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Definition of monotonous - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: mo·not·o·nous
Pronunciation: m&-’nä-t&-n&s, -’nät-n&s
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek monotonos, from mon- tonos tone
1 : uttered or sounded in one unvarying tone : marked by a sameness of pitch and intensity
2 : tediously uniform or unvarying
- mo·not·o·nous·ly adverb
- mo·not·o·nous·ness noun
mostly because it is fun to type monotonous.  I suggest [...]

Scientists calculate how much money it costs to buy happiness | the Daily Mail
Marriage increases happiness levels by the same amount as earning an extra £54,000 a year, although, surprisingly, living together was worth more, at an extra £82,500. Meanwhile, chatting to your neighbours on a regular basis would make you as happy as getting [...]

Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek
10. Noisy doors.
You can’t walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They’re dead silent. If those doors went “wheet!” every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting [...]

The Times Tribune - AP News
The industry prefers the term “depopulate,” but no euphemism softens the raw reality of putting down birds by the tens of thousands. This may be done by electrocuting, gassing or chopping under international standards.
Yet, in a virulent outbreak, even these may be too slow and spare too many.
Its sorta like [...]

BBC NEWS | UK | Public ‘unaware’ of food origins
The Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF) organisation found 22% of 1,073 adults questioned did not know bacon and sausages originate from farms.
I almost refuse to believe this.  how can they not know wheat comes from farms? where do they think it comes from?

Burger King Back in Japan After 6 Years: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
The 370 yen ($3.05) Whopper, and even the more expensive 600 yen ($5) Double Whopper with cheese and bacon, are expected to fare better this time around because of a new trend among Japanese to favor pricier, high-calorie meals.
McDonald’s 350 yen ($2.90) MegaMac, [...]

YouTube - Avenue Q Fiddler on the Roof Everyone’s a Little Bit Jewish
Avenue Q Fiddler on the Roof Everyone’s a Little Bit Jewish
it is brilliant, and that about sums it up.

Regal Entertainment Group
When school’s out, kids around the country come to selected Regal Entertainment Group theatres for our Free Family Film Festival. It’s a fun-filled nine weeks of movies for kids and their parents.

definitely awesome of them, and apparently a bunch of theaters do the “free kids movies in the morning” thing during the summer.
via [...]

best of craigslist : An open letter to the Anaheimer who posted on Ottawa R&R
Thank you soooo much for your lovely posting about the upcoming Ducks/Sens finals. Your instincts are spot on, of course, for Canadians love to be belittled by Americans not only with respect to our national pastime but on the grounds of [...]