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The Perfect Way to Make Bacon - In the Oven

on April 29, 2011

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The Binky Chronicles

on April 28, 2011

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Tasty Tacos - A Des Moines Classic

on April 25, 2011

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Wizard Showdown

on April 21, 2011

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Give Up Gum - Try Altoids

on April 19, 2011

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Missing Football? Get your Football Fix From These Top 10 Football Movies

on April 16, 2011

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The Home Depot Changing It's Name?

on April 14, 2011

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The Placenta - A Tree? For Dinner?

on April 12, 2011

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Free Beer at the Mall

on April 11, 2011

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Eating a Rare Hamburger - What's the Worst that Could Happen?

on April 10, 2011

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Do You Really Know Your Neighbors? Home Buying Tip

on April 10, 2011

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Trader Joe's Broccoli Slaw - My Secret to Getting My Toddler to Eat Broccoli

on April 09, 2011

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The Seesaw = Adult Male Torture?

on April 08, 2011

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Green M&Ms - Yes, They Taste the Best

on April 08, 2011

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Sling Shot Driving to Work?

on April 05, 2011

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Paper Money - A Thing of the Past

on April 04, 2011

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Table-Mate II Folding Table - A Must Have for Your House

on April 03, 2011

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Bio-energy Field - I Have the Power

on April 02, 2011

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3 reasons Trader Joe's Makes Grocery Shopping with Kids Easier

on March 31, 2011

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Bath vs Shower - Which Do you Prefer?

on March 31, 2011

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Melba Toast and Croutons - Some Hard Bread Anyone?

on March 30, 2011

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Top 5 Vampire Movies

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Eating 6 Saltine Crackers in a Minute - How Hard Could It Be?

How hard can it be to eat 6 saltine crackers in a minute. Doesn't sound hard. Of course you have to do it without any liquids. So can't down water after each one. So I imagine your mouth would get pretty dried out. But could I do it? Eating saltine crackers without water is hard because they quickly absorb saliva, turning them into a dry, crumbly mass that is difficult to swallow. The crackers are a simple starch, and without saliva to lubricate and break them down, they become like chewing paper and can be difficult to move down the throat. According to Guinness World Records the most eaten was 6 officially. But I saw many other videos out there where people got up to 12 crackers eaten in a minute. But I will stick with trying to go for 6 and see if I can even do that. Well here we go:

What is Love - The Song that Makes Me Shake My Head

This morning when I was driving to work I heard an old classic on the radio. It was "What is Love" by Haddaway. And only one thing came to my mind! Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan shaking their heads on Saturday Night Live back in the old days. In fact the movie version based on the SNL skit came out in 1998. Back when I was a freshman in college (yes, I'm old). But this is one of three songs in my life that just makes me do an action when I hear it. In this case it's the head jerk up and down. Then there's the Macarena. That makes me the stupid little dance, even when I'm driving. Then last but not least is the good old Y.M.C.A song. It makes you spell out the YMCA with your arms. But back to this song. It actually a is catchy song. Maybe because I relate it to A Night at the Roxbury or Saturday Night Live. Are there any songs that have this kind of impact on you? Enjoy this old clip from SNL where Jim Carrey joins in on the fun!

National Treasure 3 Coming? Let's Get Prepared

The first two National Treasure movies were both great. The first movie, National Treasure , came out in 2004 and first introduced us to Benjamin Franklin Gates, played by Nicholas Cage. Benjamin "Ben" is a member of a family of treasure hunters. At a young age, his grandfather tells him the legend of the hidden treasures of the Founding Fathers of the USA. His grandfather teaches him that the men and women of American history buried the treasure somewhere within the country and have hidden highly cryptic clues throughout various lands within the nation's borders. This eventually leads to his great treasure quest. Then in 2007, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets came out. Several years after Benjamin "Ben" found the Knight's Templar national treasure, the Gates family finds themselves once again defending their family name. Competing scavenger Mitch Wilkinson claims that he has learned from a fragment of a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary, ...

Novocaine - A Movie Review

So I decided to watch Novocaine starring Jack Quaid, who is the son of famous actor Dennis Quaid. The movie officially came out March of this year. The premise of the movie is Quaid's character, Nathan Caine, is incapable of feeling physical pain. Which in theory sounds good. But when you can't feel if you are being burned or cut, it could cause some problems. The film also stars Amber Midthunder, who plays the love interest of Nathan. When Sherry (Midthunder's character), the woman he loves is kidnapped, he uses his unique lack of pain to become an action hero and fight to rescue her. The film blends action, comedy, and suspense as Nate navigates a violent situation, using his condition to his advantage. It's a fun movie to watch seeing Nathan get thru situations where a typical person would be screaming in pain and he feels nothing. Definitely worth a watch and will give you a few good laughs. Out of 10 Popcorn Kernels, I give it a 7.

Love Again - Movie Review

Love Again stars Priyanka Chopra as Mira Ray, a woman who has lost her fiancée and deals with it by sending texts to his old phone number. Rob Burns (played by Sam Heughan) is the new owner of the phone with that number. Rob is a journalist and is intrigued by these random text messages. For work he is currently doing an interview with singer Celine Dion and enlists her help in responding to the women on the other end of these texts. He figures out a way to meet her and sparks fly. Initially all is going well, but then as in all love stories, there is a bit of drama. Can they get back together at the end? Will it all work out? I guess you have to watch to find out! Worth the watch, but not a movie you will want to watch over and over. Available on Hulu and Disney+. Out of 10 Popcorn Kernels, I give it a 6.

Vengeance - A Movie Review

Now let me start off by saying I wanted to like this movie. I'm a huge fan of The Office tv series and seeing B.J. Novak (who was in The Office) was the star and director of this film got me excited. This film actually came out July of 2022 and I had never heard of it. I guess that should of told me something. But it got decent reviews from others, so because of that and Novak, I decided to give it a watch. Plus, it has Dove Cameron in it, who I had seen tons of times watching Liv and Maddie with my kids over the years. Then, there is Ashton Kutcher. Who, hasn't really had any good movies in a long time. So, I buckled in and decided to take 1 hr 47 min to see...... Novak who plays Ben in the movie is a writer from New York who finds out a girl he hooked up with a few times died. The girl's family thinks they were a serious relationship so they call him and talk him into coming down to the funeral in Texas. He begrudgingly goes and after talking to her brother sees an ide...

Grizzly Bear vs Professional Eater: Is It Really Even a Contest?

I remember my first time seeing a grizzly bear vs a professional eater was an old video of Kobayashi going against a bear 19 years ago. I remember thinking then a human has no shot against a bear and a younger version of me was right. But is it still true? I ran across a Youtube video that Max Fosh did, talking about this very subject. So I had to give it a watch. But first, I checked AI just to see what it would say. Here was the response: In an eating contest, a bear would win against a human due to its superior capacity for consuming large quantities of food quickly, as demonstrated by a competitive eating event where a grizzly bear beat a professional human eater in a hot dog contest. While a human can train to eat a lot of a specific food, bears have a more naturally large stomach and a different digestive process optimized for consuming huge amounts of food, whether meat, berries, or other plant matter. So was AI right. Would a bear still win. Let's see!

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