Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest - July 4, 2009 (Surf and Stillwell, Coney Island) show begins at 10:30. Watch it live on ESPN beginning at Noon!
The large Nathan’s stand at Surf & Stillwell Avenues still sells over one million hot dogs each year. It is open all year and around the clock so customers can visit even when there is seemingly no one else at Coney.
Tropicana’s rebranding debacle did more than create a customer-relations fiasco. It hit the brand in the wallet. After its package redesign, sales of the Tropicana Pure Premium line plummeted 20% between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22, costing the brand tens of millions of dollars. On Feb. 23, the company announced it would bow to consumer demand and scrap the new packaging, it had been out on the market for about 2 months.
Kevin Rose announced his latest Digg Dialog interview, with ‘Burno’. He corrects it later in the same tweet, but its quite a bad mistake when promoting not only your site, but also promoting a movie.
No, it’s not a sales flyer for Spencer Gifts - it’s those
trend-setting product icons that watched over our shoulder as we
gobbled our way to the high score on PacMan. Remember Max Headroom’s guest appearance on David Letterman? What about the rumor that a real life guy with the last name of Noid got so upset about being avoided that he went on a killing spree? Oh, good times, gooood times. Now excuse me while I go dance to my motion sensitive singing raisins..!
Graffiti artist Michael (Iz the Wiz) Martin, a legendary figure who painted scores of subway trains during a prolific career. His work has been displayed in museums and galleries throughout the world.
Holy Taco posted a beautiful collection of potentially beautiful moments of peoples lives ruined by some background incident. Whether it was shit vomit or tits lurking in the background, these photos were instantly turned from cute and boring to instant classics. Click to enjoy.
Hugely popular BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has been sold to Global Gaming Factory, according to TorrentFreak. With the sale finalized, apparently they will be shutting down the torrent tracker altogether.
The music and movie industries must be doing the jig today.
The site will begin to decentralize itself, where torrent files will not be hosted on Pirate Bay’s servers which according them will keep the service going.
people who collect PEZ candy dispensers are known as “PEZheads”
Spaceman Pez Sign
Pez Candy T-shirt
Pez Candy Swimwear
Pez Candy Girl
Pez Jacket
Pez Background
Peppermint Pez Girl
Pez Classic Collection
Pez Refill Candies
PEZ Collector/author David Welch made it into the 2000 and 2001 edition of the “Guinness Book of World Records” by selling three PEZ dispensers for $18,000 in 1998. The dispensers were a shiny gold elephant, a soft Mickey Mouse head and a headless dispenser that bore the words “PEZ-HAAS”.
made from the following ingredients:
Sugar, Corn Syrup, Adipic Acid, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel & Palm Oils
And Soybean Oil Mono & Diglycerides, Natural & Artificial Flavors, Artificial
Colors (including FD&C Red 3, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 2 - depending on which flavor).
A duct tape dress is not only a quirky way to show up for the prom, it’s also a chance at a college scholarship. Duck Brand Duct Tape runs an annual contest for crafty couples who construct their own formal attire out of the company’s tape.
Above is a photograph of the 2008 Duck brand duct tape Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest Winners wearing the prom dresses they made out of duct tape. The unusual Stuck at Prom Contest challenges high school students to design prom dresses using duct tape for the chance to win up to $3,000 in scholarship money.
A duct tape dress is not only a quirky way to show up for the prom, it’s also a chance at a college scholarship. Duck Brand Duct Tape runs an annual contest for crafty couples who construct their own formal attire out of the company’s tape.