Monday Music Rewind: Nada Surf

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“Popular” is a 1996 song by Nada Surf and the first single from their debut album High/Low. Each of the verses in ‘”Popular” presents, in spoken word format, sarcastic advice to teens. The whole song, except for the chorus, are parts made up from the 1964 teen advice book Penny’s Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity, written by television actress Gloria Winters. The excerpts are spoken in a sarcastic tone by Matthew Caws.


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27 other uses for coffee filters

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  1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.
  2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome… Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.
  3. Protect fine china by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.
  4. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
  5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
  6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
  7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
  8. Use a little baking soda in a coffee filter as way deodorizing smelly sneakers.
  9. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
  10. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
  11. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.
  12. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping everywhere. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
  13. Use strips of coffee filters to wax your eyebrows.
  14. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease.
  15. Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”
  16. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliquéing soft fabrics.
  17. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to
  18. absorb or prevent odors.
  19. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.
  20. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
  21. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.
  22. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.
  23. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.
  24. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
  25. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a zip-lock plastic bag until they sprout.
  26. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book.
  27. Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.

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Colander chopping board

I gotta get this colander chopping board.

Colander chopping board

Rinse&Chop™ Plus is the latest version of this hugely popular, folding chopping board. The functional chopping board incorporates an improved, curved colander feature and a non-slip base. When folded and locked, its unique, innovative design creates a small colander at one end enabling food to be rinsed and drained. When opened and laid flat the design becomes a knife-friendly, non-slip chopping board. $15 on Amazon.

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Here is amateur video footage capturing the Texas fertilizer plant explosion in Waco, Texas. Police say between 5 to 15 people were killed and more than 160 have been injured.

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C’mon Coolio. The Fantastic Voyage has come to an end.

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While shopping at Costco…

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Would this drawing make it to the refrigerator?

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More hilarious kid drawings.

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Give me an “Ouch!”