What I Learned This Week - 9/2/16

1.  468 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters 
2. Describing the dead deer on the side of the road as, “it looks like Santa lost his temper again” to a car full of kids that aren’t yours is very funny.......but not advisable.  #LotsOfPhoneCalls
3. According to a coworker, his fool-proof marriage criteria is to find a woman with a really bad tattoo, because she knows how to make bad decisions and stick with them.
4. My daughters have stopped asking me if they are adopted when I do something stupid because my go to response now is,” Not yet, but I’m hopeful”.
5. You only get one chance to notice a new haircut.
6. If you ever want to know what makes you unique, sit for a caricature.
7. “Jet-engine-powered-merry-go-round” is a thing.
8. “Sea-plane-engine-powered-pickup-truck” is also a thing. #DoesNotFly
9. “Bananimals”, the art of photo-shopping a hybrid of a banana and a random animal, is far more entertaining than it should be – I’m partial to the “banotter”.
10. “Hot beef sundae” is something that should NOT be Googled with safe search off.
11. The Big Ben Clock Tower’s time is kept accurate by adding or removing pennies on its pendulum changing the clock's speed by +/- 0.4 seconds per day
12. The slogan for Winston cigarettes, "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should", was controversial throughout the 1950s & 60s, because saying "like" instead of "as" was considered a grammatical error. #Like4Sure
13. If it were not for cartoons, the average person would not know what an anvil is.
14. The best part of fixing the pop-up camper yourself is that you get to use the phrase, “lubing the wiffle tree” at dinner parties.