On November 22, 1963, an unidentified woman placed a phone call to a news station, telling them John F Kennedy was about to be killed. The call was placed about 20 minutes before his assassination, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles.
There were only two English words that end in “gry”– hungry and angry. In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added a third– “hangry” (an irritable state induced by lack of food).
During the early years of the Tour de France, guzzling alarming amounts of alcohol was the norm. Beer, wine, and brandy were considered safer to drink than water from questionable roadside wells or springs, and cyclists drank copiously.
Before asbestos was seen as hazardous, a Han dynasty general had a jacket made from it. He would pretend to spill wine on it at dinners. Then he’d throw it into a fire and pull it out to show it was still intact to impress his guests.
Grafting tomato shoots onto tobacco roots in 2003, Rob Baur claimed to be the first to create tomacco, the addictive tomato tobacco hybrid conceived by the Simpsons in 1999. While the leaves had nicotine, the tomatoes did not.
I grew up with two sisters and my memory of the early years is a little hazy but I’m fairly sure we were all absolute terrors.
At the time it was easy to look at my parents as killjoys who wanted nothing in this world but to engender my perpetual disappointment, but in retrospect, I think we’re lucky they didn’t sell us to a passing circus or something. Because kids can be…a lot.
To illustrate what I’m talking about, here are ten tweets from parents who know the struggle all too well.
10. Once upon a time…
And they never heard from her again.
Parenting hack: Tell much lamer bedtime stories than your spouse so that your children will ask for them instead of you every night.
My husband walked into our closet to find me drinking a large coffee and eating a donut in the dark. He says, “do the kids know you’re in here?” To which I replied, “ Welcome to the teachers lounge”!!!
Ahh so being a parent is mostly walking round the house putting lids on stuff your child has left out and being married is mostly waking round the house closing windows your husband has opened.
To the parents out there dealing with the joys and pains of raising a kid, I salute you. From my bed. Where I can nap. Because I don’t have kids. Good luck!
Do you have kids? What’s the experience been like?
So here’s the story: two best friends in San Jose, California, named Catherine and Allison had single parents so they decided it would be a good idea to “Parent Trap” them, or set them up on a date.
The two friends didn’t know how it would work out, but their parents ended up having a great connection.
Here’s a short version of Allison telling the story on TikTok.
Allison went into more depth about the love connection when she talked to Buzzfeed.
She said,
“We’d often discuss our mutual desire to help them each find love. We hadn’t even thought about introducing them.
Her mom had always had bad luck with men, and my dad was so hesitant to even put himself out there. I think they had both been single for 10+ years.”
Allison continued,
“The more we talked about it, the more we realized they had a lot of very random things in common (their mutual obsession with Mamma Mia, their favorite jazz artist Diana Krall, and their deep love and connection to their favorite local restaurant, The Pastaria & Market).”
I’m from the midwest, not the south, but it felt like there were some cultural elements that sort of sifted up our way, especially via my dad. As a result, I’ve always felt a sort of half-kinship with Southern culture coupled with a lot of baffled feelings toward just what the heck is going on down there.
To help me understand, here are what I’m told are some very quality southern memes.
Legends are not made, they’re born…is that how the saying goes? Or something kind of like that…?
Whatever the case, I think you’ll agree with me very shortly that a 4-year-old girl named Charlie will now forever be remembered for her hilarious and defiant attitude that came out in full force during a dance recital that was thankfully captured on video.
The little girl’s name is Charlie and, as you’ll see in the videos below, she stood motionless and refused to move a single muscle during the recital while wearing a tutu for six whole minutes while her fellow dancers got down to business.
Charlie’s mother, Tiffany Cosby, didn’t realize her daughter become TikTok famous until a co-worker told her about it.
Tiffany asked her daughter why she stood motionless during the recital and Charlie replied, “there were a lot of people.” Well, she’s not wrong about that…
At the end of the recital, Charlie finally did give in and she decided to dance just a little bit when she was moved away from being front and center…I guess she just couldn’t resist.