Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 21, 2019

You've seen license plates with the logos of your favorite sports teams --how about one with an emoji? Yep, it's already happening in Queensland, Australia, where The Verge reports the official license plate vendor, Personalized Plates Queensland (PPQ), is launching the option on March 1st, with preorders available now.
But there's only a few you can choose --a face-with-tears-of-joy (better known as the crying laughing emoji), sunglasses emoji, winking emoji, smiling emoji, or heart-eyes emoji. And they're only decorations on the plates --not part of the license number.
And you'll haveta shell out around $340 bucks if you want one, which should cut down on the numbers.
Question: what decoration would you wanna see on your plates? Religious symbol? NRA logo? The list goes on....

With the latest hubbub over pictures of politicians in blackface in a yearbook --another person in trouble, this time for wearing a Nazi uniform. BOB GARTHWAIT, a member of the Gettysburg College Board of Trustees has resigned after a photo surfaced of him in the college's 1980 yearbook. Garthwait, who graduated in 1982, says he was a member of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity as a student, and says he only wore the costume because he was attending a fraternity's theme party, where everyone was asked to dress like a character from "Hogan's Heroes."
See the picture HERE.

Lotsa talk about an article in the L.A. Times which ranked the french fries at In-N-Out Burger at the bottom of the list of other fast-food outlets. The Times' rankings:
19. In-N-Out
18. Sonic
17. Rally's
16. Jollibee
15. Wienerschnitzel
14. Popeye's
13. Jack in the Box
12. KFC
11. Chik Fil-A
10. Burger King
9. Shake Shack
8. Wendy's
7. Dairy Queen
6. Carl's Jr.
5. Arby's
4. Steak 'n Shake
3. Del Taco
2. McDonalds
1. Five Guys
Of course, this leaves it wide open for you to conduct your own ratings, perhaps with a different food each month. Or have your stunt guy (or girl) do the dirty work... and watch 'em pack on the pounds.

Fans of the vintage TV show "Golden Girls" will be excited to know there's a cruise for fans of the show coming up in 2020. The five-night "Golden Girls at Sea" cruise leaves from Miami on February 24, 2020, with on-board activities including a cheesecake party, a bar crawl, karaoke night, trivia, crafts, and bingo.
There's also a costume contest, a "One Night in St. Olaf Dance Party" complete with a classic game of Ugel and Flugel.
Here's the down side --you'll have to fork over $986.69 for an OceanView cabin (based on double occupancy) or $199 more for an Aqua Class Deluxe Oceanview Balcony (based on double occupancy).
Still interested? Head to flipphonevents.com.
The obvious phoner: What TV show would you like to see a cruise based on???