TMC WEDNESDAY 7-21-21

• 7:20AM:  Totally Possible Trivia  (Amigos)
• 8:20AM:  Survey Says?!  (Mamma Mia Tickets)
• 9:30AM:  Club KQ  (Axe Holes)

STORY 1:  It’s National Hot Dog Day . . . Which States Down the Most Hot Dogs?

We’re right between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which means its peak HOT-DOG SEASON.

In fact, National Hot Dog Day is TODAY . . . so someone looked into which states love hot dogs the most, using data from the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council and Google.

West Virginia is #1 . . . followed by North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Maine, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Nevada.

Among individual cities, Buffalo is #1 . . . followed by Raleigh / Durham, North Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina.

In all, Americans will consume 7 BILLION hot dogs between Memorial Day and Labor Day . . . and MUSTARD is the most popular topping.

Go here for more.

STORY 2:  Dictionary.com Added More Than 300 Words, Including Zaddy, Oof, and Y’all

Dictionary.com just announced a huge update with more than 300 new words and revisions of old words.

The additions include:  Newsworthy things, like “5G” . . . “long COVID” . . . and “domestic terrorism.”

Cultural things like:  “Deplatform” . . . “minoritize” . . . “side hustle” . . . and “y’all,” which somehow wasn’t already on Dictionary.com.

Internet lingo like:  “Trigger warning,” abbreviated to “TW” . . . “content warning,” abbreviated to “CW” . . . and “DEI,” meaning “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

And just silly stuff like:  “Oof” . . . “silver fox” . . . “yeet” . . . “zaddy,” which is an attractive man who’s also stylish, charming, and self-confident . . . and “snack,” as in a sexy person.

They also formalized some profane words:  “[S-word]show”, which got an honorable mention for the People’s Choice 2020 Word of the Year . . . and “a**hat.”

Go here for more.

STORY 3:  A Woman in Quarantine Was Busted Having Cigarettes Delivered By Drone

Australia has done better than most other countries throughout the pandemic, because it closed its external AND internal state borders, and forced travelers to quarantine in a hotel.

But today there are two stories of people there trying to BREAK THE RULES.

First, a woman was busted earlier this month having cigarettes delivered to the roof of her hotel . . . BY DRONE.  She was caught by a hotel staff member, and the police have fined her $1,300.

A man was operating the drone from below.  It’s unclear if he could also be punished.  (This may be against the rules, but a drone delivery seems like a smart way to hand something off while social distancing.)

Also in Australia, a 39-year-old man ESCAPED his hotel quarantine yesterday by tying bed sheets together . . . tossing it out his window . . . and using it as a rope to descend down FOUR STORIES to the street below.

He was caught, arrested, and charged with failure to comply.

Go here for more.
Go here for photos of the bed sheet rope.

DID YOU KNOW?

1. Alligators go through a pseudo-hibernation in the winter. And they keep their noses above the surface of the water, so if it freezes over they can still breathe.
2. The song with the longest title ever on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was a disco medley from 1981 by the group Stars on 45. Its title was 218 characters long: “Medley:  Intro ‘Venus’ / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I’ll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want to Know a Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You’re Going to Lose That Girl / Stars on 45”.
3. Despite the myths, your hair and fingernails don’t keep growing after you die.
4. Animal life stops at 1.2 miles below the surface of the earth. Some worms live that low . . . but nothing lives lower.
5. “Miracle on 34th Street” was released in June of 1947, even though it was a Christmas movie, because the head of the studio believed more people saw movies during the summer.