Wednesday July 21: Daily Links

Published by Interrobang Staff at July 21, 2021

WEDNESDAY 7.21

NEWS STORIES

Watch Cockpit Video From Inside Bezos Dick Rocket

That skittle toss was about 2 inches away from being a salad toss.

Zaddy Added to the Dictionary

Dictionary.com updated with 300 new words, hoping to become a place old people can go to look up young slang. They also added OOF, deplatforming, silver fox, snack, yeet, asshat, aunt Jemima, blamestorm, cultural appropriation, ghost kitchen, misper, shitshow, side hustle, trigger warning, trap house, and youse.

What? No Zommy?

So Now There’s Monkeypox

The CDC is monitoring about 200 people right now who may have Monkeypox.

Can you add this to the dictionary please so we can find out what it is?

In Flight Assaults Increased by 500% This Year

Incidents, assaults, fights and arguments are up a ridiculous amount this year and there are non stop headlines about the brawls.

Two more fights and Dana White will start charging tickets.

The Louvre is Suing Pornhub

The famous Paris museum isn’t thrilled with Pornhub’s website devoted to pornographic art. They’re suing saying the use of some of the Louvre’s paintings to teach porn fans about art is unauthorized and therefore not acceptable.

Come on, just let Porn Hub use the images. It’s better than people masturbating in your museum.

J&J Less Effective Against Delta

OOPS only 33% against symptomatic disease

Looks like somebody’s going back in the Lit Pit.

Juul Paid $51k To Print An Entire Scientific Journal Claiming Vaping Helped People To Stop Smoking

The American Journal of Health and Behavior printed a special 219 page edition where every article claimed vaping helped smokers wean themselves off tobacco. Turns out Juul paid $51,000 for all of the studies by the journal.

Good to know it’s not that scientists can be paid off so cheaply.

Wanna See What A $169 Million Apartment Looks Like? Sure You Do.

Here’s a virtual tour of the $169 million penthouse at 432 Park Avenue in New York City. Yes it’s big, and no you can’t open any of the windows.

Watch the video on Digg.

SPORTS

Tokyo May Still Cancel Olympics

Toshiro Muto, head of the Tokyo Olympic committee says he won’t rule out cancelling the games even though they are only three days away amid a Covid crisis in Japan.

They’re losing a ton of money but think how much they saved on the cardboard beds.

Alabama Freshman Offered BIG Money Before He Even Plays

Now that college athletes can sell out, there’s a lot of money being thrown in their general direction. Nick Saban revealed “Our quarterback has already approached ungodly numbers, and he hasn’t even played yet. If I told you what it is … it’s almost seven figures.”

Are we supposed to be shocked? How much you making Saban?

Clemson Tigers Coach Not Looking Forward to 12 Team Playoff

Dabo Swinney knows its coming, he knows it’s inevitable but he doesn’t like it.

You don’t want to play for an extra four months??

Bills Wide Receiver Said What It Would Take For Him To Get Vaccinated

Bills WR Cole Beasley said “I’ll get vaccinated and be an advocate for it if Pfizer puts a percentage of its earnings from the vaccine in my wife’s name.” Mark Cuban called him out, promising to buy Cole’s wife a share of Pfizer stock.”

Beasley reportedly replied, “I appreciate your offer Mark, but I’d like to see what Mr. Wonderful has to say.”

CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT

Dolly Parton Dresses as Playboy Bunny for Husband's 79th Birthday

Good Golly Miss Dolly! Parton recreated her 1978 Playboy Magazine cover 43 years later to celebrate her husband Carl’s 79th birthday.

Guess she’s trying to kill him?

Virgin Bachelorette Contest Forgot That He Has Had Oral

Mike Planeta, the Bachelorette contestant who said he’s a version admitted on a podcast that he’s not perfect. He says he’s never had sex, sex, but he has “slipped up and had oral sex.”

What did he do, trip and fall face first into a vagina?

Ashton Kutcher Sold Space Ticket

He bought his ticket back in 2021, but now he’s a husband and father and his family doesn’t want him to take such a big risk.

Big Bad Bill is Sweet William now.

@charlesperalo

#greenscreen Ashton Kutcher sells ticket to space. #ashtonkutcher #milakunis #richardbranson #celebrities #hollywood

♬ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Walter Salinas

Seth Rogen Thinks, Talks About, and Smokes Pot...A Lot.

GQ goes in depth with Rogen about his favorite topic- marijuana.

Let’s face it. He’s this generations’ Tommy Chong. millennials.

Matt Damon And Ben Affleck Together Again On Screen

We finally get to see Matt and Ben on screen together again in the period drama/action flick The Last Duel, about a true story that took place in France in the 1300’s. Can’t wait for Matt Damon to ask Adam Driver “Do you like Bubonic Plague?”.

Watch the trailer on YouTube.

VIRAL VIRAL

Watch the Jackass Trailer If you want to See Elderly People Doing Stupid Things…

Hey where’s BAM?

Forever young and still funny in the head. Check out the NEW trailer for #JackassForever and see our big dumb movie in theaters everywhere October 22, 2021. pic.twitter.com/9ymUlODTmP

— jackass (@jackassworld) July 20, 2021

Watch Jon Stewart's New Trailer!

Jason Alexander finally has a role to make us all forget about George.

Sorry for the aborted launch!!! I’m a bad twitterer.
Enjoy this small step for man! pic.twitter.com/6gBHHJLByQ

— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) July 20, 2021

STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS

Mental Floss Lists the 20 Best Bobs

You included Bob Ross, Bobby McFerrin, the haircut the Bob, and English Bobbies.

But you forgot Bob Newhart. Mental Floss you are officially canceled.

Buzzfeed Asks What Social Acceptable Things Disgust You

Some things that made the list, weird dog breeding, posting pics of people without consent, licking your fingers to count money before giving it to someone, and speaker phone use in public,

We’re adding making too many lists to this list.