Tag: business

How to Create a Haunted House, and Make Money Doing It

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 2, 2010

Web Watch loves Halloween – more for the experience of visiting what could be used as a local movie set at elaborate haunted house attractions rather than the handing out of candy to neighborhood brats. Because those creative individuals who spend all year working on an immersive Halloween experience really deserve kudos for the effort they put into spending a month scaring the hell out of all their guests. One question that Web Watch wanted to figure out the answer to was HOW MUCH MONEY DO HAUNTED HOUSE ATTRACTIONS MAKE EACH YEAR? Is it a profitable business? Using some rough math, Web Watch can guess that the following is a reasonable estimate on haunted house earnings:

Tags 10 Things, business, Halloween, haunted houses, holidays, theme parks, Travel, website

10 Things food

September 29th is NATIONAL COFFEE DAY. Which professions need the most coffee?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 28, 2010

I Need Coffee!

In honor of NATIONAL COFFEE DAY on September 29th, Dunkin’ Donuts and CareerBuilder teamed up to identify the PROFESSIONS THAT REQUIRE THE MOST COFFEE.

They asked over 3,600 office workers about their coffee-drinking habits, and found that 32% of office workers require a cup of coffee to get through the workday. 43% said that they are less productive without their morning Joe. Web Watch figures this is why the majority of offices offer their staff free coffee — it’s a small cost to pay for happy workers.

Tags 10 Things, business, food, holidays, survey

10 Things News shopping

Wal-Mart predicts a surge in underpants and sock purchases this holiday season

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 17, 2010

Always Wear Clean Underwear

A while back, Web Watch wrote about the UNDERWEAR ECONOMIC INDEX, the theory being that people buy more underwear when they feel that the economy is doing well – and that people will make do with their existing underpants when the economy is doing poorly.

Based on that piece of stellar reporting, Web Watch is confident in saying that WAL-MART BELIEVES THE ECONOMY IS GROWING, as WAL-MART CEO BILL SIMON PREDICTS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON TO BE FILLED WITH UNDERWEAR AND SOCK PURCHASES for adults.

Tags 10 Things, business, holidays, News, shopping, underwear, wal-mart

News TV

Survey lists the Top Ten TV Show Bosses that are most like actual bosses

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 10, 2010

World's Best Boss
World’s Best Boss

Do you like your boss?

Not everybody does.

Sometimes, it all depends on whether you have respect for your boss and their abilities, or whether the boss treats you as you would like to be treated.

Sometimes, the bosses you see on TV are the only ideal that you have available to compare bosses with, and that’s when you find out that your boss just doesn’t measure up.

Tags business, News, survey, TV

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Gilpin Family Whiskey – it’s whiskey, made from pee!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 2, 2010

The Whiskey Companion

“Whiskey,” to paraphrase Homer Simpson. “…is there nothing you can’t do?”

Apparently not, if you take James Gilpin as an example.

James Gilpin knows a bit of science behind the making and distilling of whiskey, and he knows that all he needs is some good sugar water to make the stuff. So, being a type-1 diabetic, Gilpin turned to one resource that he had readily available to him.

Introducing GILPIN FAMILY WHISKEY. It’s WHISKEY MADE FROM PEE. More specifically, the whiskey is made from the pee from diabetics, whose urine often contains high levels of sugar.

Tags alcohol, bathroom, business, food, How To, medical, website

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One family’s quest to go one year without Disney

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 1, 2010
1 Comment on One family’s quest to go one year without Disney

Mousetrapped: A Year and a Bit in Orlando

Web Watch has to admire people like Lisa Ray.

Lisa has strong convictions and a big stick-to-it attitude that isn’t often seen elsewhere. She really does mean what she says, and says what she means. Good for her.

Lisa, the founder of PARENTS FOR ETHICAL MARKETING, was upset at how the Disney corporation handled a refund request for the Baby Einstein line of early-learning DVDs. Her reaction to those events (already documented elsewhere) led her to comment to her family, “I wish we could boycott Disney. But I don’t think we can. They’re too big.”

This got her 12-year-old daughter thinking, and she suggested that maybe they could go a year without Disney.

Lisa liked this idea so much, she decided that was exactly what she and her family were going to do: go A YEAR WITHOUT DISNEY.

Tags boycott, business, Disney, food, How To, News, parenting, Party Talk, Pixar, shopping, Tigger Watch, website

10 Things food sports

How much money do competitive eaters make? On a per-calorie basis, not a whole lot of dough

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 26, 2010

Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

Competitive eating is not everything you may think it is. It’s not all glory on the playing field, and unless you really want to devote your life to travelling around the country in order to eat yourself silly, there really isn’t enough money to be made in eating contests to call being a “Professional Eater” a full-time career.

One has to wonder if the lack of cost-of-living raises is one of the reasons that Takeru Kobayashi, the former World Champion Hot Dog Eater, refused to sign a contract with the IFOCE and ended up rushing the stage at this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.

And considering the amount of effort that the IFOCE and ESPN put into making the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and its world-famous Mustard Yellow Belt a cultural lynchpin in our annual July 4th festivities, it’s really surprising that the NATHAN’S CONTEST WAS NOT THE COMPETITIVE EATING CONTEST WITH THE MOST PRIZE MONEY over the past year.

Tags 10 Things, business, Competitive Eating, food, sports

shopping

Trending: Granny panties are making a comeback (did they ever really go away?)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 10, 2010

Granny Panties

If you are a fan of 1960’s culture, such as what the TV show Mad Men tries to be, then you should be aware that the dapper 1960’s-era fashion is also making a bit of a comeback — a trend that has been directly attributed to the popularity of the fashion styles shown on that program:

And one item that has been consistently praised across the board is that the Mad Men fashion craze has brought back the Granny Panty.

Tags business, fashion, shopping, survey, underwear