Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020
From the desk of Daniel P. Finney, sergeant of the watch, Drake Neighborhood Station, Des Moines, Iowa.
ITEM ONE: Remember the game Operation? Players used tweezers to remove plastic organs from the body with tweezers. If the tweezers touched the metal sides of the opening, the patient’s red nose lit up.
It turns out that patient had an official name. According to a new Funko Pop doll released, the patient’s name was Cavity Sam.
Cavity.
Sam.
The typist bets you wish you didn’t know this.
ITEM TWO: Does anyone else find themselves sucking in their gut during Zoom calls?
ITEM THREE: Almost no one is watching the World Series through the first two games, per Deadline and Yahoo! Sports. So it goes. Baseball’s decline as America’s pastime is documented past the point of anyone caring.
Here at Hot Sheet, we have found the solution: A mad scientist who created a supersonic baseball cannon.
This 23-minute video takes less than a half-inning of a regular baseball game and you just might learn something, which is to be expected from an outfit called Smarter Every Day.
Whether you watch the whole video and take in the science lesson or just skip to the end to watch a baseball travel more than 1,000 mph and shatter like an egg chucked on Halloween, it’s probably more fun than the actual World Series.
Bonus: No Joe Buck.
ITEM FOUR: Four more jokes for Beggars’ Night trick-or-treaters to learn and say for candy:
Q: What is thin, white, and scary?
A: Homework.
Q: What do you call a happy cowboy?
A: A jolly rancher.
Q: What do you call a fancy sea creature?
A: Sofishticated.
Q: Why did the student eat his homework?
A: The teacher said it was a piece of cake.
ITEM FIVE: The Hamburglar remains at-large.
ITEM LAST: This is a test of the Hot Sheet Emergency Management System. In the event of an actual emergency, an official message would have been followed by an earth-shattering ka-boom. This is only a test.
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