Who parks a car better, men or women? A new study suggests what you’ve known all along.
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The annual Animal Planet Puppy Bowl on Superbowl Sunday will feature a kitten halftime show. See a series of adorable photographs taken during the taping of the halftime show.
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The film One For the Money managed to get exactly one sort-of-favorable critic’s review. The best lines of MovieBuff’s review stand alone as comedy gold.
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Obama’s Lean, Mean SEAL Machine. The Navy commandos pulled off another high-profile raid last week, illustrating the president’s vision for the military.
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A college student found cocaine in a textbook she ordered from Amazon. And she didn’t even have to pay extra for it!
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A new Sweded version of The Phantom Menace was produced in honor of the new 3D theatrical release of the old movie. But it’s better because it’s free, it’s not 3D, and George Lucas isn’t responsible for it.
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Remote-control “flying people” are released over New York City. Makes you wish you could be one of them, doesn’t it?
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Matthew Broderick reprise his role as Ferris Bueller in a Super Bowl ad. Watch the full-length version and note that the product is prominently but not obnoxiously displayed.
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You’ll soon be able to invest in Facebook as the company prepares for its IPO (initial public offering). Its value may soar as high as $100 billion, but is that real, or just a number?
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Masters of Food Art. Their mothers never told them to stop playing with their food.
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I think the parking study proved something different than what they claim they found. The men will roll in forward, close enough, (Booyah)! then get out of the car, while laughing at the women getting their car straight and centered via multiple attempts.
posted by Brain on 1-31-2012 at 8:26 am
On my breaks at work, I like to sit in the window on the 2nd floor just for the entertainment of watching people attempt to park.
My personal observation is that the larger or more expensive the vehicle, the less the ability of the person to park it, either in a parking lot space or on the street (I have good views of both from the window).
posted by Wayne Stevens on 1-31-2012 at 9:31 am
I thought I read the Puppy Bowl halftime show this year was going to feature pigs.
posted by Jenn on 1-31-2012 at 1:11 pm
RE: One For the Money…there’s a reason Sue Grafton has forbidden her books (Alphabet series) for being made into films. (And has told her children that if they allow it after she’s dead she’ll come back to haunt them!)
posted by beth on 1-31-2012 at 2:16 pm