Okay, trivia time. What were the two inventors of Bubble Wrap trying to make instead of packaging material back in 1957 at the Sealed Air Corporation? Take a guess and let’s see what you got (answer below). For the patient folks, let’s chat for a moment about the different ways t … | Continue reading
I’m not great at the game myself, so my dream categories would be: Jeopardy Round Rhymes with Brown At The Supermarket Name That Ocean Hot Dog Toppings Halloween Animals Types of Pants Double Jeopardy Served With Fries Vowels Adding and Subtracting Sports Ending With “Ball” Googl … | Continue reading
Peeling apart that static-covered clump of socks is tense. First you yank them from the dryer and dump the hot haystack on the bed. Then you start pairing up the easy ones — reconnecting brown argyle husbands with brown argyle wives and red-striped brothers with red-striped siste … | Continue reading
I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with U. If you guessed Uncomfortably Long Car Trip, you got it, baby. Yes, maybe you’re in a Backseat Squeeze for hours, one leg on each side of the Floor Hump, your bladder clenched tightly, holding on for dear life. Or maybe you’ … | Continue reading
[digg=http://digg.com/television/15_Great_Celebrity_Moments_on_Sesame_Street] Celebrities tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street. Let’s count down 15 of the best walk-ons: 15. REM’s monster mash. In just over three minutes, Michael Stipe and friends take us on an emotio … | Continue reading
Stand on the right. Walk on the left. AWESOME! Photo: here | Continue reading
Trouble bubbled at my friend Scott’s house the other night. See, earlier in the week Scott found a used McDonald’s Chicken McNugget sauce container wedged between the car seat and the car door in the Honda Civic he shares with his wife. He dropped his keys in there, and when he s … | Continue reading
[digg=http://digg.com/arts_culture/13_Greatest_Old_School_Board_Games] Wedged tightly into dark corners in dusty attics are piles of old, worn out board games from years ago. The corners of these old boxes are cracked and split open, the flashy prints on top long worn away, leavi … | Continue reading
What do you picture doing when you retire? Lounging amongst big umbrellas on sunny beaches, taking the grandkids to the zoo, cropping a serious vegetable garden, or turning your wood carving hobby into a lucrative craft fair business? Well, whatever you choose, can I just recomme … | Continue reading
Girl, you used to fit in a shoebox. Back when you were all-nude, all-the-time, you were crunched up real fine in your mom’s tum. Yes, your head was bowed down, your back was bent forward, your legs were pulled to your chest, and everything was in order. The fetal position is the … | Continue reading
Nothing. No rain. No birds. No wind. No waves. No buzzing. No beeping. No blinking. No haze. When there’s no office hum. And no kitchen clatter. When there are no idling cars. And no distant chatter. When there’s absolute, perfect silence and really nothing else. When your ears s … | Continue reading
Hanging out with friends late, late, late the other night, dim music on in the background, splayed haphazardly on a fat, squishy couch, my brother-in-law Dee suddenly started waxing nostalgic about his family’s big, old 1991 white Chevy Suburban. He just broke into it, too. “That … | Continue reading
Harsh fluorescent lighting, slushy wet floors, and the cloudy stench of raw fish welcome you into your friendly, neighborhood grocery store. After circling tables of green bananas, wobbly chick pea towers, and piles of day-old bagels, it’s kind of nice to stumble upon the coffee … | Continue reading
We’ve all been there. Staring nervously into the microglow at the fat, puffed up bag of popcorn calmly spiralling in the center of the dish like no big deal. But it is a big deal, and you know it’s a big deal, because despite the puffbag’s straightface, there’s a minute left, the … | Continue reading
Pop quiz, hotshot. A 2006 study in Scientific American Mind magazine said that on average men cry X times a month and woman cry Y times a month. Take a guess on the numbers and see how close you are (answers below). Now, whether you’re above or below average, consider crying a li … | Continue reading
Big toes are tough. Chances are good that Big Digit is holding onto the largest nail you’ve got. And yeah, chopping it off can be a tough job, but then again — if you didn’t do it once in a while you’d pop holes in your socks and end up with scraggly Hobbit Feet all … | Continue reading
There are two kinds of chicken wings. First up, there’s the Baby Drumstick. You know the one. It’s a cute, little baby drumstick dripping in wing sauce. It’s the JPEG attachment you’d expect to see on a “We had a baby!” email sent to you from a couple buckets of KFC. It’s so cute … | Continue reading
Get some distance between you and your fellow squatters and just sit back, relax, and flip open the newspaper as you enjoy this bright and spacious Cadillac of Public Toilets. AWESOME! Photo from: here | Continue reading
Have you ever found yourself laying in bed wide awake in the middle of the night? You know how it is: the clock’s clicking past 1:30 AM and you lay there wide awake, eyes bugged open, chewing your upper lip, tapping the sheets with your fingers, completely frustrated. Your pupils … | Continue reading
Save your money. Babies aren’t interested in your board games, video games, or iPhone Applications. They just want to play Peekaboo, Patty Cake, Ripping up Wrapping Paper, Breaking Your Glasses, or Sticking Their Hands In Stuff. And playing with babies is great fun. You don’t nee … | Continue reading
First you spot the Teetering Treat. It’s the candy bar hanging onto the metal spirals for dear life, just sitting there after giving the last customer the ol’ For Sale Fail and just teasing them instead of delivering the goods. And instead of spending another dollar to test their … | Continue reading
Don’t ask me how this happens. Sometimes it just happens. AWESOME! Photo from: here | Continue reading
While sitting around the lunch table in tenth grade my friend Mike accidentally squirted himself in the face with a juice box. He thought it was empty and squeezed the daylights out of the thing, causing streams of apple juice to just drench him completely. His hair soaked, his e … | Continue reading
Put your hand up if you’ve ever tried to fish out some slippery, slathery egg shell pieces from a bowl full of raw egg. Brother, I been there, too and we both know ain’t pretty. Yes, Shell Diving is high on the Kitchen Humiliation List, together with dropping a piece of toast jam … | Continue reading
[digg=http://digg.com/food_drink/Mastering_the_art_of_the_all_you_can_eat_buffet] Munch lunch at a Chinese restaurant, brunch at a Holiday Inn, or dinner at a wedding reception, and chances are good you will come face to face with the The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet. If you’re a Buffe … | Continue reading
When it’s late at night on a lonely road and your fuel gauge starts flirting with the Big E, it’s gut check time. First you enter Fuel Preservation Mode and start accelerating really slowly and coasting nonchalantly through Stop signs to save your precious, remaining fumes. Next … | Continue reading
ALF was a great TV show. But let’s be honest, you may not want to own the wise-cracking, cat-eating alien’s first three seasons on DVD. So if you land ALF, or a fondue kit, or a shot glass chess set, or a gelato maker, or a sweater that doesn’t fit you, or the Wheel of … | Continue reading
Jumbo snowflakes falling thick and heavy on Christmas Eve is a special sight. They blur the world for a moment and lay a fresh blank canvas over everything. So if you’re sitting inside listening to carols on the radio, munching Christmas cookies, or chatting with family and frien … | Continue reading
Snow stepping is when you’re wearing shoes, but the person ahead of you is wearing boots, and while the two of you are trudging through the snow, you just step in all the nice Snow Holes they made for you. AWESOME! Photo from: here | Continue reading
Say it’s a cold, bone-shivering night. Say there’s snow shooting sharp, shooting sideways, shooting into your eyes, and the wind is just howling and twirling into mini-tornadoes, slicing and dicing deep through your coat and into your chest. Your fingers are icicles, your nose a … | Continue reading
Things could go a few different ways near the bottom of that cereal bowl: 1. Drowning in white. You poured 2 fast and 2 furious and overfilled the bowl. Now after you spoon up those last few soggy Honey Nut Cheerios you’re left with a good inch of sloshy, super-saturated, sandy-c … | Continue reading
[digg=http://digg.com/food_drink/Truly_Awesome_Flipping_open_next_year_s_calendar_and] Planning those Wednesday birthdays is tough. Do you party-back on the weekend before or party-forward to the weekend after? Either way, you’ll get a lot of “So wait, when’s your actual birthday … | Continue reading
Free your feet. When you kick off your tight, suffocating shoes, peel off your nasty, sweaty socks, and just starting walking on the beach in bare feet, how good does that feel? Man, it’s a million molecules of Earthbeads massaging your foot all at once. It’s a tickly, gripply sa … | Continue reading
The Five Second Rule simply states that any food dropped on the floor is perfectly fine to eat as long as you pick it up in less than five seconds. The rule has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The Howe … | Continue reading
I used to be The Wolf Man. At least, that’s what a big guy named Fletch used to call me in tenth grade homeroom. He said it with a hearty, bug-eyed giggle while pinching and tugging the soft patches of thin, black hair extending from my ears to my collar bones. Now, I wasn’t just … | Continue reading
It just feels like freedom. AWESOME! Photo from: here | Continue reading
The worst lineups of all time include: • Airport security. Plastic bins, loafers, keychains, and laptop computers fly in all directions in the maddening chaos of the airport security lineup. People are getting the beepdown and guards are tearing through suitcases looking for Terr … | Continue reading
Slicing and dicing a dead tree, tossing it on a pile of dirt, and setting it ablaze is pure joy. As that dry, withered stump slowly releases years and years of energy soaked up from the sun, the air, and the ground around it, out come bright lights, whispering hisses, sizzling po … | Continue reading
Backing out of a parking spot is no fun. You’re turning side to side, checking mirrors, moving real slowly, trying to size up how far away your car is from the next one. It’s an awkward three, four, five-point turn, as you twist your spine up, scrape your tires up, dent someone’s … | Continue reading
This ancient and mystical mode of transportation deserves big ups for big reasons. Piggy-backing makes you happy in so many ways: 1. Give yourself a break. Piggy-backing about town is a relaxing way to get around. You just focus on holding on and not strangling the piggy-backer a … | Continue reading
Shelling out for that primo real estate on the corner lot ain’t always easy. Yes, you may have to mortgage Electric Company or dip into that stash of hundreds hidden under the game board. But after you make your big investment, there’s nothing finer than somebody landing right pl … | Continue reading
How bad was the first steak you ever made? I hope it was better than the charred shoe I served for dinner after a good forty minutes of grilling. Needless to say, I made sure there wasn’t anything too raw in there. Nothing too tasty, either. Of course, the worst part about a toug … | Continue reading
Props to ugly actors. These wrinkly, crinkly stars of the screen made it up through a system that values looks and beauty and they did it on raw talent alone. Yes, ugly actors shine bright as a beacon of hope to any of us with bushy eyebrows, gap teeth, or big, crooked noses. The … | Continue reading
If you feel that loose toilet chain jiggle around or that low-flow toilet flush sort of spit, sputter, and die, then I’m telling you man: it’s bad news. Before you know it you’ve got Toilet Chaos on your hands — the bowl starts filling up instead of filling down, and your chocola … | Continue reading
Feel this pain: You’re a cashier in a busy store at holiday season. Now, say you’re good at your job and you’ve been there a while. You’ve long memorized the produce codes and you bag like a champion. You’re keeping up with the traffic, whipping customer after customer through th … | Continue reading
Because they don’t usually leave you hanging. AWESOME! Photo from: here | Continue reading
It all starts with a recipe downloaded off the Internet. Then there’s the new item on the grocery store shopping list, the big soup pot or fancy barbecue tools you haven’t used in a while, and about an hour of commotion in the kitchen. Finally everyone takes a seat and out pops a … | Continue reading