Hope you had a terrific Father’s Day with the ones you love! I had a great day with my girls… Grilled Chicken, Salad, Peanut Butter Bars, Strawberry Rhubarb Pie and of course… Presents!

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Speaking of Presents… Father’s Day spending hit roughly $22.4 BILLION this year, the second highest ever… following last year’s record of $22.9 BILLION.

- Boy the gifts my girls got me were nice… but they weren’t $22.4 BILLION nice!

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CBS’s Gayle King says her BFF Oprah Winfrey is back home and resting comfortably after being hospitalized for a severe stomach virus. The hospital staff said Oprah was “Wonderful” and that once she was feeling better ran up and down the halls handing out gifts to the other patients.

- As Oprah used to say on her show… “A FREE Bed Pan for YOU! And YOU! And YOU!”

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A Chinese Zoo has given up on its plans to help an overweight leopard lose weight through dieting after two months of efforts yielded virtually no results.

So… they’re going to do what everybody else is doing and put the Leopard on “O-ZOO-pic”.

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Parents in New York City are having a meltdown over a local ice cream truck’s astronomical prices — including $14 for ice cream in a Waffle Cone.

It used to be “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream”. Now it’s just a bunch of people running around screaming.

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A new survey shows that 45% of parents are going into debt during a Disney vacation.

- It’s so expensive at Disney, that even Happy admitted to Snow White that he’s downright Grumpy.

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A new study warns that living to 90 almost guarantees you’ll suffer from hearing loss.

- Let’s not put the cart before the horse! I’ve got to get through my “Midlife Crisis” first. (Yeah, right…)

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RIP… A longtime friend of mine and my whole family’s… Gus Stavropoulos… passed away this weekend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Maria and his children and grandchildren.

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Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Tuesday!

-Dick