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
Five Most Read myFiveBest Articles Of 2010
Now that 2010 is finally over, we can do some accounting on what articles you, the readers, enjoyed the most last year. Between our inception on May 21, 2009 and today, we've written more than 1150 posts with requests coming in daily with ideas for new opinions and quizzes. Sometimes they can be a bit overwhelming, but we keep regular statistics on what people are reading so that we can keep the topics you like the most. It's the readers that make the lists all worthwhile, so I thought, today, I'd share which were the five most read articles in 2010. The results surprised even me! Read more...
Debunking The “XMAS” Myth
"It's CHRISTMAS.......not XMAS!!! Don't remove Christ from HIS birthday!!! Post this if you agree.......Please don't X out the Lord!!!!! (I would like to see this on everyone's wall!!!) Jesus is the reason for the season." If you've seen this, or you use the term XMAS without knowing its meaning, then this is the article for you. Here is some background on the Christmas reason for the season and why we celebrate the way we do. Add this article onto your wall to open people's eyes to the true meaning behind the Christmas Season! Read more...
Categories: History Tags: a christmas carol, Charles Dickens, chi rho, christ, Christmas, christmas holiday, christmastime, christos, giving gifts, greek, hebrew, Jesus, Joshua, queen victoria, roman, three wisemen, washington irving, xmas
Five Reasons Washington Irving Is Still Important Today
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American writer born in New York City following the Revolutionary War. He was the youngest of eleven children and was named after George Washington. During his lifetime, Washington Irving was the top American writer of his time. If Irving wrote it, people believed it and his works were internationally famous. The problem was, Irving didn’t write history. He was a fiction writer. You could compare him to the modern Dan Brown. His work is just stories but people believed it. We still do. Here are five things that Washington Irving wrote that we still consider as fact or are part of our vocabulary today. Read more...
The Stories Behind 5 Sayings We All Know
Have you ever wondered where some sayings come from? Today, if we hear a good movie quote (Like, "I'll be back", from the Terminator), we all know where it comes from because of the mass media. However, some of these sayings are very old and their origins have been lost in time. Here are five sayings we've all heard and the stories behind them. Read more...
Five People Born on April 3
Today is April 3, 2010 and the 93rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days left in the year 2010. According the Mayan calendar, there are 993 days till the end of the current cycle. On this date, in 1882, Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by the no-good coward, Robert Ford. Here are five people born on this day. Read more...
