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Picture It! Japan Celebrates the Kanamara Festival

GiggleSugar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:57:49 -0700

Nothing says fertility like a giant pink penis - am I right, ladies? At least, that's how they celebrate fertility in Kawasaki, Japan, during the Kanamara Festival held during cherry blossom season.

Men dress as women in pink, and women enjoy phallus-shaped candy, all with the goal of raising AIDS awareness and bringing harmony to married couples. It looks sort of like a big, coed bachelorette party. Sign me up! And be sure to check out more pics below - including some very tantalizing radishes.

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A Sign From God?

GiggleSugar — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:00:30 -0700

I've seen bacon floss and a bacon scarf, but bacon blessed by Jesus? I bet it's a lot tastier than holy water.

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Product of the Day: Easter Bunny Glo Popcifier

GiggleSugar — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:17:29 -0700

For the raver who celebrates Easter! Sure, Katie Sugar looked longingly at this candy when I walked by, but this toy (for ages five and up) isn't designed for paci-aged kids.

Perhaps this light-up lollipop/pacifier has the best intentions, but I can't shake my mental image of some clubber kid whiling away his Sunday ecstasy roll by sucking on the Easter bunny's head.

WTF?!

GiggleSugar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0700

What's wrong with this restaurant homepage? I'll give you a hint: I'm pretty sure it's not usually on a sushi menu.

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OMG, Mom, You're Embarrassing Me!

GiggleSugar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0700

You know how you see famous people, and unless you have a picture to prove it, your friends are kinda like, "Yeah, whatever. Sure." Or they believe you and it blows over? Maybe you should do what this woman did at a diner in Boardman, OH. She saw the Obamas and the Bidens having breakfast, and figured, "If I don't crawl on the floor in front of their table and get a picture, no one will believe me!" You kinda can't blame this crazy woman for doing this, although I had to wonder, where the hell is Secret Service?

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My Permanent Expression

GiggleSugar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:02:00 -0700

On the left, a dramatic reenactment of my everyday expression. On the right, the world bombarding me with annoyances.

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Tressed to Ill

GiggleSugar — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Dude. This is sooo meta.

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TresSugar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:00:00 -0700

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A Joke Can Cure a Bad Mood - But Why May Surprise You

TresSugar — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:00:00 -0700

We all know that when we're in a bad mood, a joke can temporarily lift our spirits. But Dutch researchers set out to figure out precisely why. And although you may think, as many researchers do, that it's because positive emotions counteract negative ones - the researchers set out to prove that it's more than that.

They showed a group of men and women a series of pictures. First, they were shown negative images, and then two kinds of positive stimuli - funny and nonfunny. More people said that their moods were lifted by the funny stimuli (the jokes) than the merely positive stimuli.

The reason, according to the researchers, is in the actual cognitive work it takes for us to "get" a joke. Take this joke, for example. A terrified father calls a doctor and tells him, "Doctor, my child just swallowed a fountain pen!" When the doctor tells him he'll rush right over and asks, "What are you doing in the meantime?" The father replies: "Using a pencil."

Figuring out the punch-line is the kind of distraction that can make us feel better. "What they are suggesting is that humor," says Ed Dunkelblau, PhD, a psychologist and past president of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, "is an effective way to redirect anxiety."

So let's toast to (corny) jokes that make our brains work a little harder!

Ruh Roh!

GiggleSugar — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:02:00 -0700

Looks like someone couldn't afford to pay a photo agency for the actual celebrity photo. Nice substitute.

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