What do the four letters in the word “diet” stand for? One popular joke answer — “Do I Eat That?” — is funny because it’s TRUE! With some diets, not knowing a food’s calorie count can turn mealtimes into minefields. Eat the wrong thing, and your weight-loss plan gets...
Remember those hilariously huge 1980s cell phones? The first one to hit the market was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x in 1983. It cost more than $5,000, offered a half-hour of talk time per battery charge, and weighed 2 pounds. That’s about what a pineapple weighs! So...
Some awesome Guinness World Records have been set recently: The largest collection of Batman memorabilia (8,226 items), the longest eyelash (12.4 centimetres), the most balloons blown up by one person in an hour (910), the amazing list goes on. But for the purposes of...
You’re in the kitchen looking for a snack when suddenly, from out of nowhere, a bag of potato chips appears and forces you to empty its salty, fatty contents into a bowl. OK, maybe it didn’t just appear. Maybe you grabbed it when you opened a cupboard. And once those...
Ever wonder what dentists joke about? Here’s a sample: Q: What did the full gumball machine say to the empty gumball machine? A: “Bummer about those receding gums!” Gums are important, too! You probably know about tooth decay and cavities, but healthy gums are just as...
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, now seems like a great time to warm up for March 17 with a good old-fashioned limerick. (A limerick, by the way, is a five-line verse in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are...