Daily Dirt for Saturday, July 26, 2025
DR FUNN extends his dominance in the rankings Welcome to The Daily Dirt’s Vol. 1,354: Three Thoughts for Today.
1. Another week, another set of entertaining license plates found while traveling across West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri.
DR FUNN is proving to be a formidable contender for the title of most entertaining plate of the year, and the Great Plate Debate IV is more than halfway there. Since May 29, that plate has held the gold medal, defeating every opponent throughout a nine-week span.
For those who are curious, BE A BETH held the top rank for the last 26 weeks of 2023, setting a record for the Great Plate Debate.
With the bronze medal this week, RESQ 5 joins the current cast of award winners. (It also took me a minute.)
The Little Woman and I are going on a road trip this weekend, which for us means going to Hannibal and/or Carthage, and she will be driving most of the time so I can keep an eye out for those license plates. I’m not forecasting a significant revamp of the ranks or anything like that.
The medal stand as of right now:
Dr. Funn won the gold medal.
Medal of silver: U BABE 1
Bronze medal: RESQ 5 (originality is a major point)
Deleted: TATTED
The top picks from the previous week:
- TK GOD
- WAGZ FAM
- SS BAR 1
- SHA SHA 1
- BOLT
- 77 BOZ
- TROBL X 2
- CHUY
- BAJA 15
- W FLAG
- UNLOCK 3
- JAM
- PONYS 42
- NUT 3
- QCY LV 14
- RTE 66
- GO RACE 2
- CZ6 HOE
- JAM 27
- R CAT DOG
This week, we had a busy inbox. I appreciate all of your texts and emails. Continue to submit entries!
2. Did you know (Part 437)
Shouldn’t Walmart begin releasing the Christmas merchandise any day now, given that it is now late July?
Paul Young’s “Every Time You Go Away” peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 fifty years ago (1985); Van McCoy’s “The Hustle” peaked at number fifty years ago (1975); and the Rolling Stones’ “I Can’t Get No” Satisfaction peaked at number sixty years ago (1965).
that Willem Dafoe, not Val Kilmer, was first selected to play Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
that you should request Doritos if the government begins implanting chips in individuals.
That, over the first 44 starts of a pitcher’s career in the live-ball era (since 1920), Paul Skenes had the lowest ERA in Major League Baseball:
- Paul Skenes, 1.94
- Vida Blue, 1.97
- Jose Fernandez, 2.21
- Howie Pollet, 2.28
- Orel Hershiser, 2.29
- Dwight Gooden, 2.30
3. The best from this week s Found on Facebook :
According to research, two minutes of laughter is essentially equivalent to twenty minutes of jogging. I’m currently chuckling at all of those joggers as I’m sitting in the park.
The Steelers, who have only had three head coaches since 1969—Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher, and Mike Tomlin—had the best winning percentage (.603). Over that same time period, the average number of coaches for the other 31 NFL teams has been 14.
The similarity between exercise and extra fries is astounding.
Jaws is a touching tale of a shark who donates arms and legs to those in need if you watch it backwards.
You won’t understand dread until the toilet at someone else’s house stops flushing.
Steve’s Daily ThoughtAlright, so your toes lack toetips but your fingers have them? You cannot tipfinger, but you can tiptoe.
Every day, Steve Eighinger contributes to Muddy River News. He’s not a tuna fish, but he can tune a piano.
