TODAY’S BLOG — The top things we’ll never do again after the pandemic … A woman texts her boss she can’t get to work then accidentally texts him the champagne bottle she’s about to open at a party … How to stop your phone from auto-correcting the f-word to “duck” …
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Story 1: The Top Things We’ll Never Do Again After the Pandemic Include Sharing Food and Making Out with Strangers
Is there anything you’ll never do again, even after the pandemic is over? A new poll asked 2,000 people. Here are the top 10 answers . . .
- Sharing ChapStick.
- Taking a bite of someone else’s sandwich.
- Trying out make-up samples at a store.
- Making out with strangers at a bar.
- Borrowing someone else’s bathing suit. (???)
- Using a friend’s make-up.
- Standing really close to people in line.
- Leaving the house without hand sanitizer.
- Sharing bags of chips or other snacks with someone you don’t live with.
- Using someone else’s deodorant. (???) (It seems like that one only made the list because it’s something a lot of us didn’t do PRE-pandemic either.)
A few more that made the top 25 are going to buffet restaurants . . . holding the handrail on escalators . . . and shaking hands.
Story 2: A Woman Texts Her Boss She Can’t Get to Work . . . Then Accidentally Texts Him the Champagne Bottle She’s About to Open at a Party
If you’re going to fake an excuse to take a day off work . . . you’ve got to at least TRY to stick the landing.
There’s a 20-year-old woman named Roberta Clark who works as an electrician in Scotland. And last Tuesday, she was at a baby gender reveal party, but she texted her boss that she couldn’t make it into work because of the snow.
Then, just a few seconds later, she meant to text a friend a picture of a huge bottle of champagne she was about to open at the party . . . but she accidentally sent that picture to her boss instead.
She apologized, and amazingly enough, her boss seemed cool with it. He told her he’d see her tomorrow.
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Go here for a photo of Roberta and the champagne . . . and go here for a screengrab of her texts to her boss.
Story 3: Here’s How to Stop Your Phone from Auto-Correcting the F-Word to “Duck”
Here’s a minor inconvenience that might be driving you nuts. Does your phone ever auto-correct the F-word to the word “DUCK”? A lot of phones do it. But there are two easy ways around it . . .
Someone on Instagram said they got around it by adding a new contact to their address book . . . and typing the F-word into the name field.
They gave it a first and last name . . . “[Effing] [Eff]” . . . so it would also stop auto-correcting to the word “ducking.” So that’s one way to do it. But there’s another way that also works on most phones.
On an iPhone, just go to Settings . . . General . . . and find your Keyboard settings. Then click on “Text Replacement.”
It’s a feature that lets you create shortcuts. Like if you type, “omw” it’ll change it to “On my way.” But for this, enter the F-word as the shortcut AND the full phrase.
Android phones can do it too. Just go to Settings . . . Language & Input . . . and find a feature called “Personal Dictionary.”
(If your iPhone has the newest version of iOS, you might not need to do anything. They apparently fixed it, but not all iPhones support the newest version.)
News of the WEIRD: Story Time Honorable Mentions
One of the new dating terms to come out of the pandemic is “Fauci-ing” . . . which is where you stop dating someone because they’re not taking social distancing or other precautions seriously enough. Dr. Fauci himself just found out about the term during an interview . . . after a reporter told him all about it. It got a big laugh out of him, and then he jokingly threatened, quote, “I’m gonna Fauci you.”
A couple in Niskayuna, New York won a contest from Dunkin’ Donuts . . . and the prize was getting married in a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru for Valentine’s Day. The wedding was on Friday and included a donut bouquet and a $500 cash prize.
Hot On YouTube: Watching Videos of Strangers Silently Studying?
One of the big new YouTube trends is . . . watching random strangers study. The trend started in South Korea but has spread everywhere, and people like having the videos on when they’re working or studying because it feels like you’re working with someone else.
Possible Trivia: Win Amigos!
In what state did the Highway Patrol crack an egg, and the yolk froze on the way out and turned into a solid stick?
A. Kansas
B. Florida
C. Hawaii
Answer: Kansas. | Go here for more.
Survey Says: Win a Kearney Cinema 8 Movie Pass!
Four out of 10 families say they now have more arguments about THIS than about what to watch on TV.
Answer: The Internet. | Go here for more.
The Moore Yooou Knoooow: Random Facts to Feed Your Brain!
- Both Coke and Pepsi made special cans of soda for astronauts in the mid ’80s. They look almost like cans of whipped cream.
- “The Simpsons” has been on TV for so long that Fox once moved it to Thursday nights to compete with “The Cosby Show”.
- Someone patented the process for surgically turning an animal into a unicorn in 1982.
- Madagascar got its name when Marco Polo sailed there . . . mistakenly thought he was in Mogadishu, Somalia . . . and misspelled “Mogadishu” in his notes so badly that it looked like “Madagascar.”
- Hot dogs may’ve got their name because people in the 1800s suspected that sausages were stuffed with dog meat.
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