Thursday, November 12: Daily Links

THURSDAY 11.12


NEWS STORIES

 



Steve Kornacki's Dumb Tie Was Being Held Together by Staples

Steve Kornacki became an internet sensation during the election coverage, with many crushes being had.

Ladies are looking at Steve Kornacki like he’s Rick Rude. Well he ain’t. He can’t even get his tie through a metal detector

He’s a nerd. Treat him like one.

Read more at people.com.


Toobin Fired

Jeffery Toobin has been officially fired from his job at The New Yorker following a three week investigation into his infamous zoom disaster.

He probably saw this coming… considering his coworkers almost saw him cumming.

Read more at nypost.


First Cruise Ship Back at Sea Is Having a Covid Scare

SeaDream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1 is the first cruise ship back on the high seas since Covid grounded everyone. The captain of the ship announced yesterday that there is a passenger on board with Covid. All 53 passengers and nonessential crew were asked to return to their cabins and isolate, which makes for a real fun cruise.

What a shame, seems like taking a cruise during the third wave of a global pandemic would have been a perfect time for a holiday!

Read more at thepointsguy.com.


Melania Will Handle White House Christmas Decorations One Last Time

Melania Trump will handing Christmas decorations at The White House, despite being caught on tape in 2018 saying how much she hates it. She’s already selecting proper courtroom attire for pending divorce proceedings.

Read more at tmz.com.



SPORTS



Bill Belichick Despises Coffee

Bill Belichick doesn’t like coffee he told a local radio show this week.

“Look, I mean I understand I am probably missing it, but I just don’t like coffee. I can’t stand the smell of coffee. I don’t like coffee ice cream and I like every sweet that has ever been made but that’s not one of them. I don’t like coffee flavored anything. I don’t know. I just don’t have the taste for it. I’ve tried, but just doesn’t work for me. My grandmother put a glass of milk and poured like probably a symbol of coffee and I couldn’t even drink that. It’s just one of those things I didn’t develop a taste for.

“Nothing against coffee. Nothing against Dunkin’ Donuts. Nothing against anything, it’s just not for me. I don’t have a taste for scotch either.”

Unfortunately he also just found out he’s the spokesman for Subway’s new Meat Lovers Cafe Mocha Sandwich

Read more at nypost.com.


Brett Favre Sez The Eagles Shoulda Kept Foles Over Wentz

Brett Favre had this to say about the Eagles quarterback situation on ESPN:

“I actually thought that they should have kept Nick Foles rather than Carson Wentz just based off of production and where they got to,” Favre said. “They won a Super Bowl with Foles. And that was a little bit surprising. They’re obviously banking on his upside. How many more years do you let it linger before you stick with [Wentz] or cut bait? That’s a question they only can answer.”

Well, Brett, the Eagles are first in the NFC East so what do you have to say about that?

Read more at nbcsports.com.



ENTERTAINMENT



George Lucas Reveals What He Woulda Done With The Star Wars Sequels

George Lucas is releasing a book about Star Wars and in it he lays out what his plans were for the sequels to the original trilogy. They would have been based around Princess Leis being the chosen one and the main villain would have been Darth Maul, who was still alive, had robot legs and ran the Galaxy’s mob. You had us at robot legs, George.

Read more at indiewire.com.


Now The Fans Of Jeopardy Are Calling For Levar Burton To Be The New Host

Twitter is clamoring for Lavar Burton to be the new host of Jeopardy. This is just in his wheelhouse since it only really requires reading answers.


Arnold To Star In New Netflix Series

Arnold Schwarzenegger will team up with actress Monica Barbaro in an upcoming Netflix series that’s described as a global spy adventure centered around a father-daughter duo. The working title is The Half-Jogging Man.

Read more at ew.com.


The Trial Of The Chicago 7: The Musical?!?

Aaron Sorkin said that his new movie, “The Trial Of The Chicago Seven’, ‘would make a great musical’. Upon hearing that, Hugh Jackman said he would be happy to audition. ‘Shut Up’ by Black Eyed Peas will be the featured song for Judge Hoffman.

Read more at pagesix.


Borat Actress Says Her Heart Was Racing During Scene With Guiliani

Maria Bakalova said her ‘heart was racing’ during her now famous scene with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the new Borat movie. But the Bulgarian actress said that she was confident that Sasha Baron Cohen would save the scene – and her – from disaster. It would’ve been Rudy re-creating the creepy old man scene from Midnight Cowboy.

Read more at people.com.


Corey Seeger’s Fiancée Posts Swimsuit Pic Featuring His Face

Madisyn Van Ham loves her fiancée, Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager so much that she shared a photo of her wearing a swimsuit with pics of the World Series MVP’s face on it. Next season, Seager will have Van Ham’s face on his batting gloves.

Read more at tmz.



GOING VIRAL



Baby Meets His Puppy

This beats every Hallmark movie over the head with a pick axe. Looks like I got the feels.

I’m not crying. You’re crying like an onion slicing Ninja.

Via digg.

@jack.frank31

If this doesn’t blow up idk what will… #dog #wholesome #birthday #fyp #baby #cute #foryoupage

♬ This Wisp Sings by Winter Aid but slowed down – lastmanstanley


Twitter Is Calling Leta Powell Drake The Real Between Two Ferns

Host and producer Leta Powell Drake, who worked in Nebraska, has been discovered by the internet and she’s being called the real life Between Two Ferns. She also was obviously sleeping with Kojak, good for her.




STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Multivitamins a Placebo?

New research shows the positive effect of taking a multivitamin may be just in making you feel like you’re doing something positive for your health

Are you feeling like you’ve been doing something good for yourself by choking down Multivitamins every morning? Sucker.

Your pee smells weird

Read more at studyfinds.org.


Folks NOT getting Divorced During Pandemic

Remember when we thought the pandemic would ruin our relationships? Just the opposite. We are staying together at record numbers.

Love wins! At least until the vaccine.

Read more at ifstudies.org.


Map Shows Which States Have Lost Control of COVID Spread

Spoiler Alert: it’s pretty much all of them.

Accept for Vermont. Must be all the Ben & Jerry’s.

Read more details on digg.com.


Vulture Lists Their 15 Essential Conspiracy Movies

Vulture has compiled a list of their 15 essential conspiracy theory movies for everyone who misses Q.

Read more at vulture.com.



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