Welcome to the medal stand, QUINCY

Daily Dirt for Thursday, July 3, 2025

DR FUNN not done when it comes to holding on to that gold medal … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,331 of The Daily Dirt.

1. For the first time in a month, we have a new member of the medal stand in The Great Plate IV search for the most creative personal license plates across West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri.

QUINCY is new new bronze medal holder behind gold medalist DR FUNN and Silver medal holder U BABE 1.

It was a relatively slow month of June, with only minimal changes among the medalists. I’m fully expecting things to heat up in July (no pun intended).

Here’s our current medal standings heading into the July 4 weekend:

Gold medal: DR FUNN 

Silver medal: U BABE 1

Bronze medal: QUINCY

The past week’s best of the rest:

• GAM GAM
• CEEJ
• STAR WO 2
• PULN EM 2
• OHMIE
• MEMAW 77
• I TINK 1
• Q JEEP 4
• SPD TRP
• SWAT

2. Did you know (Part 414)

• That during a human’s lifetime, he/she will eat an average of 70,000 pounds of food. That’s the weight of more than six elephants.
• That the average chocolate bar has eight insect legs inside it.
• That potatoes were the first food to be grown in space.
• That a dog that is a mixture between a Chihuahua and a miniature dachshund is called a chiweenie.
• That cats have 32 muscles in each ear.

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

• “The inventor of the heat index has died. He was 88, but felt like 107.”
• “People are climbing mountains and zip lining, and I’m feeling good just because I got my leg through my underwear without falling down.”
• “I’m confused how a cemetery can raise its funeral prices and blame it on the cost of living.”
• “I made a huge to-do list for today. I just can’t figure out who’s going to do it.”
• “When I look in the mirror and see gray hair, tiny wrinkles and dimming eyes I think, ‘They sure don’t make mirrors like they used to.'”

Steve Thought O’ The Day — I’ve been told that if you have five inches of fat around your tummy you can prevent a bullet from reaching any vital organs? So, you’re not fat. You’re armored. Go eat that cake.

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. He is Iron Man.