1) REPTILIAN: (a) Belonging to or pertaining to the Reptilia. (b) Groveling, debased, or despicable; contemptible. (c) Mean; treacherous; harmful.
Objects in photo appear sharper than they actually are...
2) SAINTLIER: Holier, more virtuous, and more benevolent.
Cue the "Hallelujah Chorus".....NOW!
3) SIDELINER: A person who is on the sidelines and does not participate in an activity or situation.
Ron Paul: Lonely, friendless, but plotting...
4) PLASTERED: Being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated; drunk.
He drank to "that", whatever "that" was.
5) PRISTINE: (a) Having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied. (b) Of or pertaining to the earliest period or state; primitive.
Not a hair out of place. What else did you expect?
6) SPENDER: A person who spends, especially one who habitually spends excessively or lavishly; a spendthrift.
It's all about the Barackamins!
7) PRETEND: (a) To cause or attempt to cause what is not so to seem so. (b) To appear falsely, as to deceive; to feign. (c) To allege or profess, especially insincerely or falsely.
"I care about you. I really do. This is my 'genuine sincerity' face." ~ Mitt Romney
8) EPISTLER: A writer of a letter, especially of a formal or didactic one.
"Dear Santa Claus, I have been very good this year..."
9) NASTIER: (a) More offensive; more objectionable. (b) More vicious, spiteful, or ugly. (c) Harder to deal with, encounter, undergo, etc.
Mitt Romney, not using his inside voice
10) ISLANDER: A native or inhabitant of an island.
Lei'ed-back Hawaiian native Barack Obama
11) PEDALER: (a) A person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle, such as a bicycle. (b) One who retreats from or reverses one's previous stand on a matter.
Young Romney, just a-pedaling away. Real men don't wear helmets.
12) PARTIES: (a) Groups of persons with common purposes or opinions who support one side of a dispute, question, debate, etc. (b) Groups of persons with common political opinions and purposes organized for gaining political influence and governmental control and for directing government policy.
13) STANDEE: (a) A person who stands, as a passenger in a train, a spectator at a theater, etc., either because all the seats are taken or because standing room is cheaper than a seat. (b) A large self-standing display, typically made of cardboard, promoting a movie, product, event, or person.
President Obama standee (not actual size)
14) TRAILED: (a) Followed along behind (another), as in a race. (b) Followed, as if drawn along.
"I was THIS close....I think I need a hug." ~ Newt Gingrich
15) READIEST: (a) The most prepared – or in the most fit condition – for immediate action or use. (b) The most duly equipped, completed, adjusted, or arranged, as for an occasion or purpose. (c) The promptest or quickest in perceiving, comprehending, speaking, writing, etc.
"I am strong. I am confident. I am Romney. I have 'leadership' oozing out of every crevice of my body." ~ Mitt Romney
16) DEARIES: Persons very dear to another; dearly loved ones; darlings.
Sasha Obama (left); Malia Obama (right)
17) NERDIEST: (a) The stupidest, most irritating, most ineffectual, or most unattractive. (b) The least popular.
'Nuff said.
18) ELDEST: Oldest; first-born; of greatest age.
Romney – for once – looking like the senior citizen that he is.
19) LEARNED: (a) Having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite. (b) Connected or involved with the pursuit of knowledge, especially of a scholarly nature. (c) Of or showing learning or knowledge; well-informed. (d) Acquired by experience, study, etc.
"Does me standing here holding a law book in the Harvard Law School automatically make me smarter than you? Oh, yes, it does, my friend! Respect the brains! Pay no attention to the mini-Afro." ~ Barack Obama
20) PAINTED: (a) Reproduced or represented in paint. (b) Covered with a coating of paint. (c) Unreal; artificial; feigned. (d) Exaggerated or misrepresented. (e) Covered with makeup, especially to excess.
"Everybody loves a clown, right? It's the American way. I think it's actually in the Constitution, though I've never read that all the way through. But then again, neither has my opponent. Anywho, a vote for Romney is a vote for clowns! Remember that when you close that curtain behind you on November 6th!" ~ Mitt Romney
1) "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~ President John F. Kennedy
2) "Americans never quit." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
3) "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." ~ Nathan Hale
4) "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by
men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that
gains the victory." ~ General George S. Patton
5) "I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism." ~ Bob Riley
6) "Patriotism [is] a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose." ~ Frank Knox
7) "Duty, Honor,
Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to
be, what you can be, what you will be." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
8) "True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going." ~ Robert Reich
9) "Better to fight for something than live for nothing." ~ General George S. Patton
10) "Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do
your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do
less." ~ General Robert E. Lee
11) "A man does what he must - in spite of personal
consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that
is the basis of all human morality." ~ Winston Churchill
12) "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to
know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is
afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble
and gentle in victory." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
13) "Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death." ~ General Omar N. Bradley
14) "History has taught us over and over again that
freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors
of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces.
Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and
sacrifice." ~ Tim Pawlenty
15) "Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
16) "It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can." ~ R. Lee Ermey
17) "This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle:
we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for
circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to
live." ~ General Omar N. Bradley
18) "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it
is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of
war." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
19) "The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future." ~ Brigadier General Joshua Chamberlain
20) "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." ~ General George S. Patton
21) "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." ~ General Norman Schwarzkopf
22) "Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women." ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
23) "Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." ~ Napoleon Hill
24) "They died hard, those savage men - like wounded
wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk.
And I loved them." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
25) "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we
cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to
be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have
a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." ~ President Abraham Lincoln
Heinrich Zwangerschap knew he was taking a chance by sticking his hand in the cookie jar. He wasn't afraid of upsetting his mommy -- Heinrich was forty-five years old, and his mother was in a retirement home. No, Heinrich was taking a chance because the cookie jar was swarming with fire ants. How they got there was a mystery to Heinrich, but they had to go. In his hand, he held an ant trap. All he had to do was drop it. The first sting told him he was far too slow. Anaphylactic shock is a bad way to die.
IN THE OVEN
I was just curious. This metal box always produces such interesting smells. The lady had left the door open, so I decided to do a little exploring. Inside, hundreds of blackened crumbs awaited my sniffing nose. A few less-burned bits seemed worth a taste. I bit into one, but quickly spit it out, shaking my head to emphasize my displeasure. Suddenly, the lady appeared in the doorway, placed a pizza on the shelf above my head, and closed the door. The pitch blackness did not last long. Orange lights illuminated behind me, and then things really started heating up.
So, my wife Mary and I were talking just this morning about our paternal grandmothers, and how much they were alike in many ways. If they'd ever known each other -- which they didn't, since they'd always lived nearly three hours away from each other -- they would likely have been BFF's. Nanny Cobb (Mary's grandma) was an avid gardener, adept at country
cooking, and her home was Ground Zero for all things
in the Cobb family. My Grandma Hill also liked to work in her yard, loved to cook, and her home was a gathering place for the Hill family. It was also a great place to hang out during the summer when I was out of school and my parents were at work.
Up until the time she passed away when I was thirteen years old, my Grandma Hill was my closest family member outside of my parents. In truth, she was probably my best friend -- no exaggeration. I have many fond memories of spending the summers with her. Being an only child, I had my share of toys and books and other things that interested me. I wasn't spoiled, mind you, but I was far from destitute. Often, I would take my favorite toys or gadgets or whatever to Grandma's house so we could play together. She wasn't a stuffed-shirt granny, the kind that pats you on the head, maybe even gives you a hug, but won't get down in the floor in the middle of the living room and play with you. She'd do that in a heartbeat. But when I would stay at her house, whether for the afternoon, all day, or occasionally overnight (her house was right behind my parents' house, so sleepovers weren't quite as common), we didn't really get around to playing with my toys all that much.
You see, my Grandma Hill was the creative type. Why play with a toy you can buy when you can make a toy you can play with? Why settle for the toy your parents bought you, when you can add to it and make it even better? That was her style, and when I hung out at her house, that was my style too. Her playful, inventive nature probably contributed to my already creative instincts, and helped shape me into the creative person I am today.
One of the most inventive things we ever created was a L'eggs Eggs rocket ship. Remember these?
The hosiery was packed inside a plastic egg which sat in a little cardboard box. The eggs came in a variety of colors, depending (I suppose) on what color the pantyhose were. My grandma must have been wearing these things for years, because she had tons of empty L'eggs Eggs under the sink in her bathroom. When you took the egg apart and turned the bottom part in on the top part, they stacked quite nicely.
One day, in search of a new toy to play with, I started stacking the eggs haphazardly till I'd formed a wobbly plastic tower, of sorts. When my grandma saw what I had done, I thought she might be a little annoyed with me for messing around with her Eggs without asking. But, as usual, she was not. Instead, she suggested that we keep going.
A lot of the L'eggs Eggs that she had were silver in color. Their shiny, reflective surfaces would make a great rocket ship, she suggested. Being a wannabe astronaut as I was, I thought that this was an excellent plan. But keeping the Eggs together was a bit challenging. Nothing a little duct tape couldn't fix, my grandma said. (She was well ahead of her time. Nowadays it's well-known that duct tape can hold the entire world together if you need it to.) Plus, with the duct tape being a silvery color itself, it would match well with the silver-colored eggs.
It worked! When we were done, we had made a L'eggs Eggs rocket ship that must have been all of three or four feet tall (which is saying something considering a complete egg is only about four or five inches high by itself.) The finished product looked great, but wasn't all that practical as a toy. When you tried to lift it to carry it somewhere, even with the duct tape securing it, it tended to wobble. You certainly couldn't blast the rocket ship off into outer space by attaching fireworks to the bottom of it. I suggested this as a possible option, but Grandma rebuffed this suggestion. She was creative, not reckless.
So there it sat in the middle of the bathroom floor. Later, we carried to the middle of the living room floor where any and all visitors could more easily admire it. All who saw it -- which probably only included my parents, Grandma's two sisters who visited often, and maybe my uncle, aunt, and cousins -- were duly impressed. This was just one of the many inventive toys we made out of whatever was lying around.
At the end of our toil and play, Grandma would reward us both with a couple of mini Snickers bars that she always kept in the refrigerator. Those little things were hard as bricks when you first took them out of the fridge, but you couldn't help but try to bite into them anyway. After a few minutes, they were a little softer -- if you hadn't eaten them already.
They probably don't even make these L'eggs Eggs anymore, and that's a shame. Because thousands of kids everywhere are missing out on a wonderful, if totally impractical toy. I sure loved the one my Grandma and I made.
There will likely be more of these "Childhood Memories" to come. Mary will probably be contributing some of her own memories, in her own words, here in the coming days and weeks as well.
1) You don't have a whole lot of free time these days, and you certainly aren't going to waste it reading such mindless drivel as this. You could just as easily find entertainment as good or better than what you find here on your favorite reality TV program, and you don't have to be glued to a tiny monitor to see that.
2) You never know when I might write something about God again, and you don't want to hear any of that junk. If you wanted to be preached to – which you don't – then you'd go to church – which you don't. It's all well and good for people to believe whatever they want to believe, just as long as they don't talk about it. And if they choose to do so anyway, you certainly don't want to be forced to have to listen to it.
3) You've read posts from this blog before, and they just weren't that interesting. Nothing to write home about, that's for sure. No earth-shattering truths or revelations to be found here. No self-help mumbo jumbo, no celebrity gossip. There's hundreds of better, more interesting sites on the Internet that are well worth looking at, so you simply don't bother with this one.
4) If you've seen one list of (supposedly) funny pictures or things, you've seen a thousand of them! What's so exciting about looking at one more? You figure that I probably copied and pasted the whole thing from somebody else's blog anyway. You know you've seen something exactly like this before somewhere else, so why waste your time on a cheap imitation?
5) You thought I was a "good Christian" till you saw that one post where I said I liked to listen to "Christian rap" (an oxymoron – there's no such thing!). Then you saw that other post where I actually had the gall to link videos of the "Christian rap" songs and you – not knowing what you were getting yourself into – were duped into clicking on a couple of them. Once you realized you'd "violated" your ears with that "devil's music" masquerading as "Christian music" (and you use the term "music" very lightly), you had to go take a shower to wash off the filth. You see who I really am now – a hypocrite who listens to "devil's music," and you don't want any part of that.
6) You just want to be entertained. You don't want to read any actual "literature." So when you see the link for the post and its title starts with either "Flash Fiction," "Short Story," or "Poems For Your Perusal," that's all you need to know. You are not interested, thank you very much.
7) You've read enough of this blog in the past to know that I can't write worth anything. You know good writing when you see it, and this is not it! You would rather spend your time reading the works of much worthier writers, like James Patterson, Nora Roberts, John Grisham, and Nicholas Sparks.
8) A blog post every day for a year? Get real! There is no way that somebody can come up with something interesting to blog about every single day. It's just impossible! Oh, you might read one every now and then just to see if your suspicions are correct. But you're certain that after this many days in a row (what's it been, like five months now?), I must have run out of things to say by now.
9) You have no earthly idea who I am. Maybe we're "fringe" Facebook friends because we happen to share an interest in the same bands or authors. Maybe we met one time at some social event and afterwards we "friended" each other. But that was years ago, and now you can't for the life of you remember where you know me from, or if you even know me at all. Either way, why should you take the time to read the blog of a person you hardly know (and maybe don't even know at all)?
10) If you've read this far, you probably actually read this blog every day, or at least as often as you are able to. Maybe you didn't have the time to read it today (Friday), so you're reading it tomorrow (Saturday), or maybe even next Tuesday. But you are reading it – not because you have to, but because you want to. Maybe it's because you sort of like my writing, at least enough to keep coming back. Maybe it makes you laugh, makes you think, or maybe you just want to get to know me better. Maybe you're really bored, temporarily unemployed, or retired, and you have nothing better to do. Whatever the case may be, thank you for wasting your time here each day, or as often as you can. If you did read this far, you may have noticed that I didn't actually have 10 reasons why people don't read this blog. However, I think I probably hit the nail on the head with the 9 that I was able to come up with. Maybe this post comes off as an angry rant – it certainly wasn't intended that way. Maybe the tongue-in-cheek humor that was intended will come across, and I'll gain a few new readers, or regain a few old ones who temporarily lost their way (ha ha!). If so, great! If not, that's okay too. Thanks again for reading this. Y'all come back now, ya hear?
1) -40° is the unique temperature at which the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales correspond. In other words, -40°F is equal to -40°C. Whichever word you use to measure it, "forty below" is really cold!
2) 40 is the atomic number of zirconium. Also known as the poor man's (or woman's) diamond. It does have a nice sparkle to it.
3) .40 is a common caliber for bullets in firearms cartridges, most notably the .40 S & W.
4) 40 is the customary number of hours a full-time employee is expected to work in a week in the U.S. and other Western countries.
Um, excuse me, ma'am, but you misspelled "20"...
5) In American vernacular, a "40" is a glass bottle that holds 40 fluid ounces of malt liquor. Malt liquors are commonly sold in 40-oz. bottles as opposed to the standard 12-oz. bottle that contains a single serving of beer.
6) "4-0" (pronounced "four-oh") is derogatory slang for mall security guards and/or their vehicles. The term is derived from "5-0", a slang term for police officers and/or their vehicles.
7) The average term of a pregnancy – counting from the woman's last menstrual period – is 40 weeks. How amazing that a brand new human being can come into existence in so short a time – though most women would probably agree that those are the longest 40 weeks of their lives!
8) Turning 40 years old is seen by some as the entry to middle age, and one step closer to old age. Others (usually those who are actually turning the "big four-oh") contend that reaching 40 means that you are old enough to learn from your mistakes, yet young enough to chart a new direction in your life.
9) In modern Christian practice, Lent consists of the 40 days preceding Easter. In much of Western Christianity, Sundays are excluded from the count. In Eastern Christianity, Sundays are included.
10) Russian folklore contends that ghosts of the dead linger at the site of their death for 40 days.
11) If you've been married for 40 years this year, then you are celebrating your ruby wedding anniversary. (Hint, hint, fellas!)
12) Interstate 40 (aka I-40) runs from Wilmington, North Carolina, all the way to Barstow, California – nearly from one coast to the other!
13) The word "forty," when spelled out, is in alphabetical order – for whatever that's worth.
14) An ancient Arabic proverb states that "to understand a people, you must live among them for 40 days."
15) To "catch 40 winks" means to take a short nap.
16) Silly-sounding words that rhyme with 40 include: warty, corti, lortie, mortie, roarty, shorty, sortie, sporty, and torti. Move over, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail! I see a brand-new rabbit story within this word list!
IN THE BIBLE...
17) In the Great Flood, rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. As a result, all living beings on he earth perished, except those aboard Noah's ark.
18) The Hebrew people roamed in the Sinai desert for 40 years before reaching Canaan, the Promised Land.
19) Joshua, Caleb, and the rest of the Israelite spies explored Canaan for 40 days.
20) The giant Goliath challenged the Israelites twice a day for 40 days before young David defeated him with a rock and a slingshot.
21) Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights in the Judean desert, during which time Satan came and tempted Him. Each time, Jesus resisted the temptation and responded by quoting from the Scriptures.
22) "40 lashes" was one of the punishments commonly meted out by the Sanhedrin. In actual practice, only 39 lashes were administered.
23) The time period between Jesus' resurrection from the dead and His ascension to Heaven was 40 days.
IN HISTORY...
24) The year 40 B.C. was known as the "Year of the Consulship of Calvinius and Pollio." That year, Marc Antony (of Julius Caesar fame) married Octavia, sister of Octavian (aka Augustus, the first Roman emperor). Also that year, Antony's lover Cleopatra (the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt) bore twins, Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios – of whom Antony was the father. Tony, you got some 'splainin' to do!
25) The year A.D. 40 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the "Year of the Consulship of Augustus without colleague." That year, the Roman emperor Caligula started on a failed campaign to conquer Britain (though he declared himself victorious regardless), declared himself a god, appointed his horse Incitatus a senator, and ordered that all the heads of the Greek deity statues be replaced with heads fashioned after himself. Needless to say, Caligula was a tad cuckoo!
26) "40 acres and a mule" refers to the short-lived policy, during the last stage of the Civil War during 1865, of providing arable land to black former slaves who had become free as a result of the advance of the Union armies into the territory previously controlled by the Confederacy. The combination of 40 acres (a standard size for a rural family plot) and a mule was widely recognized as providing a good start for a family farm.
27) South Dakota was the 40th state to be admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889. South Dakota's biggest claim to fame is that Mount Rushmore is located there. South Dakotans would also like me to mention that the Black Hills, the Badlands, Custer State Park, and the Crazy Horse Memorial – to name a few – can also be found in South Dakota.
28) Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th president of the United States of America, serving two consecutive terms from 1981 to 1989. Personally, I thought he was a much better President than he was a film actor, but he was actually pretty popular in both professions.
IN SPORTS....
29) In Major League Baseball, each team is allowed to have 40 players under major-league contracts at any given time (not including players on the 60-day disabled list). However, a team may only have 25 on its active roster – with the exception of the period from September 1st to the end of the regular season, when teams are allowed to expand their game-day rosters to include the entire 40-man roster.
30) In football scouting, a player's value – in part, at least – is determined by how quickly he can run a 40-yard dash.
31) In tennis, the number 40 represents the third point gained in a game. A score of 40-40 (three points each) is called "deuce," at which time a player must score two consecutive points to win the game.
32) The uniform number "40" has been retired by the following teams in honor of the following players for their contributions to the team and their respective sports:
* Basketball: Atlanta Hawks (Jason Collier); Denver Nuggets (Byron Beck); Detroit Pistons (Bill Laimbeer).
* Football: Arizona Cardinals (Pat Tillman); Chicago Bears (Gale Sayers); New England Patriots (Mike Haynes); New York Giants (Joe Morrison); Philadelphia Eagles (Tom Brookshier).
34) "40 Days" is a song by Christian rock band Third Day from their 2001 album Come Together. Great song, in my opinion. But what do I know? Those of you whom I heard from regarding my "20 Worst Songs" post apparently don't think I have very good taste in music. #justkidding
35) "40 Deep" is a song by Christian rappers Lecrae, Tedashii, and Trip Lee. These three guys make up just a small part of a greater community of Christian hip-hop and rap artists who are starting to make some headway into what has historically been a very secular style of music. This song is talking about that very community of believers, describing their numbers as (at least) 40 men (and women) deep...and still growing. My favorite verse of the song is Trip Lee's, which goes a little something like this:
"A clique of us is shining, rhyming, walking, talking, sharing Christ / Very hype, find us hiding behind Him, all prepared to fight / Very tight, fighting, trying to share the cross, He spared our life / We're living by the blood like we're parasites, get it right / My team carries a bunch of high-beam blaring lights / Might seem scary, but we nice, see we carry life / Light is seen clearly, man, we're glaring very bright / Check the fleet, man, we deep, so we might seem Barry White / Ever since we heard about the murder, how they buried Christ / Eyes upon the cross, even though that is a scary sight / But that was the merger we converted, now we very tight / He died for His bride, homey, how you like the married life? / Christ the name we calling on, can't wait till He calls us home / You know we be falling often, we can't walk it all alone / My crew's always roaming like some stalkers, we ain't stalking homes / Started with the cross and we continue with the cross alone..."
From left to right: Tedashii; Lecrae; Trip Lee; and Sho Baraka
36) "40" is a song from rock band U2's 1983 album, War. This one's got some really good lyrics. See U2 performing it live at Red Rocks below.
37) UB40 is a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England. They are best-known for their #1 hits "Red Red Wine" and "Can't Help Falling In Love."
38) The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 comedy film – starring The Office's Steve Carell – about a middle-aged man's journey to – well, let's just say, change his status. I've never seen the film, but it was pretty popular when it first came out.
39) Rachael Ray, one of my least favorite television hosts of all time, once had a show on the Food Network called $40 A Day. The premise of the show was that Rachael would travel to a certain city – whether it was in the United States or some foreign country – and she had to eat all three meals of the day without spending more than $40 total, including tips. This was the only show of hers that I could ever stomach more than one or two episodes of without having to change the channel. Mainly because I'm a cheapskate and I'd like to know where I can get decent eats for not a whole lot of dough when I'm traveling to an unfamiliar city.
40) This Sumatran toddler started smoking cigarettes when he was 18 months old, and had soon progressed to 40 cigarettes a day! The boy's father admitted to introducing the child to smoking, but insisted that since the child was healthy, why make such a big deal out of it? #smh
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