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• Even If You Don’t Like Soccer, It’s Worth Watching This Amazing 70-Yard Game-Winning Goal

  March 14, 2013 at 4:33pm

  In reply to Canada_Goose.

  At least it makes more sense than Rugby. Watching that game makes my head spin. Why do you only score a try when you succeed?

• Hugo Chavez’s Embalmed Body Will Be Put on Permanent Display…Here Are Some Gross Details About How That Works

  March 11, 2013 at 12:28am

  In reply to texasbornandraised.

  Cripped build? What’s that, a gangsta physique?

• Popular Whisky Maker’s Mark Does 180 on a Big Formula Change After Public Outcry: ‘I Was Going to Kill My Son to Appease the Gods’

  February 18, 2013 at 5:16pm

  In reply to The Other Watcher.

  I look at labels. I buy Evan Williams because at 86 proof, it’s often no more expensive than other bourbon brands at 80 proof.

  Knob Hill was also 90 proof the last time I looked. I got a bad bottle of it once and quit drinking it.

• Popular Whisky Maker’s Mark Does 180 on a Big Formula Change After Public Outcry: ‘I Was Going to Kill My Son to Appease the Gods’

  February 18, 2013 at 4:52pm

  I’m one of the suckers who bought a 1.75L bottle of 90 proof as an investment. Now, it’s just an ordinary bottle of expensive bourbon.

  Was the threat to cut Maker’s Mark just a ploy to induce a temporary spike in sales? I think it’s very possible. It did sound fishy to me. The usual marketing tactic would be to introduce the cut version and continue the original, but maybe that isn’t feasible in a small distillery.

• How Did This Woman’s Repeated Typo Cost Her $40,000?

  February 18, 2013 at 4:43pm

  In reply to Rowgue.

  That’s true in the U.S., but apparently in the UK they don’t have some of those safeguards.

• Tax on Rich Didn’t Cause California’s Deficit Magic

  January 15, 2013 at 7:22pm

  In reply to vic138.

  They’re going to Nevada which has no income tax and lower business taxes. I know a billionaire there who is moving his heirs out of California to Nevada. Next step? Cayman Islands?

• You’re Probably Mispronouncing These Words

  January 14, 2013 at 1:31am

  In reply to americandescartes.

  FORTE has more than one origin, French (FORT) and Italian (FORTAY). Both forms are correct because either derivation is correct. In all three languages forte is spelled the same. It is not forté in Italian which doesn’t even have an acute accent.

  One of my pet peeves are hyperforeignisms, putting accent marks on words that have none in the source language. Words like latté and habañera for latte and habanera are two examples.

• This Is Atheists’ Alternative Christmas ‘Holiday’ That Rejects ‘Supernatural Religious Beliefs’

  December 23, 2012 at 12:48am

  Whatever happened to Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us?

• ‘Anti-Arizona’ Immigration Bill Passes Calif. Senate

  July 7, 2012 at 5:53pm

  In reply to 3monkeysmomma.

  Yes, living in Arizona, I’m thankful that California will be taking the pressure off of us. Go ahead and self-destruct, but leave us out of it. We should put signs at the border with big arrows pointing west!

• This Giant Infographic Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Gold

  July 7, 2012 at 4:25pm

  The 1896 Klondike gold rush was in the Yukon, BC? Some chartmaker needs a lesson in Canadian geography.