DAILY DIRT: BIGSIGH falls just shy of reaching the medal stand in The Great Plate Debate

Daily Dirt for Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024

 … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,140 of The Daily Dirt.

1. The Daily Dirt Great Plate Debate Board of Control thought long and hard about the BIGSIGH entry it received a few days ago.

In the end, however, BIGSIGH was denied a spot on the medal stand as this year’s contest moves toward the closing curtain.

BIG SIGH, submitted by loyal reader Jo Lynn Tappe, came “that close” to unearthing WAR PIGS from its bronze medal position.

“That was a tough one,” board member Chris P. Bacon said. “At this time of the year, it takes a hall of fame candidate to remove one of the medal-worthy plates and we felt BIGSIGH fell just short.”

And so it goes … as we move to the final 19 days of the 2024 competition.

This week’s top entries:

• BIGSIGH
• SHA SHA 1
• SEEYA 51
• LADY E 50
• HOWDYDO
• LEMON

The medal holders:

Gold medal: DR LOV.

Silver medal: GOD 911. 

Bronze medal: WAR PIGS.

2. Did you know (Part 214)

• That Google employees are permitted to bring their pets to work. They are referred to as “Dooglers”.
• That a cross between a zebra and a horse is called a “zorse”.
• That Burger King in Brazil once released a “Chocolate Whopper” as an April Fool’s joke, complete with a chocolate pattie, chocolate syrup and white chocolate onions.
• That the term “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning “a tribe of hairy women”.
• That in the U.S. alone, around 20 billion hot dogs are consumed annually.

3. A few more notes tied to that gargantuan $765 contract outfielder Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets:

• The Pirates’ TOTAL payroll for the past 10 years is $757 million.,
• LeBron James’ CAREER earnings in the NBA: $531 million.
• Tom Brady’s CAREER earnings in the NFL: $332 million.
• Tiger Woods’  CAREER PGA earnings: $154 million.
• Patrick Mahomes’ NFL deal with the Chiefs, which runs through 2031: $450 million.

Steve Thought O’ The Day — When you say “forward” or “backward,” your lips move in those directions.

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. His career earnings don’t come close to Soto’s either.