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By News Sep 10, 2020 | 5:08 AM

TODAY’S BLOG — You won’t win a Jelly Belly factory in its founder’s “Willy Wonka” contest … This year’s Toy Hall of Fame finalists … A topless woman is busted for public intoxication when she’s caught chewing on a miniature horse’s mane …

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Story 1:  You Won’t Win a Jelly Belly Factory in Its Founder’s “Willy Wonka” Contest

If you haven’t heard about this (go here), earlier this week, one of the founders of Jelly Belly announced he’s holding a Willy Wonka-style contest where people can find golden tickets to try to win one of his candy factories.

Well . . . Jelly Belly just put out an IMPORTANT message.  While David Klein FOUNDED their company, he sold his stake 40 years ago and owns a different candy company, called Spectrum Confections.

And you can tell Jelly Belly is not super pumped about the confusion with the contest by how they phrased their message.

Quote, “Due to confusion in the marketplace, Jelly Belly Candy Company would like to take this opportunity to clear up the misconception that it is involved with a contest that purportedly offers a candy factory as its grand prize.”

They also downplayed Klein’s role in founding the company.  They say he was, quote, “an independent third party when he came up with the name ‘Jelly Belly’ and other marketing ideas in 1976.”

So if you win this contest, you won’t be taking over Jelly Belly’s empire . . . you’ll get one of Klein’s factories, most likely in Florida.

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Story 2:  This Year’s Toy Hall of Fame Finalists Include He-Man, Jenga, My Little Pony, and Yahtzee

The National Toy Hall of Fame just announced the 12 finalists for its 2020 class, and once again my favorite childhood toy . . . illegal fireworks . . . was robbed.

The finalists this year are:  Baby Nancy doll . . . bingo . . . Breyer toy horses . . . Jenga . . . Lite-Brite . . . He-Man action figures . . . My Little Pony . . . Risk . . . sidewalk chalk . . . the game Sorry! . . . Tamagotchi . . . and Yahtzee.

The winners will be voted on by toy industry experts . . . plus public voting at ToyHallOfFame.org for the next week.  Around three of the 12 toys will wind up getting inducted.  They’ll be announced on November 5th.

Last year the three toys that made it in were the coloring book, “Magic: The Gathering” cards, and Matchbox cars.

Four of the nominees this year were ones that didn’t make the cut last year:  Jenga, He-Man, My Little Pony, and Risk.

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Go here for more details on all of this year’s nominees.

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Story 3:  A Topless Woman Is Busted for Public Intoxication When She’s Caught Chewing on a Miniature Horse’s Mane

This woman didn’t try to claim she was sober when she got busted for public intoxication . . . and that was a good call.  Because it would’ve been an impossible argument to make.

The cops in LaFollette, Tennessee got a call recently when someone spotted a TOPLESS WOMAN in their yard chewing on their miniature horse’s mane.

That woman turned out to be 47-year-old Cynthia Teeple.  And when the cops got there and asked her what she was doing, she said, quote, “The horse’s hair is made of Laffy Taffy and Airheads.”

Cynthia had taken METH earlier that day.  And before she moved onto the horse’s mane for dessert, she’d also chewed some grass and dirt in the yard.

She was arrested for public intoxication.

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Survey Says:  Win a Raising Canes Box Combo Meal AND a Kearney Cinema 8 Movie Pass!

According to a recent survey, only one in five people only eat lunch on their lunch break most of the time.  79% said they usually eat WHILE they work instead, so their lunch break is free.  This is the top other thing we do at lunch.

Answer:  Walk somewhere or exercise.  |  Go here for more.

The Moore Yooou Knoooow:  Random Facts to Feed Your Brain!

  1. There’s a real definition for a “tropical” location: A place between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.  For the U.S., only Hawaii is technically tropical.
  1. Durex condoms got their brand name from the combination of three words: durable . . . reliable . . . excellence.
  1. The original title of “1984” was . . . “1980”. But George Orwell got sick while he was writing it, the book got delayed, and he wanted a large enough gap between when it was published and the future he was writing about.
  1. You’ve probably heard of the games “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” and “Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego?” Broderbund Software also created “Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?” in 1989.  It was made for the Apple Two computer and is the only Carmen Sandiego game where she’s hiding in a specific state.
  1. Sloths are famous for being slow and lazy . . . but they’re super fast when it comes to sex. It only lasts about six seconds.

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