Interesting Trivia

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Created on Saturday, 21 January 2012 17:00

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-In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

-Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo."

-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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Advertising Doesn't Always Translate

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Created on Saturday, 14 January 2012 17:00

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1. Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer from diarrhea."

2. Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany, only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "manure stick."

3. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.

4. In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off."

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Inertia v. Momentum

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Created on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:51

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There are few contests that go on for very long. Generally speaking, if a winner isn't clearly established within a few decades, the contestants get bored and decide to go for a pizza instead. There is at least one contest, however, that seems like it could last forever. That may be because the contestants aren't mortal. They're not even immortal. They're mindless properties that seem able to enlist everyone and everything to their respective causes: inertia and momentum.

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The Importance of Balance

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Created on Saturday, 30 July 2011 23:00

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As long as the politicians in Washington are going on about balancing the budget, I thought I would jump on the proverbial bandwagon and put in my two cents about balance. But I don't want to talk about problems as simple as balancing a budget. I mean, kids learn how to add and subtract in grade school. That's all a budget is, adding and subtracting until you come out with zero. How hard can that be? No, I want to talk about a sort of balance that's much harder to achieve, so hard, in fact, that I call it a conundrum.

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