Friday June 26: Daily Links

FRIDAY 6.26


NEWS STORIES

 



Will The 'The Star-Spangled Banner' Get Cancelled!?

People will fight to keep ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ but face it , no one really likes it. No one can
sing it !

Time for Low Rider to step up

Read more at yahoo.com.


Dr. Fauci Supports Your Right to Protest as Long as you Wear Your Mask

The country’s top spokes-doc is saying its okay to protest if you’re wearing a face covering.

Who’s masks???
Our masks!! (But on faces and not around our necks, because that would be pointless)

Read more at vice.com.


Winn-Dixie Considers Changing Name

Winn-Dixie, one of the largest supermarket chains in the country, is considering dropping its name after nearly 100 years in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. A company spokesperson says that they haven’t picked out a new name yet, but a change seems all be inevitable. Officials denied that the one of the names being floated out is Winn-Lost Civil War.

Read more at tmz.com.


RIP The McDonalds In Times Square

After 17 years the McDonalds in Times Square is closing its doors. Many took to Twitter to relay stories of the circus shit show that it was. It’ll probably be replaced by a mask store so that’s cool.

Read more at nypost.com.


Data Model Predicts Phoenix Could Get 28k Positive Covid Tests In One Day

Covid growth is uncontrolled in 23% of US counties and Phoenix is getting hit particularly hard. Thank God we opened the country when we did.

Read more at dailymail.co.uk.


One Million Stimulus Checks Went To Dead People

A million checks went out to dead people that totalled $1.4 billion. The government just sent out checks to everyone who filed a 2019 tax return. So if anyone has any dead relatives, check their mailbox.
Read more at dailymail.co.uk.


Weird Lights Spotted Over Houston

A Houston woman caught a group of strange lights hovering over the city. Time to welcome our alien overlords.

Read more at dailymail.co.uk.


Texas Is Rolling Back Its Reopening

With the new spread of Coronavirus in Texas, their governor is now rolling back the states reopening including closing all tubing and rafting businesses. This sucks, because tubing is what could have brought this country back to greatness.

Read more at cnbc.com.



City In Thailand Totally Overrun By Monkeys

The city of Lopburi in Thailand has a huge monkey problem. They’re hungry and breeding out of control. No one can envy the veterinarian who’s gonna have to give vasectomies to a buncha hungry angry monkeys.

Read more.



SPORTS



Vince Carter Leaving after 22 years in NBA

It took a pandemic but it’s over. Vince Carter is done playing after 22 years in the NBA

Someone tell Tom Brady that he’s next.

Read more at espn.


Tompa Bay Quotes FDR On His Instagram Story

Tom Brady quoted FDR on his IG Story with “The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself”. Many are assuming this is aimed at people criticizing him for still running practices while Florida is imploding with positive covid tests. Now that he’s not a Patriot Tom can finally express himself like the nerd he truly is.

Read more ta nypost.com.



ENTERTAINMENT


Cult Movies That Bombed When They Came Out

Sometimes the people are wrong. In this case they were dead wrong about all these movie except one.

Liking ‘The Room” is just bullying.

Read more at buzzfeed.com.


Christian Slater: Pump Up The Volume Was My Favorite Role

Christian Slater told EW that his favorite role to date was playing Mark, the loner pirate radio host in Pump Up The Volume was his favorite. Slater added that it was memorable for him because it was one of the rare movies that dealt with mental health issues and suicide among teenagers. When you have the on-air name of Harry Hard On, it’s hard not to like this movie.

Read more at ew.com.


Danny Trejo: When I Was Locked Up, Hey Jude Caused A Prison Riot

Actor Danny Trejo said that hearing ‘Hey Jude’ while locked up at Folsom Prison, made him a Beatles fan. The ‘Machete’ actor said that the cell block was ‘noisy and chaotic’ when the song started, but when it ended, ‘sinks were broken’ and ‘toilets were flooded’ because everyone loved the song so much. Luckily for the guards, it wasn’t ‘Helter Skelter’.

Read more at nme.com.


New Sci-Fi Movie To Star A.I Actor

‘B’, a 70 million dollar Sci-fi movie will star A.I robot Erica in the leading role. Erica was created by Japanese scientists who taught her how to act by applying method acting principles to her artificial intelligence programming. Producers are saying this will be the first movie in history to star an A.I. actor. They offered no comment on a report that the backers of the project are a subsidiary of SkyNet.

Read more at indiewire.com.


Roberto Duran Has Coronavirus

Roberto Hands Of Stone Duran has come down with the Coronavirus. Hopefully he can punch his way out of this one.

Read more at nypost.com.



GOING VIRAL




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Unmanned Boat Sailing Down Highway

Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

Via digg.com.



Woman with Tourette’s Adorable Baking Video with the Women in Her Family

She definitely should be on the short list for the next British Bake Off, though their going to have do a lot of censoring.

Via digg.com.


Tik Tok Challenge Has Women Surprising their Husbands in their old wedding Dresses

Here are the big take aways: Most wives still look great in their wedding dresses and most of these useless husband play a lot of video games.

Read more at buzzfeed.com.

@gene.lagos

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♬ ily (i love you baby) – Surf Mesa

@kansaswarren

##weddingdresschallenge 20 years this June!!

♬ Marry You – Countdown Singers



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Awesome Video of Stomping Arctic Ice in Frozen Shards

Wondering where most people rank this one their favorite ice?? Not as good as crushed but way better than that cloudy old ice machine garbage.


STUDY SAYS


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