Ever notice that any time you hear the phrase “that’s how the cookie crumbles” it always seems to come on the heels of bad luck? And if you think about it, a cookie crumbling is rather tragic event. Usually. The one exception seems to be a fortune cookie, which is generally crumbled with the best…
… measurements. While we’ve got no particular problem with firewood sold by the truckload, pound or any other type of measurement, you’ll notice that there’s a certain consistency in the firewood ads we’ve got listed. Specifically, you’ll see that the fuel is listed by cord or by partial cord. Every wonder why that is? And…
Or yard. Or carpeting. Or door. Measurements are something you’ll find in just about every category we’ve got. Whether it’s the length of kiln dried lumber or the vital stats of a collectible concert poster, it’s really helpful to have an idea of the size of something for sale. You know we’re all about efficiency,…
Okay, not that dirty. As exciting as they might be to some folks, washing machines just aren’t that titillating. But they do account for around one-quarter of the average household’s water consumption. And – more ominously – washing machines are responsible for an estimated 97% of all sock thievery. So time-consuming and labor intensive was the…
Well … maybe not. It’s a rather dangerous proposition, really; Americans consume nearly 7 billion hot dogs every summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day. That’s a whole lot of Frankfurters, wieners and footlongs! Our minds have gone to the dogs today for a particular reason: July 23 is National Hot Dog Day. And in…
Shift. Then the number 2. It’s a keyboard combination that we all type with some frequency. And it’s also one that most of us used very little until the last two decades; before email, we just didn’t pay all that much attention to @. So we wondered (don’t we always?) why that little A in the…
This man does not look happy. Thoughtful. Serious. Pensive, maybe, but not really happy. Then again, you’d look less than charmed if you were largely forgotten. The fellow pictured above is Millard Fillmore, and on this day in 1850, he became the 13th President of the United States. He tends to be one of the…
Are you ready for some noise? We are! We’re also looking forward to some BBQ and time with friends and family. Our office will be closed Thursday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. And that got us wondering about early Independence Day celebrations. When was the first? And how do all those fireworks (and…
… creates quite a stir on The Milton Berle Show! On this day in 1956, Elvis Presley shook things up when he appeared on TV to perform “Hound Dog”. It was the first time The King performed the song for a television audience, and his now-famous gyrations – very shocking at the time – created…
We’d like to emphasize the gravity of the situation: cat. Door. And if you’re a cat owner, you know that whichever side of the door the cat’s on is decidedly the wrong side. When he wasn’t busy formulating the laws of gravity and making countless discoveries in the worlds of optics and mathematics, Sir Isaac…