The Most Ingenious Dog Costumes
Some people might say it is demented to actually put a costume on a dog, but these are some pretty ingenious outfits. Each year my wife and I dress up our dog, Porthos, in a costume. He's a white dalmatian-lab mix and we've had him play Snoopy, a gangsta, and a goblin-rider from Lord of the Rings. The costumes below are really good and some of them are easy to make to keep your dog warm and fashionable this Halloween. Which ones are your favorites?
Categories: Home and Living Tags: cerberus, dog costumes, greek mythology, hades, harness costume, headless horseman, lord of the rings, pirates, Porthos, shelob, spider, underworld, washington irving
Tools Of The Trade: Pirates Of The Caribbean!
This Friday, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens up in theaters everywhere. I wonder how it holds true with real pirates. I am not talking about the magical aspects of the movie, but how close they get to the historical bad guys. Pirates were the scourge of the seas. They attacked merchant ships without mercy to steal their treasures and goods. Sometimes they were hired by a nation to attack only enemy ships. Others freelanced on their own. The tools of their trade varied. They fought with what they had on hand. These men weren't trained naval warriors. They were a rag-tag group of outlaws and murderers who had nothing left to live for except for the adventure of the high sea. Read more...
5 Lies We’ve Been Told About Pirates
The fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean comes out on May 20th and it got me to thinking about pirates and all of the things we think we know about them. The problem is that most of the things we know about them is false. This isn't really surprising, since pirates were the bad guys and everything we know about them comes from trials conducted on them by foreign nations. So where do the stories come from? Books and movies, mainly. That's why we think of pirates as colorful and dastardly people. In reality, they were cold, ruthless killers that were not very good human beings. Here are some of the lies we've been told about them. Read more...
The Statehood Quiz: Georgia
It's been awhile since I did a statehood quiz. You can find all of them, so far, on myFiveBest.com. This one is for the southern state of Georgia. It's made up of five questions about the state. Georgia, as you may know, is the home of the Atlanta Braves, the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, and NBA's Atlanta Hawks. It was the fourth state to announce it's part in the United States, which it did on January 2, 1788. Georgia was considered a sovereign state of the Articles of Confederation (not to be confused with the Confederate States that it would belong to during the 1860s). It has a rich history and plenty of trivia behind it. Read more...
Categories: Travel, Trivia Tags: 13 colonies, atlantic ocean state, east of the mississippi, Georgia, georgia peaches, pirates, quiz, state of Georgia, thirteen colonies, trivia on georgia, united states
Five People Born on December 21
Today is December 21, 2009 and the 355th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 10 days left in the year 2009. According the Mayan calendar, there are 1095 days till the end of the current cycle. We are exactly 2 years away from this date. This is also the Winter Solstice. After today, our days in the northern hemisphere will start getting longer. Here are five people that share a birthday on this day: Read more...
Five Pirates That Don’t Exist In The Real World
How many of us grew up wishing to fight on the high seas, rescue damsels in distress, and fight against pirates? Maybe you wanted to be the pirate and rebel against an oppressive overlord who was hellbent on destroying peace. What it comes down to is that we all love pirates. We love to hear their sea shanties and tales of adventures. Here are five of my favorite pirates that never really existed in the real world. Feel free to add in your own. Read more...
