Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy has been an Internet based writer for the past seven years.
It's a scenario which has played out in countless homes over the years. The kids want a puppy, but the dad isn't so sure it's a good idea.
But when the Cordell girls, Cadence, 12, and Emerson, 9, went to their father Ryan with their canine request, he added a social media clause -- he would get his daughters a dog if they could get one million likes on Facebook.
Language teacher Maria C. Waltherr-Willard suffers from pedophobia, which means she is afraid of young children. When the 61-year-old is in the presence of the little tykes she experiences symptoms which include anxiety, chest pains and vomiting.
When those sugar peddlers in green sashes come to your door this Girl Scout cookie season there will be a new treat on the menu.
Back when Facebook was just about college students and the recently graduated it was great for getting back in touch with high school friends that you had lost contact with for a few years. But now that everybody and their grandmother is on the social network, the reunions Facebook enables have started to become really impressive.
Most Subway sandwich shops don't have ketchup. While it may seem weird that a fast food chain would ignore such a popular condiment, when you consider Subway doesn't offer burgers or fries it makes more sense.
For the past seven years, Doritos has sponsored a 'Crash The Super Bowl' contest in which amateur ad-makers compete to have their 30 second spots for the tortilla chips played during the big game. For 2013's Super Bowl commercial, the competition is fierce.
In ‘Harry and the Hendersons,’ a family thinks they've run over a sasquatch on the way home from a camping trip. However, it turns out the beast, who they strap to the roof of their car, survived the accident and develops a relationship with the family while being pursued by a famed Big Foot hunter.
Peter Welsh and Dwayne Doolan really wanted to steal some jewels on New Year's Eve. So the Australians first threw spark plugs at the windows of Wrights Classique Jewellers in Queensland in hopes that would break them in. When that didn't work, they tried to barge in through the back door -- only to find themselves in the neighboring Animal Welfare League.
When Cameron Crowe was a young writer at Rolling Stone magazine he went undercover for a year at a high school in San Diego, an experience that became a book called 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High.' Crowe then adopted his tale into a screenplay, and thus was born the Amy Heckerling-directed movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High.'
It all started when a customer at a Tim Horton's coffee shop in Winnipeg, Canada decided to spread some holiday cheer by also footing the bill for the next customer in line.
But instead of putting their money away, the customer who just got free coffee chose to use the cash on the next person in line. And, suddenly, an epic "pay it forward" chain had begun.
These days, most folks on a search for love turn to Match.com or a similar internet dating site. If you're a nudist like this dude, though, you might need to try a less traditional tactic.
A JCPenney in Vero Beach, Florida has been victimized by what the media is calling the Spanx Bandit.