DAILY DIRT: Watch out for those wild, giant pandas
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I’m going to need an official Pit Spitters cap … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 681 of The Daily Dirt.
1. Here are the three of the strangest facts I have encountered in recent days:
- Gold medal: Wild, giant pandas prefer to do handstands when peeing. They’re especially fond of doing this during mating season.
- Silver medal: A “butt” is an actual form of measurement. If we’re talking imperial measurements, a “butt” is a cask of liquid. It is used in wine and brewing contexts. In the wine world, a butt is around 108 imperial gallons (just under 500 liters, or around 126 U.S. gallons. So, it turns out that a buttload is … well, a buttload.
- Bronze medal: Did you realize that blob of toothpaste you apply to your toothbrush each morning has a name? It’s called a “nurdle”.
2. Just the other day I spotted some more outstanding minor/summer league baseball team nicknames:
- Traverse City Pit Spitters. Just try and say that fast three times. The Pit Spitters play in the Northwest Woods League and are based in Traverse City, Mich.
- San Antonio Flying Chanclas. What’s a chancla, you ask? It’s a slip-flop. And they play in the Texas Collegiate League.
- Florence Y’alls. Headquartered in Florence, Ky., the Y’alls are a member of the Frontier League.
3. It’s been a good week for spotting entertaining license plates.
I didn’t feel any of the following were quite good enough for a medal, but these definitely deserve a mention (and another thanks to those who keeping emailing and texting me with plates they have seen):
- QY 1000.
- B TANGY.
- BAKES 7.
- ANGGGG. (I wish I knew the story behind this one.)
- TRUBLN 2.
To date, your 2023 Great Plate Debate podium consists of:
- Gold medal: BE A BETH.
- Silver medal: U LIED.
- Bronze medal: STINK.
(P.S.: As I’m writing this, I just received a text about a license plate for consideration in next week’s rankings, and it’s a quality entrant. It will definitely be worth of medal consideration.)
Steve Thought O’ The Day — I’ll never look at toothpaste the same way ever again. Or wild, giant pandas.
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Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. We here at MRN would like to wish one of the company’s crown princes, Scott Duffy Gough, a happy birthday today.
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