THEY SHOULD HAVE QUIT WHILE THEY WERE AHEAD

Today the 9th and final Harry Potter movie opens in theaters nationwide.  Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part II is supposed to close the book, as it were, on the adventures of Harry and the other characters in the highly successful series.  The film should do well at the box office, but just how [...]

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HAPPY STUPID GUY THING DAY!

June 22nd is designated as Stupid Guy Thing Day, a day to commemorate all of the really stupid things guys do.  I’ll propose to you most of the really stupid things guys do they do to impress women.  For example, jumping off of really high crap.  You would be hard pressed to find a guy [...]

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THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER

On June 10, 1943, Hungarian Laszlo Biro patented the ballpoint pen, which he had been developing since the 1930′s.  He was living in Argentina, where he had gone to escape the Nazis.  In many languages, the word for ballpoint pen is biro. Imagine life without ballpoint pens.  If it weren’t for Biro, we could all [...]

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CAN COSMETICS INFLUENCE THE BRAIN?

Beauty products are designed to make us feel better about ourselves.  But can they do so by actually altering our brain chemistry?  In a growing trend, cosmetics companies are boasting that their products can latch onto our brain receptors and alter our moods.  Though there isn’t much scientific evidence to support their claims, these so-called [...]

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WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE OCD

These days, it seems almost everybody has some sort of lettered disease albeit ADD or OCD or some other set of letters.  Even if you haven’t been medically diagnosed as having a lettered disease, you probably have some behaviors that could be technically be called just a little obsessive compulsive.  For example, I can’t leave [...]

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IT’S NATIONAL RECEPTIONIST DAY

May 11th has been designated by the National Receptionists Association as National Receptionists Day, a day to recognize the people who create your company’s first impressions.  Because receptionists are not protected by any boundaries, they experience all manner of odd occurrences. For example, there was a receptionist at Boston’s talk radio station, WRKO who was [...]

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I KNEW I HAD BECOME MY MOTHER WHEN…

When we are children we all observe our parents do quirky things and promise ourselves that when we grow up we will never imitate them.  However, inevitably, something happens to us as we grow older and suddenly we catch ourselves doing the same quirky things are parents did. As women, we all reach a point [...]

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THE BEST TEACHER I EVER HAD DID THIS QUIRKY THING

May 3rd is officially designated as National Teacher Day by the National Education Association, a day to pay tribute to American educators.  Some of the most effective teachers come up with the quirkiest ways to convey their lessons.  For example, I had a history teacher who would dress up and play the parts of various [...]

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WHAT ADVERTISING WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE BANNED?

On April 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed legislation banning cigarette ads on radio and television.  The ban officially went into effect the following year.  This bring to mind the topic, Television Ads I’d Like To See Banned. On the top of my list would be all those ads for drugs that run endlessly on [...]

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MY BOSS IS A FOOL

April 1st is April Fool’s Day, a day to celebrate the fool in all of us.  But some people have more opportunities than others to be a fool.  The more power someone has, the more license they get to do foolish things – like your boss.  There’s a little “Michael Scott”, the boss on the [...]

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