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How many vowels are there in the English alphabet? If you answered “5″, you may be wrong

By web gangsta | Published: December 19, 2011

American Dialects for Actors, Directors, and Writers

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

According to Rick Aschmann, there may be just the standard 5 vowels that everybody knows (a, e, i, o u), but when it comes to pronouncing those same letters, there are at least 16 different vowel sounds that people use around the country.

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Tips for Proper Office Party Etiquette

By web gangsta | Published: December 16, 2011

The Office Party

The “Office Party”.

It’s the perfect time to get drunk and tell your boss what you really think of them, right?

Wrong.

Web Watch used to work for a company that was rather liberal with their alcohol at events. After a while, we had to wonder what one needed to do to get the Big Boss pissed off enough to fire someone for what they did at the office holiday party. It became a fascinating experiment.

Web Watch recalls one party many years ago that we attended where the Big Boss ended up carrying one of the part-time employees out to a cab because she was passed out drunk. This didn’t seem to have any affect on her career at that company, as she’s still employed there.

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Take the swear word challenge

By web gangsta | Published: December 13, 2011

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Everybody swears.

Everybody may not use the same expletives when doing so, but everyone swears in some manner or other.

And a recent study published in the American Journal of Pain confirms exactly why people swear.

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How to pop a champagne cork

By web gangsta | Published: December 9, 2011

Korbel Champagne

Every year at Christmas time, it’s the same old thing being yelled out in kitchens across the country, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”

No, it’s not from TBS’s 24 Hours of A Christmas Story marathon, but from people who don’t know how to properly open a bottle of champagne.

And that’s why Web Watch is happy to bring you these handy tips on the PROPER WAY TO OPEN A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE without worrying about damaging your home or injuring someone with a flying errant cork, courtesy of Korbel – makers of fine champagne and other beverages.

Because reading Web Watch with just one eye because you wanted to rush to get your drink on at Christmas or New Year’s Eve is just crazy.

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Study: Women suppress the sexuality of other women

By web gangsta | Published: November 26, 2011

Leave it to Cleavage

It’s true – it’s all about the boobs.

We’ve all seen it, how catty women can get about other women’s appearances?

It’s not just because there’s a superior sense of fashion going on here, women really do have reason to hate other women — and it really does come down to boobs and cleavage.

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Latest trend in teenage drinking techniques? Vodka-soaked tampons and “butt chugging”

By web gangsta | Published: November 13, 2011

Smirnoff Vodka

Parents — there’s a disturbing new trend amongst teenagers who are trying to get drunk in the most unique ways possible.

A few years ago, dropping shots of vodka directly into your eyes was the allegedly go-to way to get an instant buzz on. Today’s kids are a bit more creative:

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Is reading while in the bathroom good for you?

By web gangsta | Published: October 30, 2011

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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Study proves that men really are funnier than women

By web gangsta | Published: October 26, 2011

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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Perfect for Halloween – get a mask of your own face

By web gangsta | Published: October 15, 2011

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Who wouldn’t want to walk into a room full of people all wearing your own face as their Halloween costume?

Or, you could creep people out by “going as yourself” for Halloween, and still fulfilling the requirement of actually wearing a Halloween mask instead of just being a fun-sucker by not participating in the festivities.

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New Game: Name the Marijuana Strain

By web gangsta | Published: August 23, 2011

Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation
“Marijuana Grower’s Handbook:
Your Complete Guide for Medical and
Personal Marijuana Cultivation” written by Tommy Chong

Here’s a whole bunch of fun games for you to play – all you need to have is the NAME OF THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA STRAIN, and you can have tons of fun with these variations:

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Today’s Challenge: How long could you live in a 12′ x 7′ space?

By web gangsta | Published: August 12, 2011

New York Apartments

Today’s challenge? How long would you be able to live in an apartment that was just 11′ long and 7′ wide?

That’s about 78 square feet total.

Do you think you could survive living there overnight? A week? How about a month?

Luke Clark Tyler doesn’t see it as a challenge at all — he’s doing it, and paying $750/month for the privilege of LIVING IN A SHOEBOX-SIZED APARTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.

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Survey shows home cooks regularly serve food off the floor

By web gangsta | Published: July 15, 2011

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Web Watch tries to follow a strict rule of thumb when it comes to restaurants that we’ll frequent: we prefer restaurants with a relatively high health score.

For states that follow letter grades, nothing below an “A”.

For states that follow a numeric scale from 0-100, nothing below a “90″.

We know health inspectors and restaurant owners. We’ve read the restaurant report cards. We know that the end-resulting score is a negotiation up, rather than a negotiation down. In other words, if the score is a “81″, you have to wonder what the original score was before the inspector and the restaurant owner came to various agreements over the validity of certain infractions. To us, that “81″ is really a “75″. And Web Watch refuses to eat at a place where cleanliness is just average.

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Men like to wear dirty underwear. Who knew?

By web gangsta | Published: July 14, 2011

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According to a recent SURVEY BY CLOROX BLEACH, nearly 50% of men surveyed will wear any of their dirty clothes – including their underpants – more than once.

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