Danny Gallagher
10 Signs That You’ve Booked a Bad Cruise
The cruise vacation industry hasn’t exactly had the most stellar year. Thanks to the recent sinking of the Costa Concordia, vacationers are fleeing from cruises like a rat diving off a sinking ship (but enough about the captain).
The trick to giving yourself any good vacation is knowing what you’re getting into, so if any of these tell-tale signs pop-up, then it’s time to abandon ship.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Mister Rogers’
It would be very hard to find someone who had a television in their house growing up and didn’t spend a big chunk of their childhood basking in the warm glow of Mr. Rogers’ beatific smile. Today we celebrate the great man’s birthday (he would’ve been 84) with a few things you might not know about his historic children’s TV show.
Iran Is Training an Army of Female Ninjas
Iran might be trying to give the world a new reason to wet its pants with its constant talk of nuclear weapons, and how it’s totally not working on them, you guys, but it, like, totally would if it were OK.
However, this threat may have overshadowed a much greater and deadlier threat than passive-aggressive whining about weapons-grade uranium: their women.
Turkish Soccer Fans Respond to Flare Ban with a Giant Trollface and, Of Course, Flares
There is no more united group in the world than sports fans, at least when they’re angry. Tell them that they can’t do something or shouldn’t say something and prepare to feel the wrath of their misplaced passion.
Woman Claims She Saw Jesus While Watching ‘The Bachelor’
Jesus is everywhere these days. He’s appeared on potato chips, an old rocking chair and even on a wet sock. Now it appears Jesus made a special guest spot on a woman’s television, and it wasn’t during a re-airing of Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ.’
10 Clues You’re About to Be Fired
Times are tough and big business types are looking for excuses to reduce their workforce to preserve their ridiculous salaries, unnecessary bonuses and pure ivory staplers that only work with staples made of gold.
If you fit one of the following signs, it might be time to get your resume in order and feather dust your neglected LinkedIn page.
Strange Green Liquid in Dallas Waterway Isn’t for St. Patrick’s Day
Cities like Chicago dye their rivers green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Dallas, however, isn’t trying to start their own green tradition, at least not intentionally.
A waterway just outside of the Medical City Dallas Hospital started to fill with a mysterious green goo last Wednesday.
10 Signs You Live in America’s Fattest City
It’s no secret that Americans love to eat. We invented the “super-sized” meal, the “Fourthmeal” and even the “food within a food on a stick.”
This love of freedom to eat has come with a great price. The latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index shows that the fattest city in America, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, spends up to $400 million a year in unnecessary health care costs.
Save Your Pennies By Making Your Own Shamrock Shake at Home
McDonald’s Shamrock Shake usually comes once a year around St. Patrick’s Day, but as the holiday passes, so does the elusive tasty beverage. Now you don’t have to be in March (or Irish) to enjoy one year round.
10 Signs You Are Too Excited About St. Patrick’s Day
There are few holidays that create more excitement and festiveness than St. Patrick’s Day. All over the country, people crowd the local pub in green clothes where they guzzle a ton of green beer, only to puke it back out in a green mess and wake up the next day in a green haze.
Of course, just like the crazy uncle in your family who thinks he’s Santa Claus in July, some people can take a good th
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Leprechauns
Few icons from folklore and mythology have been branded and co-opted more than the leprechaun. Stories of their rare appearances and coveted pot of gold have permeated almost every aspect of popular culture. They have become so synonymous with Irish culture that the streets are filled with tall green hats and green coats every St. Patrick’s Day. Their history, however, is far different from the tr
10 Signs You’ve Got March Madness
The country is rapidly approaching March Madness, an annual celebration of rabid sports fandom and hallowed college tradition. Every year, NCAA fans follow their alma mater or college they’d go to if grades and criminal records didn’t matter from hope and glory to everlasting victory or crushing defeat.