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Ultimate pick-up line revised: “Hey babe, what’s your number?” (Ours is 3.4 billion)

Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits

Today they expect there to be 7 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH.

That’s a lot of mouths to feed, people to clothe, waste to process.

One could expect that the Earth — or our modern infrastructure — was not built to sustain this type of function.  More people just means more needs: from power to water, places to live, medicines, beds, etc…

No more does the old adage of a man and a wife deciding to procreate to have two children to replace them when the parents die; we’re seeing larger and larger families come around in countries around the world, putting a strain on systems that were never designed to carry that type of load.

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Is reading while in the bathroom good for you?

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader

Show of hands: how many of you read while sitting on the toilet?

Yeah, we thought so — reading (or using your smartphone or iPad) while dropping the kids off at the pool has become a habit by almost everyone.  Web Watch cringes at those who take their office paperwork with them to the bathroom stall before a meeting, knowing that the next stapled handout we receive may be covered in fecal matter.

Yeah, not a pretty image to think about, is it?  But you’re going to think about it next time you see your boss head to the bathroom before your next staff meeting, aren’t you?  Yeah, we thought so.

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Top 20 Fitness Trends for 2012

Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD
Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System

With Halloween right around the corner, we’re at the start of the annual Winter Get Fat season (comprised of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day — combined with all those weekly college and pro sports that require copious amounts of beer and wings every week).

So it should come as no surprise that fitness companies are already figuring out what they need to do in order to help us stay fit and healthy — or at the very least, get us back on the healthy road for the rest of the year come January 1st.

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Top 12 Most Overrated Jobs in the World

How to Better Hate Your Job
How to Better Hate Your Job

Web Watch knows that there are people out there who absolutely love what they do for work.  They wake up happy, go to work happy, come home happy.

Some jobs are just designed that way – to provide happiness.

Other jobs are more drudgery, and are done because somebody needs to do it and get paid for it.

CareerCast recently did a survey of the most overrated jobs, basing criteria on stress levels, physical demands, possible employment outlook down the road, regulatory or other pressures in the workplace,

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Dancing with the Stars charges $233,482 per commercial

TV Commercials: How to Make Them: or, How Big is the Boat?
TV Commercials: How to Make Them: or, How Big is the Boat?

Have you ever wondered how much it cost to buy a commercial on your favorite prime-time TV show?

Well, worry no more.

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Funny Science

Study proves that men really are funnier than women

Queens of Comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, and the New Generation of Funny Women (Studies in Humor and Gender)
Queens of Comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers,
and the New Generation of Funny Women
(Studies in Humor and Gender)

Web Watch has heard from many entertainment professionals that men are always going to be funnier than women.

 Jerry Lewis said it, others have as well.

Heck, we’ve seen this play out in real life — with women-based comedies often getting short-changed at the movie theater (until Bridesmaids came along to prove everyone wrong).  TV is a different story, with female-lead comedies often leading the ratings, until something Horribly Wrong happens to have those shows suddenly and mysteriously cancelled.

Rosanne?  Laverne & Shirley?  The Lucy Show?   All written by men, we’ll guess.

Even Tina Fey, when she was head writer at SNL, said that it was tough to be a woman working in a man’s world.

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How to Dress Like Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

Halloween is around the corner and Steve Jobs’ passing has led to an influx of people who want to pay tribute to the inspirational and creative business leader by DRESSING LIKE STEVE JOBS FOR HALLOWEEN.

But you don’t have to go to the store to buy a Steve Jobs Halloween costume.

All you have to do is the following:

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What are you doing to afford holiday shopping this year?

Mrs. Pinchpenny's Guide to Surviving the Holidays on a Budget
Mrs. Pinchpenny’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays on a Budget

With the holidays around the corner, people are starting to think about ways that they can get gifts for their families and friends without breaking the budget (assuming that they even have a holiday spending budget in the first place!).

A recent survey from COUPON CABIN of almost 2,500 people asked how people were going to afford the holidays this year, and this is some of what they found: