Good week, Bad week
Good week for: Laugh tracks, Netflix diet, Adam Paul Causgrove; Bad week for: Human kindness, Thinking like a 19-year-old, Overdoing it
Good week for:
Laugh tracks, after David Letterman filmed an episode of The Late Show in front of an empty theater in New York City during Hurricane Sandy. The
Netflix diet, after British scientists found that a person watching a horror movie burns up to 113 calories in 90 minutes due to elevated adrenaline and metabolic levels.
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Adam Paul Causgrove of Pittsburgh, after his “sexually dynamic” handlebar got him named the American Mustache Institute’s 2012 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year. “This is the single greatest moment of my life, and that’s not an exaggeration,” said Causgrove, 28.
Bad week for:
Human kindness, after Michael Vercher of Woodstock, Ga., posted an online ad saying his family was giving away some of its furniture for free before moving. People showed up in droves, and ransacked the house for everything the Verchers owned.
Thinking like a 19-year-old, after two University of Colorado students jumped out of a third-floor window to escape police, who were breaking up a wild party. “I’m the golden child and I don’t want to get in trouble,” explained student Daniela Santana Aguilar, who broke her wrist in the fall.
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Overdoing it, after 4-year-old Abigael Evans of Fort Collins, Colo.—a battleground state—began sobbing after hearing yet another political ad on her mom’s car radio. “I’m tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney,” said the sobbing girl.
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