DAILY DIRT: TATTED inks its medal position in latest update of The Great Plate Debate

Daily Dirt for Friday, July 11, 2025

My goal is to learning something new every day, and today is a success. When you get to the baboon and lemon thing, I’m pretty sure you’ll understand … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,339 of The Daily Dirt.

1. We have another new medal winner this week when it comes to Great Plate Debate IV.

In the never-ending search for the most creative license plates across West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri, TATTED — spotted earlier this week in the parking lot east of the Quincy Walmart — has been moved into the bronze medal seat by the Daily Dirt Board of Control. Exiting the medal stand after one’s week occupation is QUINCY.

DR FUNN continues to hold on to the gold medal, a spot it has occupied for more than a month. U BABE 1 also continues to hold steady in the silver medal spot.

Here’s how the current medalists look:

Gold medal: DR FUNN 

Silver medal: U BABE 1

Bronze medal: TATTED

Dropped out: QUINCY

Best o’ the rest from the past week:

• CPYCAT
• APPEAL
• BUKTRUK
• JAGS
• HIVE
• LUVU JJ
• 96 TREX
• MIDWAY 1

2. Did you know (Part 422)

• That there is a type of lemon called a baboon.
• That farts travel about 10 feet per second, which is almost 7 mph.
• That the White House has its own movie theater. It seats 42 people.
• That the number four is the only number to have the same amount of letters as its value.– That there is only one letter that doesn’t appear in any US state name: “Q”.

3. This week’s best of “Found on Facebook”:

• “Time is the only currency spent without knowing your balance. Use it wisely.”
• “The sad part of getting old is you stay young on the inside, but nobody can tell anymore.”
• “I went to an antique auction yesterday and three people bid on me.”
• “I’m having people over later to stare at their phones if you want to come by.”
• “Welcome to middle age. You now take pictures of instructions so you can enlarge them.”

Steve Thought O’ The Day — Have you ever wondered how it is that taco shells survive the factory, delivery trucks and the store shelves … but the second you add some filling — boom! They break into a thousand pieces.

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. Would anyone bid on him at an antique auction? It would be the Little Woman who put him up for sale in the first place and she’d probably take some candlesticks for him in a trade.