Category: 2000s

Yo, Yao Ming wants to write a check

Visa Inc., commonly called VISA, is a multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California, USA.

A cheque (spelled check in American English) is a negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specified demand account held in the maker/depositor’s name with that institution.

Yao [Ming] was the only child of 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Yao Zhiyuan and 6 ft 3 in (1.90 m) Fang Fengdi, both of whom were former professional basketball players.

Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–1963, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees.

“Yo” is an American English slang interjection. It was highly popularized after being commonly used among Italian Americans and African Americans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

U Can’t Touch This Hallmark Card

Hallmark Cards is a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States.

Father’s Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers.

[Hammer’s] second album, 1990’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, included the smash single “U Can’t Touch This”, which sampled Rick James’ 1981 hit “Super Freak”. Interestingly, despite heavy airplay, “U Can’t Touch This” stopped at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the fact that it was released only as a twelve-inch single.

All-Bran Ten Day Construction Worker Challenge

All-Bran is a very high-bran, high-fibre, wheat bran breakfast cereal manufactured by Kellogg’s and marketed as an aid to digestive health.

Kellogg’s was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work with his brother John Harvey Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium following practices based on the Seventh-day Adventist Christian denomination.

Construction workers are employed in the construction industry and work predominately on construction sites and are typically engaged in aspects of the industry other than design or finance. The term includes general construction workers, also referred to as labourers and members of specialist trades such as electricians, carpenters and plumbers.

Berlitz Toupée

French is today spoken around the world by 72 to 130 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 600 million people as a second or third language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language originated, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland.

The Berlitz school teaches languages using what it claims to be its own “Berlitz Method of language instruction.” This “method” is, in fact, a variation on the direct method and what later became popularised as the audio lingual method

A toupée is a hairpiece or partial wig of natural or synthetic hair worn to cover partial baldness.

Sometimes It’s OK To Cry Over Carl’s Jr. Chicken Jalepeno Sandwich

The jalapeno is a medium to large size chili pepper which is prized for the warm, burning sensation when eaten. Ripe, the jalapeno can be 2–3½ inches (5–9 cm) long and is commonly sold when still green.

Prior to about 1910, chicken was served primarily on special occasions or Sunday dinner. Poultry was shipped live or killed, plucked, and packed on ice but not eviscerated.

In several Western U.S. locations, Carl’s Jr. parent CKE has begun operating co-branded restaurants with its Green Burrito group. This is a similar strategy used by Yum! Brands with its KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silvers concepts to help expand brands without the additional expense of new buildings and land.

I think we accidentally kissed Snickers

On February 4, 2007, during Super Bowl XLI, Snickers commercials aired which resulted in complaints by gay and lesbian groups against the maker of the candy bar, Masterfoods USA of Hackettstown, New Jersey, a division of Mars, Incorporated. The commercial, which had four alternate endings, showed a pair of auto mechanics accidentally touching lips while sharing a Snickers bar.

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear, and is also related to religious beliefs.