DAILY DIRT: How’s that old encyclopedia collection doing these days?

Daily Dirt for June 23, 2025

Raise your had if you once rewound those cassette tapes with a pencil … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,322 of The Daily Dirt.

1. Attention, fellow boomers!

If you’re uncertain whether or not you either qualify as a true baby boomer or deserve to be included in such a group, consider the following:

• Have you ever operated a rotary phone?
• Typed on actual typewriter?
• Taken pictures with a “film camera”?
• Played music on a CD?
• Rewound a cassette tape with pencil?
• Placed the needle ever so carefully on a vinyl record?
• Watched a movie on VHS and prayed it did not jam?
• Sent or received a fax?
• Recorded songs from the radio, feeling like a mixtape hero?
• Heard the screech of dial-up internet?
• Rented a VHS at Blockbuster on a Friday night?
• Looked up someone’s number in a phone book?
• Used a paper map and did not get lost?
• Had a whole encyclopedia collection?
• I answered “yes” to each and everyone, and I would guess I’m not alone.

2. Did you know (Part 404)

• That it has been found that the productivity of workers is at its all-time low on Mondays. With people being up to 30 percent less productive on a Monday, it has been demonstrated they often only manage 3.5 hours of work throughout the day. 
• That on a Monday, almost 50 percent of employees are late to work.
• That a study once revealed the best ways to get over the “Monday Blues” are by watching TV, online shopping, buying chocolate and planning a holiday. Or reading The Daily Dirt.
• That there is a marked 20 percent increase of heart attacks on Mondays.
• That one study showed that American people of all ages feel at their least attractive on a Monday.

3. It’s June, traditionally THE month for weddings.

I don’t think you need look any farther than the 1980s for the five best wedding songs … ever. In no particular order, see if you agree:

• “I Just Called To Say I Love You,” by Stevie Wonder.
• “I Want To Know What Love Is,” by Foreigner.
• “Every Breath You Take,” by The Police.
• “Eternal Flame,” by the Bangles.
• “Endless Love,” by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Steve forgot the greatest wedding song of all time, also from the ’80s. JRG

Steve Thought O’ The Day — Consider this, my friends: Pepsi and Coke can’t even be in the same restaurant together … and yet we feel world peace is a possibility. 

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. World peace doesn’t really feel possible at this moment.