DAILY DIRT: Clock is about to strike midnight for 2024 Great Plate Debate

December 28, 2024 | By Steve Eighinger Muddy River News Minister of Culture and Doctor of Love

Winning the Great Plate Debate is better than winning an Oscar, according to Steve.

Daily Dirt for Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024

DR. LOV zeroing in one of online journalism’s premier accomplishments … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,157 of The Daily Dirt.

1. The finish line is within reach. The checkered flag is about to fall.

DR LOV is about to be crowned the third annual Great Plate Debate champion — the most interesting license plate found in 2024 across West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri.

This year’s competition ends at midnight Dec. 31. On New Year’s Day, we start the 12-month 2025 contest.

Here’s this year’s penultimate rankings:

The current medal holders:

Gold medal: DR LOV. This has held the top spot — once again, one of the most coveted prizes in online journalism — since Nov. 8.

Silver medal: GOD 911. For those keeping score at home, this was No. 1 prior to the arrival of DR LOV.

Bronze medal: WAR PIGS. Remember who WAR PIGS knocked off the podium? If your guess was XLMAMA you would be correct.

Best of the rest last week:

SKATEY 8
BAIL
AWARE 19
HARP
BLOOMER
TRI N (Tryin’ … get it!?)
NAVAJO 3
FUZZY 5
BING

We’re not only days away from crowning the 2024 champ, but opening up Season IV. Polish those plates and plan to do a lot of driving around West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri. The Daily Dirt plate spotters are everywhere!

2. Did you know … (Part 229)

That comedian Trevor Noah says there is one thing white people love more than anything else on this planet: Singing along with Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”.
That Lay’s All Dressed potato chips are heading back to stores in 2025.
That Green Apple, Watermelon and Blue Raspberry are the new flavors for the Jolly Rancher Freeze Dried candies.
That Captain Crunch cereal’s new offering is Arctic Crunch Vanilla Frost.
That a person born in ’33 was 45 in ’78. (A reference for those who grew up with a lot of vinyl records … )

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

“My wrinkles show I laughed, my gray hair shows I cared, my scars show I lived and my belly shows I really like pizza.”

“Why is it when archaeologists find a skeleton, they are always male or female and none one of the other 62 genders?”

“Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. ‘Neil A’ spelled backward is ‘Alien’.”

“If the Lions and Vikings win this week, one of them will become the first 14-win team in NFL history to lose its division.”

“More than 360 days until Christmas and people already have their lights up. Unfreakinbelievable.”

Steve Thought O’ The Day – We’re approaching the anniversary of former ESPN sports anchor Stuart Scott’s death: Jan. 4, 2015. He’ll always be considered one of the best ever, and yes, Mr. Scott will always be “cooler than the other side of the pillow”. R.I.P., Stuart.