Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

The history of Africa’s Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) is tragic and violent, any way you slice it. The once blessedly forgotten corner of the continent was claimed by Leopold II of Belgium in order to exploit its rich rubber resources, and the lives of the people there would never be the...

2017 has officially begun. What better way to kick 2016 out the door (finally) than with some hilarious tweets predicting what will come to be in 2017? Hashtag Wars and the @Midnight viewers put their own spin on their thoughts (and hopes?) for the new year below – enjoy! #15. Additional prediction: “GRRM tries to...

It was a simple recipe: A cake with rainbow numbers inside of it. Posted rather innocuously on the internet, just one more helpful, cute pastry that a regular person would try and fail to make look anything like the picture. Then the comment section happened. It started out nicely enough, with an innocent question. But...

It’s that time again – the time Jimmy Fallon gets Twitter users to spill their deepest, darkest secrets in order to make people laugh. This week, it’s the dumbest lie they’ve ever told with #MyDumbLie. Some of them are pretty easy to relate to, but others…not so much. #15. Awww, way to throw yourself on...

What makes a marriage last has long been a topic of fascination for professionals and laypeople alike – probably because those of us who are married would like to know what the trick is, so we don’t have to do it a bunch of times before getting it right. While today we recognize that there’s...

To the rest of the world, America can sometimes seem like a bit much, I suppose. We definitely like to do things our own way, we don’t often think about stopping to explain anything, and a lot of times we assume that everyone else operates with the same worldview we do…and when people aren’t on...

If you need a lesson on how to stop a worrisome corpse from rising again, look no further than this recent archaeological dig in Poland. Now, we all know that Eastern Europe is famous for its belief in vampirism (hello, Vlad the Impaler), but these graves really give us a good visual on not only...

I don’t really have anything to say about this except enjoy these threads! Because the people on Tumblr have already said it all, and then some. #7. Are you the friend or the Nick? #6. Cleverbot may have been misnamed.   #5. ……..

Um, they’re hilarious, and too, too, true. If you’re worried about his privacy or man feelings or whatever, don’t – he’s the one who found and uploaded them! Because, after all, good humor should be available for the world to enjoy, as well as being a quality one looks for in a life partner. Just...

And the results, predictably, are hilarious. Seriously, those autocorrect posts have nothing on these – read them and and just tell me you don’t agree. You also might want to make sure your door is closed at the office, because guffaws are imminent. #15. The friendship is strong with this one. #14. Yeah, guessing that...

Way, way back in the year 2000, Steve Pankhurst and Jason Porter co-founded a social networking site in the UK called Friends Reunited. In the days before Facebook, the site gave old friends the opportunity to find one another and reconnect. It was a success, too. It exploded, attracting over 23 million users before being sold...

So, a lot of people don’t really appreciate the Saw movies. They’re often dismissed as gory torture porn, but according to the list below, maybe we haven’t been giving the filmmakers enough credit for their clever insertions of film references (at least in the first movie). Go ahead and insert (heh) your own TWSS there,...

If you’re like me, you don’t even want to know people who claim to not have read or seen the Harry Potter series. It’s not possible that someone can claim such a thing and still have good taste in, well…anything. Right? If you’ve clicked on this link, though, you’re clearly good people. You want to know...

Language. It’s so interesting, and so ingrained in us even before we’re born. We hear and start to acclimate while still in the womb, but what happens when we’re born into one culture and then find ourselves adopted into another (different language included)? Well, a lengthy Canadian study set out to discover exactly that, using a...

In this week’s installment of the Hashtag Game, Jimmy Fallon asked his viewers to confess things that they feel people would judge them for if they knew they did them on a regular basis. Well…I might be inclined to judge some of these people. Others? I’m just impressed. You decide which is which, from these 15...