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Are the chances of having a boy or a girl baby dependent on the mother?

Guarantee the Sex of Your Baby: Choose a Girl or Boy Using Today's 99.9% Accurate Sex Selection Techniques
Guarantee the Sex of Your Baby:
Choose a Girl or Boy Using Today’s 99.9% Accurate Sex Selection Techniques

There are all sorts of research done that allegedly say they can influence what gender your new baby will be.

Some come down to bedroom techniques, some are due to foods that are eaten, or the type of underwear the father should wear one month before the conception is attempted.

Everybody knows that it’s the father that contributes the chromosome that results in whether the baby is a boy or a girl… but a new study has come out that may pour some fuel onto the growing fire of the mother having some influence after all.

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The official Royal Wedding album to be released May 10

The Royal Wedding - Official Album
The Royal Wedding – Official Album

If you spent this weekend watching your TiVo’s recordings of The Royal Wedding, then you can rest assured – the entire audio program is being released on CD, vinyl, and as a digital download on May 10th, 2011.  That’s a pretty impressive, fast turnaround time for something that was watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

Those of you who are into vinyl may want to splurge – that edition will include a special collector’s booklet.

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You’re not following fashion trends if you’re still wearing mismatched bras and panty sets

Santa Underwear
Santa Underwear

If you’re a fashionable lady and are continuing to wear mismatched bra and panty sets, you are no longer a trend-setter.

Because while the fashion trend over recent years has been to proudly show off your underwear choices (where it was critically important to ensure that your bra was somewhat matched to your top – and not as important whether your panties were in the same style… if you wore underpants at all) — retailers are claiming that WOMEN ARE BUYING MATCHING UNDERWEAR SETS IN GREATER NUMBERS.

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Proof that what your parents name you will dictate how successful you’ll be in life

The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed
The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons
from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed

Web Watch knows that you are an aggressive workaholic, just trying to make a name for yourself in this crazy world.

But have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had a different name entirely?

Would you be happier having a more unique name, unique spelling?  Would you be happier being another Tom, Dick, or Harry in the room?  Today’s parents have any number of Baby Naming books available to them, but maybe they need to think beyond the immediate need of naming their newborn child and think long into the future.

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Underpants sales are up! (How does this affect the economy?)

Nice Underwear welcome mat
Nice Underwear!

You may recall a few years ago when Web Watch told you about the Hot Waitress Economic Index and the Underwear Economic Index

That’s right, folks – if you’ve been following along with Web Watch over the years, none of today’s post will be news to you.

CNBC is reporting that now,  UNDERPANTS SALES ARE RISING.

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How To News Science

How to fold a piece of paper in half, 13 times

Origami Craft Studio
Origami Craft Studio

Many years ago, Web Watch told you about a girl who figured out that it was mathematically possible to FOLD A SINGLE PIECE OF PAPER OVER ON ITSELF 12 TIMES.

The long-held reasoning was that it was physically impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than eight times, but Britney Gallivan proved that paper could be folded over 12 times.

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Playboy’s List of Top Party Schools 2011

PLAYBOY magazine has released their list of the TOP PARTY SCHOOLS FOR 2011

And from the looks of the list, there has been a pretty substantial shakeup over the TOP PARTY SCHOOLS FOR 2010, with only four schools repeating on the listLet’s take a look at who made the 2011 Top Party Schools list, shall we?

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Armpits may be stinky, but it’s a pretty stink

Dove Ultimate
Dove Ultimate

Dove, the skin care folks, have asked this question of women everywhere:  “DO YOU LOVE YOUR ARMPITS?”.

Would you believe that 93% of women surveyed said, “no”?

That’s right – women don’t care for their own armpits… yet Web Watch knows some women who love sticking their nose directly into their man’s armpits, just to take a big whiff.

Maybe beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  But we digress…