Back in the ’70s, teenagers who didn’t want to broadcast their feelings could just remove their mood rings.
Today, they might have to take off their pants.
An Italian firm is selling “Social Media Jeans,’’ which come with special chips that determine the wearers’ happiness level — and tweet it to the world.
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Mary Poppins did great with “supercalifragilistic–expialidocious.’’
But we have a new challenge for her.
The longest word in the English language is the official name of a newly discovered giant protein known informally as “titin.’’
It has an astonishing total of 189,819 letters.
A man named Dmitry Golubovskiy has become an Internet sensation by making a video of himself saying it.
It took him 213 minutes.
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Here’s one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on — the bank to rob is the Wells Fargo branch in Sterling, Va.
It was held up last week by a man in a Mitt Romney mask.
The same bank, then a branch of Wachovia, was hit two years ago by a bandit in a Hillary Rodham Clinton mask.
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If you want a completely lifelike portrait of yourself, the guy to go to is Fredrik Saker.
If you don’t believe us, just ask Sweden’s Transport Agency.
Instead of submitting a photograph of himself for his driver’s license, he sent a painted self-portrait that was so good, the bureaucrats thought it had been taken by a camera.
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A Polish man trying to impress his wife — and prove he’s as good as she is at multitasking — decided to iron some clothes.
“I was so involved that I wasn’t really thinking about what I was doing,’’ he said.
“So, when the phone rang, I picked up the iron and pressed it to my ear.’’
He suffered serious burns.