THIS WEEK'S DEAR JOHN LETTER!
Dear John,
My 9-year-old’s birthday is this weekend, and we are having a big party for her on Saturday. And it’s not cheap. It’s catered, and there’s a ton of entertainment and a big gift basket for everyone. I’m going all out. But last night, a mom called and canceled. And she has two kids. This party is costing me $45 per kid. All the RSVPs are in, and it’s too late to change the number with the caterer. Is it OK to ask her to pay for this last-minute cancellation? It’s not like her kids got sick or an emergency came up. It’s just that their Dad decided to take them out of town for the weekend. So why should that cost me money?
Signed
Mad
Momma
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TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
Spanish Paella Day
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-sangria/
SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
What it’s like outside plays a direct role in our productivity at work, according to 73% of people. A survey of 2,000 working adults found that over 1 in 4 feel that cool temps and clear blue skies have a connection to being more productive at work, and 43% said they do their best work in the spring. But the season they look forward to even more could be summer. The OnePoll survey found that about 6 in 10 (59%) are afforded the warm weather perk of “Summer Fridays”, when staff is allowed to work a short day, or day off on occasional Fridays during the warmest season.
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
“Law & Order” worlds are colliding again. NBC has announced that the flagship Law & Order series and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” will cross over on April 17. The 2-hour event will see SVU’s ‘Captain Olivia Benson’ (Mariska Hargitay) discover a brutal murder after a tip on a mysterious phone call. Members of both teams will investigate a series of rapes and murders victimizing marginalized women. SVU’s ‘ADA Dominick Carisi, Jr.’ (Peter Scanavino) and L&O’s ‘ADA Nolan Price’ (Hugh Dancy) will team up to prosecute the suspect. “Law & Order: Organized Crime” will air its season premiere immediately after the crossover episode, at 10pm.
According to Puck News, Will Smith is one of several celebs Netflix has approached about headlining their next live comedy roast — a no holds barred ribbing that would definitely invite jokes about the infamous Oscars slap — and his very public marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith. A Smith roast would follow “Tom Brady’s Greatest Roast of All Time”, which was broadcast live on Netflix in May 2023. No comment from Smith or Netflix so far.
If you have been waiting for the day when Tina Fey launches her own line of designer glasses, don’t hold your breath. The “30 Rock” creator, and former “SNL” head writer and star revealed on her friend Amy Poehler’s podcast that she has no interest in starting her own “side hustle.” When Pohler asked her frequent collaborator: “Why do you not have a glasses line? [Do] you hate money?”, Fey joked: “I do kind of hate money.” She went on to explain that she has “a problem with rich people having a side hustle.” When Poehler jokingly asked if she was referring to a friend starting a podcast, she responded: “Yeah, if you already have like $200 million … I judge it.”
DID YA KNOW!?
Did you know one of Marilyn Monroe's iconic dresses sold for millions? The iconic sparkly dress that Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy sold for a staggering $4.8 million at auction in 2016. To this day, this transaction remains the world record for the most expensive article of clothing ever sold, beating out the record previously held by yet another one of Monroe's dresses, the infamous white costume dress from the film The Seven Year Itch.
JOKE OF THE DAY
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SCOOP
OF THE DAY
Americans are expected to wager over $3 billion dollars on this year’s March Madness tournament — and the majority of that money will be wagered illegally, a report says.
If you’re the type who has been known to “sleep on the job”, the European Space Agency is looking for you. The ESA is offering up to $5,000 to volunteers who are OK with the idea of staying in bed – for 10 days straight. They need people who will lie on a waterbed for 10 days as part of a study at the Medes Space Clinic in Toulouse University Hospital. Why? The agency is conducting a study where they’ll replicate the effects of the human body in space. The ESA says the 10 volunteers will “lie down in containers similar to bathtubs covered with a waterproof fabric. This keeps them dry and evenly suspended in water.” They will be submerged to the torso, with arms and legs (and head) above water, but they will “experience a sensation of floating without physical support…close to what astronauts feel while on the International Space Station.” And because I know you’re wondering, volunteers will go to the toilet by being “temporarily transferred onto a trolley, maintaining their laid-back position at all times.” The experiment is only open to men. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3k3nx5sf
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.” — French soldier, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
NEWS TO ME
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FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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✓ The average adult spends more time on the toilet than exercising.
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A duck's quack
doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.
✓ The first portable calculator weighed 2-and-a-half pounds. The first VCR was the size of a piano.
✓ Your pupils expand by almost 50% when you look at something pleasing.
WEIRD NEWS
A Brit with a sweet-tooth and a good sense of humor was granted his wish to be buried in a Snickers-themed coffin. Friends and family laughed his idea off, but when he passed away, they discovered he’d actually put this quirky request in his will. So, his family had a coffin made to look like a partially-unwrapped Snickers bar, complete with the phrase “I’m nuts!” painted on the side. They say it was a perfect reflection of Paul’s fun-loving spirit. His funeral procession passed by his favorite cafĂ©, where friends in tribute T-shirts applauded his final journey in his candy-inspired coffin. They say the occasion was a touching and humorous farewell, just the way the mischievous and fun-loving Paul would’ve wanted it. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2f6fmx9n
QUESTION OF THE DAY
When asked what spring activity they were looking forward to most, 20% said THIS. What is it?
Answer: Riding their bike
HEIDI HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
THE 10 BEST REALITY TV ELIMINATION LINES:
1. “The tribe has spoken.” (Survivor)
2. “Your cab is here.” (Double Shot at Love)
3. “Please pack your knives and go.” (Top Chef)
4. “Now, sashay away.” (RuPaul’s Drag Race)
5. “Don’t call us — we’ll call you.” (The Starlet)
6. “You get the ax.” (Scream Queens)
7. “You’re out.” (Project Runway)
8. “Your time is up.” (Flavor of Love)
9. “You are NOT the biggest loser.” (The Biggest Loser)
10. “The tour ends here.” (Rock of Love with Bret Michaels)
GOOD NEWS
Shoppers
Overjoyed As Woolworths Hands Out Free Vouchers After Cyclone Alfred
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news
