Bag of Randomness

  • I remember on Sunday nights there was a sports show called the George Michael Sports Machine.  For the longest time I always had to do a double-take because I always first thought of the British singer, thinking, why the heck would he host a sports show?  I also thought it was a bit hokey that before he went to a clip he had to press a button to start the machine.
  • I notice when a lot of women, usually younger women, smile for a picture, they automatically stick their neck forward.
  • I find it interesting that Reunion Arena only stood for 29 years.
  • U2 will spend $3 million on a temporary stadium to play a concert in Montreal.  After the concert, the stadium will be torn down for a real estate project.   Link Man, that’s just crazy.
  • One of the morning shows I listen to had each host list their top five TV theme show songs.  That made me wish I continued my daily TV theme show song I did for about a month.  A few TV show theme songs that automtically pop in my head that might make my list . . . Growing Pains, Silver Spoons, Golden Girls.
  • Since Hollywood can’t come up with anything original and likes to make old TV shows into movies, I wish the would get on the ball with The Fall Guy. But I hope they never touch Magnum P.I.
  • To me, there’s just something ultra-cool about Tom Selleck.
  • When people tell me they find Sarah Palin sexy, I just can’t agree because I just don’t want to think of a grandmother being sexy.  But for a grandmother . . . not bad.
  • I have a lot of friends who are having a birthday this week, which must mean all of their parents took Valentine’s Day very seriously.
  • I can’t tell if this Space Chair Project commercial by Toshiba is real or not.
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Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.

In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will add more than $10 billion to the nation’s drug bill, which is on track to exceed $300 billion this year. By at least one analysis, it is the highest annual rate of inflation for drug prices since 1992.

The drug trend is distinctly at odds with the direction of the Consumer Price Index, which has fallen by 1.3 percent in the last year.

Full NY Times Article

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Can you name the most commonly used words in the English language?

  • Enter a word in the box below
  • Correctly named words will show up in the table below
  • Answers do not have to be guessed in order
  • This game was contributed by Sporcle user: davidr
  • Note: closely-related words, such as run/runs/ran/running/runner, are treated as being the same word.
  • Source: Oxford English Dictionary

You have 12 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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After seeing the answers, I knew I could have done better:

You got 58 out of 100 most commonly used words in the English language.

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