If you have a child, you should know that they are a loser.
Web Watch wants to be sure you know this, because no matter how precious you believe your offspring are, they truly are bonefide resident of Loserville (population: 1).
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Web Watch will ask again: What do “Community Service Barbie” and “Girls Gone Wild Christmas” have in common?
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Let’s face it. Mugshots are fun.
There’s a little schadenfreude with it as well, knowing that the person staring back at you from the mugshot gallery has allegedly done something wrong, and you haven’t.
And if Nick Nolte or other celebrity mugshots have proven anything, it’s just that some people make pretty funny police fodder.
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We’ve been on a bit of a Jeopardy! roll recently here at Web Watch, but that’s not going to stop us from throwing another bit of fun at our readers — mainly because we want to see you get onto the show… and once there, win.
While you may have to practice your buzzer techniques in the privacy of your own home, there’s nothing stopping you from spending months memorizing 3×5 index cards that cover the typical subjects — British royalty, geography, and state capitols. That’s what Jeopardy! superstar Ken Jennings did, and look at how well it worked for him.
Last year, Web Watch told you about GEMCRAFT CHAPTER 0, one of the better, more involved games in the Tower Defense genre of computer games.
The folks at GAME IN A BOTTLE have been pretty busy recently, and have released a sequel entitled GEMCRAFT LABYRINTH. And as sequels go, it’s a fine addition to the line. If you’re a tower defense fan, you’ll definitely want to check this one out.
Prisoner of Trebekistan – A Decade of Jeopardy!
Many years ago, Web Watch had an opportunity to take the JEOPARDY! contestant test.
It wasn’t easy – 50 rapid-fire questions that were asked so quickly so as to not give you the opportunity to go back and correct answers that you thought you’d be able to answer later lest you lose track of the current questions being asked.
Needless to say, we’re sometimes not the best test takers under pressure. We missed the cut to move to the next round by 2 wrong answers.
It happens. Maybe next time.
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TSA Security Checkpoint Playset
What is expected to be the hottest selling toy this holiday season?
Considering it’s currently sold out at many retailers, the TSA AIRPORT SECURITY CHECKPOINT PLAYSET from Playmobil is right at the top of the list.
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Have you caught the ANGRY BIRD craze for your iPhone, Android, or other mobile device?
Would it help to know that ANGRY BIRDS is coming to WII and XBOX LIVE, and PS3 soon?
How about that some math geeks have determined that the RED ANGRY BIRD is 70cm TALL?
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If you, like Web Watch, love playing boardgames and videogames, then you need to pop over to your local libary on NOVEMBER 13th to celebrate NATIONAL GAMING DAY.
As part of the celebration, over 1800 participating libraries are going to try to set a world record for the LARGEST SIMULTANEOUS VIDEO GAME TOURNAMENT.
See? Who says that libraries need to be all quiet and stuffy?
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The AMAZON KINDLE is great: whenever a new book release comes out, you can pretty much instantly download that book to your Kindle and begin reading immediately.
The hard part is knowing what books — or movies, or DVD’s, or video games — are being released each week so that you can be prepared ahead of time. Sometimes things get released and you just haven’t been paying attention.
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Web Watch would like to take a moment to salute the marketing geniuses at McDonald’s for continuing the McDONALD’s MONOPOLY PROMOTION. It combines two great things into a singular quest to find the special missing sticker that will complete your game board. Boo-ya!
Let’s cut straight to the chase: there is absolutely nothing for you to do that will affect your ability to win this contest… other than doing everything you can to obtain as many game pieces as possible in the hopes that one of them is a rare chaser piece.
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Ken Jennings Trivia Almanac, featuring 8,888 trivia questions
Ken Jennings is a trivia master.
He’s the 2nd greatest earnings champion in JEOPARDY! history, but has won more overall game show earnings than any other contestant. He has a few books, of course – he even has his own CAN YOU BEAT KEN board game. He even won GRAND SLAM, the trivia contest that pitted all the top game show contestants against each other to see who truly was the best.
In interviews, Ken has said that nobody can really know it all, and there were a number of Jeopardy! questions that he simply guessed the answers to. Granted, they were highly educated guesses – but they were guesses nonetheless.
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Today, Web Watch would like to play a little game with you. We’re going to provide you a list of celebrities along with a list of sexually-transmitted diseases, and challenge you to GUESS WHICH CELEBRITY (allegedly) HAS WHICH STD?
First, here are our contestants!
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On the season 2 opener of ABC’s Cougar Town, the cast sat around drinking wine (as they are apt to do on this show) while they played their new MOVIE TITLE MASHUP DRINKING GAME.
Let’s let Ian Gomez explain it to us:
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The Perfect Game of Putt-Putt – it’s only happened three times since 1959
Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course
Rick Baird from Charlotte, North Carolina, is not an idiot, nor does he play “miniature golf”.
He plays Putt-Putt, and he’s really good at it.
Web Watch knows you’re confused — isn’t putt-putt golf and miniature golf the same thing? No, dear reader, it isn’t. Putt-Putt is a franchised company that defines a standard set of putting challenges that will be mainly the same from one Putt-Putt location to another. Consistency is important here, and putting is a true skill to be showcased.
Miniature golf, on the other hand, is the one with windmills, gorillas, fake blue water, tunnels, obstacles, and other entertainment stuff scattered across the putting surface and environment. Definitely not the same thing.
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