I don't know about where you are, but in the US you can usually get a turkey breast frozen and ready to bake rather than a whole turkey (which is huge—they are on sale everywhere here right now, and I'd love to get one for the freezer since we're having dinner with family, but I don't think I have room). I've gotten…

The hot dog trick would be pretty great if you were already driving, though. Road trip through the middle of nowhere style.

I swear they put some horribly addicting substance in Diet Coke. I actually remember reading an article about it some years ago about how it has the strongest brand loyalty of any soda.

My family lives at a lake community, and each year after New Year's they round up everyone's trees and either mulch them for landscaping or, in a particularly inspired move, put them in the lake for fish to shelter in. No, they aren't the best things, but at least they end up helping in the end.

I love lip stain. It lasts a good 8-10 hours and you don't have to worry about smudging or reapplying; the only downside is that it's just color and no shine, but I and most people just wear it under some lip balm for shine. I started using it back when I smoked and it would stay on through a pack a day—now I've quit…

Our liquor store has alcoholic whipped cream in a half-dozen flavors. One of these days I will get the caramel and make the BEST IRISH COFFEE EVER.

Not as bad as the rest here, but at least one with a happy ending...

"As I was heading out I saw them dragging the chair to the dumpster. "

If I remember correctly, they took the sign that the kid survived as a message from God to keep going. I think it might have been God saying "OK, you got off easy this time, but no more".

Google around for the definitely NWS Puff the Magic Dragon tattoos some guy got on his nether regions. It's impressive, to say the least.

My fiance actually took his mother's last name after his parents divorced because his father's last name is basically unpronounceable to English speakers (it has THREE rolled r's along with I don't even know what else because I can't pronounce it). So it is rare, but it does happen!

I was born in 1981 and I don't really identify with any "generation" group, but I lean more towards Gen X—at least I know what was going on with them.

The (ridic expensive) grocery/deli by my job has free samples of sushi out every day. It's pretty simple to hang around the crowded deli counter at noon and make out with a decent lunch!

If I wasn't convinced before that Lulu was a massive troll attempt, this news seals it.

I really love The Guild as a female geek; it has a variety of female gamers (including a plus-size body type who is more comfortable in her body than any of the rest of them) and they manage to keep the sexuality level at a point of over-the-top ridiculousness that either lampoons or moves past the stereotypes. Also…

They're a YA trilogy placed in a dystopian near-future where North America is divided into districts by industry. Teenagers from each district are randomly selected each year to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death. They're quite good, very dark, and definitely a commentary on modern media.

When I worked at a grocery store, we took any change if it was rolled. Grocery store cash registers all have scales and we would just weigh the coins to make sure we weren't getting shorted. I forget about the rest, but a roll of quarters weighs one pound!

I'm a Potterhead and I'd agree. He was MUCH better in Equus than in the films.

No, just one parent has to. I have a blue-eyed father and a brown-eyed mother, and my sister has blue eyes (I got the hazel recessive gene from my paternal grandfather and wouldn't give up my eye color for anything).

I don't live there now but I am an Ohio native. I love the place too, but the article is dead-on: The money issues almost every Midwestern state have right now don't really lend themselves to an extra 70 kids a day.