Category: Just for Fun

Gushing Actors = Gushing Americans?

At yesterday’s Oscar Academy Awards ceremony, various actors and filmmakers delivered emotional acceptance speeches littered with thanksgiving, superlatives, and mushy words. The Economist asks the whimsical question of whether the Best Actors and Actresses have progressively delivered more gushing speeches since 1972. To answer this question, the publication introduced the “gushing index”, which is calculated …

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Global Unemployment is Expected to Break the All-time Record, And Then Get Worse

The global all-time high of unemployed workers was 199 million people in 2009. In 2012, the amount of jobless topped 197 million, with the International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations based in Geneva, declaring a “crisis in labour markets of both advanced economies and developing countries.” In the last year, 4 …

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Slow Down When You Eat: Technology Invades The Dinner Table

Eating too quickly has been proven to be bad for health, causing heartburn, digestive problems, and even weight gain. The old method to curb this bad habit was having a mother or a spouse remind us to slow down and “chew your food.” Now with the help of technology, no such verbal reminders are necessary. …

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Employee Theft of Office Supplies Can Really Add Up

An employee in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP  has been indicted for stealing more than $376,000 worth of copy machine toner over approximately two years.  The employee accomplished this by ordering excess toner from two vendors and effectively setting up a side business through which he sold the toner. …

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Super Bowl XLVII Expected to Flood New Orleans

This past Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers battled their way uphill from an early 17-0 losing position and still managed to defeat the Atlanta Falcons 28 to 24 in a particularly exciting game. Now the 49ers look to steal the silver right from underneath the Baltimore Ravens’ noses in their quest for the Vince Lombardi …

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Court Finds That Man is Not Your “Typical” Skinnygirl

A New York judge has denied class certification in a lawsuit filed against Beam Global Spirits & Wine Inc., maker of the Skinnygirl Margarita.  The accusation in the proposed class action suit is that the Skinnygirl Margarita is falsely advertised as being “all natural”. In order to qualify as a class, certain criteria must be …

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Fifth Time’s a Charm? Not Likely When it Comes to Bankruptcy.

Strauss Auto, an auto parts retailer, appears to have set a new record.  It is not likely one they were pursuing. The company is believed to be the only one in the history of the Bankruptcy Code to have entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy five times (a move some are jokingly calling a Chapter 55 …

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Super Advertising: $3.5 Million for 30 Seconds

The National Football League’s annual championship game is consistently the most watched American broadcast on television.  The 2011 Super Bowl had an average audience of 111 million viewers, which surpassed the record-setting 106.5 million viewers drawn by the 2010 game.  It would not be at all surprising if this year’s game surpasses the 111 million …

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Report Identifies Top Undergraduate Business Programs

US News and World Report has unveiled its current listing of the top colleges, including various subcategories such as Best Undergraduate Business Programs.  The top five include three public universities and are as follows: University of Pennsylvania Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California – Berkley University of Michigan – Ann Arbor University of Virginia New York University, …

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It pays to eat your veggies!

An unemployed carpenter in Northern Illinois was picking broccoli in his backyard garden when he stumbled upon a duffle bag, nestled among the peppers and filled with a different kind of green: approximately $150,000 in cash. According to the Northwest Herald, a combination of honesty and suspicion as to the source of the funds (and who …

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