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Abducted by Aliens? Top 50 Signs

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March 20th is Extraterrestrial Abductions Day.  This doesn’t mean expect to be whisked away today from that Starbucks line by little green or grey dudes with large heads, black eyes and long, pokey fingers.  On Monday mornings especially, however, getting snatched from the endless queue for a caramel macchiato might actually feel like a saving [...]

9 Notable Nurses That Never Were

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May 12th is International Nurses Day. Unless you’ve spent a great deal of time laid up in the hospital or have a nurse for a family member, you don’t know a lot of real-life nurses.  We remember a lot of Hollywood nurses, however.  From the great movies we’ve watched over the years we’ve come to [...]

Where are the lost socks?

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May 9th is Lost Sock Memorial Day. Mysteries in life abound.  Where’s Amelia Earhart? What’s at Hangar 13? Did Atlantis really exist? What is up with the fake horns, Lady Gaga? These great unanswered questions are esoteric in nature; we think of them from a distance because we don’t see a way in which the [...]

17 Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters

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May 4th is Star Wars Day. Of course!  May the Fourth be With You, and all that!  Makes sense.  If you’re a geek like me, you have always loved futuristic science movies.  Which means you simply adored everything Star Wars as a child and teen. Geeks like us have grown up, and have applied their [...]

5 Extraordinarily Creative Rugs

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May 3rd is Lumpy Rug Day. This day is meant for you to stand over that pile of crap old rug in your living room, place your hands on your hips while you glare, and dedicate yourself to following through on those silent threats to replace it.  Go ahead, do it, already.  Your friends talk [...]

Read this for Pete’s Sake!

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I like to call it my Harry Potter scar.  It’s one of the few permanent ones on my body, remembered less by the excruciating pain upon receiving it, and more from how I suffered its arrival in utter silence.  I’ll talk about it more later in this post… For Pete’s Sake Day February 26th is [...]

Winnie The Pooh Day

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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes ~ Winnie the Pooh Today is Winnie the Pooh Day, in honor of the birth of Winnie’s creator, Alan Alexander (A. A.) Milne, in 1882.  The Winnie the Pooh series of stories [...]

How to Name Your Car

C'mon, this one is just screaming a name!

The Green Machine. The Silver Bullet. Stinky. The Sex Machine. Smokey.  Have you named your car yet? Will you ever?  After all, bey0nd your home and office, you spend a great deal of time in that four-wheeled money pit, whipping all over town, shuttling kids to world-changing events, stuffing your face with that Taco Bell [...]

A Short History of the Comic Book

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Over the barely visible rising steam of sleeping, tangled bodies, rolled into each other as a barrier against the cold morning air, the quiet scrawling was barely perceptible, a long whispering scrutching.Breath held, hoping to not add one more sound over the quiet snores nearby, he moved the stone carefully, as his narrowed eyes flittering [...]

Play-Doh : A History

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In the toy department of Woodward & Lothrop’s Department Store in Washington, D.C., a new non-toxic, reusable modeling compound was demonstrated to interested children and their parents. The year was 1956. The unusual concoction was originally designed and marketed as a wallpaper cleaning putty by Noah McVicker of Kutol Products of Cincinnati, a soap and [...]

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