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Well done and extremely disheartening info graphic.
- jim 10-01-2009 3:13 pm [link] [5 comments]

David Hicks


- steve 10-01-2009 3:52 am [link] [add a comment]

yay maud!

- linda 10-01-2009 2:01 am [link] [add a comment]

Very few words have a birthday so precise, and so precisely known, as couch potato. It was on July 15, 1976, we are told, that couch potato came into being, uttered by Tom Iacino of Pasadena, California, during a telephone conversation. He was a member of a Southern California group humorously opposing the fads of exercise and healthy diet in favor of vegetating before the TV and eating junk food (1973). Because their lives centered on television--the boob tube (1966)--they called themselves boob tubers. Iacino apparently took the brilliant next step and substituted potato as a synonym for tuber. Thinking of where that potato sits to watch the tube, he came up with couch potato.


- steve 9-30-2009 3:46 pm [link] [1 comment]