Archive for January, 2010
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last week, the guy that made spaghettios famous passed away. today the world learned that the entrepreneur behind taco bell, glen bell, jr. died at the ripe old age of 86. bell introduced us to taco bell back in 1962, sold his first franchise in ‘64 and sold the joint to pepsi for $125M bones [...]
news you can use: week in review
the news of the week was of course, the tragic disaster in haiti. if you’d like to find some way to help, a comprehensive list of support organizations can be found here. all of this said, here is the news that was this week ending january 15, 2010.
anderson cooper lost his right-hand woman and cnn [...]
lunch time brain teaser: what is this?
if you can’t figure it out in 1 minute, you’re totally stupid.
click here for the real answer.
oh bugger off
advertisers in great britain are on a roll this week. in addition to the ad we featured earlier, another ad popped up and angered the people there–it read “career women make bad mothers.” about it, one woman said “I am completely disgusted; the words completely put women down. In this day and age women do [...]
lunchtime brain teaser: what is this?
[polldaddy poll="2520254"]
for the real answer, click here.
uh-oh [the guy that made] spaghettios! [died]
but it sounds like he lived a long and fruitful life. donald goerke, the creator of spaghettios and later of chunky soup, died at the age of 83. he was campbell’s marketing research director when his team created the famous delectable delight to entice kids to eat pasta because of their appealing shapes. goerke worked [...]
standard issue
by now you may have heard that states have eased education standards so that kids can graduate from high school–the tests were deemed too hard so they made them easier to pass “The real pattern in states has been that the standards are lowered so much that the exams end up not benefiting students who [...]
