10 People Who Absolutely Rule the World of Jokes
There’s this certain category of joke I’m not sure how to label or describe. It’s not really a “practical joke” in the sense that it’s a big prank, and it’s not really a pun, or a setup punchline thing either. It’s the kind of joke that’s just sort of found in the wild, where it catches you...
10 Design Fails so Big They’re Almost Impressive
When I was in college I actually took some graphic design courses that helped us learn the basics of various Adobe programs, most of which aren’t in use anymore and the ones that are are so different that the class might as well have happened on Mars. All that to say, I’m familiar with the ideas of design, but I wouldn’t exactly...
10 Pieces of Graphic Design That will Stop You in Your Tracks
I guess when you get right down to it, the whole point of graphic design is to create something that is a) memorable and b) attention-grabbing. And what could possibly be more memorable or attention grabbing than something that just straight up stops your brain because of how baffling it is? With that in mind, as we scroll through these graphic...
People Reveal The White Lies They Tell Their Customers
So, it’s no secret that any job that requires you to deal with customers on a regular basis can be a bit of a nightmare, especially if they’re particularly unforgiving. How do we get around this? I mean, we all gotta eat which means we all gotta get paid which means we all gotta work. How can we keep our jobs, make our money AND keep...
10 Little Tricks Employees Use in Dealing with Customers
I once worked at a country club with very wealthy members. The official unofficial policy of the club was “you never tell a member no.” Which meant that whatever a member might request, you just told them you were on it and got to work. Problem was, a lot of the time I either had no idea how to fulfill their particular request or knew...
10 Reasons Some Guys Love the Single Life
There’s a poem by Shel Silverstein that oddly reminds me of being single. It goes like this: “I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy...
10 People Who Just Can’t Seem to Stop Getting Engaged
Usually, when someone refers to “a previous engagement,” it’s their polite way of telling you that they’re too busy to come to your thing. But for some people, that banal little term might just trigger all kinds of awful feelings. Because some folks have had lots of “previous engagements” – and not the...
10 Realizations That Made People End Their Marriages
I’m not sure exactly where the phrase “the straw that broke the camel’s back” comes from, though I feel it’s safe to guess that it had something to do with a time and a place where camels would be used to transport all sorts of goods, including straw, and that while any one straw is obviously of negligible weight,...
10 People Who Apparently Just Couldn’t Wait to Get Engaged
How does any human on this planet convince any other human to marry them, like, forever? It’s a question that has stumped both scientist and me alike for decades. And yet, some people not only decide to get married, but decide to do it, like, REALLY fast. Like so fast that maybe your friends get a little worried about you. Take these...
15 Tweets to Make You Smile Real Big Today
They say that if you laugh, the whole world laughs with you. This is a lie, of course, usually when I’m laughing I can’t even get my best friends to agree that the dumb thing I’m cackling at is funny, but whatever, I’m having fun and that’s all that matters. If you’d like to laugh today, regardless of how much...