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You probably came here looking for a deeper understanding of the phrase "Thank God it's Friday". Luckily for you, this article will provide you with just that.
If you came here for the restaurant that is known for it's abuse of the apostrophe, T.G.I. Friday's, then you've come to the wrong place. We don't abuse innocent apostrophe's here.
The first thing that springs to mind is why we are looking to thank any deity at all. Assuming for a minute, beyond any evidence to the contrary, that there is an interventionist God, why would anyone thank them for Friday? (more...)
Words are hard. Math is hard. Life is hard. Having a boyfriend is hard — but important. Jacob's hands are hard, too. So are his teeth. But he's not the vampire; that's Edward. And you know what? Edward is hard — and cold — and a boyfriend; he is, along with Jacob, one of the stars of Twilight.
Twilight is a book about hardship and boyfriends and vampires, and it is also hard — to read, that is; the author, Stephanie Meyer, fills it with parentheticals and asides that sometimes get so far off track that it's hard to tell what the sentence, let alone paragraph, was even about, and sometimes, sometimes it gets to the point where the entire thing might as well be a nice, long, careening, self-contradictory minivan, because it's hard to tell where the entire thing is going when it's not going anywhere — which is hard, like Edward Cullen and Jacob... Jacob whatever his last name is; everyone just refers to him as Jacob (and he doesn't even appear much in this one anyway). (more...)
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Did you know...
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- ...that you can always pay your credit card bills using your credit card?
- ...that there are endless opportunities to cheat at Scrabble?
- ...that half of a half is actually more than the original whole?
- ... that it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the reason for 50% of modern marriages ending in divorce is because those people try to go to IKEA together for a relaxing afternoon?
- ...that there is no other word for thesaurus?
- ...that I, Patrick Henry, was buried at sea a mile and a half northeast of Sapelo Island, in a rising gale with the wind taking the tops off the waves and rain coming horizontal across the bows like birdshot?
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On this day...
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January 18: Wenns Day (aka Humping Day) ( Earth)
 David Beckham in traditional pose. - 1610 - God divinely inspires Sidney Trammell; Trammell doesn't notice for another two years.
- 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the "Sandwich Islands", which are later renamed the "Tuna Sandwich Islands", then "Tuna Sandwich with Chips Islands", "Tuna Sandwich with Chips and a Drink (no ice) Islands", and "Japan's Target Islands" before they eventually became the "Hawaiian Islands".
- 1952 - The first issue of Mad Magazine is thrown in the garbage by your mom.
- 1990 - The Humpty Dance is the #1 song in America. Depressing, eh?
- 1991 - Bill Clinton holds a conference about creating a uniting Europe and Asia in to the Nation of Eurasia.
- 1996 - The Spice Girls declare their hatred for the West.
- 2000 - David Beckham is transformed from human being into a brand.
- 2008 - Cloverfield hits theaters across America, unfortunately for New York the movie was based on a true story.
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