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Article Thumbnail SNEWS® Reader Poll: When would YOU most like a Yuppie 911 button?
Nov 24, 2009
Wouldn’t it be great if we could use something like a SPOT to help us out at all times in our lives? You know, times like when the washer is halfway through the wash cycle and you suddenly wonder, "Did I put that $200 dry clean only sweater in the wash by mistake?" What are your favorite ideas for Yuppie 911 moments in life?
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS View: You’re not married until Facebook says so
Nov 18, 2009
Despite the overwhelming evidence that I am, in fact, a happily married man, I just learned no one is married until Facebook says so.
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS View: Health club membership manager tops on list of stressful jobs with low pay
Nov 11, 2009
Think your job is stressful and pays crap? Well, you’re in good company. Apparently, all kinds of jobs cause headaches and offer less-than-inspiring pay. Is your job as stressful as a music ministry director? Find out.
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS View: Help me…I'm having a stupid moment
Nov 4, 2009
Now dubbed Yuppie 911, personal locator beacons are helping too many unprepared folks seek their inner Indiana Jones. We have a few suggestions for features manufacturers could consider to help these people avoid stupid moments.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?... Precor elliptical makes appearance in “male enhancement” ad
Oct 7, 2009
Could it be that those who are interested in male enhancement have been deemed a related television market segment to those who might want to use, say, a Precor elliptical? Is this another way to look at Precor’s tagline, “Inspiring a Life in Motion"?
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?...Down fetish is an up-and-coming trend
Sep 25, 2009
An alert reader contacted SNEWS® asking if we knew anything about a seemingly booming trend: down fetishes. Seems our reader had been doing a YouTube search using, innocently enough, the term "down jackets," and the first 10 entries were all related to videos of men and women who like to dress up in down. He told us he was alternately disturbed and amused -- no, we did not ask him how many videos he watched or how long he looked into this fetish thing.
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS View: Give the mobile phone a rest when in a restroom for goodness sake!
Jul 17, 2009
"It appears that there are simply NO boundaries anymore for engaging in mobile phone conversations. One of our team recently called an executive at a company and noticed an odd echo to the phone call. Hoping for the best and trying to make light, she commented, “You’re not in a bathroom, are you?” To which he responded (frankly, sounded a tad sheepish), “Well, as a matter of fact, I am just... "
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS View: Corporate speak - Reach out, ping me, and conversate to run it up the flagpole…huh?
Apr 29, 2009
Everybody sits in meetings and bobs heads in unison when told about running something up a flagpole or when asked to reach out to someone to vet out an idea, but what are they thinking inside? How they belong in a Dilbert cartoon perhaps? SNEWS® has taken a listen, polled others, and found a few pet peeves. We’ll present ours here...
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS® Cartoon Corner: Reason number 3 to bury your toilet paper
Sep 26, 2008
The SNEWS® Cartoon Corner -- And you thought it was teenagers who TP'd your home. By Jerry King.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS® Cartoon Corner: Business tutorial from the mind of a dog
Sep 19, 2008
The SNEWS® Cartoon Corner -- The dog's school of business lesson 1. By Randy Glasbergen.
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