TMC TUESDAY 8-10-21

• 7:20AM:  Totally Possible Trivia  (Amigos + Monster Truck Nitro Tour)
• 8:20AM:  Survey Says?!  (Long John Silvers)

STORY 1:  Does This Dishwasher Drying Hack Really Work?

A dishwasher hack has been making the rounds online.  Has anyone tried this, and does it really work?

A grandmother named Babs posts life hacks on TikTok.  And she showed people an easy way to dry your dishes after running them in the dishwasher.

Just drape a dry, terrycloth dish towel over the door and close it.  Then wait five minutes.  That’s it.

The towel is supposed to absorb all the moisture, so your dishes end up dry.  But we’ve seen a few people online who claim it doesn’t actually do much.

Our guess is it MIGHT help them dry if you do it right after the wash cycle ends while it’s still steaming.  But any pools of water would still be there.

Other people pointed out that you can also just leave the door open a little without a towel, and that works too.

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STORY 2:  A Woman Hired “Mrs. Bigfoot” to Sneak Into Her Six-Year-Old’s Birthday Party, and It Didn’t Go Well

It’s one thing to go ALL OUT for a kid’s birthday party.  But it’s ANOTHER LEVEL when you try to scare the jelly beans out of them.

A mother in Oklahoma was hosting a birthday party for her six-year-old girl . . . and she was bummed because her plans for a cake fell through.  So she came up with a bizarre back-up plan.

She hired “Mrs. Bigfoot” . . . a.k.a. “Cinnamon” . . . who would be in costume, and would surprise the kids by peeking in the windows at the party.  (And despite what it may sound like, this performer is NOT a stripper.)

Mrs. Bigfoot showed up, and the kids were immediately horrified, and began screaming, running, and crying.  Mrs. Bigfoot went in the house . . . and the kids eventually warmed up to her a little, but the mother says the kids still say they never want to see her again.

Mrs. Bigfoot arrived with balloons, wearing a tutu and a bow in her hair . . . so the mom says she thought it would be “cute and fun.”  But the kids “did not have that reaction.”

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If you’d like to hire Mrs. Bigfoot, here’s her Facebook.

DID YOU KNOW?

1. Blink-182 removed the red cross from the “nurse’s” hat on the cover of their album “Enema of the State” because the American Red Cross told them it was a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
2. There’s a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 19 in Arizona where all the signs only use kilometers, not miles. It’s a relic from the Carter administration, when they were trying to get the U.S. to switch to the metric system.  There’s still no plan to change them.
3. In real life, gun silencers don’t work like they do in movies. A gun with a silencer still makes a noise about as loud as a police siren . . . that’s about 100 times quieter than a gun WITHOUT a silencer, but still pretty loud.
4. You’re about 0.2 inches taller in the morning than at night, because the discs in your spine have been relaxing all night. Over the course of the day, they squash down a little bit.
5. The most lopsided game in college football history was in 1916 . . . Georgia Tech won 222-to-zero over a school from Tennessee called Cumberland College.