DAILY DIRT: Alphabetically speaking, there are a lot of selections between AC/DC and ZZ Top

July 16, 2025 | By Steve Eighinger, Muddy River News Minister of Culture and Doctor of Love

Daily Dirt for July 16, 2025

Yes, I chose Monkees for my “M” selection. And I’m proud of it … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,344 of The Daily Dirt.

1. A friend sent me a note other day, asking if I could come up with a major band/group for every letter of the alphabet.

At first, I thought it sounded like a tough task, but once I got started it actually became a lot of fun. For the most part, the problem was narrowing down the list for several of the letters. I have included notes on the letters my buddy and I had different selections. This is simply for groups/bands, not individual artists:

A: AC/DC (My friend went with Aerosmith)
B: Beatles
C: Creedence Clearwater Revival (My friend chose Cheap Trick)
D: Doors (My friend went with Def Leppard)
E: Eagles
F: Fleetwood Mac
G: Guess Who (My friend chose Guns N’ Roses)
H: Heart
I: Iron Butterfly (My friend went with Iron Maiden)
J: Jimi Hendrix Experience (My friend chose Jefferson Starship)
K: Kiss (My friend went with the Kinks)
L: Led Zeppelin (My friend chose Lynyrd Skynyrd)
M: Monkees (My friend went with Metallica)
N: Nazareth (My friend chose Nirvana)
O: Ohio Players (We both surrendered on this one. We had to look up an answer and chose this.)
P: Pink Floyd (My friend chose Poison)
Q: Queen (My friend went with Quiet Riot)
R: Rolling Stones
S: Supremes (My friend went with Styx)
T: Temptations (My friend chose Thin Lizzy)
U: Uriah Heep (We both went this, but had to think long and hard on this one)
V: Van Halen
W: Who
X: (I couldn’t come up with one, and either could my buddy. He suggested this one simply be a wild card.)
Y: Yardbirds (My friend with Yes)
Z: ZZ Top

2. Did you know (Part 427)

That Del Monte has filed for bankruptcy. I also saw where one guy said it was kind of shocking, considering how much money they had saved over the years by putting ONLY ONE of those little cherries in each of those cans of fruit cocktail. One of life’s true pet peeves.
That no matter how much chocolate you eat, your shoes will still fit.
That the NBA is seriously exploring expansion, according to commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday. The league last expanded in 2004 when it added the Charlotte Bobcats. Prior to that, the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies (now the Memphis Grizzlies) joined in 1995.
That 50 years ago this week, “Venus and Mars” by Wings topped the Billboard album chart.
That the most popular MLB jersey sales are currently: Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Francisco Lindor. The first one outside of a major market is Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz at No. 15.

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

“A weasel walks into a bar. The bartender says, ” Wow, I’ve never served a weasel before. What can I get you?” “Pop,” goes the weasel. (Which further proves it should be called pop and not soda. Just my humble opinion.)
“The man who invented throat lozenges died last week. There was no coffin at his funeral.”
“Imagine how noisy centipedes would be if they wore tiny flip-flops.”
“What do you call a cow that’s just given birth? Decalfeinated.”
“My friend is an archaeologist and I asked him why he was always so depressed. He said his life was in ruins.”

Steve Thought O’ The Day — I hear a new kind of senior GPS system is being developed. Not only would it tell someone like myself my destination, it would also tell me why I had wanted to go there.