Archive for June, 2010
Toning shoes – those goofy curved sole things
You’ve seen them on displays in shoe stores in the malls, you’ve seen them in magazine ads, you’ve seen Joe Montana promoting them, and you’ve seen women in yoga pants sporting them while they walk their dogs. Those gym shoes with the curved bottoms are called toning shoes. Each brand has a different name for them, but [...]
The Failed States Index 2010: Worst Travel Destinations this Summer
When Dinner Topics was created, we promised to keep you up to date on whatever is in the news from pop stars to politics, and this week we are really showing our range with topics from BP to Apple to Australia to Hollywood marriages. Now we move on to the Failed States Index to make [...]
Mena Suvari’s (and Hollywood’s) love knows no age?
Maybe it’s her unique name, but once again Mena Suvari, who hasn’t starred in anything with huge commercial success since 2000, is back in the news. Mena got married yesterday (her second marriage), this time in Vatican City. What makes this a Dinner Topic is the interesting separation in ages of her husbands. Forgot who Mena [...]
Australia Gets First Female Prime Minister
On June 24, Welsh-born Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister. However, she won her position in a very unique way. Dinner Topics is here to explain it to you without a single mention of koala bears, “shrimp on the ‘barbee’” or Paul Hogan. The prime minister of Australia is not directly elected by [...]
Apple Fans or Twilight Fans: Which Fans Are Crazier?
Two big events took place on Thursday, June 24: Apple’s iPhone 4 was released and the third movie in the Twilight saga, Eclipse, premiered. Both events are big for their respective fans, but which fans are crazier? The iPhone 4 is being released in five different countries around the world (the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, [...]
The BP spoof video everyone is talking about
It’s been viral for a couple weeks now, but in case you still haven’t seen it, a group from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre1 wrote and performed a 3-minute sketch spoofing the way the BP oil spill was handled. The video is posted below (warning: there’s one F-bomb near the end), so now you’ll know [...]
McChrystal’s sudden fame
If you’re not a political or military junkie, you probably never heard of the name General Stanley McChrystal a few days ago, but now you’ve likely stumbled upon it numberous times on the TV or radio. McChrystal is in the news right now because he was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine and made some disparaging [...]
Vuvuzela – the big “buzz” at the World Cup
Just in case you haven’t read the news in a week or so, that irritating constant buzzing sound that can be heard at all of the World Cup matches the past couple weeks comes from a small “instrument” called the vuvuzela, which is a basic horn. Plastic versions of a vuvuzelacan be had for about [...]
