radio show prep: world's biggest thighs; tall people are no longer fat; and what are life's "little successes?"

ShowStarters Tuesday Jan 21st, 2013!

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• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' Guy Fieri turns 45
• Diane Lane is 48
• DJ Jazzy Jeff is 48
• Steve "why did I quit Journey" Perry is 64

Can you name this 2002 Diane Lane flick? (PLAY)... Answer: Unfaithful! Diane Lane, in a seemingly solid marriage with Richard Gere, has an affair with Olivier Martinez. French guys and their accents! Who can resist! (source)

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DVD's out today include...

• End of Watch (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena)
• For a Good Time Call (Ari Graynor)
• Searching for Sugar Man (a documentary about 70's rocker Rodriguez)

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TV Theme Tuesday... name the show that uses this 80's hit... (PLAY)...

Answer: Betty White's Off Their Rockers

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ABC: The Taste premieres (the 'american idol' for Chefs) followed by the finale of Private Practice

CBS: all reruns

NBC: Betty White's Off Their Rockers (one hour and new), followed by new episodes of Go On and The New Normal, and the finale of Parenthood wraps up the night

FOX: All new tonight including Raising Hope, Ben and Kate, New girl, and The Mindy Project

CW: All new tonight with Hart of Dixie and Emily Owens, M.D.

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A man is recovering from surgery when the Surgical Nurse appears and asks him how he is feeling.

"I'm O. K. but I didn't like the four letter-words the doctor used in surgery," he answered.

"What did he say," asked the nurse.

"Oops!"


That joke goes perfectly with this story: Surgeons Leave 16 Items in Man's Body After Routine Operation

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I do eat lots!

Congrats to Mikel Ruffinelli who set a world record for the widest hips in the world! The 420-pound mama from Los Angeles measures just 5'4, but sports hips that measure 8-foot in circumference.

"I love my shape and I see no reason to diet because I don't have health problems."

She wasn't always this big. In fact, she was quite athletic in high school. So what happened? She explains:

‘I put it down to my pregnancies. I don’t see why else the weight would go to my hips, although, I do eat lots,’ she told Closer.

See here here

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Are you overweight...for realzies?

Good news, the official Body Mass Index may be adjusted giving tall people a break on what is defined as "overweight." Oxford University says the current BMI is flawed showing tall people too fat and short people too thin. For example, someone who is 6'2 would be considered overweight at 195 pounds. The revised BMI for someone 6'2 is 224 pounds. A 5'10 inch person would be considered overweight under the old standards at 185 pounds. Now it's 192 pounds.

But the smaller you get, the more weight you have to lose, according to the revised method of calculating BMI. For example, someone who is 5'4 used to be overweight at 146 pounds... now it's 143. Dangit! source

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The 10 very simple things that make us happy...

If money can't buy happiness, then why do we get so excited when we find $10 in our pocket? According to a new survey, there's nothing that will boost your day more than that!

A survey of Brits discovered the 10 'little successes' that provide us with the greatest moments of happiness.

1. Discovering money you didn’t know you in an old coat – 59%
2. Winning a competition you forgot you entered – 46%
3. Getting a refund or rebate you didn’t know was due – 41%
4. Saving money on household bills – 31%
5. Finding a £10 winning lottery ticket – 28%
6. Going to the till at the shops and realising your item has been marked down – 26%
7. Losing 1/2lb – 18%
8. Finding money in a supermarket automated till – 13%
9. Not having a hangover after a big night out – 5%
10. Getting a seat on the train into work – 3%

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