With the three flavor Cornetto movies, we always see a Cornetto brand ice cream wrapper in each of the movies(Shaun - Red, Hot Fuzz - Blue, World's End - Green). Now, with The Interview and This is the End, they use a dog(same breed and dog, not sure what breed though) as an allusion to the movies. In This is the End, you see this dog when everybody is rocking out to the Backstreet Boys in heaven. As for The Interview, it's the dog Kim Jong-Un gives Skylark(Franco). After The Credits of The Interview(not sure if this is after the credits of This is the End), we see a picture of the same dog, with the name "Digby" under it and also the words In Dedication.

Also borrowing some formula from the Cornetto movies is the duo. Pegg and Frost = Franco and Rogan, and also Rogan and Goldberg = Pegg and Wright. You could say Pineapple Express is apart of this trilogy, but it doesn't have the dog, and it was made by Judd Appatow. So, it's like how the movie Paul(also staring Rogan) is to the Cornetto trilogy.

Stats:

• 3,575 Documented Zuffa Fighters via UFCStats.com
• 126 fighters able to avoid getting cut long enough to have a 20+ fight career.
• Less than 4% of all UFC fighters have managed this feat.

Why Find These Numbers?

A few year's back I became curious as to how many fighters would actually qualify for Reebok's top performance tier for payout money. They tout it around as if it is something easy to achieve, but in reality only 90 fighters would qualify for such a tier, with only 48 of them being active in the first place.

For those not in the know, fighters whom have more 20+ Zuffa bouts under their belt received 20k in incentivized Reebok money per fight (now 25k Crypto.com Money). So, basically only about 7% of the current roster qualifies, and only 4% of all the UFC Fighters in general would qualify.

It is NOT a proper incentive when it is damn near impossible to ever even qualify for. However, I feel that the select few fighters whom do end up sticking around the UFC long enough to reach such a tier, should be getting a whole lot more!

It really is quite amazing to be able to have more than 20+ UFC bouts! One would have to fight at least 3 times a year for 7 years to qualify - to go that long without getting cut is a miracle onto itself!

A Retirement Plan?

As such I was thinking that perhaps the UFC could institute a "retirement plan" for fighters whom survive for this long. Meaning, that if a UFC Fighter lasts to 20+ fights, and wants to retire (after hitting a certain age bracket, let's say 38) then they have a job w/ benefits waiting for them. Kind of like the job that Forrest Griffin has.

Or, if the fighters do not want to take the "ambassador" job, then they can still sit on their asses and collect 1k a month, plus medica benefits, and access to the Performance Institute. Granted that they do not ever compete in MMA again. If they decide they don't want to retire, and the UFC is unwilling to provide them w/ fights, then they can forfeit their benefits and go fight elsewhere.

WWE actually does a decent job of this, with their "road agent" programs. This is where retired wrestlers stick with the company and scout/train new talent, or help produce the live events.

Either way, there should be something greater awaiting these fighters whom have put in the work (and years) to make it this far...something besides CTE. Guys like Melvin Guillard would really benefit greatly from such a program existing.

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hullo hullo, i've just finished a big essay project on Lucian of Samosata. He's a syrian satirist from the 2nd century and was active in athens, and we've got around 80 of his works (they are brilliant, go and read them now)

before I started the project, i'd never heard of him, and neither had anyone i know. not even in that vague way you'd know aristophanes or pliny even if you'd never read anything of them, just from having heard them around. lucian seems to be sorely underappreciated. i only found out about him through an episode of a podcast i listen to them premise of which was "hey! i'd never heard about this guy but now i have and he's cool"

so from this lovely broad pool of classicists, how well acquainted is everyone with lucian? a bit? very? not at all and you think he's got a silly name?

Preface

One theory I’ve posited over the past few months involves Citadel and Point72’s $2.75 billion-dollar cash infusion having actually been collateral for securities lending and the notion Reddit and Retail Investors were intentionally used as scapegoats by these entities in pursuit of confidential filing approval by the SEC.

While I still stand by my theory a couple of it’s shortcomings have since dawned on me that portray an even more cohesive, cynical explanation of events when taken into account.

Shortcoming #1

A failure to recognize that Melvin Capital itself, like Reddit and Retail Investors, has been a manufactured scapegoat since early January 2021.

Shortcoming #2

The inability to have identified Gary Cohn’s involvement in the acquisition of Melvin’s assets as part of a Private Credit Repayment scheme.

TLDR

This post will expand upon how I came to these conclusions and explain why I believe it’s plausible that Melvin has only been a shell of it’s former self over the past year.

Background

In December 2020 Robert Rasamny was appointed Melvin Capital’s new Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). Not much was made of this at the time but it just so happens that Rasamny also serves as General Counsel and CCO for a Cayman Islands exempted Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) named Cohn Robbins Holdings Corp that was recently incorporated by none other than Gary Cohn - the 11th Director of the National Economic Council, former President and COO of Goldman Sachs and ally of Point72’s Steve Cohen.

The timing couldn’t have been more peculiar given Cohn Robbins’ stated purpose:

> “We were formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “Business Combination”).” - SEC - March 31st, 2021

And description of activities through the end of December 31st, 2020:

> “We have neither engaged in any operations nor genera

(Up-To-Date as of January 26, 2022)

January 26, 2022

(LIMITED)

Compartment Number 6 (Drama/ With Yuriy Borisov, Seidi Haarla, Yuliya Aug, Dinara Drukarova/R/1 hr 47 min/Sony Pictures Classics/d: Juho Kuosmanen/Limited)

January 28, 2022

(LIMITED)

Charli XCX: Alone Together (Documentary/With: Charli XCX/1 hr 7 min/Greenwich Entertainment/d: Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler/Limited)

Clean (Crime/With: Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, Chandler DuPont/1 hr 34 min/IFC Films/d: Paul Solet/Limited)

In The Forest (Thriller/With: Lyman Ward, Time Winters, Kaitlyn Dias, Debbon Ayer/Vertical Entertainment/d: Hector Barron/Limited)

Sundown (Drama/With: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios, Henry Goodman/R/1 hr 23 min/Bleecker Street Media/d: Michel Franco/Limited)

They/Them/Us (RomComDram/With: Joey Slotnick, Amy Hargreaves, Jack Steiner, Shanna Strong/1 hr 30 min/Blended Family Productions/d: John Sherman/Limited)

February 4, 2022

(WIDE)

Jackass Forever (Comedy/With: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Machine Gun Kelly/R/1 hr 36 min/Paramount Pictures/d: Jeff Tremaine/Wide)

Moonfall (Disaster/With: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Michael Pena, John Bradley/PG-13/2 hr 0 min/Lionsgate/d: Roland Emmerich/Wide)

(LIMITED)

The Wolf and the Lion (Family/With: Molly Kunz, Evan Bullung, Graham Greene/PG/1 hr 39 min/Blue Fox Entertainment/d: Gilles de Maistre/Limited)

Breaking Bread (Documentary/With: Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, Shlomi Meir, Ali Khattib, Osama Dalal/1 hr 25 min/Cohen Media Group/d: Beth Elise Hawk/Limited)

The Worst Person In The World (DramRomCom/With: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Mia McGovern Zaini/R/2 hr 7 min/NEON/d: Joachim Trier/Limited)

Last Survivors (Sci-Fi/With: Benjamin Arthur, Mark Famiglietti, Simon Lees, Stephen Moyer/Vertical Entertainment/d: Drew Mylrea/Limited)

The Long Night (a.k.a. The Coven) (Horror/With: Scout Taylor-Compton, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jeff Fahey, Deborah Kara Unger/R/Well Go USA Entertainment/d: Rich Ragsdale/Limited)

February 11, 2022

(WIDE)

Marry Me (RomCom/With

I was curious to see who was the best player born on each day of the year. It turned out to be a bit more of a struggle than I thought it was going to be, so I decided to simply sort it by WAR. Does that mean that sometimes a better player got left off the list for a player who simply had a longer career? Absolutely. But WAR is a nice simple stat. So, here's the list!

January

• 1 – Tim Keefe
• 2 – Edgar Martinez
• 3 – A.J. Burnett
• 4 – Kris Bryant
• 5 – Bill Dahlen
• 6 – Early Wynn
• 7 – Johnny Mize
• 8 – Jason Giambi
• 9 – Stan Javier
• 10 – Willie McCovey
• 11 – Max Carey
• 12 – Bill Madlock
• 13 – Kevin Mitchell
• 14 – Sonny Siebert
• 15 – Bobby Grich
• 16 – Albert Pujols
• 17 – Darrell Porter
• 18 – Curt Flood
• 19 – John Matlack
• 20 – Brian Giles
• 21 – Mike Tiernan
• 22 – Amos Strunk
• 23 – Red Donahue
• 24 – José Quintana
• 25 – Danny Richardson
• 26 – George Blaeholder
• 27 – Bibb Falk
• 28 – Magglio Ordóñez
• 29 – Jason Schmidt
• 30 – Tony Mullane
• 31 – Nolan Ryan

February

• 1 – Paul Blair
• 2 – Wes Ferrell
• 3 – Fred Lynn
• 4 – Doug Fister
• 5 – Hank Aaron
• 6 – Babe Ruth
• 7 – Carney Lansford
• 8 – Dobie Moore
• 9 – Vladimir Guerrero
• 10 – Lance Berkman
• 11 – Jimmy Ryan
• 12 – Chet Lemon
• 13 – Sal Bando
• 14 – Pretzels Getzien
• 15 – Billy Hamilton
• 16 – Ben Sanders
• 17 – Wally Pipp
• 18 – Joe Gordon
• 19 – Dave Stewart
• 20 – Justin Verlander
• 21 – Alan Trammell
• 22 – Clarence Mitchell
• 23 – Ray Brown
• 24 – Honus Wagner
• 25 – Ron Santo
• 26 – Pete Alexander
• 27 – Johnny Pesky
• 28 – Terry Turner
• 29 – Al Rosen

March

• 1 – Paul Hines
• 2 – Mel Ott
• 3 – John Ward
• 4 – Dazzy Vance
• 5 – Sam Thompson
• 6 – Lefty Grove
• 7 – Jeff Kent
• 8 – Dick Allen
• 9 – Arky Vaughan
• 10 – John Briggs
• 11 – Bobby Abreu
• 12 – Jim Wynn
• 13 – Home Run Baker
• 14 – Kevin Brown
• 15 – Bobby Bonds
• 16 – Buddy Myer
• 17 – Charlie Root
• 18 – Dwayne Murphy
• 19 – Clayton Kershaw
• 20 – Joe McGinnity
• 21 – Manny Sanguillén
• 22 – Billy Goodman
• 23 – Mark Buehrle
• 24 – George Sisler
• 25 – Tom Glavine
• 26 – Kevin Seitzer
• 27 – Buster Posey
• 28 – Lon Warneke
• 29 – Cy Young
• 30 – Chris Sale
• 31 – Jack Stivetts

April

• 1 – Phil Niekro
• 2 – Luke Appling
• 3 – Guy Hecker
• 4 – Tris Speaker
• 5 – Bill Dinneen
• 6 – Bert Blyleven
• 7 – Adrián Beltré
• 8 – Gary Carter
• 9 – Doc White
• 10 – Ken Griffey Sr.
• 11 – Bret Saberhagen
• 12 – Vic Willis
• 13 – Lorenzo Cain
• 14 – Greg Maddux
• 15 – Willie Davis
• 16 – Paul Waner

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

So I'm always looking books like this, and I see threads asking for this same thing all the time. I figured I would make a list of the ones I know about and offer it to you all.

I'm a habitual non-finisher of book series, and it's been a while since I read many of these so there are a lot of question marks when I didn't get to the end or if I couldn't remember, but I did the best I could.

The document is in an Google spreadsheet that is available for all to comment, but I'll also include a list below. If anyone wants to add more or make edits shoot me a PM and I'll allow you to edit the doc.

Here is the Google Sheets link

Other than Title and Author, here are the categories:

• Primary/Secondary Genre: I made my best guess, and didn't stick to officially recognized genres. It's good enough I think.

• POV: Male or Dual POV. This is straight forward. Occasionally I don't remember and sometimes it's not clear. There may be a few minor POVs in some of these, but except for a few cases, none of these are multi POV stories with hundreds of characters (Dune and Cradle perhaps being the biggest exceptions).

• Romance: 1 to 5 rating for how much romance is in each story. 5: the romance is the main plot. 4: the romance is core to the main plot. 3: the romance is one of the major plots 2: the romance is a subplot 1: token romance or minor romance very late in the series

• HEA aka Happily Ever After: Does the couple end up together and (apparently) live happily ever after at the end of the book/series? As I said I struggle to finish books, so maybe help me out a little here. I left a lot blank

• Non-Human: Are either of the love interests non human? If so which one. I list the race in the "Notes" section when necessary

• LGBTQ: As requested, I added a column that states which books in a series feature an LGBTQ main couple. Right now it's just 1 book and reads "book 3 M/M". You could presumably do M/NB or something else if necessary. Depending on how many/if any more get added, I might create a new tab for it. Anyway, this works for now.

• Dual Narration: Is there an audiobook version where the male and female have different voice actors?

Here's the list with just titles and authors:

• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

• Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

• Armada - Ernest Cline

• Red Rising - Pierce Brown

• Iron Druid Chron

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

If you haven't already, please read Part 1 of this post ‘Why Gamestop may be the Opportunity of a Lifetime, and why you should take another look at it’.

The premise for this post is the theory that GameStop Shares (GME) have been, and continue to be, heavily manipulated. The manipulation has created extensive counterfeit shares and hidden failure to deliver (FTD) short positions. When these counterfeit shares and short positions are forced to cover and close their positions, there is a high probability of a ‘Short Squeeze’ or a 'MOASS.

1. Explaining Short Selling & Naked Short Selling   
2. Explaining the Bankruptcy Jackpot and MOASS Theory   
3. GameStop's History     

Part 1. Short Selling and Naked Short Selling

Short Selling

The selling of shares you don’t own is called short selling. Market participants will sell a share they don’t own, with a commitment to buy it back later and the intention that they repurchase the share at a lower price than they sold it. If the price goes up, short sellers have an infinite risk. For example, if you hold GME and a Short Hedge Fund (SHF) needs to buy your share to cover their short position and no one else is selling, the SHF must pay your asking price = infinite loss potential to the SHF.

Short Squeeze

A short squeeze is an unusual condition that triggers rapidly rising prices in a stock. When a stock is heavily shorted, and investors are buying shares — which pushes the price up — short sellers start buying to cover their position and minimize losses as the price keeps rising. This can create a “short squeeze”:

If a stock's price rises quickly, then short sellers sometimes scramble to close out their positions as rapidly as possible. For a short squeeze to occur, the security must have an unusual degree of short sellers holding positions in it. As the price jumps unexpectedly higher, short positions can also be forced to cover and close their short positions. This adds buying pressure and contributes to increasing the price of the stock. This higher price may cause other short positions to be forced to cover and close their short positions, driving the price even higher. Typically this is accompanied by other long investors also purchasing the stock in an attempt to profit from the short squeeze (often referred to as FOMO).

Naked Short Selling

Typically, you cannot sel

So we finally got the Avero sale yesterday, although the sale amount was much smaller than many of us anticipated. A lot of questions were raised about the $10.7M, but I found a few other very weird things that makes me think we didn't get the full picture of what is behind this agreement :

1. The first one and most obvious is the $10.7M figure. There are plenty of unknown info since we will only get the agreement on 2021 annual report but even when looking on the last 10Q, on page 13 they wrote Avero has $6M in "property and equipment" and $2.6M under "inventory" and with $26-30M yearly revenue this doesn't make sense at all. https://investors.progenity.com/static-files/3cc0f519-3b7f-4bf6-b3f8-bfd67fb9219a
2. Looking at the buyer info on dnb - Northwest Pathology has 30 employees and $11.63M in revenue. They are local company in WA, and have a little of business in Alaska too. To think that a small company like that will suddenly make a move and buy a company with 2-3X more revenue and 5x more employees and in far away state is a weird move. https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.northwest_pathology_ps.ed29ad2193655811020a6f7e3952cacb.html
3. According to the PR, the agreement was signed on December 16th. However, Northwest published a job opening for Irving and Lubbock, Texas a week before. This doesn't make sense why they can't wait unless they had guarantee this is going to happen much before. https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=112e7572-66a9-4d2f-9f8e-8dee27026d6a&ccId=19000101_000001&lang=en_US
4. This is the most important piece on info. Illumina, in San Diego, California, is currently the sole supplier of Avero/Progenity sequencing instruments and certain reagents for Innatal and Preparent. The agreement with Progenity was signed in 2013 and was to terminate on June 30, 2022. In the supply agreement its wrote that the agreement is applying to Avero too as long as they are wholly owned or controlled by Progenity. This is a very big deal because replacing now the reagents is not just a big headache but might als

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Inspired by u/K-JOAQUINN's post speculating that Bayonetta's theme song will be East of the Sun (West of the Moon), I decided to share my collection of moon-related jazz standards with you all. These songs are all from the golden era of swing and have established themselves as popular songs to cover.

I'll break this into three categories: my favorites, other candidates, and honorable mentions.

My Favorites:

• East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
  • Since I mentioned it in the intro I should start with it. Written by Brooks Bowman in 1934, with popular versions by Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra (above), Frank Sinatra (solo), Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and recently Diana Krall. The song's title references a Norwegian fairy tale that I recommend reading yourself if you really wanna get an understanding of it.
  • Lyrics include: Near to the sun in the day / Near to the moon at night / We'll live in a lovely way dear / Living on love and pale moonlight.
  • Most interesting if the Bayonetta we see in the most recent trailer really does possess both the eyes, being "near to the sun" and "near to the moon" in a sense.
• Moonlight Becomes You
  • Written by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke for the 1942 Paramount film Road to Morocco, it's originally performed by Bing Crosby (above). Other notable versions include those by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Chet Baker.
  • The opening lyrics are: Moonlight becomes you / It goes with your hair / You certainly know the right thing to wear (which is just too perfect)
  • It's worth noting that Moon River was also originally written for a Paramount film, Breakfast at Tiffany's. So SEGA has definitely negotiated with Paramount for music rights in the past.
  • Strangely, the song makes a cameo appearance in Star Trek: First Contact, another Paramount film.
• Old Devil Moon
  • Written by Burton Lane in 1947 for the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, the song became a jazz standard and was covered by Sarah Vaughan (above), Frank Sinatra, Anita O'Day, Chet Baker, Peggy Lee, and Judy Garland, among others.
  • Lyrics

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.