“There’s no way you are walking around like this!” screamed the young man trying a period cramp simulator for the first time. Period cramps are the price you pay for being a woman and the right to bear children if you so choose, at least that is what I always told my daughter. (The Supreme Court may have changed that a tad recently.) Most women I know have gone to bed with a heating pad just to help the pain be a little more bearable. Add Midol, Tylenol, Advil, Motrin and/or exercise, along with a prayer that it will pass quickly. Now for curious men, there is a period cramp stimulator, which allows guys to experience the same discomfort, so they can sympathize a little. I bet guys will be lining up to try it out. lol. I watched a video showing four men and four women hooked up to the machine at various times. All the guys ended up either on their knees, on the floor, or in a sitting down position on the sofa. The big question on the table now, do they make a childbirth or menopause simulator? I still have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
Last week I told you about the woman who woke from a two-year coma after being beaten in the head, immediately naming her brother as her attacker, can rest easy now. Her brother, a very unhealthy man, was only in custody for seven days when he died. Crazy story.
Let’s face it, there are people in our lives that we all just put up with, and then there is Dave Mayberry. I know my face lights up when I talk to him, or his lovely wife, Kay. They are simply people that make you happy while encouraging laughter and smiles. Well, Dave called me last week to tell me that he has accepted the position of Director of Business Development at First National Bank LJ, and to let me know that the little plant I sent to him when he went to work at The Hester Group, was moving with him. I hated to tell him that he definitely deserved a new plant after all these years, but I’m sure I’ll find something new to take when I visit. First National Bank is one lucky company, and smart, too. PS. This is not a paid advertisement 😊 simply a reminder for you to run by and say hello to Dave. If he’s not already your friend, then you need to get by there quickly and introduce yourself. What was it that John Wayne said, “Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let’s go! We’re burnin’ daylight!” Congratulations, Dave. We all love you!
Recently, as I opened a bottle of wine, I wondered about recycling the tin, aluminum, or polyethylene foil capsule over the cork. (It used to be lead, but that was phased out by law in 1996.) It’s always been there as a barrier to oxygen, insects and rodents that love to eat cork, and well as decoration. According to Earth911.com, you can leave on the foil, or put it in with your metal recycling. Just remember to remove all liquids from the bottles. No problem. 😊 FYI… some wineries are now eliminating the capsule and/or the cork.
Cork comes from the bark of the Cork Oak tree. It is bark that can take 25 to 50 years to get to the point where it is usable for wine bottles, but then each tree can only be harvested every nine years so as to not do permanent damage to the inner bark of the tree.
Chris Evans, aka Captain America, plans to produce and play Gene Kelly in a new movie based on Evans’ original idea about a boy working in Hollywood in the 1950’s that finds an imaginary friend in Kelly. A hand-painted mandolin owned by Janis Joplin that she had gifted to Jimi Hendrix, recently sold at auction for $281,250, after 29 bidders fought for the winning bid. The two influential musicians were friends, but were never able to record music together, since they both died at the young age of 27. Martha Stewart is opening her first restaurant, the Bedford by Martha Stewart, inspired by her country home in Bedford, NY, but it will be at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Actor Geraldine Chaplin is 78. Singer Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis and the Playboys is 77. Actor Wesley Snipes is 60. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is 57. Actor Dean Cain of Lois and Clark is 56. Singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is 91. Blues musician Robert Cray is 69. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 81. Singer Kathy Lennon of The Lennon Sisters is 79. Today meteorologist Dylan Dreyer is 41. Singer Tony Bennett is 96. Actor Martin Sheen is 82. Singer Beverly Lee of The Shirelles is 81.
Movie director John Landis is 72. National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Three Amigos, Coming to America, and Beverly Hills Cop III, and for directing Michael Jackson‘s music videos for Thriller.
Actor Jay North of Dennis the Menace is 71. Actor Tina Cole of My Three Sons is 79. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is 67. Actor Erica Slezak of One Life to Live is 76. Singer Rick Derringer is 75. Hang on Sloopy. Actor Maureen McCormick of The Brady Bunch is 66. Guitarist Pat Smear of Foo Fighters is 63. Actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody are 30. Actor Joanna Cassidy is 77. Children’s music performer Ella Jenkins is 98. The First Lady of the Children’s Folk Song. Actor Loni Anderson is 77. Actor Butch Patrick of The Munsters is 69. Child werewolf Eddie Munster. Keyboardist Garth Hudson of The Band is 85.
Paul Sorvino, the coldhearted mobster Paulie Cicero in GoodFellas died at 83. He trained as an opera singer, but asthma made him focus more on acting. Tony Dow, best known as the big brother Wally in Leave It to Beaver, is very sick and on hospice care, but still alive. His son says he has a fighting heart.
Former sports star Bo Jackson covered all funeral expenses for the families of the victims of the Uvalde school massacre so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved. Jackson flew in and presented a check for $170,000. NICE.
Back in 2008 during a campaign stop, then presidential candidate Barack Obama said this; “It is wonderful to be back in Oregon. Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states.” He was criticized for his mistake. Especially Republicans. Then last week Herschel Walker (American former football running back who played in the NFL for 12 seasons and is the Republican nominee in the 2022 US Senate election in Georgia) said, “If you don’t believe in the country, leave and go somewhere else. If it’s the worst state, why are you here? Why don’t you leave? Go to another – there’s, what, 51 more other states that you can go to?” Actually, there are 50 states in the United States, for those of you that don’t remember, and you really should remember. It is pretty basic information. Such a nice round number. I really can understand forgetfulness when associated with fatigue, and lack of sleep on a campaign trail, because I think both men knew the answer. But… maybe Walker has a few other faux pas on his scoreboard. He just recently acknowledged he has three children with women he was not married to, in addition to his son by his former wife, and he has not served in law enforcement as he previously claimed. Then he responded to the Uvalde school shootings with, “Cain killed Abel” and followed with a suggestion of, “What about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that looking at social media.” Walker also did not graduate from the University of Georgia in the top 1% of his class, in fact he did not graduate from there at all, and he was not valedictorian of his high school class.
Velveeta processed cheese brand teamed with Nails.INC to launch a set of nail stickers and two limited-edition cheese-scented colors called La Dolce Velveeta yellow and Finger Food red. It is supposed to make your nails look as smooth as Velveeta feels.
If that’s not enough, Velveeta now has come up with a Veltini… the vodka is infused with Velveeta, the rim of the martini glass is dripping with Velveeta, and each olive is stuffed with a cheese cube accompanied on the toothpick by cheesy Velveeta shells. I can’t tell you personally if it’s good or not, but if I get the opportunity to try it, I will. Don’t knock it, ‘til we try it. The press release says, “a decadent and indulgent summer sip made for pleasure-seekers.”
A 22-year-old British student at Oxford died in Greece, after being dismembered by the blades of a helicopter that he had just exited. He was being led away from the helicopter when he quickly turned and walked back, but he was talking on his cellphone and could not hear onlookers shouting at him to stop. He was struck in the head by the high-speed blades and killed instantly. Put down your phone!
La Nina, the natural but overwhelming weather event linked to drought, very little rain, agricultural losses, and wildfires in the western US, along with hurricanes in the Atlantic, is acting a little weird. It doesn’t know it is time to leave and give us a break. The current La Nina formed in the summer of 2020, strengthened in the winter, rested a tiny bit for a couple of months, and then it was back. Typically, second year La Nina’s tend to be weaker, but it set a record intensity that spring, according to the sea surface temperatures. My sister and I drove to Hot Springs last week for my uncle’s funeral and it was so hard to watch the cattle fight for the scrawniest bit of shade, right next to totally dry mud holes that are begging for rain to fill them up. I know some cattle were dead or dying, because there were buzzards right there sharing the shade with them.
A chess-playing robot broke the finger of a 7-year-old boy at a Moscow chess competition. I watched the video, and it looked like the robot just placed the chess piece right on top of his finger, not turning loose, and the truth is a robot does NOT understand hearing ouch!! no matter how loud you say it. Immediately, several men came to the child’s aid. The injured boy returned to the tournament the next day in a cast. The robot looked like something out of Star Wars.
The WHO (World Health Organization) has now declared monkeypox an international public health emergency, as infections are increasing quickly. That is the organization’s loudest alarm bell. Contrary to what you think you may have heard from your neighbor, friend, or Facebook, which made you feel totally safe about this disease, it is primarily spread through CLOSE PERSON-TO-PERSON CONTACT. At this point, scientists know that the virus can pass from direct contact with sores (augh, have you seen the pictures?!?) along with bodily fluids and respiratory droplets from infected people. Male or female… the virus does not care or even know the difference, but scientists are now trying to find out whether the rare disease is spreading in other ways, since current cases don’t all look like traditional monkeypox. We are a pandemic-weary world. UPDATE: This morning the news title said, “Monkeypox is Spreading Faster than the Data about it, Hindering Mitigation Efforts,” plus it’s now found in Brazoria County.
An unvaccinated young adult from NY has contracted the first US case of polio in nearly a decade. The person developed paralysis about a month ago and had not traveled outside the country recently. They think that the person had a vaccine-derived strain of the virus, possibly from someone who received a live vaccine, which is available in other countries, but not the US.
Las Vegas is limiting the size of their swimming pools now, capping dimensions to about the size of a three-car garage. Now let me see if I have this right, Lake Mead is drying up so they are worried about whether they will have drinking water or not, and you can still build a pool bigger than many homes. Have a great week. Be sure to read the final classified of the paper this week. I’m praying you are a good dancer. 😊 LISA
“There’s no way you are walking around like this!” screamed the young man trying a period cramp simulator for the first time. Period cramps are the price you pay for being a woman and the right to bear children if you so choose, at least that is what I always told my daughter. (The Supreme Court may have changed that a tad recently.) Most women I know have gone to bed with a heating pad just to help the pain be a little more bearable. Add Midol, Tylenol, Advil, Motrin and/or exercise, along with a prayer that it will pass quickly. Now for curious men, there is a period cramp stimulator, which allows guys to experience the same discomfort, so they can sympathize a little. I bet guys will be lining up to try it out. lol. I watched a video showing four men and four women hooked up to the machine at various times. All the guys ended up either on their knees, on the floor, or in a sitting down position on the sofa. The big question on the table now, do they make a childbirth or menopause simulator? I still have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
Last week I told you about the woman who woke from a two-year coma after being beaten in the head, immediately naming her brother as her attacker, can rest easy now. Her brother, a very unhealthy man, was only in custody for seven days when he died. Crazy story.
Let’s face it, there are people in our lives that we all just put up with, and then there is Dave Mayberry. I know my face lights up when I talk to him, or his lovely wife, Kay. They are simply people that make you happy while encouraging laughter and smiles. Well, Dave called me last week to tell me that he has accepted the position of Director of Business Development at First National Bank LJ, and to let me know that the little plant I sent to him when he went to work at The Hester Group, was moving with him. I hated to tell him that he definitely deserved a new plant after all these years, but I’m sure I’ll find something new to take when I visit. First National Bank is one lucky company, and smart, too. PS. This is not a paid advertisement 😊 simply a reminder for you to run by and say hello to Dave. If he’s not already your friend, then you need to get by there quickly and introduce yourself. What was it that John Wayne said, “Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let’s go! We’re burnin’ daylight!” Congratulations, Dave. We all love you!
Recently, as I opened a bottle of wine, I wondered about recycling the tin, aluminum, or polyethylene foil capsule over the cork. (It used to be lead, but that was phased out by law in 1996.) It’s always been there as a barrier to oxygen, insects and rodents that love to eat cork, and well as decoration. According to Earth911.com, you can leave on the foil, or put it in with your metal recycling. Just remember to remove all liquids from the bottles. No problem. 😊 FYI… some wineries are now eliminating the capsule and/or the cork.
Cork comes from the bark of the Cork Oak tree. It is bark that can take 25 to 50 years to get to the point where it is usable for wine bottles, but then each tree can only be harvested every nine years so as to not do permanent damage to the inner bark of the tree.
Chris Evans, aka Captain America, plans to produce and play Gene Kelly in a new movie based on Evans’ original idea about a boy working in Hollywood in the 1950’s that finds an imaginary friend in Kelly. A hand-painted mandolin owned by Janis Joplin that she had gifted to Jimi Hendrix, recently sold at auction for $281,250, after 29 bidders fought for the winning bid. The two influential musicians were friends, but were never able to record music together, since they both died at the young age of 27. Martha Stewart is opening her first restaurant, the Bedford by Martha Stewart, inspired by her country home in Bedford, NY, but it will be at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Actor Geraldine Chaplin is 78. Singer Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis and the Playboys is 77. Actor Wesley Snipes is 60. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is 57. Actor Dean Cain of Lois and Clark is 56. Singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is 91. Blues musician Robert Cray is 69. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 81. Singer Kathy Lennon of The Lennon Sisters is 79. Today meteorologist Dylan Dreyer is 41. Singer Tony Bennett is 96. Actor Martin Sheen is 82. Singer Beverly Lee of The Shirelles is 81.
Movie director John Landis is 72. National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Three Amigos, Coming to America, and Beverly Hills Cop III, and for directing Michael Jackson‘s music videos for Thriller.
Actor Jay North of Dennis the Menace is 71. Actor Tina Cole of My Three Sons is 79. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is 67. Actor Erica Slezak of One Life to Live is 76. Singer Rick Derringer is 75. Hang on Sloopy. Actor Maureen McCormick of The Brady Bunch is 66. Guitarist Pat Smear of Foo Fighters is 63. Actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody are 30. Actor Joanna Cassidy is 77. Children’s music performer Ella Jenkins is 98. The First Lady of the Children’s Folk Song. Actor Loni Anderson is 77. Actor Butch Patrick of The Munsters is 69. Child werewolf Eddie Munster. Keyboardist Garth Hudson of The Band is 85.
Paul Sorvino, the coldhearted mobster Paulie Cicero in GoodFellas died at 83. He trained as an opera singer, but asthma made him focus more on acting. Tony Dow, best known as the big brother Wally in Leave It to Beaver, is very sick and on hospice care, but still alive. His son says he has a fighting heart.
Former sports star Bo Jackson covered all funeral expenses for the families of the victims of the Uvalde school massacre so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved. Jackson flew in and presented a check for $170,000. NICE.
Back in 2008 during a campaign stop, then presidential candidate Barack Obama said this; “It is wonderful to be back in Oregon. Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states.” He was criticized for his mistake. Especially Republicans. Then last week Herschel Walker (American former football running back who played in the NFL for 12 seasons and is the Republican nominee in the 2022 US Senate election in Georgia) said, “If you don’t believe in the country, leave and go somewhere else. If it’s the worst state, why are you here? Why don’t you leave? Go to another – there’s, what, 51 more other states that you can go to?” Actually, there are 50 states in the United States, for those of you that don’t remember, and you really should remember. It is pretty basic information. Such a nice round number. I really can understand forgetfulness when associated with fatigue, and lack of sleep on a campaign trail, because I think both men knew the answer. But… maybe Walker has a few other faux pas on his scoreboard. He just recently acknowledged he has three children with women he was not married to, in addition to his son by his former wife, and he has not served in law enforcement as he previously claimed. Then he responded to the Uvalde school shootings with, “Cain killed Abel” and followed with a suggestion of, “What about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that looking at social media.” Walker also did not graduate from the University of Georgia in the top 1% of his class, in fact he did not graduate from there at all, and he was not valedictorian of his high school class.
Velveeta processed cheese brand teamed with Nails.INC to launch a set of nail stickers and two limited-edition cheese-scented colors called La Dolce Velveeta yellow and Finger Food red. It is supposed to make your nails look as smooth as Velveeta feels.
If that’s not enough, Velveeta now has come up with a Veltini… the vodka is infused with Velveeta, the rim of the martini glass is dripping with Velveeta, and each olive is stuffed with a cheese cube accompanied on the toothpick by cheesy Velveeta shells. I can’t tell you personally if it’s good or not, but if I get the opportunity to try it, I will. Don’t knock it, ‘til we try it. The press release says, “a decadent and indulgent summer sip made for pleasure-seekers.”
A 22-year-old British student at Oxford died in Greece, after being dismembered by the blades of a helicopter that he had just exited. He was being led away from the helicopter when he quickly turned and walked back, but he was talking on his cellphone and could not hear onlookers shouting at him to stop. He was struck in the head by the high-speed blades and killed instantly. Put down your phone!
La Nina, the natural but overwhelming weather event linked to drought, very little rain, agricultural losses, and wildfires in the western US, along with hurricanes in the Atlantic, is acting a little weird. It doesn’t know it is time to leave and give us a break. The current La Nina formed in the summer of 2020, strengthened in the winter, rested a tiny bit for a couple of months, and then it was back. Typically, second year La Nina’s tend to be weaker, but it set a record intensity that spring, according to the sea surface temperatures. My sister and I drove to Hot Springs last week for my uncle’s funeral and it was so hard to watch the cattle fight for the scrawniest bit of shade, right next to totally dry mud holes that are begging for rain to fill them up. I know some cattle were dead or dying, because there were buzzards right there sharing the shade with them.
A chess-playing robot broke the finger of a 7-year-old boy at a Moscow chess competition. I watched the video, and it looked like the robot just placed the chess piece right on top of his finger, not turning loose, and the truth is a robot does NOT understand hearing ouch!! no matter how loud you say it. Immediately, several men came to the child’s aid. The injured boy returned to the tournament the next day in a cast. The robot looked like something out of Star Wars.
The WHO (World Health Organization) has now declared monkeypox an international public health emergency, as infections are increasing quickly. That is the organization’s loudest alarm bell. Contrary to what you think you may have heard from your neighbor, friend, or Facebook, which made you feel totally safe about this disease, it is primarily spread through CLOSE PERSON-TO-PERSON CONTACT. At this point, scientists know that the virus can pass from direct contact with sores (augh, have you seen the pictures?!?) along with bodily fluids and respiratory droplets from infected people. Male or female… the virus does not care or even know the difference, but scientists are now trying to find out whether the rare disease is spreading in other ways, since current cases don’t all look like traditional monkeypox. We are a pandemic-weary world. UPDATE: This morning the news title said, “Monkeypox is Spreading Faster than the Data about it, Hindering Mitigation Efforts,” plus it’s now found in Brazoria County.
An unvaccinated young adult from NY has contracted the first US case of polio in nearly a decade. The person developed paralysis about a month ago and had not traveled outside the country recently. They think that the person had a vaccine-derived strain of the virus, possibly from someone who received a live vaccine, which is available in other countries, but not the US.
Las Vegas is limiting the size of their swimming pools now, capping dimensions to about the size of a three-car garage. Now let me see if I have this right, Lake Mead is drying up so they are worried about whether they will have drinking water or not, and you can still build a pool bigger than many homes. Have a great week. Be sure to read the final classified of the paper this week. I’m praying you are a good dancer. 😊 LISA
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