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You Know You Are a Badass When…

By Wahl, on May 27, 2010, at 9:25 pm | Comments are closed

…1) You have 570 billion pageviews. A tad ahead of the The Great Wahl.

…2) You get sh*tcanned…for sh*tting in a can at ESPN (because you have uncontrollable IBS). Mr. Pancake feels your pain.

…3) You command the army in one of the most important wars of the modern world, you run a [...]

A ‘Super’ Brain Game

By Wahl, on February 5, 2010, at 7:02 am | Comments are closed

Because one can never get enough football stuffed into one week, even Mental Floss is throwing together Super Bowl related brain games for us. It’s been a while since I’ve posted a brain game, but this one is fun, and doable. Enjoy.

Today’s Brain Game offers twelve anagrams of various football player positions; think [...]

Merry Math Square

By Wahl, on December 22, 2009, at 8:43 am | Comments are closed

Just because it’s a short Holiday week, doesn’t mean you can let your brain off too easy.

The nine squares inside the main red grid should be filled with the digits 1 through 9. Each digit should appear only once in the mail grid. One of these numbers (the 2) is already provided for [...]

Buddy’s Watchin’ You

By Wahl, on December 21, 2009, at 6:30 pm | Comments are closed

Normally, Philly sucks. But today, Philly is awesome. Well, at least 1988 Phildalephia was awesome.

Everyone has heard the Bears’ Super Bowl Shuffle. But I have never heard of Buddy’s Watching You. Buddy being their head coach at the time, Buddy Ryan:

Reggie White? Randall Cunningham? Keith Jackson? All the greats make an [...]

The Tastiest Burger You’ll Never Eat

By Wahl, on December 16, 2009, at 6:53 am | Comments are closed

As I have mentioned numerous times before, my brother and his family are vegans/vegetarians/tree-hugging hippies — both for health and social/environmental/ethical/animal rights reasons. That’s why I think they’ll love this story:

When Nancy Dickenson and her stepdaughter found an 11-month-old calf suffering from severe frostbite on their neighbor’s property, they knew they had to [...]

Unleash Hell

By Wahl, on December 8, 2009, at 5:17 pm | Comments are closed

Update – Mental Floss has a nice little relevant article: 10 of the Worst Blizzards Ever

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When Mike Tomlin, the Steelers head coach, is fired in January, maybe he can get a job as a meteorologist. He said that his team was going to ‘unleash hell’ in December — and has started that [...]

Pretzels, with a Twist of Logic

By Wahl, on December 7, 2009, at 12:22 pm | Comments are closed

The last few Mental Floss puzzles I’ve put up have been the number squares. They haven’t been particularly challenging. Luckily, Mental Floss put up a logic game today. Not that it’s particularly difficult either, but at least it’s something different and will hopefully get your brain going on a Monday.

Bored, five of the [...]

Easy as (Pumpkin) Pie

By Wahl, on November 30, 2009, at 8:58 am | Comments are closed

Sorry Sweisen, another week, another easy math square. Send your complaints to Mental Floss. Hopefully it’ll help you get your brain out of the tryptophan-induced haze a little.

Your brain may need a post-Thanksgiving jump start, so here’s a new Brain Game Math Square to get you going for the week.

The nine squares [...]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

By Wahl, on November 25, 2009, at 7:52 am | Comments are closed

I always thought people were idiots for choosing to live in the Upper Midwest, where it gets so cold every winter (although it’s been unseasonably warm so far this year). Then I happen see this post from Mental Floss on the coldest places in the world:

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This picture of Jim Brader shows [...]

Probably Just as Easy

By Wahl, on November 20, 2009, at 7:10 am | Comments are closed

The last time I posted one of these number puzzles, I got a lot of complaints as to how easy it was. Well, Mental Floss has given us a second puzzle. Like the first time, I have yet to do it, but I imagine it’s probably just as easy. My apologies in advance, G.O.A.T. [...]