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11 Trippy Questions
These are a blast. If you can remember these you can make people feel really stupid. Of course you don’t want to tell them how stupid you felt the first time you read these.

The Unanswered Questions from Slate
Some good questions, most of which do not have an answer, which makes them all the more fun.

Do blind people dream?
A great great question.

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
Don’t have headache yet today? There are 67 illusions here, that should do the trick.

Saying Yes to Mess
Messy people are smarter. I already knew this, but here’s some extra proof.

5. Super Mario Brothers - Please don’t let the movie tarnish the reputation of this game.
4. Grand Theft Auto 3
3. Legend of Zelda
2. NHL 94 - Solid game every year, but 94 was the last year with blood after fights.
1. Halo - Words cannot do this game justice. Nothing is more fulfilling than beating the game on Legendary. Many hours of my college life were spent on this game.

This is random, but I gotta post a question to you guys: I have four friends that are always late.  Its at the point where I can just count on them being late. I’m not talking about 5 minutes either, I mean 20-30 minutes +. I often find myself telling them earlier meeting times just so that they arrive on time. haha My question to you guys is: if late people KNOW they’re always late, why are they still late?  Did that make sense?

I’m just wondering why they don’t keep in mind that they are always late and thus, start getting ready earlier? Don’t they care that they keep people waiting? What do you guys think? Any comments? Questions? Concerns? haha

5.  Getting Coffee - Sometimes, if you’re really bored, you can just get up and walk really slowly to the coffee maker.  This can shave a good 5 to 10 minutes off the clock.  Carrying papers with you makes you look more official.

4.  Reading the News - CNN is always a nice diversion, and if you get caught, you can  just say you’re keeping up with current events.

3.  Staring straight ahead - If you work at it, you can actually train yourself to shut off your brain and stare at a spreadsheet for long periods of time.  Hours can disappear like seconds.

2.  The Daily Email - chatting it up with friends makes the day more bearable.

1.  Bathroom trips - Nothing is more satisfying than dropping a deuce on the company dime!

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Topics
Ready for Christmas?
Airing of Grievances
Bowl Picks
NFL Playoffs
Holiday Plans

If I worked in an office that had a radio station playing all day, I think I’d want that station to be XPN - UPenn’s ‘Listener Supported’ Station, all sorts of music I’ve never heard. The summer I worked at Weight Watchers they had B101 on all the time. I swear the same songs were played in the same order everyday. For those non-Philly people B101 is adult contemporary. When I went back for Winter Break that year they had switched to Oldies 98, which was awesome.

It scares me to think that people who think they like Fall Out Boy have never listened to Take This To Your Grave. I have timing. Its always good or bad, usually bad. I’ve never had average timing. I think I could go for some average timing or no timing at all.

Off the Books
If I were a reader and didn’t already have a stack of books I want to 
read this would certainly be on the list.

Every morning I start my day at work with a Snack Pack, usually its banana. Recently the tops to the pudding have not been coming off smoothly. I seem to have hit a bad batch. Nearly every day it tears or doesn’t even open. I have to resort to using a spoon and potentially getting banana pudding all over everything. This is quite disappointing after so many months of reliable pudding tops.

What happend to ‘Santa Stop Here’ signs? They came out of no where one year and every single house had one, even ones that didn’t celebrate Christmas. They disappeared as quickly as they came.

The biggest draw back to having my own morning radio show would be having to do meet and greets with fans. I’m sure I’d love the fans but I think I’d get really tired of saying hi and shaking hands. I’d even get tired of everyone telling me how great I am. I mean I’m already tired of that and I don’t even have a radio show.

1) Slap Bracelets…a way to entertain yourself for hours (p.s. check out why they were banned)

2) Batman/Barbie cereal…not gonna lie, breakfast became a little more exciting

3) Michael Jackson: pre-pedophile days

4) High top sneakers in any color imaginable…literally

5) Side pony tails and tying shirts into a knot…CLEARLY needs to come back in style

80’s pop culture: fun, yet so easy to make fun of

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Topics
Festivus
Fun with Verizon Wireless
What is Inter-Dis Material?
BCS Ideas
Evan’s Girls Basketball Update
Looking Ahead

5 - Flintstones - My favorite for a long time.  I even named my cat Pebbles.  She recently passed away after a long 17.5 year life.

4 - Tail Spin - I don’t really know why I liked it so much.  Each episode was solid (well, as well as i can remember)

3 - Duck Tales - I had a huge craving to watch this in college one semester, and no matter how hard i searched online I couldn’t find any episodes to download.  They did show it on Toon Disney, but that was not one of the 150 channels we got in the dorms.  The show is available on DVD now though.

2 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - a solid favorite of anyone in our generation.

1 - Animaniacs - Between Pinky and the Brain and the Godfeathers, how could you not love this show?

December means Christmas but the first of the month means one thing: Advent Calendars. I don’t know what it was about these things but they were a staple of every December evening when I was little. Usually my sister and I would each have one. Each day they would tell part of a story. We would recite from memory the previous nights and then open that night’s door.

Some years, if my parents found one on sale after the previous Christmas, we would get an Advent Calendar with candy behind each door. We would have to trade off each night which one of us would get the piece of chocolate, its a good thing there were only two of us. If we were bad on our day, then we would lose our chocolate for the night and the other sibling would benefit. I can’t think of a more severe punishment from my childhood than the nights when I was denied the chocolate, likely as a result of something I did to my sister. Looking back it makes no sense. It was a tiny piece of year old chocolate that likely wasn’t even good when it was fresh.

Another tradition, which oddly enough depended on if my sister and I behaved each day was putting hay in the manger. Baby Jesus was not placed in our Nativity Scene until Christmas morning. Its just crazy to have him in there before, he wasn’t born yet. Each night depending on how good we were, we got to put hay into the manger. If we were really good then we got more hay. If we were bad during the day we’d be threatened with “Do you want Baby Jesus to freeze?” If we didn’t wise up, then no hay went in. On those rare occasions where the ultimate punishment was in order, hay was removed from the manger. I love how religion brings families together.

One year Baby Jesus didn’t make it into the manger. Christmas morning came and Mom couldn’t find him. He was never found. We just assumed he had his holidays confused and he ascended.