newman is a legend in my book.

First of all, Slap Shot is one of the greatest sports movies of all time. And it easily the greatest hockey movie ever made. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Here’s a brief rundown of just some of his iconic films: Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Road to Perdition, and many, many more.

Here are 7 facts about the man, the myth, the legend!

1. The gridiron.

Newman originally wanted to be a professional football player. He played in high school and got a football scholarship to play at Kenyon College in Ohio.

He was kicked off of his college team for fighting and then became interested in the theater. He ended up going to the Yale School of Drama and then moved to New York to be a full-time actor.

2. Not a fan…

Newman thought his first film role was the worst movie he ever appeared in. His first starring role came in 1954’s The Silver Chalice and Newman thought the film was just terrible.

Good thing he moved on past that turkey…

3. That’s not me…

Early in his career, Newman was commonly mistaken for actor Marlon Brando from people on the street.

Instead of correcting them, Newman would sign autographs that read “Best Wishes, Marlon Brando.”

4. A real prankster.

The actor liked to play practical jokes and he enjoyed faking his own death. During the making of Exodus, Newman tossed a dummy off of a building and director Otto Preminger believed it was Newman. He repeated this prank during the making of The Mackintosh Man for director John Huston as well.

While making Slap Shot, Newman scared the hell out of director George Roy Hill by climbing behind the wheel of a wrecked car and acting like he had been involved in an accident.

5. Introduction to racing.

Newman was a well-known fan of car racing and his introduction to the sport came when he starred in the 1969 movie Winning. He started racing as an amateur in 1972 and he won his first race at the professional level in 1982.

He continued to drive all the way up until 2005. He said, “I’ll always talk about racing because the people are interesting and fun, the sport is a lot more exciting than anything else I do, and nobody cares that I’m an actor. I wish I could spend all my time at the racetrack.”

6. Nixon was not a fan.

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As we all know now, President Richard Nixon was incredibly paranoid and liked to keep tabs on people he considered enemies. Paul Newman made Nixon’s list because he supported candidate Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election and he was a highly vocal critic of the Vietnam War.

Newman found out that Nixon compiled a list of his personal enemies in 1971.

The actor later got a copy of the list and had it framed.

7. A stand-up guy. 

During the making of the 1998 film Twilight, Newman discovered that he and Gene Hackman were making a lot more money than their c0-star Susan Sarandon, who was receiving equal billing with the two actors.

Newman offered to give up part of his salary to make things equal for Sarandon.

What’s your favorite Paul Newman movie?

Please share with us in the comments!

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Dogs are the best! At least IMO. They bring happiness, love, and wet snout kisses that makes the ‘ruff’ days go away. Whether we’re embarking on a new journey or gaining a new leash on life, our pals are always there.

So what if you were asked, “Would you cut 5 years off your life and give them to your dog? If so, why?” Would you trade time with your doggo?

See what the community at AskReddit had to say!

11. The bravest doggo ever

My family and I were on vacation at a cabin in Maine. Got caught walking up from the lake by a bear after dark. Couldn’t tell it was a bear until it stood up and the motion light turned on. It was standing over 6 foot tall between us and the cabin. It fell forward onto it’s front feet, huffing. It made a noise like a dinosaur. Who shit my pants??

Without a sound, my lazy shit dog launched an attack from behind the bear.

I’m tearing up thinking about it. I ran the kids into the cabin, grabbed the rifle and spent the next five minutes running through dark woods, trying to follow the sounds of my growling dog and a furious bear. The growling stopped and I could hear the bear running off through the woods.

My dogs name is Daisy. She’s an English bull terrier. She was 15 years old at the time. It took two hours to find Daisy after the bear ran off. She had what looked like road rash along her sides, her hip was broken and her leg was crushed. She was curled next to a tree with her tail thumping the ground. Her white fur all shades of red and pink.

This dog is afraid of the Swiffer. I love her so much. I owe Daisy 3 lives, fuck 5 years.

10. This response is paw-some

Possibly but only if I could find out what age I was meant to die firts. It would be a cruel twist if I agreed to this, only to find out that I was meant to die less than five years from now and not get to spend any more time with my dog.

9. What is five years in dog-life?

No, it would be like adding 35 years to my dog. He is 14, blind and clearly suffering to old age. I couldn’t do that to him

8. Because maths…

I love my three dogs dearly, and I will do so for the rest of their lives. To give each of them 5 years would mean 15 years less of mine…. 15 years is another dog’s lifetime… in 15 years I can have more sweet pups and thus save more dogs’ lives as I only take from shelters or from the roadside. So being selfish and keeping the ones I love now for longer and letting future pups who need love as well die too soon or all alone… No. Let my darlings live their lives out happily, I will miss them all, but there is always another that need love again.

7. Yep, I feel this

I don’t even own a dog and this question hurts me…

6. The rainbow bridge it is

As much as most people would want 5 more years with their friend, I wouldn’t want them to suffer or feel the pains of old age. Dogs live the length of life they do because that is their nature. Prolonging their lifespan just for personal reasons is selfish.

Besides, while you might lose a part of yourself when you lose your friend, there is another doggo out there to help fill that hole in your heart, and especially so if you rescue them.

5. Dogs are human therapy

Yes, because my dog ( and my previous pets ) are the biggest reason I haven’t committed suicide, or got into drugs etc. They are my antidepressant. And yes, I have family, friends etc. but only dogs were always completely honest… I did own the cat once..that **nt would murder me in my sleep tough.

4. Putting the paw down

Your death affects more than just you. Five years with friends and family has a lot of room for happiness. Five years without a loved one can seem an eternity. I’m sorry, but no, I would never end my life early for any pet.

3. Ruh-Roh

Nope. Because dogs are cool but at the end of the day, they’re still dogs

2. *Tail stops wagging*

I absolutely love dogs, but if you answer yes to this question, you probably need some mental health check. Because you either dangerously obsessed with your pets, or you value your life way lass than you should. Either way it’s not the norm and shouldn’t be accepted.

1. This is the ulti-mutt!

Dude, I’d split our life forces evenly so we just die at the same time. My pets are my boyz.

Dogs are our fur-ever friends and personally I’d give mine five more years before the rainbow bridge.

What do you think? Would you trade time with your buddy?

Let us know in the comments!

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As Dagmar Turner’s surgeons operated on her brain in London, she did the thing that was most important to her: playing her violin.

A video made of the surgery shows Turner drawing her bow back and forth across the violin’s strings as the surgeons continued operating behind a plastic sheet to remove a brain tumor.

Her doctors purposely woke her in the middle of the operation and had her play so they knew they weren’t interfering with the parts of her brain that controlled the fine movements necessary to play.

In a press release, King’s College neurosurgeon Keyoumars Ashkan said,

“We knew how important the violin is to Dagmar, so it was vital that we preserved function in the delicate areas of her brain that allowed her to play.”

Turner, 53, had lived with the slow growing tumor ever since doctors discovered it in 2o13. Recently, the growth became more aggressive and Turner decided to move forward with surgery to remove it.

She told ITV News that doctors explained since the tumor was on the right side of her brain, it would only affect function on the left side of her body. But when she explained she made her livelihood playing the violin, doctors came up with a plan to minimize risk to her hand’s functioning.

In their statement, the hospital said,

“Prior to Dagmar’s operation they spent two hours carefully mapping her brain to identify areas that were active when she played the violin and those responsible for controlling language and movement.”

Check out the video. It really is amazing!

Turner said in the hospital press release,

“The violin is my passion; I’ve been playing since I was 10 years old.

The thought of losing my ability to play was heart-breaking but, being a musician himself, Prof. Ashkan understood my concerns.”

Ashkan called the surgery a success saying that almost all of the tumor was removed without interruption to her playing.

Mapping a patient’s brain before surgery uses technology called functional MRI. This map gives doctors critical information about how a person’s brain works when comprehending certain concepts and performing certain tasks.

When doctors are making decisions by the millimeter, access to this knowledge ensures their patient will recover with the ability to follow their passions exactly as before.

Amazing medicine at work!

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What would you do if you won the lottery? Would you take the cash lump sum to relieve financial debt or take annuities over ten years?

Some people may be yelling,”YOLO!” while running for the bank. Others might say, “Invest!” I’m on the side of tossing my Benjamin’s in the air and having fun! But whatever your choice, make it good one!

AskReddit proposed the same question,

“If you could pick between $100,000 tomorrow or $1,000,000 in ten years, what would you pick and why?”

The answers are surprisingly practical!

19. Good choice

100k tomorrow. I was just laid off today.

18. Banking on survival

I’m not getting that kind of return on 100k.

I can survive the ten years without a windfall. I mean, it’s not like I’m expecting one now and know I’ll survive.

17. I’d say keep paying that pension!

$1m in ten years.

Can just stop paying my pension for some extra bonus cash now until the big pay day comes.

16. Situational decisions are warranted

100,000 tomorrow.

Because I’m 55 years old and not in the greatest of health.

15. Make the king daddy of money proud

A lot of people who know how to “wisely invest” $100,000 and grow it to over $1,000,000 in 10 years.

Warren Buffet would be proud.

14. Time is currency

$1,000,000 in ten years, 100%.

I’m only 18, I probably won’t have even entered my final career at that point.

13. Life begins at 26, BTW

1 mil please.

I’d only be 26, that’s when I’d be just really starting my life.

12. The ultimate nest egg

$1mm in 10 years.

I don’t believe I can spin that $100,000 into over $1mm within that 10 years, certainly not when you factor taxes and other fees.

Also, as much as I’d LOVE that money, I don’t NEED it right now. It would be life changing right now, for sure, but that $1mm safety net in 10 years would be even more life changing. So I’d just stick it out, enjoy my life as usual, do my thing.

Sleep a little easier knowing I get one hell of a birthday present coming in 2030.

11. Don’t discount your life

$100,000 tomorrow.

I could get myself a place, stick half of it in savings and start to actually live my life.

It’s not the option that gives me the most wealth, but life isn’t about wealth it’s about living, and I’m fed up of my current situation.

10. Snag your captain’s hat and Cisco shorts!

The $100,000 because with all my r/wallstreetbets experience Id rake in the tendies and be on a yacht in no time.

Literally can’t go tits up.

9. Live for today, bro

I don’t know if i’m gonna be here in 10 years, or if i’m gonna need that much money.

What I know, is that tomorrow I’ll be here and I’m gonna be broke af.

So yeah, the first option.

8. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life”

All these replies acting like you should hold onto debt for 10 years just so you can get a bigger payout underestimate the freedom that you feel knowing all your money belongs to you.

Without that psychological baggage you can really live your life to the fullest.

Plus you can start working to build your credit score again if necessary.

7. YOLO!

100k tomorrow, no question.

I could quit my job that crushes my soul, I could move to a city that would be a better fit for me. I could go on a trip and relax for a few weeks.

Look, I don’t expect this to fix all my problems, but I could restart my life a bit and not compromise in as many areas.

6. He’s about making a huge deposit into a career

$100k tomorrow means I could invest in a good career and drastically increase my earning potential.

5. Is it better to be wise or foolish?

Getting 1mil later is wiser.

And I’d choose it, but just barely – 100k now would have so many immediate benefits for the quality of my life and my family.

If I was 21 and not 31, then I’d tell the 100k to f**k off and come back in 10 years’ time.

4. Never be a bore

The million in 10 years 100k could change my life, but I would be boring and invest it.

1 million could make a big immediate impact when it comes. I am okay with delayed gratification, and the 100k will not net me a million after a mere 10 years

3. Beyond the Benjamin’s

Why does every redditor think they’re gonna f**king die within 10 years???

2. Jump start a business

$100,000 tomorrow.

We’re running and growing a small business (a real one, not MLM stuff), and I think that investing that much in our growth today would make it worth more than $1M ten years from now.

1. Drawing a demographic line in the sand

I think this question divides people pretty clearly along the rich/poor line.

Sure, 1m in ten years would be great but 100k tomorrow looks a lot better when you are struggling to afford rent, food and petrol.

Overall, its safe to say people consider windfalls differently. But what if tomorrow never comes? That mula would be wasted!

What about you? What would you do?

Let us know in the comments!

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There are certain flavors that absolutely go together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Beer and pizza. And now… ranch and buffalo sauce.

YUM!

Yes, Franks RedHot dropped a new buffalo sauce mixed with ranch, and we are ALL in. Now your buffalo wings will not only have a kick, but the coolness of America’s favorite dressing. Can you say mouth-gasm?

Franks RedHot is no stranger to the hot sauce game. It’s celebrating 100 years in the industry! And they keep perfecting their science of our love for sauces.

@dadbodsnacks was first to break the news!

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And the comments agreed!

Because how can you not be down with this?

It’s wingssss time!!!!

It’s an idea that YOU wish you had thought of!

Their website describes this finger-licking sauce as,

“Versatile Frank’s RedHot Buffalo ‘N Ranch Thick Sauce might be all the sauce you will ever need – it’s great for dipping, topping and cooking.

This awesome sauce is the ultimate blend of flavor and heat from Frank’s RedHot Sauce and the creaminess from ranch dressing.”

Think of all the possibilities! Buffalo chicken dip, wings, cauliflower bites (for the vegetarians!) and more.

Frank’s even gets down with sharing recipes on their site for anyone wanting to make a rancho feast.

Happy eating!

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Suppose you’re working on a huge goal. You want to get straight As, get a raise, or start a new organization.

Or maybe it’s as simple as running a big race.

These things will require planning, discipline, and willpower.

You will want to give up at times, but then you remember your family, friends, and community will be proud once you finally get it done. This gives you the strength you need to continue working toward your new goal.

But how exactly does this happen? Here are 3 simple ways to help.

3. Make Your Success Their Success

When you stop thinking about your own success and figure out how it fits into the bigger picture, then it’s easier to keep pushing through your biggest obstacles.

It’s easier to understand this analogy if you play sports. Team sports instill a sense of community and belonging. Understanding your role and function can help your team work cohesively to obtain victory and success, but only if you all check your ego at the door.

2. Transcend Your Limitations

It’s hard to succeed in the face of obstacles, but it can be done.

Take janitors. People tend to overlook them and take their work for granted.

One study showed that janitors who work at a hospital or clinical setting are more invested in doing a good job if their work is seen as part of a greater purpose—caring for people who are ill.

1. Tie Your Tasks To Service

Even people who have seemingly boring jobs can find more workplace satisfaction if they tie their daily tasks with service.

Retail work and customer service are stressful, but if you have this type of job you can focus on how providing a timely refund or exchange decreases a customer’s unhappiness, or helps them find the right item and feel better.

Whatever your goals, decreasing your ego, seeing your work as part of something larger than yourself, and pushing yourself no matter what can really help you be on your way.

Do you think these tips can truly help regular people reach their goals? Why or why not?

Comment below with your perspective!

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Cameras for Pathways for Wildlife and Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) caught hilarious footage of two wild animal buds hanging out one night. An energetic coyote seemed to be waiting for his slow moving badger friend to catch up so they could enter a culvert together to cross under a highway.

In fact, the coyote seemed to encouraging his pal to hurry the hell up!

One of the best videos ever.

— Alton Brown (@altonbrown) February 4, 2020

This may not be all that unusual. Videographer Russ McSpadden said that coyotes and badgers will often hunt together at night. McSpadden’s tweet of the video went viral and even celebrity chef Alton Brown paused his recipe development to reply.

McSpadden’s video on Twitter was liked more than 778,000 times, while a video posted on Facebook by Center for Large Landscape Conservation was viewed more than 737,000 times.

In the video, the coyote jumps up and down wagging his tail at the entrance of the culvert. Seconds later, a badger waddles up and both of them enter the culvert together. The video ends as we see their little behinds disappear into the darkness.

 

Seems like people are very interested in what goes on at night between animal friends.

We’re betting an evening out with an excited coyote and a laidback badger could get pretty comical.

But that’s what we think… what do you think? Let us know in the comments!

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Some employers can be down right insensitive. Some managers only see the dollar signs even when staff is dealing with personal issues. It’s a shame really. There are many statistics that talk about how a safe and empathetic work environment helps productivity. If only the these companies can get out of archaic times, they’d realize their old ways are damaging to the bottom line.

AskReddit was all a blaze when asked,

“What is the most bonkers thing that happened to you or your work and your employer STILL expected you to continue your work day?”

Some stories will have your jaw dropping while others are relatable AF.

12. Still open during a hurricane

“Right after Hurricane Sandy, the bank I worked for had no power for days, so obviously we couldn’t do any banking.

Rather than just close, my manager insisted that the entire staff show up for shifts as usual, just so we could sit in our normal seats in our uniforms and winter jackets to tell any customers who wandered in that we didn’t have power and couldn’t help them with anything at all.

Just about every single person asked us some variation of “then what the hell are you doing here?”

It sucked.”

11. Beware of shady companies and seedy hotels

“Worked for a small graphic design company fresh out of school. They used cracked software, didn’t really pay anyone and were generally shady but I didn’t really think anything of it, until the FBI showed up.

Apparently they also didn’t pay their taxes and so my boss was taken away in handcuffs and the office was closed.

Or so I thought.

Our boss called our creative director from jail and told us to work from this seedy motel room he set up to finish up the assignment or else we wouldn’t get paid.

Nobody showed apparently as we all decided now would be a good time to look for new opportunities.”

10. If you can’t take the heat…take off your tie.

“The air-conditioning broke down and people started passing out from the heat.

But they let us take our ties off, so that was generous.”

9. What a pissy day

“Someone spilled (or poured out) a bottle of deer attractant on the floor under the shelves in the sporting goods section of WalMart.

Stank of deer piss for…well, actually, it probably still does.

They never cleaned it, and we had ammo to sell.”

8. This employer is “bark”-core

“I was working at a pet store and was used to being bitten by the pets we sold, hamsters, ferrets, birds – no big deal.

This day, however, as I was helping a woman who had brought her dog in, it attacked me. Luckily it was a small-ish/medium sized dog so it didn’t get my face, but I had big bleeding holes all up and down one arm. The lady never said sorry, and my manager told me to go to the back, get cleaned up, and come back out and ring on the resister.

So I did, with big blood splatters all over my yellow uniform shirt.”

7. Definitely a toxic environment

“Automotive painting.

Been complaining about my mask parts needing replacing for a few weeks. Finally my mask broke and I refused to paint because toxic fumes where coming into my mask. Being the only automotive painter…. work came to a halt. I was told to get in there and paint or else. I pointed at the security camera and asked him to say that again but a little louder.

He fired 2 people that day but I wasn’t one of them.”

6. Safety not first

“At a factory, sliced my finger open using a cutting blade that had been partially broken, resulting in the spare blade hidden inside it coming partially out of an opening. I grabbed the blade and started using the proper portion of it, but I had unknowingly placed my right index finger right over the exposed spare. I started slicing with the blade and cut a line down my finger from about the middle to the tip.

Immediately started dripping blood all over, called my boss over radio, they ushered me into the nurse’s office. They didn’t want me to go to a hospital or any form of urgent care because that would have been an “incident” and reset the “days since last incident” tracker that people got bonuses for. I was young and let them pressure me into accepting that. So they wrapped it up tight until my finger looked like it had a cast on it, and sent me back to work.

It wasn’t that deep, although it looked nasty. It probably could have used stitches. It healed ok, but I still have a noticeable scar.”

5. “Would you like dust with that?”

“Worked as a busboy for a now closed restaurant.

I came in for my shift one time when they had roofers working on the roof. The section of roof they worked on was all terra-cotta roof tile and they needed to remove it all to replace it. The upper management decided it was a “great” idea to have this work done during the lunch hours and were open for those hours. Little did they all know is there were cracks on the ceiling inside and while the removal was happening the terra-cotta tile dust was raining inside all over the guests and their food. Management still tried to continue restaurant service as usual but the guests were having none of it and just walked out. I come to an empty restaurant littered with tile dust and we were expected to clean it up before dinner started.

It took at least a month for my lungs to clean out that shit because I was not provided any respiratory gear to clean up that mess.”

4. Rain or shine…

“Snowstorm dumped like 6 inches of snow the day before and then rained creating a sheet of ice on the roads. People were literally abandoning their vehicles on the sides of the highway because the driving conditions got so treacherous it was safer to walk.

I had just recently gotten an All Wheel Drive SUV, and was expected to come in that next day, while my coworker who had a two wheel drive sedan was allowed to stay at home until the ice melted. I tried explaining that AWD does not automatically mean safe to operate on icy roads (I didn’t even have chains yet at the time), but that went over like a lead balloon.”

3. Accident or not, there’s no excuse to call off

“I had been in an accident where I was hit by a van when on my bike. I was on my way to the hospital and shot a quick text to my immediate boss to let him know that I might not be in the next day, as I didn’t know what the damage was and how long I may be. He told me to take the day off to be sure I recovered properly.

The next day, his boss called me and asked me where the hell I was.

I told him I’d been hit by a van and he said, “And?”

I didn’t work there much longer after that.”

2. Rules are rules!

“College professor, not a boss:

In college, we had our final semester presentations that counted for 60% of our grade. I was on blood thinners at the time and the night before my presentation, I had an accident in the home and split my head open. 12 hours later, it was still bleeding.

First thing I did in the morning was email my professor with an explanation and a time-stamped photo of blood running down my face. I asked if I could present the following day instead and said that was not possible without a Doctor’s note. I had to go to the doctor, pay a $32 co-pay just so the teacher could write on a note “Philip’s head will not stop bleeding because of medication he is on. I can’t believe I had to write you this note”.

1. S**t happens

“Just a few weeks ago, a toilet on the floor above our 3 offices (branch of a law firm) got stopped up, then unclogged and flooded our offices with shit.

It affected the 2 lawyers, not me (legal assistant). Their desks and papers were soaked, carpets soaked, files soaked. HQ brought us some fans to dry the carpet. The office smelled like a huge BM. We still had clients coming in. No one was ever sent out to clean or remediate anything hazardous (mold, SHIT).

Our office is cleaned every 2 weeks and the cleaners didn’t come last Friday, which would have been 2 weeks since the leak.”

In the end, no your worth and find a company that takes pride in their employees!

In the meantime, tell us your “bonker” stories! Do that in the comments, fam!

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