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1. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   You wanna tell me how come there’s a statue of you here lookin’ at me like I owe him somethin’?

2. 1 day ago on WuMo

   Cut to actor waiting for his check to come in. Queue Carly Simon singing “Anticipation”

3. 2 days ago on Day by Dave

   Sunrise at Stonehenge today was 8:07 AM. Sunset was 4:00 PM

4. 2 days ago on Prickly City

   Choppers!

5. 2 days ago on WuMo

   His favorite food would be Grape Nuts cereal.

6. 3 days ago on Rip Haywire

   I can think of few better examples of the commercialization of Christmas than the airing of the Peanuts Christmas special itself. Originally airing in a half-hour slots with five minutes of commercials, in the last couple decades it aired on network TV the total run time had to be extended to 40 minutes. That’s fifteen minutes of commercials in a 25-minute cartoon!

7. 3 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   The zombies-eating-brains trope originated with 1985’s “The Return of the Living Dead”. The in-story explanation was that the undead could feel the pain of their bodies literally rotting away and (for reasons unknown) eating the brains of the living alleviated that rotting sensation for a while.

8. 3 days ago on Pickles

   My nephew always gets me a cooler filled with various venison steaks and sausages from the deer he bagged that hunting season. It never goes to waste.

9. 3 days ago on Wrong Hands

   His gifts are downloaded directly into the brain to release endorphins. Saves him a trip around the globe.

10. 4 days ago on Herman

    Postal “zones” were implemented in 1943 for use in 178 cities because the Post Office Department was losing so much experienced staff to the armed services, and it needed a system to help the inexperienced mail sorters efficiently direct mail to the correct letter carriers. Thus an address in these cities would include the city name followed by the zone number. This system would later be replaced in the 1960s by the nationwide zip code system.