Jason Bailey

As usual, there are all kinds of stupid Super Bowl “prop bets” out there, which let you bet on all the nonsense that surrounds the game. Here are the lines on 16 unusual bets you can make at one online site. Read More »

Until Saturday, the following misunderstanding had happened approximately 75,000 times in movies and TV shows. And one time that I know of in real life. Read More »

A career website called Zippia analyzed Google searches to figure out what job the people in each state search for more than anywhere else Read More »

According to a new Career Builder survey, the three most common excuses for showing up late to work are: bad traffic, sleeping through your alarm, and bad weather. Now here are the ten weirdest excuses managers have heard . . .

1. I was going to quit, but then I decided not to.

2. My blow dryer set my hair on fire.

3. I was detained by Homeland Security.

4. A black bear was sleeping on the hood of my car.

5. My pet lizard had to have emergency surgery and died. Then I had to mourn while deciding whether to let the vet dispose of the body, or bring it to work.

6. A new store had its grand opening, and I wanted to take advantage of the sales.

7. I had to finish watching “My Name Is Earl”.

8. All of my clothes were stolen.

9. I had to chase my cows back into a field.

10. A Vaseline truck crashed on the highway, and cars were sliding all over the place.

The survey also found 25% of us are late at least once a month . . . 41% of employers have fired someone for it . . . 33% say it’s fine as long as it doesn’t become a pattern . . . and 16% don’t care as long as the person gets all their work done.

Every article about pickup lines always says the best pickup line is to just say ‘Hi.’ And to that I say . . . shut up and let us have fun.

People on Reddit are sharing their best pickup lines, and voting on the best ones. So if you believe in crowd sourcing, these might be the seven best pickup lines in the world. Or not. Check ’em out . . .

1. “Are you a 0% APR loan? Because I’m having trouble understanding your terms and you aren’t showing any interest.”

2. “Do you have a raisin? No? How about a date?”

3. “Are you my appendix? Because I don’t know anything about you but this feeling in my gut is telling me I should take you out.”

4. “Girl, I put the STD in ‘stud,’ all I need is ‘u.'”

5. “Are you a beaver? Because DAM.”

6. “I think you dropped something.” “What?” “Your standards.”

7. Carry a bunch of limes, walk up to a woman, and drop them. As you start getting them off the floor, say, “Can you help me? I’m really bad at pick up limes.”

We’re not putting too much stock in this study. But any time scientists tell us to eat more fried food, we’ll at least listen to their argument.

Researchers at the University of Grenada in Spain just released a new study that found vegetables are more nutritious when they’ve been deep fried. You have to use extra virgin olive oil though. Other types of oil probably don’t give you the same benefits.

It has to do with antioxidants called phenolic compounds, which can help prevent cancer and other diseases. And they occur naturally in vegetables, so you’re getting them no matter what.

But apparently olive oil is loaded with them. So when you deep-fry vegetables in it, they absorb even more.

But deep-frying them in any type of oil ups the number of calories big time. So if you’re trying to lose weight, you should probably stick with steamed vegetables. But if all you care about are the antioxidants, fry away.

Popular Science

Monopoly is famous for taking forever and leading to brutal fights. So wouldn’t it be better if you could shorten the game, guarantee yourself a win . . . but, yeah, still get into brutal fights?

A random guy online just published a strategy for dominating Monopoly. It’s on the website imgur.com. It exploits a technicality in the rules to make sure you give yourself the best chance of winning.

Basically, he found that the rules limit the number of houses people can buy to 32. Once all the houses are on properties, no one can buy any more, so they either have to pay a ton for hotels or not improve their properties at all.

His strategy is to get a few quick, cheap monopolies . . . buy up as many houses as you can for the properties in those monopolies . . . and don’t upgrade to hotels.

You’ll get the big payouts when people land on your properties, and you won’t have to pay much when you land on other people’s spaces, because there aren’t enough houses to go around. Now you know.

I don’t have official statistics to back this up, but I’d be willing to bet your teenager hates waking up in the morning . . . and has a room that resembles a toxic waste dump.

Ready to have your mind blown? Those two things might just be connected.

Colin Espie is a sleep medicine professor at Oxford University in England. And he believes the reason teenagers have sleep issues is because of their messy rooms.

He says the air in their rooms is low in oxygen and high in nitrogen . . . and if you keep breathing that, you’ll wake up with a headache after a bad night of sleep.

So get your kid to clean their room. Or at least open a window?

A website called “Bottom Line Health” recently talked to a food-safety lawyer who’s been representing people in food-poisoning cases for the past 20 years . . . including the recent one against Chipotle.

And they asked him to list foods he personally never eats because they’re too risky. Here are the top four . . .

1. Raw oysters. They’ve always been risky, but you’re even more likely to get sick from them now, because the oceans are warming. And even slightly warmer water helps microbes grow.

2. Pre-cut fruit and vegetables. Meaning the ones they sell in plastic tubs at the grocery store. The fact that they’re pre-cut means someone’s already handled them, so they’re more likely to be contaminated.

3. Sprouts, which a lot of people put on salads. There have been over 30 bacterial outbreaks linked to them in the past 20 years . . . mostly salmonella and e coli.

4. Rare meat. If you love your steak rare, this probably won’t change anything. But it should be cooked to at least 160 degrees all the way through to kill any bacteria. And that means at least medium-well.

The one thing you don’t have to avoid is sushi. The expert says it’s usually handled well, and there haven’t been many outbreaks linked to it.

This is a quick round up of the Videos that went viral over the past weekend from Winter Storm Jonas.

People diving into snow banks from their porches and WINDOWS became a “thing” over the weekend.  Hopefully no one broke their neck.

Some guys in New York used their Jeep to tow each other around the city on skis and snowboards, and set it to the song, “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra.  And they called the video “Snowboarding with the NYPD”, because a cop pulls them over at the end, but lets them go.

A group from Indianapolis called the Endless Summer Band got stranded on a highway in Kentucky in their R.V. for over 13 HOURS on Friday.  So they killed time by covering “Stuck in the Middle with You” by Stealers Wheel.  But they made all the lyrics about the storm, and called it, “Stuck on the Highway with You”.

A video of a guy shoveling snow in Kentucky is all over Facebook . . . because he did it in a Tyrannosaurus rex costume.