Jenny's Noodle

Samantha: Ladies, seamen, twelve o'clock!
Miranda: [to Carrie] I pray when I turn around, there are sailors, because with her, you never know!

• #996 Opening and sniffing a pack of tennis balls
• #933 The first scoop out of a jar of peanut butter
• #918 When you’re really tired and about to fall asleep and someone throws a blanket on you
• #905 Using all the different shampoos and soaps in someone else’s shower
• #822 When there’s still time left in the parking meter when you pull up
• #810 Returning to your warm and comfy bed after getting up to pee in the middle of the night
• #762 The moment at a restaurant after you see your food coming from the kitchen and before it lands on your table
• #720 The final seconds of untangling a really big knot
• #692 Eating the crusts of the sandwich first to save the middle part for last
• #656 When the plane suddenly speeds up on the runway
• #639 Carrying all the groceries in from the car in one big trip
• #612 Finally farting after the guests leave
• #547 Finding treasures in your Spring jacket pocket
• #513 Peeling that sticky glue off the back of your new credit card
• #508 Dropping your cell phone on the sidewalk and then realizing it’s totally fine

• "The ocean looks just a bit slimmer today. Dressing it in black really did the trick! #bpcares"
• "You know what they say about the ocean... Once it goes black it never goes back! JOKING - the water is brown."
• "Proud to announce that BP will be sponsoring the New Orleans Blues Festival this summer w/ special tribute to Muddy Waters."

 

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- The Cheesecake Factory’s Pasta Carbonara

- The Cheesecake Factory’s Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake

- PF Chang’s Double Pan-Fried Noodles Combo

- Outback Steakhouse’s New Zealand Rack of Lamb

- Chevys’ Crab & Shrimp Quesadilla

- California Pizza Kitchen’s Tostada Pizza

- California Pizza Kitchen’s Pesto Cream Penne

- Bob Evans’ Cinnamon Cream Stacked & Stuffed Hotcakes

- Five Guys Bacon Cheeseburger

1. Game designer Toru Iwatani created Pac-Man with the ladies in mind. Historically, most video games were aggressive and targeted toward men, so Iwatani planned Pac-Man around the concept of "Let's have girls in game arcades."

2. The name Pac-Man comes from the onomatopoeic eating sound paku-paku often heard in Asian cartoons ("paku" is the Japanese sound for "chomp").

3. Originally, the Japanese game was called "Puck-man," but American arcade owners were concerned that vandals would chip off part of the "P" to create an "F" (forming a common expletive).

4. Pac-Man's shape emerged after Iwatani removed one slice from a pizza. (Side note: I mostly recall playing Pac-Man at Pizza Hut...no wonder!)

5. Illustrators made Pac-Man yellow because the color is perceived as neutral and peaceful.

6. In the initial version, instead of eating white dots, Pac-Man ate cookies; the ghosts—Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde—were called monsters.

7. There are 244 dots in the maze, and Pac-Man must eat them all in order to proceed to the next round. The 240 small dots are worth ten points each, the four large, flashing dots are worth 50 points each, and each bonus item (cherry, strawberry, orange, apple, pineapple, Galaxian spaceship, bell, or key) is worth 100-5,000 points.

8. The game idea of eating power-pellets and powering up to defeat the evil ghosts was inspired by Popeye eating spinach to defeat Bluto. The business world has adopted a similar strategy, known as the Pac-Man defense; this occurs when a defending company protects against a hostile takeover by swallowing the larger company.

9. Pac-Man merch includes over 400 products: a cartoon, a breakfast cereal, a hit song, pasta, lunchboxes, bedspreads and apparel, among others.

10. In 1999, 33-year-old Billy Mitchell of Florida navigated through the game's 256 boards to become the first player to achieve a perfect Pac-Man score—3,333,360.