KNUCKLEHEAD DON

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A knucklehead is someone who is stupid, a dunce or an idiot and always does or says something totally foolish.

Knucklehead is an informal term that comes across as insulting, depending on how we use it. The former guy is one.

Riders nicknamed the engine the "Knucklehead" because of the distinctive shape of the polished alloy rocker boxes atop each cylinder. The Knucklehead provided vastly increased horsepower and durability and became the bedrock of Harley-Davidson engine design for the next 65 years.

WAY TO GO COCO

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Coco Gauff won what she hopes is the first of many Grand Slams at the U.S. Open. This young GOAT Is playing for herself now.

Coco became the first American teenager to win the U.S. Open in nearly a quarter-century, grabs a football, sends a guy downfield, and uncoils a tight, 40-yard spiral, right into the receiver’s chest. Then she does it again. And again.

ROMNEY GETS IT

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US Senator Mitt Romney managed to put the proper perspective on Donald Trump’shush money trial ― and the former guy will hate it.

“I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character,” Romney told CNN’s Manu Raju. “And, so far as I know, you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”

 

LOCK HIM UP

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

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https://youtu.be/uZNRzc3hWvE?feature=shared

 

Full 9-alarm fire': Honig reacts to transcript of testimony from Trump hush money trial

Updated 9:53 PM EDT April 23, 2024
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STUDENTS ARRESTED

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Hundreds of students have been arrested for campus protesting on dozens East and West Coast American Colleges and Universities.

Chaotic and thrilling: Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/columbia-protests-stude…

As pro-Palestinian demonstrations roil campus, the station’s undergraduate reporters – working 18 hour days – have become an essential news source

 

STRANGE LANGUAGE IDIOMS

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Idioms are non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely realize how nonsensical some sayings can sometimes be.
 

JAZZ IS AMERICA'S DNA

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Jazz originated in the late-19th to early-20th century. It developed out of many forms of music, including blues, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville songs, ragtime, and dance music.

HEED THE BEATLES

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Even the greatest rock band ever, who were known as the Fab Four had a little recording room help from their friends once in a while.

According to Americansongwriter.com The Beatles succeeded for countless reasons, but their chemistry as four instrumentalists had a lot to do with it. For the vast majority of their songs, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, with some production expertise from George Martin, made the magic in the studio without any outside help.

THE TRUE SUE

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I no longer work at News 4 New York, but I enjoyed serving stories for anchorwoman Sue Simmons when I was a field producer there.

Simmons was one of the jovial members of the team, constantly poking fun at herself and everyone else on the set. She liked to laugh. So it's no surprise that many viewers may remember a Groundhog Day impersonation (which can be viewed here).  

TAYLOR MADE

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Happy Taylor Swift Album Drop Weekend to all the Swifties who are still celebrating. While we’re making our way through.

The 31 new tracks that we woke up to this morning, the internet content machine is already churning: 

She has 232 songs on the Hot 100 in total, more than any other female artist and only second to Drake overall. Swift is also the only woman to replace herself on the Hot 100 — and she's done it three times.