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Year: 2009
Remember how all through grade school you were continually threatened by school administrators with “This is going on to your permanent record”?
While you could certainly try calling your old grade school or high school office to see what they decided to put onto your permanent record (and whether their record-keeping was just a threat or not), you can always check the PERMANENT RECORD website to see what really HAS made it onto your permanent record.
In Brazil, the environmental group SOS Mata Altantica, has released a video asking people everywhere to conserve water.
Their request is very specific: they want you to SAVE WATER BY PEEING IN THE SHOWER.
After much research, they’ve determined that peeing in the shower will save at least one toilet flush. And if each household can flush one less time per day, they could save over 1,000 gallons of water. Multiply that 1,000 gallons by the number of households in your neighborhood (or state, or country), and you’ll see that’s a lot of water being saved.
Check out the cameos in this video, showing all sorts of celebrities peeing in the shower, from Alfred Hitchcock to Michael Jordan. If celebrities can pee in the shower, you can too.
If you already know your Porn Star Name, Soap Opera Name, or Rapper Name, then it’s time for you to get on board with the latest Internet item to share with your friends and family:
It’s surprisingly accurate. Be sure to share YOUR douchebag name in the comments. We’ll all have a good laugh, won’t we?
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OpenTable is a website that allows hungry people to make restaurant reservations online. That feature by itself it worthwhile, but their restaurant reviews are also useful in making OpenTable a great site to use when trying to find a new restaurant to try – or better, find a restaurant in a city you’ve never been to.
OpenTable recently held their annual Diner’s Choice awards, and received over 2.5 million restaurant reviews covering over 9,000 different restaurants around the country. Based on those reviews, here is OpenTable’s list of the TOP 50 MOST CHILD-FRIENDLY RESTAURANTS for 2009:
Looking back over the past 40 years, the writers at WIRED magazine have compiled a list of 100 THINGS THAT TODAY’S KIDS WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE.
How many can you think of? Here are a random assortment of 10 things from the list:
Restaurants and Institutions magazine has released their 2009 list of the TOP 400 RESTAURANT CHAINS, in terms of revenue.
Coming in at top is no surprise: McDonalds, with over US$70 billion in sales.
Rounding out the rest of the top ten are:
- KFC ($17.8b)
- Burger King ($14.8b)
- Starbucks ($13.5b)
- Subway ($12.9b)
- Pizza Hut ($10.4b)
- Wendy’s ($9.2b)
- Taco Bell ($6.9b)
- Domino’s Pizza ($5.5b)
- Dunkin’ Donuts ($5.5b)
The magazine also released their annual list of the TOP EARNING INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS FOR 2009 as well.
Just as Web Watch reported a few years ago the first time we looked at these statistics, Las Vegas-based TAO is still at the top of the list, with $68m in 2008 earnings and an average dinner check of $72. Not bad, when you have 785,000 people coming through your door.
The rest of the top 10 independent restaurants were:
- Tavern on the Green
- Joe’s Stone Crab
- Smith & Wollensky
- Tao Asian Bistro
- Old Ebbitt Grill
- Buddakan
- Gibsons Bar Steakhouse
- Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, Chicago
- Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, Las Vegas
Falling just out of the top 10, at spot number 11, is our first Walt Disney World property, Fulton’s Crab House. With an average check of $45, Fulton’s made $20m in 2008. Other Disney properties that made the list include Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe at #25 ($15.7m), and the Contemporary Resort’s California Grill at #97 ($11.1m).
Due to some enterprising and creative folk with access to some video editing software, here are a few different (and occasionally NSFW) takes on a popular Internet meme of Hitler finding something to complain about:
Hitler Wants to eat at Epcot’s Le Cellier