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If you think quicksand only exists in cartoons or old westerns, think again. A guy from Arizona got stuck in quicksand while he was hiking with his girlfriend in a National Park in Utah over the weekend. His left leg was stuck up to his knee, and he said it felt like concrete. So his girlfriend had to hike out for three hours and call for help, all during a winter storm. So even after the helicopter rescue, they had to spend the night in the Park, and head to the hospital the next day.
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A financial services company in New Zealand switched from a regular five-day work week to a FOUR-DAY work week back in November. And two universities monitored how it turned out.
The answer: It was a massive success.
The workers were 20% more productive on the four days they were at the office, so the company didn’t see any drop in the total amount of work getting done, even though they were working less hours. And the staff’s stress levels dropped and work-life balance scores went up from 54% to 78%. The CEO of the company says, quote, “This is an idea whose time has come. We need to get more companies to give it a [try]. They’ll be surprised at the improvement in their company, their staff, and in their wider community.”
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ENTERTAINMENT
“Green Book” won Best Picture at the Oscars last night, while RAMI MALEK won Best Actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody” and OLIVIA COLMAN won Best Actress for “The Favourite”. ALFONSO CUARON won Best Director for “Roma”.
The whole no-host thing worked out pretty well. They just had an off-screen announcer who kept things moving at a decent clip.
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“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” easily won the box office this weekend, raking in a total of $58 million. The runner-up was “Alita: Battle Angel”, which made another $12 million in its second week.
“The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”, was third with $10 million.
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TODAY IS……………….
- “Pistol Patent Day”, Samuel Colt invented the pistol. He received Patent # 138 for it on this day in 1836. The patent was for the Colt Revolver with a rotating chamber containing six bullets.
2004 [15] Mel Gibson’s controversial film “The Passion Of the Christ” is independently released in about 2,000 theaters (thanks to grassroots promotion, the $30-million film goes on to gross over $600 million worldwide)
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
February 25th, 1981 Willie Nelson won a Grammy for Songwriter of the Year for
“On The Road Again”.
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77-year-old Patriots owner BOB KRAFT was caught up in a prostitution sting, and was charged with two misdemeanors for “soliciting another to commit prostitution.” Kraft denies doing anything illegal. The targets of the investigation were the owners of a day spa in Jupiter, Florida.
- Kelly – has turned himself in to the Chicago Police Department to face 10 counts of sexual abuse. A judge set bond at $1 million, with the requirement that he must surrender his passport and not have contact with anyone under the age of 18.
CHATHAM MAROONS……..
Chatham beat St. Mary’s 6 – 5 in overtime last night.
The Maroons first round playoff series against Komoka will kick off this Thursday night at Memorial at 7 and we will broadcast all the playoff games home and away.
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS…..
The Leafs came back from being down 3 to beat Montreal 6 – 3 Saturday night. The next Leafs broadcast on CFCO will be tonight when they play Buffalo.
LOTTERIES
A ticket holder in British Columbia won Friday night’s $25.9 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot.
The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Friday will be approximately $10 million.
No winning ticket was sold for the $10-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.
However, the guaranteed $1-million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario.
The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw Wednesday will be approximately $13 million.
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Guy Went to a Dog Park Covered in Peanut Butter as Punishment
Did your fantasy football league this year have a punishment for the person who came in last? This is one of the best we’ve ever seen . . .
A 25-year-old guy in Texas named Steven Shrout joined a league this past year that his friends from high school have been playing in since 2009. Before this, he’d never played fantasy football before. So of course he lost.
And as punishment, he had to put on a flesh-toned Speedo . . . cover himself in peanut butter . . . and sit down in the middle of a DOG PARK for 10 minutes.
He actually had a choice. He could have paid the winner of the league an extra $250 OR do the dog park thing. And he opted for the dogs.
He went to a dog park in Dallas last Wednesday . . . slathered himself in three jars of Jif . . . and let the dogs go to town while his friends filmed it from their car.
He says he didn’t think it would be a big deal until he heard a couple walk by and say “EWW,” like it was a weird fetish or something. But when he told the dogs’ owners that he lost a bet, they just cracked up.
Despite the punishment, he says he enjoyed the whole fantasy football thing, and he’ll probably play again next season . . . but might join a different league this time.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
Two little kids under the age of six wandered off while they were playing in their yard in Florida on Saturday.
They ended up on the side of an INTERSTATE and could have been hit. But luckily, two dogs were there with them.
Both dogs were some sort of shepherd mix, which came into play big time. Because they literally got in the kids’ way and prevented them from walking out into the road.
Several witnesses told police they saw the dogs pushing the kids toward a guardrail, so they couldn’t walk onto the highway. And because of that, both of them are fine.
Their foster dad and his other kids were out looking for them when the cops showed up. The dad actually saw them walk off, but has some sort of medical condition and couldn’t follow them. So police determined he didn’t do anything wrong.
It turned out the two kids had wandered away while, quote, “trying to chase a rainbow.”
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BIRTHDAYS
[54] Carrot Top, comedian (red-haired prop comedian whose odd inventions are the center of his stand-up acts)
[53] Téa Leoni, actress (‘Elizabeth McCord’ on “Madam Secretary” since 2014)/
[48] Sean Astin, actor (“Lord Of the Rings”, “Goonies”)
[40] Shawna Thompson, country singer (Thompson Square)
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Life-Changing Amount of Money Is . . . Just $19,800
Quick, how much money would you need to get for it to be LIFE-CHANGING? $100,000? $1 million? More?
Nope. Apparently it’s a lot less.
According to a new survey, the average American says the amount of money they’d call life-changing is . . . just $19,800.
And that’s not the only reasonable thing people said about money in this survey.
The top five things people say they’d do if they DID get a random 20 grand is put it into savings, pay off pay off debt, start a business, or put it into their retirement account.
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RANDOM REPORT
- Both “Stand by Me”and “The Shawshank Redemption” are based on short stories by Stephen King from a collection called “Different Seasons”.
The movie “Apt Pupil” is based on a story from that collection too, but obviously it’s not as famous or good as those other two.
- Converse started in 1908 as a company that made rain boots. By 1920, they’d transitioned into the shoe business and created the “All Star” basketball shoe.
- Jerry Seinfeldsays he’s the reason American Express created its famous black card. When he was Amex’s spokesman in the late ’90s, he asked for a special card, so they made it and gave him the first one.
- Airlines make an average of less than $6 in profit per passenger.
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MONDAY FEBRUARY 25TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[54] Carrot Top, comedian (red-haired prop comedian whose odd inventions are the center of his stand-up acts)
[53] Téa Leoni, actress (‘Elizabeth McCord’ on “Madam Secretary” since 2014)/
[48] Sean Astin, actor (“Lord Of the Rings”, “Goonies”)
[40] Shawna Thompson, country singer (Thompson Square)
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- NHL
Calgary 2 Ottawa 1
Arizona 4 Winnipeg 1
Leafs hockey tonight on CFCO when they play host to Buffalo.
- “Green Book” won Best Picture at the Oscars last night, while RAMI MALEKwon Best Actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody”and OLIVIA COLMAN won Best Actress for “The Favourite”. Meanwhile, the no-host thing worked pretty well, and actually made the show SEEM like it was moving along faster.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” easily won the box office this weekend, raking in a total of $58 million. The runner-up was “Alita: Battle Angel”, which made another $12 million in its second week.
- Scientists in the U-S and U-K dressed horses in black-and-white striped suits for their study into why zebras have stripes. They concluded that the stripes are dazzling, especially to flies.
Horseflies landed on the horses with the striped coats less frequently, which the scientists say suggests zebra stripes provide protection from blood-sucking insects that spread diseases.
- A ticket holder in British Columbia won Friday night’s $25.9 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot.
The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Friday will be approximately $10 million.
No winning ticket was sold for the $10-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.
However, the guaranteed $1-million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario.
The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw Wednesday will be approximately $13 million.
- From a birth on a plane, an airline going bust, and luxury bongs, here are some of the best late night jokes
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DIERKS BENTLEY BRINGS KEITH URBAN, MIRANDA LAMBERT, THOMAS RHETT
Dierks Bentley was joined by some very special guests during his Burning Man tour stop on Friday (February 22nd) in Nashville. The crowd went crazy when he brought out Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert for a few collaborations, including Hank Williams‘ “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” Merle Haggard‘s “The Bottle Let Me Down,” Loretta Lynn‘s “Blue Kentucky Girl,”and the Dixie Chicks‘ “Cowboy Take Me Away.”
Thomas Rhett showed up as a visiting member of Hot Country Knights, Dierks’ 90s cover band that opens all of the shows on the tour. Sawyer Brown‘s Mark Miller also joined the Hot Country Knights.
The youngest show-stopper was Dierks’ 10-year-old daughter Evie, who joined him on “Travelin’ Light,” complete with the popular dance the Floss.
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CHRIS STAPLETON’S ALBUM NODS, WINS ARE MOST MEANINGFUL – (02/22/2019)
Chris Stapleton is tied with Dan + Shay for most nominations — six apiece — at the upcoming ACM Awards. Among Chris’ nods are Entertainer, Song of the Year, Male Artist and Album of the Year for From A Room: Volume 2.
While Chris is grateful for every single trophy he’s nominated for or wins, he tells us he has a special affinity for the Album categories [“They are all significant and if you get one award for anything it’s a treat. But any of the awards that awarded the album, the album awards, because I really wanted to make an album that was good. I wanted it, I wanted that to be a thing, again, more than I wanted it to be, ‘Well here’s the single and eight other songs.’ So, the album awards for me were important in that we did our job in a good way, you know. Just I have such an affinity for albums that I don’t know if I want those more or if they mean more, but they are all meaningful. They are all are things that one of them would feel like a career. One of them. Any one of them.”]
The ACM Awards will be held on Sunday, April 7th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The show, hosted by Reba McEntire, will air live on CBS.
KEITH URBAN, CARRIE UNDERWOOD
Keith Urban performed at the 2019 NHL Stadium Series at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday (February 23rd). He played in between the first and second periods of the Philadelphia Flyers v. Pittsburgh Penguins outdoor stadium game, which was broadcast live on NBC. Next up for Keith is the European leg of his Graffiti U World Tour, which launches on March 3rd in Berlin.
Carrie Underwood‘s Nashville-area home is on the market for $1.45 million. The 7,000 sq. ft. Brentwood, TN estate was purchased by Carrie in 2007. It features four bedrooms, four full bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, a wet bar, fitness center, tennis court, and two-story closet and dressing room.
