CHANCES:
That you bought something on Cyber Monday – 39%
That Cyber Monday will lead to a new Xmas season retail day known as “Returns Saturday” -77%
Monday, November 26, 2012
CHANCES:
That there will be at least a dozen play reviews in an NFL game – 48%
That one day soon, instead of watching the game, we’ll just watch the wrap up of the refs as they finish watching a replay of the entire game, just to see them say, “After reviewing the whole game, the rulings on the field stand. The final score remains…” – 86%
That there will be at least a dozen play reviews in an NFL game – 48%
That one day soon, instead of watching the game, we’ll just watch the wrap up of the refs as they finish watching a replay of the entire game, just to see them say, “After reviewing the whole game, the rulings on the field stand. The final score remains…” – 86%
Monday, November 19, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
CHANCES:
That Obama was the winner of the debate if you’re a democrat
– 100%
That Romney won the debate if you’re a Republican – 100%
That they both proved their Presidential capacity for
restraint by never once reaching for a glass of water sitting at their side –
100%
That Paul Ryan would ever pass the restraint test - .05%
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
CHANCES:
That the coupon you have cannot be used for items on sale,
like the item you want – 64%
That the coupon you have cannot be combined with another
coupon you want to use – 86%
That the coupon you have expired yesterday - 16%
That the coupon you have is good only if you spend another
$135 more than you want – 41%
That you can actually use the coupon – 2%
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’ll immediately figure out how the shower faucet
works in your hotel room – 23%
That you’ll try for 20 minutes trying to get water to come
out – 31%
That you’ll call the front desk and they’ll send up a guy
and you’ll have to get dressed and after seeing how it
is done, you’ll slap
yourself in the forehead – 68%
That it will only take you 12 minutes to turn it on the next
day – 54%
Sunday, September 30, 2012
CHANCES:
That a ½ mile before your highway exit, someone will be doing 50 in the right hand lane – 81%
That you’ll try to go around them to pick up the extra 7/10 of a second - 68%
That the guy in the passing lane will be going too slow to allow that and you’ll end up falling right back behind the slow moving car – 39%
That if that never happens to you, you wonder why cars are always right on your tail when you’re going a decent 50 MPH - 19%
That a ½ mile before your highway exit, someone will be doing 50 in the right hand lane – 81%
That you’ll try to go around them to pick up the extra 7/10 of a second - 68%
That the guy in the passing lane will be going too slow to allow that and you’ll end up falling right back behind the slow moving car – 39%
That if that never happens to you, you wonder why cars are always right on your tail when you’re going a decent 50 MPH - 19%
Monday, September 24, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
CHANCES:
That the only seat available
on the bus will be the handicapped seat – 12%
That you’ll sit in it but
will have to give it up to a handicapped or elderly person by the next stop –
44%
That someone ambiguously
disabled will come by -11%
That you’ll offer up your
seat only to have them get angry at you for thinking they are disabled or so elderly that they need it when they don’t
think they do – 19%
Monday, August 27, 2012
CHANCES:
That your kids appreciate you – 12%
That they’ll appreciate you when they have their own kids –
74%
That, when you’re honest about it, you admit that you’re
just winging it when it comes to parenting – 97%
That it had ever dawned on you that your parents had no idea
what they were doing either – 9%
That that’s what you’re counting on with your kids too – 96%
Thursday, August 23, 2012
CHANCES:
That your cellphone conversation will be dropped in the
middle of it – 7%
That they call back – 25%
That you call back – 25%
That you both call back at the same time and each get the
voicemail – 25%
That neither of you call back and you never finish the
conversation - 25%
That you’re both happiest at that outcome – 77%
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
CHANCES:
That just like in the movies you’ll beat the train across
the railroad tracks – 0%
That just like in the movies you’ll be able to jump from the
top of one building to the top of another – 0%
That just like in the movies you can hang on to a window
ledge by your fingertips for more than 20 seconds – 0%
That just like in the movies you can jump and roll from a
moving train and get up and be OK – 0%
That just like in the movies you can do it from a moving car
– 0%
That just like in the movies you can hold your breath
underwater for a minute and a half – 0%
That when you see any of these things in the movies you will
think, “I could do that if I had to” –
Men -88%, Women - .03%
Thursday, August 9, 2012
CHANCES:
That at some point during the day you can’t find your cellphone – 29%
That you try calling it from the land line to locate it by the ring – 88%
That the ringer on your phone is off and you don’t hear it – 41%
That later you can’t find the portable phone you used to try calling your cell and would call that if only you could find your cell – 27%
That at some point during the day you can’t find your cellphone – 29%
That you try calling it from the land line to locate it by the ring – 88%
That the ringer on your phone is off and you don’t hear it – 41%
That later you can’t find the portable phone you used to try calling your cell and would call that if only you could find your cell – 27%
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’ll absentmindedly put your groceries in someone else’s cart -8%
That you won’t realize it until check out – 4%
That the person whose cart you took is wandering the store thinking they have lost their mind -39%
That they’ve issued an APB for a stolen cart and you’ll have a SWAT team on you at check out - 18%
That you’ll absentmindedly put your groceries in someone else’s cart -8%
That you won’t realize it until check out – 4%
That the person whose cart you took is wandering the store thinking they have lost their mind -39%
That they’ve issued an APB for a stolen cart and you’ll have a SWAT team on you at check out - 18%
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
CHANCES:
That the return portion of the bill
will tear off at the perforation – 17%
That there isn’t a worthwhile
perforation and you just rip jagged edges trying to get it off – 26%
That the bill will be folded just
below the perforation and tear there instead, so it is just a ¼ inch too big to
fit in the envelope and you’ve got to spend 15 minutes looking for a pair of
scissors to cut that little portion off, but when you can’t find them you try
manually ripping it and get so frustrated that you just don’t pay your bill and
the next month you wonder why you have all these extra fees for non-payment and
you spend an hour on the phone with them trying to get the fees removed by
arguing that it’s their fault because they can’t fold a damn bill where it’s
supposed to be folded – 57%
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
CHANCES:
That with the warmer weather you’re sleeping with windows
open – 82%
That you forgot that open windows tend to blow bedroom doors
open and shut through the night – 77%
That you remembered at 2:00 AM with a loud bang – 77%
That you bothered to get out of bed to solve the problem on
the first bang – 19%
That it took until the fifth time before you got out of bed
to fix it – 81%
That you wonder why you seem to be more tired in the
summertime – 68%
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
CHANCES:
That the restaurant will have your reservation – 84%
That you’ll have to wait for a table anyway – 35%
That people who came in after you will get seated before you
– 41%
That when you finally get seated the waiter will bring a
free appetizer to appease you – 29%
That it will be something you wouldn’t have wanted anyway –
93%
That you won’t look close enough at the bill to realize they
charged you for it – 66%
Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’ll pull up close enough to the ATM to easily access
it – 53%
That you’ll be leaning out the window far enough that you
could fall out – 12%
That you’ll have to open your door and walk to the ATM from
where you stopped – 19%
That you’ll back up, realign and knock your side view mirror
off in the process – 11%
That going in to the bank would save time, effort and fuel –
91%
That you’ll do that next time – 3%
Monday, May 14, 2012
CHANCES:
That you will find a dead mouse in the trap you set in the
morning – 72%
That you’ll find a live one, only wounded – 14%
That you’ll try to figure out some way to put it out of its
misery – 4%
That unless you have a gun you won’t be able to do anything
– 88%
That you’ll bandage it up and set it free – 0%
That you’ll shut the drawer and hope it’s dead by the next
day and in the meantime say you’re keeping him there as a warning for the other
mice – 43%
Friday, May 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
CHANCES:
That you can turn the pages of the Sunday Times Magazine
without them sticking together – 8%
That licking a finger will get stuck pages apart – 14%
That licking a finger on each hand and then moving the pages
in opposite directions will get them apart – 29%
That directly licking the pages will get them apart – 38%
That you’ll want to read the magazine with all that slobber
all over it – 1%
Monday, April 23, 2012
CHANCES:
That there will be a parking space close to where you are going –
21%
That you will spend more time driving around looking for a
space than it would have taken you to walk from the farthest space there is -
46%
That there will be one car taking up two spaces – 93%
That that car will be an SUV or larger vehicle – 77%
Thursday, April 19, 2012
CHANCES:
That I’ll find a dead mouse with a trap I set – 62%
That the mouse will eat the peanut butter and manage to not
set off the trap – 31%
That the mouse will only get his foot caught and I’ll find
him alive but stuck – 8%
That I won’t know what to do with him and toss him in the
back yard – 81%
That he’ll start a rehabilitated life in my backyard with a
trap attached to his foot – 3%
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’ll sit in the doctor’s waiting room for:
10 minutes –10%
20 minutes – 20%
30 minutes - 40%
That if you didn’t wait 30 minutes in the waiting room,
you’ll wait the difference in the exam room – 42%
That the doctor will spend so little time with you, you’ll
wonder why he’s ever late – 53%
Friday, April 6, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
CHANCES:
That you forgot to pick up one key ingredient when you did your grocery shopping – 40%
That you realize it before you start cooking - .0001%
That it’s an essential ingredient – 98%
That the neighbor has it in his/her cupboard – 14%
That when you go back to the store to get it they are out of it – 9%
That you realize when you get back home that you had a coupon for it – 11%
That the coupon was expired – 68%
That all your coupons except the one for $1 off five cans of cat food have expired – 30%
That your cat has expired - .07%
That you forgot to pick up one key ingredient when you did your grocery shopping – 40%
That you realize it before you start cooking - .0001%
That it’s an essential ingredient – 98%
That the neighbor has it in his/her cupboard – 14%
That when you go back to the store to get it they are out of it – 9%
That you realize when you get back home that you had a coupon for it – 11%
That the coupon was expired – 68%
That all your coupons except the one for $1 off five cans of cat food have expired – 30%
That your cat has expired - .07%
Friday, March 23, 2012
CHANCES:
That those bumps are just a rash caused by a reaction to the
new laundry detergent – 6%
That those bumps were caused by a bedbug - 8%
That those bumps were caused by a nastier, poisonous bug and
your rash is likely to spread over your whole body before it kills you – 16%
That you’ll still have mystifying bumps after fumigating the
whole house and seeking medical treatment – 61%
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
CHANCES:
That with the time change you’re a little groggy today – 65%
That you appreciate the extra daylight in the evening – 71%
That the cows need milking and the damn rooster crows with the sun so what the hell difference does it make what time it says on a clock – 11%
That you live in Arizona and don’t know what time change I’m talking about – 4%
That with the time change you’re a little groggy today – 65%
That you appreciate the extra daylight in the evening – 71%
That the cows need milking and the damn rooster crows with the sun so what the hell difference does it make what time it says on a clock – 11%
That you live in Arizona and don’t know what time change I’m talking about – 4%
Friday, March 9, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’re a pessimist – 50%
That you think the odds are worse than that – 50%
That by worse you meant larger than 50% - 50%
That if you said you thought they were worse and you did mean larger that you are a pessimist – 99%
That you’re an optimist – 50%
That you’re an optometrist - .05%
That you know the difference between the two – 64%
That you’re a pessimist – 50%
That you think the odds are worse than that – 50%
That by worse you meant larger than 50% - 50%
That if you said you thought they were worse and you did mean larger that you are a pessimist – 99%
That you’re an optimist – 50%
That you’re an optometrist - .05%
That you know the difference between the two – 64%
CHANCES:
That you can get some followers by predicting the end of the world – 23%
That the closer the prediction the more followers you’ll get – 73%
That if you predict it will happen in a couple of trillion years you’ve got a better chance of being right – 94%
That there’s any benefit to actually being right – 0%
That you can get some followers by predicting the end of the world – 23%
That the closer the prediction the more followers you’ll get – 73%
That if you predict it will happen in a couple of trillion years you’ve got a better chance of being right – 94%
That there’s any benefit to actually being right – 0%
Thursday, March 8, 2012
CHANCES:
That you can get some followers by predicting the end of the world – 23%
That the closer the prediction the more followers you’ll get – 73%
That if you predict it will happen in a couple of trillion years you’ve got a better chance of being right – 94%
That there’s any benefit to actually being right – 0%
That you can get some followers by predicting the end of the world – 23%
That the closer the prediction the more followers you’ll get – 73%
That if you predict it will happen in a couple of trillion years you’ve got a better chance of being right – 94%
That there’s any benefit to actually being right – 0%
Friday, March 2, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’ll miss filling in a box required when purchasing something online – 68%
That when you get sent back to the page to fill out the missing info, it will automatically delete other info, which you won’t notice you have to refill, so you’ll get sent back to the same page a third time – 86%
That after 5 attempts you’ll still want the item you were trying to purchase – 11%
That you’ll miss filling in a box required when purchasing something online – 68%
That when you get sent back to the page to fill out the missing info, it will automatically delete other info, which you won’t notice you have to refill, so you’ll get sent back to the same page a third time – 86%
That after 5 attempts you’ll still want the item you were trying to purchase – 11%
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
CHANCES:
That your credit card company will call in any given month suspecting fraud – 57%
That you’ll recognize the charges as yours – 15%
That you’ll clearly realize it is fraud – 15%
That you’ll need to check, because it’s possible that you or your spouse did buy all that – 70%
That when you realize it was you, you’ll have a serious discussion about curbing your spending – 80%
That anything will change – 2%
Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Been away for a week or so. Did you miss me? Or thankful for the lack of notifications? Here's one I missed the chance on earlier but with another primary today, I'll list it.
CHANCES:
That you can fool all of the people some of the time – 95%
That you can fool some of the people all of the time – 95%
That the second group lives predominantly in S. Carolina – 40%
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
CHANCES:
That you’ll be solicited by nieces, nephews and neighbors for various school, after-school or sports team endeavors to buy:
Magazines you don’t need – 21%
Candy or baked goods you don’t want – 31%
Gift wrap you can’t use – 19%
Coupon booklets to places you’ll never go – 28%
Illicit drugs or gambling – 1%
Monday, January 23, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
CHANCES:
That you took out the garbage even though it was a holiday – 18%
That as you took it out you noticed that only one other person had their garbage out – 50%
That it still didn’t register – 28%
That you pulled your garbage back in this morning so people don’t realize what an idiot you are – 9%
That you pulled it back in so people wouldn’t think you’re from Arizona and are protesting MLK day – 84%
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
CHANCES:
That you rinse and repeat -12%
That you rinse without repeating, knowing that it’s just a scam by the shampoo makers to get you to use more shampoo - 77%
That sometimes, with all the stuff you have to do in the shower, you forget whether you’ve shampooed or not and might be unintentionally repeating – 11%
Monday, January 9, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
CHANCES:
That you had a relaxing vacation, but are glad to be back – 6%
That you had a relaxing vacation and wish you didn’t have to be back -12%
That you had a frazzled vacation and are glad to be back -14%
That you never left -28%
That you’d prefer it if the holidays didn’t include all those holidays – 62%
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