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Monday, August 23rd, 2010 If you ever want to feel confused, outraged and powerless all at the same time, just read your cruise line’s ticket contract.
Carrie Streahle didn’t know what was in hers until her cruise arrived late in Houston, and she had to pay an extra $1,900 in airfares and accommodations to get home. She contacted Carnival, [...]
Why Your Hostess Hates You
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Sometimes a lack of civility on the part of the patron — yes, you — will ruin an entire dining experience. For you, your dining party and sometimes even the entire restaurant.
Most of us — especially the females in the audience — have been a hostess at a restaurant at some point in our lives. [...]
Ten Things Clients Hate About Escorts
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Calling up an escort is supposed to usher in an hour or two (or, hell, 20 minutes) of pleasure and release. It’s not supposed to cause headaches. Sometimes instead of getting a happy ending, you feel chafed — and not in a good way.
Or at least those are some of the problems revealed by the [...]
Yo, Dude! The Origins of Common Slang Words
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 By: Danielle Samaniego (View Profile)
Slang is defined as an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary.
In other words, slang can be “a dope spin on a sick word that deserves props for being mad fly, yo.”
And yet, in [...]
Tumbler Golf Cart
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010This is, apparently, not Christopher Nolan’s golf cart. It’s a custom job done by a huge fan of Nolan’s franchise ridden around by another Warner Brothers employee. And we…don’t…care. We want one. We bet Christopher Nolan wants one.
What’s really impressive is the level of detail. Seriously, not since Kevin Spacey’s “death to Superman” golf [...]
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