NEW YORK – Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds. “I’m going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes,” the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG. Morgan defeated nearly 200 other […]
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Why do people name their cars?
Herbie, KITT and Vanish are more than cute and clever nicknames. They are the monikers of automobiles forever etched into our psyche — and they are not alone. The onscreen Volkswagen Beetle, Pontiac Trans Am and Aston Martin V12 Vanquish are representative of thousands of less famous vehicles that dot driveways around the globe. There […]
Japanese billionaire hands over homes!
HONOLULU (AP) – Japanese real estate mogul Genshiro Kawamoto handed over three of his many multimillion-dollar homes in Oahu’s priciest neighbourhood to homeless and low-income Native Hawaiian families on Thursday.
Recycle those messages in bottles!
LONDON (Reuters) – Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain — but now his local town council says it’s time to recycle. A quirky eccentric ever eager to spread a little happiness, he has a website offering to print out people’s innermost […]
The 13 Worst Buzzwords of 2006
Here’s the complete list: 1. leveraging our assets: The ultimate DUH in business. Every company attempts to leverage its assets. It only makes sense that companies put their resources, whether it’s money, location or talent, to best use in order to make a profit? 2. mission-critical: Another sign that too many people in today’s business […]
It doesn’t make “cents” to keep the penny
 A new study says it doesn’t make ‘cents’ to keep the penny. In fact, only 37 per cent of Canadians still use the coin for purchases, found a survey conducted by Desjardins Group. According to economists with the group, there are about 20 billion pennies in circulation — amounting to about 600 per Canadian. But […]
MP3 Player Knot
Are the wires for your MP3 player or MD player always tangled? Mine are. Here is an interesting way to tie them!
13 Most Fun Buzzwords of 2006
Those four buzzwords are among the 13 Most Fun Buzzwords of 2006 as selected by the readers of BuzzWhack.com, home of The Buzzword Dictionary: 1,000 Phrases Translated From Pompous to English. “Not all buzzwords make you cringe. Some are delightfully colorful, funny and sum up life in today’s workplace,” says John Walston, author of The […]
Only slightly above average!
After spending a day as a genius, I decided to try a more difficult IQ test. Knowing that my spatial skills are lacking, I figured that my score would certainly drop. I tried the Super IQ test at Tickle.com The results? Not quite as impressive: an IQ of 106 – and the title of “Imaginative […]
I’m a genius?!
I took an online IQ test and here are the results: Your IQ Is 130 Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average, Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional, Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius, Your General Knowledge is Genius Click the link below to test your IQ! A Quick and Dirty IQ Test
