Sunday, May 31, 2015
Blockbuster Brain Teasers
1. Director Steven Spielberg originally wanted which of these leading men for the role of police chief Brody in Jaws?
A) Gregory Peck
B) Charlton Heston
C) Paul Newman
2. Media personality Larry King made his movie debut in which 1980s blockbuster comedy?
A) Ghostbusters
B) Stripes
C) Airplane
3. Sounds from a dog, penguin, tiger, elephant and alligator were combined to create a roar for this blockbuster.
A) Alien
B) Jurassic Park
C) King Kong
4. Bruce Wills was offered the opportunity to co-star alongside his then-wife in this double-Oscar-winning 1990s hit, but turned it down.
A) Pretty Woman
B) Ghost
C) Batman Returns
5. The top-grossing G-rated summer movie of all time is this animated blockbuster.
A) Cars
B) The Lion King
C) Toy Story 3
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Answers : 1. (B) Charles Heston
2. (A) Ghostbusters
3. (B) Jurassic Park
4. (B) Ghost
5. (B) The Lion King
Guys -------- Did you do your chores?
This Mother's Day, we have some good news and some bad news for women on the housework front.
Good news : Women do 1 hour, 45 minutes less daily housework now than they did in 1965, down from 4 hours then to less than 2 1/2 hours now, according to Liana Sayer of the University of Maryland.
The amount of time men spend on housework has tripled, primarily from time spent doing "core" household chores, like cooking, cleaning and laundry. Way to step up, guys!
Women's housework time fell primarily because more women joined the labor force. More time at work means less time on chores at home. But women still do about 1.7 times as much housework as men.
This is a far cry from 1965, when women did 6.8 times as much work as men, but clearly there's room for improvement.
Bad news : Even when there's nobody around to pick up after them, men don't spend a lot of time on housework, according to Sayer. Single women with no children do nearly twice as much cooking, cleaning and laundry as single men with no children.
Another wrinkle in this narrative comes from Jill Yavorsky, Claire Kamp Dush and Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan at Ohio State University. In a paper released they observe that the birth of a child radically alters the housework dynamic for well-educated married couples where both spouses work.
Before he's a dad, the average man in such couples spends three hours more per week than his wife doing paid work and housework combined. Once they're parents, his wife's combined weekly workload is 8.5 hours more than his.
Good news : Women do 1 hour, 45 minutes less daily housework now than they did in 1965, down from 4 hours then to less than 2 1/2 hours now, according to Liana Sayer of the University of Maryland.
The amount of time men spend on housework has tripled, primarily from time spent doing "core" household chores, like cooking, cleaning and laundry. Way to step up, guys!
Women's housework time fell primarily because more women joined the labor force. More time at work means less time on chores at home. But women still do about 1.7 times as much housework as men.
This is a far cry from 1965, when women did 6.8 times as much work as men, but clearly there's room for improvement.
Bad news : Even when there's nobody around to pick up after them, men don't spend a lot of time on housework, according to Sayer. Single women with no children do nearly twice as much cooking, cleaning and laundry as single men with no children.
Another wrinkle in this narrative comes from Jill Yavorsky, Claire Kamp Dush and Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan at Ohio State University. In a paper released they observe that the birth of a child radically alters the housework dynamic for well-educated married couples where both spouses work.
Before he's a dad, the average man in such couples spends three hours more per week than his wife doing paid work and housework combined. Once they're parents, his wife's combined weekly workload is 8.5 hours more than his.
Weird News #3
Tanked guy shows up at McDonald's
Traverse City, Mich. -------------------- Police say a belligerent man dressed in scuba gear caused a stir at a northern Michigan fastfood restaurant.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle and MLive.com report the man, who had been drinking, showed up at a downtown McDonald's. Workers called police, who found the 48-year-old man nearby. Police say they warned him that management didn't want him at the restaurant.
Police didn't know why the man was wearing scuba gear.
Regardless, Detective Sgt. James Bussell say that "as far as wearing scuba gear and having a couple of beers, that's legal."
Minnie-mize use of selfie-sticks, please
Orlando, Fla. ----------------------------- Disney World is looking to crack down on guests who use selfie sticks on rides at the park.
The Orlando Sentinel reports a spokesman said guests can bring selfie sticks on the rides but must securely store them.
Disney policy forbids visitors from using the sticks, which can be used to extend cameras out up to 3 feet. One ride, Thunder Mountain, has had a number of incidents in which the ride had to be stopped because of selfie-stick use.
This week, Disney World workers posted a "No Selfie Sticks" sign at the Magic Kingdom's Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Squirrel performs powerful high-wire act
Columbia, Pa. ----------------------------- Officials say a power outage that affected 2,471 people and forced an elementary school to close in southeastern Pennsylvania was caused by a squirrel.
Park Elementary School in Columbia had to close after the critter came into contact with a primary wire, starting a fire and causing the wires to fall.
Officials say no one was injured in the incident. No word on the condition of the squirrel.
PPL crews managed to restore electricity to all but 252 people within a few hours.
PPL Electric Utilities spokeswoman Jessica Long said the squirrel also caused a circuit breaker to trip and cause fuses in a transformer to malfunction, knocking out power for 21 customers.
Lay low, Paddington
Federal and Louisiana officials say it's time to get the animal that inspired teddy bears off the list of protected species.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official Steve Guertin says his agency is making a formal proposal to remove the Louisiana black bear from the list of threatened species.
Removal from the list would let hunters kill at least a few of the bears that inspired plush "Teddy's bears" after President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a tied-up animal for a hunt trophy in 1902.
The process of delisting the bear could take a year if nobody fights it.
Local Sierra Club chairman Harold Schoeffler, whose legal action prompted the listing, says he will take it to court.
Traverse City, Mich. -------------------- Police say a belligerent man dressed in scuba gear caused a stir at a northern Michigan fastfood restaurant.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle and MLive.com report the man, who had been drinking, showed up at a downtown McDonald's. Workers called police, who found the 48-year-old man nearby. Police say they warned him that management didn't want him at the restaurant.
Police didn't know why the man was wearing scuba gear.
Regardless, Detective Sgt. James Bussell say that "as far as wearing scuba gear and having a couple of beers, that's legal."
Minnie-mize use of selfie-sticks, please
Orlando, Fla. ----------------------------- Disney World is looking to crack down on guests who use selfie sticks on rides at the park.
The Orlando Sentinel reports a spokesman said guests can bring selfie sticks on the rides but must securely store them.
Disney policy forbids visitors from using the sticks, which can be used to extend cameras out up to 3 feet. One ride, Thunder Mountain, has had a number of incidents in which the ride had to be stopped because of selfie-stick use.
This week, Disney World workers posted a "No Selfie Sticks" sign at the Magic Kingdom's Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Squirrel performs powerful high-wire act
Columbia, Pa. ----------------------------- Officials say a power outage that affected 2,471 people and forced an elementary school to close in southeastern Pennsylvania was caused by a squirrel.
Park Elementary School in Columbia had to close after the critter came into contact with a primary wire, starting a fire and causing the wires to fall.
Officials say no one was injured in the incident. No word on the condition of the squirrel.
PPL crews managed to restore electricity to all but 252 people within a few hours.
PPL Electric Utilities spokeswoman Jessica Long said the squirrel also caused a circuit breaker to trip and cause fuses in a transformer to malfunction, knocking out power for 21 customers.
Lay low, Paddington
Federal and Louisiana officials say it's time to get the animal that inspired teddy bears off the list of protected species.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official Steve Guertin says his agency is making a formal proposal to remove the Louisiana black bear from the list of threatened species.
Removal from the list would let hunters kill at least a few of the bears that inspired plush "Teddy's bears" after President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a tied-up animal for a hunt trophy in 1902.
The process of delisting the bear could take a year if nobody fights it.
Local Sierra Club chairman Harold Schoeffler, whose legal action prompted the listing, says he will take it to court.
Weird News #2
Cyclist spills on dead buffalo
Johannesburg ------------------- Cyclists in South Africa's biggest city usually worry about getting hit by vehicles. But one cyclist rode into an unexpected obstacle in Johannesburg's suburbs: a dead buffalo.
Andrew McLean said yesterday that he damaged a ligament on his collarbone and broke his hand when he hit the buffalo carcass while riding downhill at up to 37 miles an hour in Fourways, a suburban area in northern Johannesburg.
"It just looked like a huge shadow," said McLean, a veteran cyclist who runs a chain of cycling stores. "At the last minute, I suddenly realized that this was more than a shadow."
On Twitter, McLean described the episode as his 'only in Africa' accident."
No mac & cheese OR taters? C'mon, Roy
Newburg, Pa. -------------------- State police say a New York man became angry when he couldn't get macaroni and cheese at a Pennsylvania Turnpike rest stop, then furious when the same restaurant was out of potatoes.
Kevin Nelson, 47, of Amsterdam, was cited for disorderly conduct.
Police say Nelson stopped at a Roy Rogers at a rest stop in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County then became "angry and agitated and began to curse" after learning the restaurant was out of macaroni and cheese.
Police say Nelson then got coffee from another vendor, and returned to order potatoes at the Roy Rogers. Told they were out of potatoes, too, Nelson allegedly became enraged and began throwing condiments over the counter.
Drunks : Leave Boo-Boo alone
North Adams, Mass. ------------ Police in Massachusetts have some sage advice : Don't go chasing after bears while drunk and armed with nothing more than a dull hatchet.
The North Adams Police Department wrote on its Facebook page that someone did just that. The department noted that the drunken man was taken into protective custody.
No name was released.
Police say anyone who sees a bear should leave it alone and call authorities. They say they don't want to see anyone "going all Davy Crockett."
Pup just lion down for a bit on yacht
San Diego ------------------------- A surprising stowaway startled a man out on his boat in San Diego: A sea lion pup that decided to crash in a bunk, waking the owner with his snoring.
Michael Duffy, 48, said he was on his 41-foot Kettenburg boat "Elixir" at the San Diego Yacht Club when he awoke at 2:30 a.m. to sneezing and snoring.
He thought it might be a friend, crashing from a night out, but couldn't find anyone. Once it got light a few hours later, however, he heard it again.
That's when Duffy saw a 35-pound sea lion pup on another bunk, curled up like a dog on top of his board shorts.
Duffy said the pup was probably looking for his mom but found him instead.
Johannesburg ------------------- Cyclists in South Africa's biggest city usually worry about getting hit by vehicles. But one cyclist rode into an unexpected obstacle in Johannesburg's suburbs: a dead buffalo.
Andrew McLean said yesterday that he damaged a ligament on his collarbone and broke his hand when he hit the buffalo carcass while riding downhill at up to 37 miles an hour in Fourways, a suburban area in northern Johannesburg.
"It just looked like a huge shadow," said McLean, a veteran cyclist who runs a chain of cycling stores. "At the last minute, I suddenly realized that this was more than a shadow."
On Twitter, McLean described the episode as his 'only in Africa' accident."
No mac & cheese OR taters? C'mon, Roy
Newburg, Pa. -------------------- State police say a New York man became angry when he couldn't get macaroni and cheese at a Pennsylvania Turnpike rest stop, then furious when the same restaurant was out of potatoes.
Kevin Nelson, 47, of Amsterdam, was cited for disorderly conduct.
Police say Nelson stopped at a Roy Rogers at a rest stop in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County then became "angry and agitated and began to curse" after learning the restaurant was out of macaroni and cheese.
Police say Nelson then got coffee from another vendor, and returned to order potatoes at the Roy Rogers. Told they were out of potatoes, too, Nelson allegedly became enraged and began throwing condiments over the counter.
Drunks : Leave Boo-Boo alone
North Adams, Mass. ------------ Police in Massachusetts have some sage advice : Don't go chasing after bears while drunk and armed with nothing more than a dull hatchet.
The North Adams Police Department wrote on its Facebook page that someone did just that. The department noted that the drunken man was taken into protective custody.
No name was released.
Police say anyone who sees a bear should leave it alone and call authorities. They say they don't want to see anyone "going all Davy Crockett."
Pup just lion down for a bit on yacht
San Diego ------------------------- A surprising stowaway startled a man out on his boat in San Diego: A sea lion pup that decided to crash in a bunk, waking the owner with his snoring.
Michael Duffy, 48, said he was on his 41-foot Kettenburg boat "Elixir" at the San Diego Yacht Club when he awoke at 2:30 a.m. to sneezing and snoring.
He thought it might be a friend, crashing from a night out, but couldn't find anyone. Once it got light a few hours later, however, he heard it again.
That's when Duffy saw a 35-pound sea lion pup on another bunk, curled up like a dog on top of his board shorts.
Duffy said the pup was probably looking for his mom but found him instead.
Weird News #1
Not just any old prom date
Seymour, Ind. ---------------- An Indiana teenager who took his 93-year-old great grandmother to his junior prom says he had a great time, even though her early bedtime nearly cut the night short.
Drew Holm says his classmates thought it "was pretty cool" that he asks Kathryn Keith to the Crothersville High School junior prom. Holm picked Keith up in her Cadillac for the dance in Seymour, about 60 miles south of Indianapolis.
Keith, who wore a blue dress, told the Seymour Tribune she's proud that he asked her. The pair hit the dance floor for only one song, sharing a slow dance. Their night ended by 9 p.m. because Keith has an early bedtime.
The dog ate my ammo
Mountain Home, Ark. ------ An Arkansas veterinarian has kept a dog from going out with a bang after the animal ate 23 live rifle rounds.
Benno, the 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, had surgery last week to remove the .308-caliber ammunition from his stomach.
Owner Larry Brassfield said Benno has eaten socks, magnets and marbles, but he didn't expect the animal would bother a bag of bullets by his bed. Brassfield and his wife realized Benno needed medical attention after the pet vomited up four rounds.
Veterinarian Sarah Sexton at All Creatures Animal Hospital removed 17 rounds from Benno's stomach but left two in his esophagus, which the dog was allowed to discharge on his own.
"This is something they certainly did not cover in school," Sexton said. "I've had dogs eat things before, mostly stuffed toys. Once I had one swallow a hearing aid, but I think this takes the cake."
Coke with that granola bar?
San Antonio -------------------- San Antonio police are investigating how a packet of cocaine ended up inside a wrapped Nature Valley granola bar.
Cynthia Rodriguez, of San Antonio, said she was eating the bar when a small, green bag emblazoned with dollar signs fell out. Rodriguez contacted manufacturer General Mills Inc., thinking she had won a prize. Company officials told her to call the police.
Rodriguez contacted police and investigators determined the bag contained cocaine. Sgt. Javier Salazar said authorities are trying to determine how the package got inside the wrapper.
Geez, I was just asking
Virginia Beach, Va. ----------- A man accused of robbing a Virginia Beach bank posted two videos and a photo of the incident to his Instragram account.
Police said that Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca, 23, walked into a TowneBank and handed the teller a note asking for $150,000 in bonds ------- and including the word "please." He recorded the incident on his cellphone and posted videos and photo of the note online. Videos show the teller putting stacks of cash in a bag.
Officers picked up Alfonseca 20 minutes after he left, carrying a gym bag full of money.
In a jailhouse interview, Alfonseca noted that asking for money isn't a crime. He said he wouldn't have posted if he'd committed a crime.
Seymour, Ind. ---------------- An Indiana teenager who took his 93-year-old great grandmother to his junior prom says he had a great time, even though her early bedtime nearly cut the night short.
Drew Holm says his classmates thought it "was pretty cool" that he asks Kathryn Keith to the Crothersville High School junior prom. Holm picked Keith up in her Cadillac for the dance in Seymour, about 60 miles south of Indianapolis.
Keith, who wore a blue dress, told the Seymour Tribune she's proud that he asked her. The pair hit the dance floor for only one song, sharing a slow dance. Their night ended by 9 p.m. because Keith has an early bedtime.
The dog ate my ammo
Mountain Home, Ark. ------ An Arkansas veterinarian has kept a dog from going out with a bang after the animal ate 23 live rifle rounds.
Benno, the 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, had surgery last week to remove the .308-caliber ammunition from his stomach.
Owner Larry Brassfield said Benno has eaten socks, magnets and marbles, but he didn't expect the animal would bother a bag of bullets by his bed. Brassfield and his wife realized Benno needed medical attention after the pet vomited up four rounds.
Veterinarian Sarah Sexton at All Creatures Animal Hospital removed 17 rounds from Benno's stomach but left two in his esophagus, which the dog was allowed to discharge on his own.
"This is something they certainly did not cover in school," Sexton said. "I've had dogs eat things before, mostly stuffed toys. Once I had one swallow a hearing aid, but I think this takes the cake."
Coke with that granola bar?
San Antonio -------------------- San Antonio police are investigating how a packet of cocaine ended up inside a wrapped Nature Valley granola bar.
Cynthia Rodriguez, of San Antonio, said she was eating the bar when a small, green bag emblazoned with dollar signs fell out. Rodriguez contacted manufacturer General Mills Inc., thinking she had won a prize. Company officials told her to call the police.
Rodriguez contacted police and investigators determined the bag contained cocaine. Sgt. Javier Salazar said authorities are trying to determine how the package got inside the wrapper.
Geez, I was just asking
Virginia Beach, Va. ----------- A man accused of robbing a Virginia Beach bank posted two videos and a photo of the incident to his Instragram account.
Police said that Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca, 23, walked into a TowneBank and handed the teller a note asking for $150,000 in bonds ------- and including the word "please." He recorded the incident on his cellphone and posted videos and photo of the note online. Videos show the teller putting stacks of cash in a bag.
Officers picked up Alfonseca 20 minutes after he left, carrying a gym bag full of money.
In a jailhouse interview, Alfonseca noted that asking for money isn't a crime. He said he wouldn't have posted if he'd committed a crime.
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