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Want FIGMENT and DREAMFINDER returned to the Imagination ride at Disney’s EPCOT? Here’s how

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 24, 2010
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Epcot's FIGMENT
Epcot’s FIGMENT stuffed toy

Fans of Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park have a new mission: to RETURN THE FIGMENT AND DREAMFINDER CHARACTERS TO EPCOT, specifically to the Journey Into Imagination ride.

First, some history: when Epcot first opened, the plan was for the park to not have any of the traditional Disney characters present at all. Of course, “where are the characters?” was a common complaint from families who visited and expected to see Disney characters at any Disney theme park they visited – which, at the time consisted of just the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland…not exactly a large sample size to deal with, here.

But Epcot did have one cuddly, friendly cartoony character available – FIGMENT, the playful winged dragon of imagination — who, along with his mentor Dreamfinder, became the defacto face of Epcot when no other characters were available.

Luckily, park fans loved Figment and Dreamfinder, and together they made the original incarnation of the JOURNEY INTO IMAGINATION attraction a family must-see favorite. Ask anyone who visited the park in those days if they could sing the “Imagination” song, and you’ll hear everyone share their version of “One Little Spark”.

Tags Dismarks, Disney, Epcot, How To, theme parks

shopping Websites

What would you do for $5? Better still, what would you pay $5 for?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 23, 2010

A Five Dollar Bill

Quick – what would you do for $5? What about a million dollars?

Web Watch has made many proposition bets for $1 – because you’d be surprised what people will do for one dollar, and it’s usually worth the price of handing over that bill.

You know what’s worth a $1 payment? Watching someone do a series of cartwheels across the fairway at The Masters tournament. Yes, they earned their money.

Getting back to the original question, as the old joke says, once you’ve identified that someone has a price to do a particular task, the rest is just negotiation.

Tags shopping, website

Games Video Games Websites

How Many Classic Arcade Games Can You Name? (It’s the arcade version of Where’s Waldo?)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 22, 2010

Web Watch is a big fan of the classic video games that populated arcades back in the 80’s and early 90’s.

Not like today’s gaming arenas, filled with craptastic ticket-dispensing machines that teach kids different variations of gambling in order to “earn” enough tickets to buy a lousy stuffed animal that would have cost half as much if purchased directly from the local Toys R Us.

No, we’re talking the classic quarter-munching games like Galaga, Ms Pac Man, Defender, i-Robot, Dig Dug, Robotron, and others from the best game years.

Laugh all you want, Nintendo-boy. We liked our games simple, with a single joystick and maybe two buttons. Cheesy audio and bad graphics were state-of-the-art at the time… and you still felt as if you got your quarter’s worth every time you played.

Tags Arcade, Atari, game, nintendo, video games, website

10 Things Movies TV

Can You Name the Top Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Characters of All Time?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 21, 2010

Web Watch admits that we watch a lot of TV. And frankly, we’re willing to watch practically anything that the networks and various cable channels decide to fill our TiVo automatically-recorded suggestions queue with.

Which is why we don’t understand what all the kerfuffle is that some have about the types of characters that TV anf film writers and producers decide to use on their scripted shows. Web Watch doesn’t care about the sexual orientation of the characters on the shows or films we watch – we just want what we’re watching to be good in the first place.

Tags 10 Things, Movies, TV

News

Blue Balls are Real: Not Having Enough Sex Proven to be Bad For You

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 20, 2010

It may be hard to believe, but scientists have proven that there is a disease called SEXUAL ANOREXIA, where they’ve shown that NOT HAVING ENOUGH SEX CAN BE BAD FOR YOU.

Tags medical, News, Relationships

How To

Tom likes beautiful women who can’t poop. (Memo to Tom: beautiful women don’t poop, ever.)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 19, 2010

TOM HAS A FETISH ABOUT CONSTIPATION.

Specifically, a fetish about women who are constipated. Beautiful women, that is.

Tom’s fascination with poop – or lack thereof, it appears – puts him into the same category as a klismaphiliac (a person with an enema fetish), a mysophiliac (a person with an excretion fetish), or an eproctolagniac (a person with a fart fetish).

Keeping the pipes clean is a four-step process:

Hydration: more water in the colon helps keep the pipes clear
Mechanical: add bulky high-insoluble fiber to your diet
Irritation: the colon needs a little irritation, such as psyllium husks or flax seed
Stimulation: caffeine, nicotine, or exercise

If you’re not doing enough of each of these four items, Tom may take an unhealthy interest in you and your clogged-up bowels.

So Web Watch would like to offer this public service announcement to help our more attractive Web Watch readers avoid people like Tom and become more regular, with some of these HANDY TIPS TO RELIEVE CONSTIPATION:

Activia
Coffee
Cigarettes
Senna Tea
Suppositories
Sugar-free candy
a Reuben sandwich
Aloe juice (mixed with lemon and water)
10 oz hot water and 1 lemon squeezed in
1 cup Magen-darm tee (Really strong chamomile tea)
3 shots of espresso
A tummy massage starting at the navel, in a clockwise motion up to above your pubic bone for 2 minutes
Touch your toes and reach up into the air and repeat for 2 minutes.
Eat fresh unsweetened, active culture whole milk yogurt with raw Quaker oats
Eliminate white flours and refined sugar
Increase intake of healthy oils like Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Constantly eat celery before, during and after meals
2 tablespoons of raw wheat bran

Tags How To, medical

Travel Websites

March 20th is Obscura Day. How are you celebrating?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 18, 2010

March 20th is OBSCURA DAY.

This is a day celebrated around the world as a way to highlight obscure activities and hidden gems found in cities all over the world.

Perhaps there’s a secret underground tour that you’ve been dying to take, or a unique museum in an out-of-the-way town that nobody ever visits that should be brought to someone’s attention. Obscura Day is your invitation to do those things that you’ve always wanted to check out.