Trivialities
NORAD – worst acronym ever?
The increasingly popular Santa Tracker website by NORAD keeps gaining momentum each year as the ways to check in get easier and easier. What a lot of people don’t know is what NORAD is or what it stands for. NORAD is the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Specifically, “The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) [...]
Most popular Christmas trees
Happy Holidays to all! Before arriving at your family’s house to discuss religion, politics, and other unseemly topics, at least take this trivial piece with you as you all awkwardly stare at the Christmas tree with some lukewarm eggnog in your hand: after asking what kind of tree they bought, tell them that the most [...]
Where did Baby Ruth get its name?
It’s the day after Halloween, and every office in America has a bowl of leftover candy within arm’s reach of most employees. In between stories about kids’ costumes and how many trick-or-treaters came to the door, throw out this bit of trivia about Baby Ruth, the octogenarian candy bar which may or may not have [...]
Popular Halloween Costumes
Halloween is just a few days away, and before you end up being the noob at the party, here’s a quick list of popular costumes this year to help you figure out why that fat guy has a half shirt and fake abs taped on. Sadly, several of them are in reference to Jersey Shore [...]
Sony’s cassette Walkman dead: mix tapes mourn everywhere
I know what you’re thinking: the cassette Walkman has been gone for over a decade already. Not true! Despite living in a world with iPods for nine years, Sony has continued to produce the cassette Walkmans in Japan for over 30 years since its inception in 1979. On Friday, Sony announced that manufacturing of the [...]
What’s the secret to the 5-hour Energy shots?
It’s hump day, so if ever there was a time when someone in your office will be sucking down one of the 2 oz. shots labeled 5-hour Energy, it will be this afternoon. You’ve seen them in every 7-11 and convenience store you’ve ever entered in the past five years, but unless you are between [...]
A silencer put to the loud SunChips bag
In case you haven’t “heard,” over the past year and a half, Frito-Lay unveiled a new SunChips bag which, when opened, touched, or glanced at, seemed to be louder than a helicopter landing on your roof. The noise is due to its compostable qualities, and deaf people everywhere were comforted by the fact that their [...]
How long is a fortnight?
I know what you’re thinking: Dinner Topics hasn’t had a new post in a fortnight. Well, it hasn’t been that long, but that brings us to today’s post. You’ve heard the word “fortnight” before, sometimes used just to mean “a long time.” Fortnight is an actually finite amount of time, however. Simply, a fortnight is [...]
