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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As we celebrate WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY today, Web Watch would like to point out a RECENT SMOKING-RELATED SURVEY that came out that said that 80% of male smokers surveyed would prefer to date a non-smoker.
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According to a RECENT SURVEY ABOUT HOW MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR LOOKS done in New Zealand, men are more concerned about the amount of dandruff they have over whether they are suffering from hair loss.
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One of the oft-cited examples of the stereotypical librarian is to be an old spinster cat-loving lady in an old linty cardigan sweater, with her grey hair all done up in a tight bun and wrinkled eyes hidden behind wire-framed glasses… just sitting around waiting to SHUSH anyone who dared make a noise in the sacred halls of the library, lest any of the dusty tomes be disturbed.
Apparently, this is a misnomer, as LIBRARIANS LIKE TO HAVE SEX AT WORK.
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If you’re a fan of JUSTIN BIEBER (and these days, who isn’t?), then one of the more popular things that his fans like to do is DRESS LIKE JUSTIN BIEBER.
(What? You don’t know who Justin Bieber is? Then you need to read the JUSTIN BIEBER GUIDE FOR OLD PEOPLE before continuing on…)
Justin’s look all has to do with dressing simply and with the occasional splash of color. Some of Justin’s outfits have consisted of:
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Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
According to a STUDY ON TELEVISION VIEWING HABITS by A.C. Nielsen, by the time a child fnishes elementary school, they would have watched over 8,000 murders on TV. By the time they reach 18, that number grows to over 200,000 violent acts.
If it helps, the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV every day. If that person lives 65 years, they would have spent at least nine years – about 13% of their life – simply watching TV.
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Web Watch was reading a CNN article the other day that shows how important it is to (a) have a good, gripping headline to draw a reader into a story; and (b) a phenomenal opening paragraph that lays out exactly what the story is about.
These are two rules that every aspiring news reporter should try to follow with every story that they file.
Case in point, the CNN article in question: THE DOWNSIDE OF “FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS”.
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Whatever happened to the 40-hour work week? With each worker putting in a solid 9 hours a day (with an hour lunch break, off the clock)?
Well, it ends up that when an average American worker is at work, they spend just 5.75 hours a day actually working.
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