They say heroes come in all shapes and sizes. But it takes a very special kind of person to decide that having a full set of limbs would just slow you down. Yet, that is exactly what a New Jersey lifeguard determined before jumping into Newark Bay and swimming out to pull a man out …
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All sorts of events that are usually part of our daily life have been put on ice due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. From small local gatherings like picnics and cookouts to large music festivals and even the Olympics, all have felt the sting of the ‘Rona. The list of disrupted everyday get-togethers includes religious …
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Have you read Bad Bosses and the Shit They Say: Part One? Because this is part two, and you’re going to want to read all of these, too. Um, Thanks? “One day our area manager came into my workplace, stared at my chest, and said, ‘I see why you got the job.’” Proving Death “I …
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Bosses Day was just on October 16th, but you may not have known that because you didn’t celebrate bosses day. Then again, if your boss has ever said anything to you like the statements you’re about to read, it makes sense why you didn’t know about it (and certainly wouldn’t want to celebrate it.) Banana …
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It’s October and you know what that means? Halloween, preparations for Halloween, and Halloween costumes. We all know this year has no shortage of costume ideas. These are the weirdest costumes of 2020. Joe Exotic Even if you didn’t watch the Tiger King, you have heard about it, so it’s no surprise that this would …
Getting passionately attached to strange things is surprisingly common. People form emotional ties to anything from bands to sports teams, certain makes of car to a brand of beer. One of the things that some folks get gung-ho over, despite its fairly objectively awful nature, is Taco Bell. Even some of this author’s best friends …
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When people talk about things that run in the family, it’s usually about something more or less negative. Maybe it’s stubbornness, baldness, or susceptibility to some disease. Of course, there are also those families where everyone’s ridiculously good-looking or maybe extremely musical. But the Taylor Schlitz family from Texas has everybody beat – it seems …
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Remember the 80s? What a great decade, with neon windbreakers, New Wave music, yuppies, late-stage Cold War… What a time to be alive. And then there was also the Satanic Panic. You know, the mass hysteria about how supposedly everything from roleplaying games to heavy metal music and actual real-world social issues was some kind …
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I think I can safely say the best Keira Knightley was Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Pirate King Kiera. The character arc of Elizabeth Swan is the point of the Pirates trilogy. But it’s not the far-fetched Hollywood-fable as you might think. A life of piracy gave women a chance to live freer …
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Do you think after 2020 that we will hear the words quarantine, mask, or toilet paper, and not shutter for a second? No, me either. But not all quarantine is bad, and this is why. Spending Time This is the thing, most of us have a little extra time these days, and with lots of …
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