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13 Awesome Ways to Carve Your Watermelon

Emerald Catron — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:01 +0000

Oh, were you just planning on slicing your watermelon into wedges this Memorial Day weekend? We regret to inform you that plain old wedges are now kind of lame. It turns out there are so many awesome ways to carve a watermelon that we are probably just not going to buy one ever again, because [...]

13 Everyday Objects That Look Like Other Things

Emerald Catron — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:13 +0000

You see it too, right? The awesome Terminator face on that…grill? To us it is now and will forever be Snow Terminator. Same goes for all of these other objects that have taken on personalities of their own. They can never go back. They have been permanently anthropomorphized. It’s adorable. Twins! Sulking mop Happy Biscuit [...]

What Is The Best Beauty Salon Name You Have Ever Heard?

Jeffrey Dorsey — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:32 +0000

While out of town on Sunday, I came across a beauty shop sign that read “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow”. It got me to thinking of just how many beauty salons there are and even more interesting is the names of those salons. I did a talk show on radio years ago about the names [...]

City of New Orleans Still the Best Train Song Ever

Jeffrey Dorsey — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:56:09 +0000

Saturday is National Train Day and it got me to thinking about trains and all of the train songs that have been recorded over the years. There are quite a few train songs out there but for my money the best one ever is The City of New Orleans written by Steve Goodman in 1971.

Quincy Newcomb Hotel Makes Top 10 Endangered Historic Places List

Jeffrey Dorsey — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:37:07 +0000

The top ten list of endangered historic places was announced today by Landmarks Illinois at a press conference held in Springfield and Quincy has one of the sites on the list. That site is the historic Newcomb Hotel at 4th and Maine Streets in Quincy. Landmarks Illinois is in its 18th year. According to [...]

Job Numbers are Out

Jeffrey Dorsey — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:00:40 +0000

Yesterday’s Quincy Herald Whig had an interesting article written by Matt Hopf that revealed that the area’s job picture improved in March from one month earlier. That is the good news. The bad news is that it is still higher than it was one year ago. As jobs go, so does the problem with drugs and crime [...]

April 29th Has Some History

Jeffrey Dorsey — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:49:44 +0000

I was looking over the listing of events for this date in history and I didn’t realize how many events have taken place over the years on this date. For instance, in 1961 ABC”s “Wide World of Sports TV anthology premiered. It became the longest running sports program in television history. It spanned the globe to bring [...]

The 11 Coolest Grandparents on the Web

Cameron Simcik — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:00:14 +0000

Out of all the cool people in the world, you know who ranks at the top of our list? Grandparents. Think about it– they’re adorably hilarious and spoil us rotten. Basically, grandma and grandpa rule, so it’s about time their awesomeness gets recognized! We’ve scoped out the coolest older folk on the Web and discovered [...]

11 Guilty Pets Who Know What They Did

Cameron Simcik — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:00:51 +0000

There’s nothing surprising about our pets getting into shenanigans when we’re not looking. Sometimes we find the little buggers in the act, and what results is adorably hilarious. But other times, we’re not lucky enough to catch them red-handed, although their guilty expressions totally allude to trouble. Basically, pets are really bad at keeping a [...]

Here is TV Guide's Top Ten TV Show Themes of All Time

Jeffrey Dorsey — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:15 +0000

The results are in and according to TV Guide the best television theme song of all time is "Cheers" where apparently everybody still knows your name even after two decades of being off the air. The readers of TV Guide Magazine were asked to help them find the 60 best themes since the dawn of television.