Before Happy Meals and methamphetamines became the norm, children of the late 1960s raced home after school to get their daily afternoon fix of a black and white soap opera. A soap opera! Parents were either just as hooked or they forbade their kids to watch it. And not because it was empty trash rendering [...]
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How Do You Pronounce the Year "2010"?
Debate about how to pronounce the upcoming years is heating up. I mean, we’ve been chugging along since the new millenium with “Two Thousand, Two Thousand One, etc.” and all of a sudden some people out there will be changing this pattern in January with “Twenty Ten”. The International Olympics Committee and Vancouver 2010 are [...]
Necklace? What Necklace?
Entertainment Weekly has this page called “News Style & Notes Hunter” where readers allegedly see some fashion item on a celebrity and then write in asking where they can get the same thing. Because people can’t dress themselves without emailing a magazine inquiring about fashion and then waiting 3-6 months for a reply, at which [...]
