Which, if any, of these stories piqued your interest the most this past week?
1.) Ah-nuld's 'Living Loving Maid' and 'Love Child'...
2.) The Oprah 'I'll Always Love You' Fan-Fest count-down to her last show...
3.) Saturday's 'Apocalypse Now' fizzle...
4.) Lizzie does Dublin...
5.) Obama lectures Israel - Obama then sings, 'We are Family' to AIPAC...
6.) 'When the Levee Breaks'..or, the Great American Flood, as it were...
7.) The 'Helter Skelter' hilarity of GOP presidential candidates doin' the 'You're Hot and then You're Cold' shuffle
8.) Your pick...
Adam in NoHo (Ol' Reliable, I call him) responded with...
For me it was a toss-up between Ah-nuld and the 'Worst Apocalypse Ever', even though Obama's lecture to Israel and the weather proof-of-global-warming catastrophes were the important stories.
I'm beginning to feel that the UN should rescind whatever agreement that created Israel. Here they were, given everything they wanted at the expense of everyone already living in the region, THEN took more. Palestinians are people, too.
There's a reason the weather is like it is, and by all reasonable projections it's just going to get worse. Unless we stop releasing carbon in to the environment, we better all get used to more people losing their houses and farms in the very near future. (also, who thought they could ever tame the Mississippi River?!?)
But for me, watching Ah-nuld's family life implode and the religious crazies be wrong yet again was popcorn-worthy entertainment.
SallyP returns to the Poll with...
Such a plethora of newsworthy events from which to choose...
Arnold and the maid - another "Family Values" hypocrite revealed... That was a good one.
The big O, gone but not forgotten. Yeah, I did watch the last shows, and I tell you, when all those men entered the stadium, carrying lighted candles - to show Oprah, and the viewers, that they had all received degrees thanks to her financial/emotional help - I cried, and am proud of it too! I LOVE Oprah!
'Apocalypse Not Now' yeah, that was the nighttime comic's delight. I laughed a lot. So sue me...
"Lizzie does Dublin..." Hummmm, missed that one - unless you are referring to Barack's return to the village of his ancestor in Ireland - "Looking for his missing apostrophe in 'Obama'?"
"Obama lectures Israel" or, as I call it, "The President calling out the elephant in the room!" I was so proud of him for showing the world that Israel obviously is not interested in any Peace that includes the loss of even one acre of LAND, and vehemently protests even DISCUSSING it! I detest Benny Netanyahu, he is a lot of what is wrong with the State of Israel today!!
When the levees were deliberately opened to "save" the big guys on the Mississippi, allowing chemical-ridden waters to flood America's farmlands, and destroy people's homes/towns ON PURPOSE - yeah, that caught my attention...
Newt, the guy who served his cancer-stricken wife, in the hospital at the time, divorce papers - all the while persecuting the Big Dog (Bill) for the phoney Lewinsky affair - well that alone sucked, but screw him, another Republican dog, getting his just due!
If I had more time, I would tell you how I really feel, but you know me, B2BB, the diplomat that I am, and all...
Then later added an addendum to "Lizzie Does Dublin" ...
Oh, I just reread the question, and I determined that you are referring to the visit to the Aran Isles (Ireland), by "Her Royal Majesty the Queen!" Please note, we do not, ever, use the words, "Sex Pistols" and Her Majesty, in the same thought!! Just typing these words required me to form a still upper lip... Not so, "Truly yours," SP!
LOL!... No, the Queen did not go there. The 'Aran' Islands actually are a small group to themselves off the west coast of Ireland. My Mom,The Old Nan, endured a very choppy boat ride to get to them during one of her trips to 'The Emerald Isle'. Aran Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DRD chose...
8.) Your pick...
Different pokes for different folks, but I was taken back by the revelation of Bill Clinton and his brief back hallway conversation with Paul Ryan as reported by ABC on the subject of torpedoing Medicare after the surprising victory of the Pro-Medicare gal in the special NY election. Bill has always been a corporate boy as demonstrated by his welfare reform give away to Newt, and his rabid support of NAFTA. Now that he is out of public office and making money like it is going out of style {more power to him} he seems to have taken an even more pro-corporation stance on entitlements as per his words to Ryan. The struggle has never been one on a horizontal Left v Right, but rather on a vertical one, the haves v the have not's. It's hard to believe a person who has millions in reserve when he tells you he is 100% in favor of Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and other safety-net programs for the Middle class and the Poor when he knows the money will come from his and his corporate friends taxes. I guess they all are, or soon become, two-faced, forked-tongued, what's in it for me politicians.
Well, then, Poll-fans... That's all folks... Thanks to the responders... Yer the Best...
Paul Krugman: Against Learned Helplessness (New York Times)
As I see it, policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue: the more they fail to do anything about the problem, the more they convince themselves that there's nothing they could do. And those of us who know better should be doing all we can to break that vicious circle.
Froma Harrop: In Cyberspace, Everyone's a Critic; Business Laments (Creators Syndicate)
On the prowl for a good dinner in a Florida town we didn't know well, I went on Yelp. Yelp is a social networking website that lets anyone review a business. One Italian restaurant looked promising, with mostly positive reviews and few grumbles. We went there, had a fine meal and told the chef-owner so. But on mentioning that we had seen the reviews on Yelp, a cloud crossed his face.
Robert Reich: The Republican Death Wish
Forty Senate Republicans have now joined their colleagues in the House to support Paul Ryan's plan that would turn Medicare into vouchers that funnel money to private health insurers. They thumbed their nose at the special election in upstate New York earlier this week that delivered a victory to Democrat Kathy Hochul, who made the plan the focus of her upset victory.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Froggy was a troublemaker on the shows. He was known for being disrespectful of adult authority figures and enjoyed playing practical jokes and disrupting other guests, repeating two-word phrases ("you will, you will") and giving commands that the guests had to follow despite their efforts to resist.
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Baron Dave ("War is much more fun when you're winning."-- Gen. Martok, DS9) was first, and correct, with:
... magic twanger.
I'm ashamed that I know that, for some reason. Before my time.
mj wrote:
A vague memory of childhood
WTF was a magic twanger, and why wouldn't my mom tell me?
Alan J responded:
Magic Twanger
Leo replied:
"Froggy, pluck your magic twanger."
Sally said:
Froggy, pluck your magic twanger...
Yes, this was the early, hi-tech kid's TV back in the good ole days... An old guy sticking his fingers up a frog's butt...
PS:
My granddaughter, Jessie, "Acting!"
(The guard, Gulirana, in "Aladdin")
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!!"
Charlie replied:
Magic Twanger.
Barbara A., my former college roomie, wrote:
Froggy, pluck your "Magic twanger".
"Hiya kids! Hiya hiya!"
YouTube clip Froggy toys are on eBay, ranging in price from $9.99 to $250, depending on
their condition or the chutzpah of the seller!
Adam answered:
Magic Twanger
A character in the Buster Brown comic strip/comic book/radio show/television show from the 1st half of the 20th cen.
Buster Brown was eventually remembered as the mascot for a children's shoe company 50 yrs after that.
sandra in bangor responded:
magic twanger
i am almost embarrassed to admit i know this!!
Marian said:
magic twanger
Colby in Frostproof, FL responded:
Froggy, pluck your magic twanger!
From, I believe, the Andy Devine Show and from Cleveland's Ghoulardi and later The Ghoul.
Wahiawa John said:
Froggy, pluck your magic twanger from Buster Brown radio show
And, Joe S answered:
When I was a kid and a bunch of got together someone would always say " Pluck your magic plucker Plucky" and everyone would laugh like hell. It was just hilarious. Looking back nearly 60 years, I fail to see the humor. The phrase we are looking for today is "Froggy, pluck your magic twanger." That seems even funnier to me. This is for you young kids that never got to see Froggy, not that you missed much.
And this is for all you kids of all ages.
Fewer than 20 are alive today, and Harold Becker is among them. The 93-year-old retired chemist and engineer from western Michigan is known as a true son -- a man whose father fought in the Civil War in the Union Army. Becker's father, Charles Conrad Becker, lied about his age in 1864 to enlist at 17. He was 70 when Harold, his youngest child, was born. He lived to be 87, leaving his son with plenty of stories and memories... Nineteen true sons and 21 true daughters of Union soldiers are still alive, according to Bruce Butgereit, a Grand Rapids-based Civil War historian... According to the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, about 30 men known as real sons are still living...
I find this amazing as a great-great-grandfather of mine, Henry Teachout, was a Civil War veteran with the 12th Michigan Infantry. (Lincoln said, ya know, "Thank God for Michigan") All I have are records from the National archives of his service and disability status from it. This guy's Dad was there and has memories of listening to his Dad talk of the experience. Wow...
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'The Good Wife'.
On a RERUNDave (from 4/27/11) are Kate Hudson, Rich Eisen, and Emmylou Harris.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Ray Romano and Dr. Lisa Masterson.
NBC begins the night with the SEASON PREMIERE'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'The Voice'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 5/9/11) are Jennifer Lopez, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and BC Jean.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 5/3/11) are Whoopi Goldberg, Elmo, and Jennifer Hudson.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/22/11) are Bill Hader, Stuart Gordon, and the Morning Benders.
ABC starts the night with '20/20', followed by a RERUN'Body Of Proof', then another RERUN'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Carson Daly, Flavor Flav, and I See Stars
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Hellcats'.
Faux has a RERUN'Glee', followed by a RERUN'Raising Hope', then a FRESH'Traffic Light'.
MY has 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', followed by another 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', then 'Don't Forget The Lyrics!', and another 'Don't Forget The Lyrics!'.
AMC offers the movie 'Reindeer Games', followed by the movie 'US Marshals', then the movie 'US Marshals', again.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 12 - Vince Vaughn, Sarah Millican, P. Diddy
[9:00 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 1 Care
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 12 Casa Roma
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[12:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 25 Anasazi
[1:00 PM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 1 Care
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Seascape
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 17 Night Terrors
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[10:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[3:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[4:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of NYC', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Decorators'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'South Park', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Sports Show With Norm Mcdonald'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart Jimmy Fallon.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report James B. Stewart.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'X-Men'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Lee & Grant'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Delirious
[8:15 AM] The Sea Inside
[11:00 AM] Arrested Development
[11:30 AM] A Good Woman
[1:30 PM] Delirious
[3:45 PM] The Making Of: Transformation
[3:50 PM] Nosebleed
[4:00 PM] Daltry Calhoun
[6:00 PM] Arrested Development
[6:30 PM] Arrested Development
[7:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:30 PM] Onion News Network
[8:00 PM] Blood and Wine
[10:15 PM] Never Die Alone
[12:00 AM] Made
[2:00 AM] The Making Of: Transformation
[2:05 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[2:35 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[3:05 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[3:35 AM] Blood and Wine
[5:50 AM] Occupations
[5:55 AM] The Making Of: Transformation (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:15 AM] The Restless
[8:00 AM] Love Lust & Heels
[9:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Julia Alarcon (Episode 8, Season 1)
[10:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - From A to Joe Zee (Episode 9, Season 1)
[12:00 PM] Let It Rain
[1:45 PM] Until The Light Takes Us
[3:25 PM] The Restless
[5:15 PM] Let It Rain
[7:00 PM] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
[8:25 PM] Naked in New York
[10:00 PM] Love Lust & the Bikini
[11:00 PM] ALL ON THE LINE - From A to Joe Zee (Episode 9, Season 1)
[12:00 AM] Love Lust & the Bikini
[1:00 AM] PLEASURE FOR SALE (Episode 6)
[3:15 AM] Naked in New York
[4:50 AM] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Evolution', followed by the movie 'The Core'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 3/21/11) are Sarah Silverman, Biz Stone, and Pete Holmes.
On a RERUNLopez Tonight (rom 4/6/11) are Terence Howard, Lisa Lampanelli, and Joey "Boo Boo" Rodriguez.
A group of hackers angered by a PBS documentary about WikiLeaks has posted a fake news story on the website of the U.S. public broadcaster PBS claiming that dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and well.
The group, Lulz Boat, attacked PBS' servers on Sunday, posting stolen passwords and other sensitive PBS information alongside a story headlined "Tupac still alive in New Zealand." Shakur was murdered in 1996.
PBS took down the story, but Lulz Boat's Twitter page linked to a cached copy. Officials from PBS did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
The identity of the people behind Lulz Boat was not known. Somewhat unhelpfully, they described themselves as "a small team of 80-year-old men and people who smoke on webcam." They also proclaimed: "Laughing at your security since 2011!"
Lulz Boat said it was not related to Anonymous, another group of hackers who also consider Assange and Manning to be heroes. Anonymous disrupted the websites of various credit card and online payment companies in December in a protest against Assange's arrest in Britain.
Model, actress and Princeton University graduate Brooke Shields, left, walks with Princeton President Shirley Tilghman Monday, May 30, 2011, in Princeton,N.J. , during the school's Class Day celebration. In her keynote speech, Shields, a 1987 graduate, told students at her alma mater to live life to the fullest and take nothing for granted.
Photo by Mel Evans
Germany will shut all its nuclear reactors by 2022, leaders of its ruling coalition agreed on Monday, in a reaction to Japan's Fukushima disaster that marks a drastic policy reversal.
The decision could still face strong opposition from utility companies.
A disputed 2.3 billion euro a year tax on spent fuel rods will not be scrapped even as the coalition plans to go ahead with the shutdown, Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said early on Monday after late-night talks in the chancellor's office between leaders of the center-right coalition.
"(It's) definite: the latest end for the last three nuclear power plants is 2022," Roettgen said after the meeting and before leaving on his bicycle.
After the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March, Chancellor Angela Merkel backtracked on an unpopular decision just months earlier to extend the life of aging nuclear stations in Germany, where most voters oppose atomic energy.
Actress Cate Blanchett and former conservative Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser are among prominent Australians who threw their support Monday behind the unpopular government plan to tax major polluters for the carbon gas they emit.
Blanchett and Fraser were among 140 personalities and organizations who signed a petition distributed to federal lawmakers supporting the center-left government's plan to make polluters pay for every ton of carbon gas they produce in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The petition - whose signatories also include a Roman Catholic bishop and a Nobel Laureate scientist - is part of a $1 million national newspaper and television advertising campaign funded by environmental groups and unionists.
The conservative opposition Liberal Party is opposed to making polluters pay. The governing Labor Party wants to tax polluters starting in July 2012, and is locked in negotiations with the minor Greens party and independent lawmakers on how much the tax should be on a ton of carbon.
Opinion polls show that both the tax and Labor are unpopular with voters.
Movie director Linda Yellen, center, of New York, USA, speaks as American actor Dan Amboyer, left, who plays Britain's Prince William, and British actressAlice St. Clair, right, who plays Kate Middleton, stand by on the set of the movie 'William & Kate: A Royal Love Story' which is expected to be released in August 2011, on the Hallmark Channel, in Bucharest, Romania, on May 20, 2011. Barely a month after their real fairytale royal wedding in London, a new film depicting the budding romance of Prince William and Kate Middleton is being rushed out for television viewers.
Photo by Vadim Ghirda
Hip-hop singer Sean Kingston has been stabilized and moved to the intensive care unit at a hospital after crashing his watercraft into a Miami Beach bridge, his publicist said Monday.
Kingston and a female passenger were injured when the watercraft hit the Palm Island Bridge around 6 p.m. Sunday, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino said.
The Miami Herald reports that a passing boater saw the accident and took the two on board his vessel.
Both were hospitalized early Monday at Ryder Trauma Center, but Pino said he didn't know their conditions.
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and a fellow "Jersey Shore" cast member have been involved in a minor traffic accident in Italy.
The popular MTV reality show is filming its fourth season in Florence.
The network said in a statement late Monday that two cast members were involved in a crash. The statement said no alcohol was involved and no one was arrested. It provided no further details.
Photos posted on celebrity gossip website TMZ.com show Polizzi and co-star Deena Nicole Cortese, apparently uninjured, sitting on the sidewalk after the crash.
In this photo taken Thursday, May 26, 2011, Bridalveil Falls is seen in Yosemite National park. A historic Sierra Nevada snowpack is making Yosemite NationalPark's springtime spectacle of cascading waterfalls especially beautiful and dangerous as the park welcomes visitors for one of the busiest weekends of the year.
Photo by Tracie Cone
As photography continues its march toward digital dominance, a shrinking number of people are still devoted to shooting on film, the analog ancestor to today's technology.
At the turn of the 21st century, American shutterbugs were buying close to a billion rolls of film annually. This year, the total could be a mere 20 million rolls.
Equally startling has been the plunge in film camera sales. Americans bought 19.7 million film cameras in 2000; that number might dip below 100,000 this year.
Each name is next to a number, in black type on a thick legal document. They are the mothers and fathers, spouses, sisters and brothers of thousands of Colombians who were killed or vanished during a bloody civil conflict between leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups whose victims have largely been civilians.
The list has at least 4,000 names, each one targeting Chiquita Brands International in U.S. lawsuits, claiming the produce giant's payments and other assistance to the paramilitary groups amounted to supporting terrorists.
Cincinnati-based Chiquita in 2007 pleaded guilty to similar criminal charges brought by the Justice Department and paid a $25 million fine. But if the lawsuits succeed, plaintiffs' lawyers estimate the damages against Chiquita could reach into the billions. The cases filed around the country are being consolidated before a South Florida federal judge who must decide whether to dismiss them or let them proceed.
"A company that pays a terrorist organization that kills thousands of people should get the capital punishment of civil liability and be put out of business by punitive damages," said attorney Terry Collingsworth, who filed one of the first lawsuits on behalf of Colombians.
Chiquita has long maintained it was essentially blackmailed into paying the paramilitary groups - perpetrators of the majority of civilian deaths in Colombia's dirty war - and insists the lawsuits should be dismissed.
A man takes a photograph of a painting of Albrecht Duerer during the opening of the exhibition "Duerer - Cranach - Holbein, the German portrait around1500" at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna May 30, 2011. The exhibition runs until September 4, 2011.
Photo by Lisi Niesner
A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses - from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest - has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment.
"It's just a matter of time now before we call for a drug that we need to save a patient's life and we find out there isn't any," says Dr. Eric Lavonas of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
The problem of scarce supplies or even completely unavailable medications isn't a new one but it's getting markedly worse. The number listed in short supply has tripled over the past five years, to a record 211 medications last year. While some of those have been resolved, another 89 drug shortages have occurred in the first three months of this year, according to the University of Utah's Drug Information Service. It tracks shortages for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
The vast majority involve injectable medications used mostly by medical centers - in emergency rooms, ICUs and cancer wards. Particular shortages can last for weeks or for many months, and there aren't always good alternatives. Nor is it just a U.S. problem, as other countries report some of the same supply disruptions.
A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists said on Monday.
The report, reconstructing temperatures by examining lake sediment cores in west Greenland dating back 5,600 years, also indicated that earlier, pre-historic settlers also had to contend with vicious swings in climate on icy Greenland.
"Climate played (a) big role in Vikings' disappearance from Greenland," Brown University in the United States said in a statement of a finding that average temperatures plunged 4 degrees Celsius (7F) in 80 years from about 1100.
Such a shift is roughly the equivalent of the current average temperatures in Edinburgh, Scotland, tumbling to match those in Reykjavik, Iceland. It would be a huge setback to crop and livestock production.
A model wears a creation by Alessa during the Fashion Rio Summer 2012 collection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, May 30, 2011.
Photo by Victor R. Caivano
Australia's huge cattle herd in the north might be burping less planet-warming methane emissions than thought, a study released on Friday shows, suggesting the cows are more climate friendly.
Cattle, sheep and other ruminant livestock produce large amounts of methane, which is about 20 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. One cow can produce about 1.5 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.
Half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and most of that is from sheep and cattle. Most of the cattle and sheep emissions are, contrary to popular belief, from burping.
Scientists at Australia's state-backed research body the CSIRO say the amount of methane from cattle fed on tropical grasses in northern Australia could be nearly a third less than thought.
"The Hangover Part II" set a new high for comedy debuts with $105.8 million over the long Memorial Day weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The blockbuster sequel also led Hollywood to a new revenue record of around $280 million for the holiday weekend, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.
"The Hangover Part II" raised its domestic haul to $137.4 million since opening Thursday, nearly half the business the 2009 original movie did over its entire run. The sequel has added $60.3 million more in 40 countries overseas.
Opening at No. 2 behind "The Hangover Part II" was another sequel, DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda 2," with $62.2 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Tuesday.
1. "The Hangover Part II," $105.8 million.
2. "Kung Fu Panda 2," $62.2 million.
3. "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," $50.4 million.
4. "Bridesmaids," $21 million.
5. "Thor," $12 million.
6. "Fast Five," $8.2 million.
7. "Midnight in Paris," $2.6 million.
8. "Rio," $2.4 million.
9. "Jumping the Broom," $2.35 million.
10. "Something Borrowed," $2.3 million.
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