I’m Darren Marlar from DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News!
Today is FRIDAY THE 13TH! And you know what that means! That’s right… absolutely nothing!
Fifty-three percent of those polled feel the president-elect is not honest. ***Meaning
things won’t change one iota in the Executive Branch.
Donald Trump still hasn’t booked an A-list performer for his inauguration, but he has
locked up the B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen cover band. ***At this point, why not just
break out the karaoke machine and call it done?
CNN is reporting that 78% of fake news is actually made up. ***Let’s hear that again…
CNN is reporting that 78% of fake news is actually made up. Meaning CNN believes that
22% of fake news is NOT made up. Well, if it’s not made up – then how can it be
fake? And how can a news organization like CNN not understand the definition of the word
“fake”? What is in the water at CNN?
Microsoft is replacing their blue screen of death for Windows 10 users with a green screen
of death.***Oh, okay… that feels better.
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met with Taiwan's president this past Sunday, he not only infuriated
China, he may have personally offended President Tsai Ing-wen. During the meeting, the Taiwanese
president gave Gov. Abbott a vase, and Abbott in turn presented her with a clock decorated
with the Texas state seal. The problem is that in both China and Taiwan, giving the
gift of a clock is considered kind of like a curse, representing the end of a relationship
or even death. In basic terms, it's kind of like telling somebody, "Hope you die soon."
***So the Taiwanese President plans to send the clock as a gift to the White House on
January 20th.
Fox-TV Philadelphia wished deceased heavyweight champ Joe Frazier a happy 73rd birthday this
week and reported that he would appear at City Hall for a youth boxing event. Frazier,
by the way, died in 2011 and has a statue erected in his honor in Philly. ***Well,
maybe the STATUE was able to show up instead.
Candy maker Mars is reportedly buying an L.A. based animal hospital chain for $7.7 billion.
***I do NOT want to know why a candy company needs that.
When you tell a lie, your brain balks. Tell another one, and your brain handles it better.
The more lies you tell, the more desensitized your brain becomes to your self-serving and
dishonest behavior, leaving your conscience speechless. That's the word from researchers
at University College London, who have determined that once we engage in dishonest behavior,
such behavior only escalates. During a study, as incentives were added for dishonesty, people's
dishonesty escalated. ***Oh… so that explains the people over at CNN.
President Obama's farewell address was longer than President Reagan, Clinton and George
W. Bush's combined. 51 minutes and 10-seconds, to be exact. ***Which came as a surprise
to absolutely no one.
Mariah Carey's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been vandalized. ***Her agents
are blaming the producers of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”… and they
are blaming Russian Hackers.
Taco Bell will go nationwide this month with its taco with a shell made entirely out of
fried chicken. The shell of the Naked Chicken Chalupa is made up of all-white seasoned chicken.
The rest of the taco is packed with lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese and avocado ranch
sauce. The fast food chain says the taco tested well in markets in Bakersfield, California,
and Kansas City, Missouri, over the past two years. It will be available at Taco Bells
across the country on January 26th. ***This is actually a time-management tool. Taco
Bell felt it wasn’t pushing you towards the cemetery fast enough.
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