Many years ago, Web Watch had a co-worker that was, for all intents and purposes, a bit eccentric. For today’s story, we’ll refer to him as “Steve”.
Steve was great at his job. He was always receiving work-related accolades, and was regularly the “go-to” person who could figure out anything. Yes, Steve was definitely in the running to be The Model Employee.
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Growing up and playing sports: two rites of passage that go hand-in-hand.
Web Watch played the usual assortment of team sports when we were younger: tee-ball, soccer, basketball. As we grew older, we tried kickball, dodgeball, tennis, and golf. Adult co-ed softball with coworkers, while entertaining, just turned into another reason to go drinking afterwards.
The outcome was always the same: we really weren’t that good at any of the sports we played. As we were often fond of saying, “what we lacked in skill, we made up for with enthusiasm.” Remember – just because someone owns their own softball glove doesn’t mean that they are good at playing softball.
There was one softball league that Web Watch was a part of that required the teams to play each other twice during the season. One team we played so over-dominated us during our first match (we recall that it was probably something like 15-0 after the first inning), but that didn’t bother us – the game was only an hour long, and we knew that there was pizza and beer waiting for us down the street, just like any other week. With the game being just an hour long, there was no mercy rule in play (actually, there might have been, but the umpires never really enforced it).
No, what bothered us was the other team’s attitude.
It’s one thing for us to mock and make fun of our own players’ abilities (or lack thereof). We already know we’re not going to win many games, if any. It’s another thing for the opposing team to jeer our gameplay openly.
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If you have kids (or have friends that do), chances are that you have seen first-hand both the destruction that kids can do to practically anything of value in the home, as well as the “art” that the parents feel they need to hang on their office wall to share with their co-workers.
So today, Web Watch takes a look at these two sides of the child-rearing coin:
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Web Watch last had a TIGGER WATCH article almost a year ago, which is plenty of time to have passed to see if Disney has been paying attention and improved the Disney Shopping Experience.
We were prompted to revisit TIGGER WATCH 2011 due to popular Disney blogger JIM HILL’s recent column entitled DISNEY’S GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH WINNIE the POOH. Why? Because there are some things in Jim Hill’s article that just didn’t seem to add up.
Jim Hill quotes Andy Mooney, Chairman of Disney Consumer Products, as saying that Disney has “done a lot of research” regarding the Pooh characters and marketing franchise. Mr Mooney states, ““We talked with a lot of mothers. Who do most of the buying when it comes to Winnie the Pooh merchandise.” He continues, “What we’re really looking to do here is return these characters to their roots. Try and recapture what made them so popular, so desirable in the first place.”
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Growing up, we all remember being taken to see certain movies with our parents and wondering why they thought that seeing these films would be a good idea.
Web Watch faintly remembers being taken to see a double-feature of THE THREE MUSKETEERS with UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, and recalls that we really couldn’t follow the plots of either film, let alone understand why we were taken to see them.
But when it comes to kid’s films, Walt Disney once famously said “for every laugh, a tear must fall”, which explains why many Disney films made back in the day contain some vivid, scary imagery or themes that may be a bit heavy for what today are considered to have been – truthfully or not – primarily children’s films. There’s a reason why the attraction at Walt Disney World is entitled SNOW WHITE’S SCARY ADVENTURES… because that Evil Queen reallydoes live up to her name.
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Proper spelling and pronounciation is a long-standing debate amongst techno-nerds. For example, is a GIF image pronounced “JIF” (like the peanut butter) or “GIF” (rhymes with “gift”)? We usually settle it by saying it both ways in the course of a graphic-related conversation so that nobody feels superior to another.
Spelling, however, can be dictated by a central authority. Most of us are familiar with Merriam Webster, or at least the Scrabble Players Dictionary (where you may not get the definition you’re looking for, but at least you’ll have the word spelled correctly for that triple-word score).
So when the new AP STYLEGUIDE was announced with new words and spellings, you can imagine how excited wordsmiths must feel, as if they received a new toy at Christmastime.
They’re those songs in your head that you just can’t get rid of. It happens to everyone — 98% of people have had an earworm at one time or another.
But it took a PhD student at the University of Montreal Department of Psychology – Andréane McNally-Gagnon – to create a study to identify, for once and for all, what THE ABSOLUTE WORST EARWORMS OF ALL TIME ARE.
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