Author Archives: bondsy
10 Things That Turn 50 This Year, Including Post-Its, Bar Codes, and the Meow Mix Jingle
Mid-March seems like a random time for this, but "Mental Floss" just posted a list of things turning 50 in 2024, and there are some big ones. If you were born in 1974, here are 10 random things that a...
Mar 19, 2024
The Inventor of Karaoke Is Dead . . . Here Are the Best Karaoke Songs for People Who Can't Sing
The inventor of karaoke has died. He was a Japanese businessman named Shigeichi Negishi, and he lived to be 100 years old. He invented the first karaoke machine in 1967, after one of his employees mad...
Mar 18, 2024
The 10 Unhealthiest Drinks Include a Few Surprises
The site "Eat This, Not That" ranked the "25 Unhealthiest Drinks on the Planet" . . . and somehow, turpentine didn't make the list. (???) They ranked them based on how much sugar they have. And you mi...
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Six Tips for Celebrating St. Patrick's Day at Home
For parents this weekend can be sort of a bummer. But it doesn't have to be. You can still get your green on and even better, you won't feel like you got hit by a bus the next day. Here are some thing...
Mar 16, 2024
Are These St. Patrick's Day Traditions Irish or Not?
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Are these four common traditions Irish or not? The answers might surprise you . . . 1. Wearing green. The whole "wear green or risk getting pinched" thing likely began in Am...
Mar 15, 2024
National POTATO CHIP Day & The #1 Chip is NOT a Chip
Happy National Potato Chip Day. It is a nice bonus to it also being National Pi Day. So you get to enjoy both the sweet and the salty. BUT - what in the world is this list? Ranker asked people to name...
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Happy Pi Day! Here's the Pie Each State Googles More Than Other States
March 14th means it's National Pi Day, as in the mathematical constant, 3.14. A poll for it found only 66% of us know it's the "ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter." 1% thought it was th...
Mar 14, 2024
A Young Photo of Dolly Parton Has Fans Asking How Jolene Could Have Actually Been a Threat
Have you seen the old photo of Dolly Parton flying around social media right now? It's a photobooth shot she took in 1966 when she was 20. Everyone's reposting it and making the same joke. How could "...
Mar 14, 2024 Country singer and actress Dolly Parton will star in a remake of the 1956 movie "Solid Gold Cadillac" which starred Judy Holliday as a stockholder who exposes corruption in the corporation's board of directors, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Parton, shown May 3, 2000 at the Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in Universal City, California, will also executive produce the TNT and Columbia TriStar TV movie.
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"Scream 7" Will Officially NOT SUCK Now Since This Character is Returning
She announced it on Instagram yesterday, as well as the return of the original writer, Kevin Williamson.... Neve Campbell is returning to the "Scream" franchise for the upcoming, seventh installment, ...
Mar 13, 2024 Cast members Courteney Cox (R) and Neve Campbell pose at the premiere of "Scream 4" at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California April 11, 2011. The movie opens in the U.S. on April 15. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)
15 "Badly Named" Things That Could Have "Better Names": Like, Should a Jet Ski Be Called a "Boatercycle"?
Once something becomes known as one name . . . no matter how that came to be . . . those names are very rarely changed. But that won't stop the internet from fantasizing. In an online forum, someone a...
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