This is the first of three days of consecutive caption contests. All of these will deal with the Olympic Winter games.
In a society where the line that divides the roles of men from the roles of women is erroding away, perhaps there is nowhere that erosion is happening faster than in the world of Figure Skating. For years, these girly men non-traditional males have endured snickering and sneers for their outlandish outfits and their rather [...]
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We recently started a new category: Ugly Knitted Thing of the Week.
The Ugly Knitted Thing of the Week will be updated weekly by Nicole Gardner - an avid knitter with an uncanny ability to detect ugly knitted things on the internet. The image that goes along with this post isn’t technically ugly - more cute [...]
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Next time your grandma wants to make you more hot potholders, slip her a pattern for this and you’ll never have to hear your controller complain about being cold again.
Biathlon: Coolest Olympic Sport Biathlon, unfortunately, doesn’t sound like it is a cool sport. It doesn’t involve sequen-bedazzled skaters doing triple axles while wearing short skirts like Men’s figure skating does - and it doesn’t involve lazy stoners flipping themselves in crazy ways like Olympic Halfpipe does - but it does have something that no [...]
I had several tests that kept me from posting these images earlier. For Valentine’s day, I got Aubrey a Vermont Teddy Bear. The bear is “pregnant” - in that it has a small pillow that it wears under it’s dress. When the baby is born, you remove the pillow. Aubrey claims that human birthing is [...]
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If you have watched any of the Olympic figure skating, you have probably heard about the new judging system. There are now 12 judges. Of those 12 judges, 9 of the judges are chosen at random by a computer. Of those 9, the highest and lowest scores are removed. The remaining 7 scored go into [...]
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If you like Cherry-flavored things, such as Cherry Garcia or Cherry-flavored yogurt - you want to get your car keys ready so you can go to the store right when you get done reading this post. Nestle has produced a limited-edition of Cherry-flavored KitKats to go along with Valentines day. (The only connection to Valentine’s [...]
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At one time, conversation candies were made into many shapes including horseshoes, baseballs and watches
About 8 billion hearts will be produced this year; thatâs enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Ariz. and back again 20 times
The peak selling season for conversation hearts last only six weeks, but confectioners produce the candy for [...]
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