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WHAT WOULD A LIFE-SIZED BARBIE’S MEASURMENTS BE?

March 9, 1959 the Barbie doll debuted in stores. Since then, more than 800 million of the inhumanly proportioned dolls have been sold. So, what would a life-sized Barbie’s measurements be? She would be 5′ 9″ and measure 36-18-33, but she wouldn’t necessarily be completely healthy. According to research conducted by the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland (a country that knows its blonds) she would lack the 17-22% body fat required for her to menstruate and that would mean no baby Barbies for her.

HOW TO GET A BIGGER TIP

So, what’s the best way for a waiter or waitress to get a higher tip out of you without even improving the quality of service? When it comes to wait-people apparently the pen is mightier than the service! Waiters waitresses who write “thank you” on checks before giving them to their customers get 11% more in tips than those who don’t. Wait-persons who give information about an upcoming dinner special on checks get 17% to 20% more in tips.

USING BODY LANGUAGE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT

It’s not only what you say that dictates how people respond to you. Body language is a powerful tool that can help you get your way at work without anyone realizing it. Here are six tricks for getting your way at work from body-language expert Janine Driver author of the book You Say More Than You Think: A Seven-Day Plan for Using the New Body Language to Get What You Want.

1. Ace a Meeting – Choose a seat close to your boss (it will make him or her feel more connected to you). Sit on the first third of your seat, which makes you appear more engaged and on top of things. Then hold something that you know your boss likes in the hand nearest to him or her – maybe the type of coffee your boss drinks or the brand of pen he or she uses. This psychological device prompts your boss to associate the two of you in his or her mind, which makes your boss subconsciously more likely to agree with what you’re saying.

2. Make Anyone Say Yes – To get a coworker to agree to a favor, gesture with one palm up, a technique police officers use during questioning to persuade a person to do as they ask. Then touch your hand over your heart as you finish the request, signaling a “heartfelt” appeal. To seal the deal, pause for a few seconds before you say the keyword, such as “I know we’re all busy, but can you (pause) work my shift?” That brief silence subtly frames it as a subliminal command, prompting him or her to say yes.

3. Shut Up an Annoying Coworker – Continue to look at what you’re doing as that person is talking, and do a gesture known as the handgun steeple (you interlace all your fingers, except for your pointers, which form the barrel of the “gun”). Rest the barrel against your lips, signaling that you don’t want to speak. If the person doesn’t get it, aim it at the person as you say something neutral, such as “I’ve got so much work to do.” More »

SO YOU WANT TO BE A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN

If you’ve ever envied the life of a professional musician you may be interested to know that the majority of musicians – like actors and actresses – must hold other jobs in order to survive. 40% are self-employed. The rest work regularly for someone else. The majority of those who follow this path earn between $10.81 and $36.55 an hour. However, 10% of all musicians basically earn minimum wage. Musicians in the top 10% of moneymakers do quite well, earning roughly $57.37 an hour. Of course, the superstars of music can earn just about anything.

LET’S PLAY OSCAR BINGO!

If you’re planning to host an Academy Awards party this Sunday night, check out oscars.org/partykit. There you’ll find lots of Oscar party-related freebies like Oscar Bingo cards that you can print out. Each square contains a different event or happening such as crying, political statement or music cuts off speech. The goal is to be the first to cross off five in a row. There is also an Oscar crossword puzzle, ballots, and recipes for food and drinks.

ACADEMY AWARDS WE’D LIKE TO SEE

This weekend there will be another really long Academy Awards broadcast on television where the same old awards will be given out in the usual categories; best picture, best actor, best actress, etc. Wouldn’t it be cool if we got to suggest Academy Awards categories we’d like to see?

I think every year there should be an award given for The Most Eccentric Actor and Actress. This award would be given to performers who did the most bizarre things off screen that year. I’d call this one the “John Mayer Award”. The criteria for winning the award would be that you’d would have to say or do something more bizarre than saying your penis is a white supremeist, as Mayer recently did.

Another award I’d like to see is The Mugshot Award. This one would go to either the celebrity whose mugshot taken during an arrest that year was the most hideous or to the celebrity who was charged with the most heinous crime that year. This year’s leading candidate for the Mugshot Award, for me, is Charlie Sheen who was charged in February with felony menacing in Aspen, Colorado where he threatened his wife with a knife. Winner!

Add your own Academy Awards to this list and then open up the phones to let your listeners add to your list of Academy Awards We’d Like To See. Be sure to make a list of the top three to use as resolution to this topic.

THEY MAY BE FAMOUS, BUT THEY’VE NEVER WON AN ACADEMY AWARD

A surprising number of really good actors and actresses have never won an Academy Award. Sandra Bullock has the chance to get off the list of Oscar-less actresses this weekend as she is nominated for Best Actress for her performance in The Blind Side. Here are 15 other actors and actresses who may be famous, but they’ve never won an academy award:

Kevin Bacon

Steve Buscemi

John Cusack

Jim Carey

Richard Gere

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Scarlett Johansson

Steve Martin

Ewan McGregor

Dennis Quaid

Isabella Rossellini

Meg Ryan

Martin Sheen

Donald Sutherland

Bruce Willis

By the way, what may be the Academy’s biggest snub of all time is the fact that master suspense film director Alfred Hitchcock never received an Oscar, not for Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest or any of the other great films he made.

WHICH MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM HAS THE BEST WINNING PERCENTAGE?

The first Major League Baseball Spring training games will be played today and hope springs eternal as a new season begins that this year will be the year your favorite team goes to the World Series. But what are the chances that that will really happen? Which teams win the most often?

The New York Yankees, love them or hate them, have the highest all time winning percentage of 56.7%. The San Francisco Giants come in second with 54%, the Los Angeles Dodgers with 52.4% are third, the St. Louis Cardinals are fourth with 51.7% followed by the Boston Red Sox with 51.5% and – a shocker – the Chicago Cubs with a winning percentage of 51.4%. The lowest of the low – until recently – were the Tampa Bay Rays with only a 40.1% winning percentage.

“STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” ABUSE

On March 3, 1931 the bill designating “The Star-Spangled Banner” as our national anthem was adopted by the United States Senate and went to President Herbert Hoover for signature. The president signed it the same day and singers have been butchering it ever since.

The most heinous example of “Star-Spangled Banner” abuse happened when comedienne Roseanne Barr sang it before a San Diego Padres game on July 25, 1990. Not only did she sing it off-key, she also spit and grabbed her crotch as she sang it. Then there was the version that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith sang before the Indianapolis 500 on May 27, 2001 where he changed “home of the brave” to “home of the Indianapolis 500.”

But, some of the worst “Star-Spangled Banner” abuse is inflicted by non-celebrities, regular Janes and Joes just like you and me. The lyrics to our national anthem get mangled much more often they are gotten right.

To measure just how rampant “Star-Spangled Banner” abuse is, consider going out on the street and challenging people to correctly recite the lyrics to our national anthem. Record their inevitably crackpot lyrics and then edit them for play on your show the next day. No doubt you will get some highly individualized and entertaining versions of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

CHEWING GUM CAN HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT

Want to cut calories? Chew sugarless gum. A new study from the University of Rhode Island says that chewing sugarless gum may help people eat less. Chewing sugarless gum in the morning led study participants to eat 68 fewer calories at lunch. Chewing gum before and after eating resulted in burning up to 8% more calories during the day. And, there was an added bonus: Gum chewers said that they felt less tired and said doing tasks seemed easier. Maybe this will cause the “gum police” to rethink their position and make it okay to chew in public again.

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