~ Due to the travel restriction around the world, it would seem everyone in Maryland decided to drive rather than fly to their holiday destinations. Therefore, the traffic on MD roads increased 10 fold which is just what you want to deal with 2 days before Thanksgiving.
~ Sitting with an entire team of teachers that have off tomorrow, stinks. It just has to be said.
~ According to the Trivia Master, in regards to Turkey Day:
- People eat 13 pounds of turkey in a year
- There are 24 NFL teams that were created after the tradition of a Thanksgiving day game hosted by the Lions was enacted
- Swanson overshot the number of turkeys they'd sell in the 50s by 26 tons, so they created the TV dinner so as to not waste all that turkey.
None of these facts are particularly exciting but at least you'll have a chance to feel smart at the dinner table on Thursday.
~ There's currently a song called "Ex's and O's" on the Billboard Chart. Seeing as I've been listening to Christmas music for the better part of November, I've not heard this song even once.
~ My Disney knowledge is sorely lacking, something my team judged me for quite a bit. (Why on earth would I think that the movie Mulan - about a female soldier - would have included the song "I'll make a man out of you?" Wouldn't that make more sense if it were in Tarzan? Unfortunately I didn't help my case when explaining I'd never seen either movie...
~ In a Clockwork Orange, someone drinks poisoned milk. Yet another reason to not watch this movie or read the book. I don't even want to think about people drugging one of my most favorite drinks (also, the answer to this question was most definitely milk and not absinthe like we guessed...)
~ When the mid game question is on literary characters and the novels they appeared in, it's quite helpful to have an English teacher on your team.
~ Along with my lack of Disney knowledge, I also have no recollection of the famous poem "Casey at the Bat." What the heck was I reading and watching when I was little?
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