Top Time Wasters
It used to be that, to waste time at work or school, you’d twiddle your thumbs or play games with those little triangular paper footballs. With the explosion of viral videos on the Internet, those days are no more. Here’s Entertainment Weekly’s list of the year’s best online videos.
1. The Landlord – starring Will Ferrell and a foul-mouthed toddler. Be duly warned. (Funnieordie.com/videos/74)
2. Alanis Morissette’s “My Humps” (youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g)
3. Miss South Carolina Teen USA (youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww)
4. Filipino Prisoners Perform “Thriller” (youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o)
5. Backstreet Bird (birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may-i-have-this-dance.html)
6. Dramatic Prairie Dog (youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs)
7. Keepon Keepin’ On (youtubecom/watch?v=nPdP1jBfxzo)
8. Clark and Michael (clarkandmichael.com/)
9. Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Baby Got Back” (youtube.com/watch?v=qkJdEFf_Qg4)
10. “Star Wars” Trumpet Solo (youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8)
To-ga! To-ga! To-ga!
A new study, which required sober-minded (and sober-bodied) researchers to attend and scrutinize scores of college parties, revealed some shocking findings recently: For one, they discovered that folks tend to drink at these parties – and they drink a lot.
OK, so that’s not exactly revolutionary. But researchers say they were surprised by some of what they discovered, such as the fact that women tend to drink more – and wear less – at themed parties.
“Most shocking to me was that women at themed parties kept dressing less and less,” said UCLA researcher Megan Holmes, who said she sometimes went to three or four parties a night. “When I was in college there were themed parties, but I never saw girls just wearing lingerie or just a bra and panties, and that was pretty common at the themed parties I saw.”
It’s also rare for women to ever drink more than men, so the fact they tend to drink more heavily than males at these themed events is also a head scratcher – though New York Times blogger John Tierney has a theory:
“Could it be a coping mechanism for dealing with the sight of guys like John Belushi dressed in togas?” (ABC News, New York Times)