It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! Here’s your vocab lesson
During the middle of a particularly heated racquetball game in 1995, Mark Summers and John…
10 terms every ‘Buffy’ fan should know
Buffy the Vampire Slayer may have ended in 2003 but its influence on our culture…
10 words we’ve all been using incorrectly this whole time
Picture this: you’re hanging out with a group of friends, going on about how “tortuous”…
Blerg! All the great words that ’30 Rock’ gave us
At some point during my end-of-summer haze, I began rewatching Tina Fey’s sitcom masterpiece 30…
All the times Betty White made TV the best place in the universe
All hail Betty White, queen of TV. Her latest gig? Appearing on season 11 of…
Manspreading and other new words just added to the dictionary
Every few months or so, the Oxford University Press picks out a new group of…
All the awesome words people are now naming their babies
We’ve all fantasized about what we’ll name our future children: Amy? Amanda? Alex? Well, have…
The incredibly touching reason this waitress is trying to give a tip back to her customer
Just when you thought people couldn’t get any more wonderful, WJTV came out with a…
“Hubby” and other words that make me uncomfortable
Earlier this week, underwear company Knix Wear surveyed 500 women to find out which words…
All the beautiful lessons Joey and Chandler taught us about friendship
When news dropped this weekend that Jennifer Aniston had secretly married Justin Theroux, Friends fans around…
Vegemite and other polarizing foods that people either love or hate
Vegemite—the Australian spread with a taste that’s, well, controversial—is once again having a moment. On…
“Bricky” and other fabulous old-fashioned compliments that time forgot
Earlier this week, I was strolling down the Internet for column ideas and stumbled upon…
Today in Necessary Things: The bed that physically stops you from sleeping in
No matter how many times I try to convince myself that I can get up…
Surprising tributes to Cecil the Lion are popping up everywhere
By now you’ve heard the terrible story of an American dentist who stalked and killed a…
You know what would make the ‘Friends’ theme even better? Puppies!
What could be better than the original Friends intro? Parodies of the Friends intro made painstakingly shot-for-shot….
All the everyday terms ‘Friends’ is totally responsible for
I’ve discussed my love for Friends on multiple occasions. In fact, I’m surprised I haven’t…
The most important words we all learned from ‘Clueless’
These days, if you want to be in on the heavy clambakes, you have to…