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One of the things I love about McDonalds is that, everywhere you go, it’s pretty much the same.  When I was in Paris, and I got Le Big Mac, I knew what to expect.  But that’s not to say that the menu isn’t localized for the audience.  Take, for example, McDonalds Japan.  They take the […]

This will be the last Christmas prank we’ll feature on PopFi, but without a doubt it’s the best one so far.  When Louie Saunders was out of town, his friend Adal Rifai and 15 other people used the spare key to let themselves into Saunders’ apartment.  Once inside, they took 35 rolls of wrapping paper […]

We all make mistakes.  From the Smithsonian to the sign maker, everyone screws up now and again.  I’ve done it here at PopFi numbers of times, on a variety of different stories.  Most of them are generally typos, as I’m very careful about getting names right when I write posts here.  However, I’m not infallible, […]

Some interesting news this morning.  If you’re in the New York City metropolitan area and you’re looking to buy yourself an iPhone with your after-Christmas holiday cash, you’ll have to buy it at a brick and mortar location.  The AT&T website will not sell iPhones to citizens of the Big Apple.  New York has been […]

Want to know where Santa is right now?  Every year, NORAD tracks Santa’s progress, and this year, you can follow along with the official NORAD Santa Tracker, powered by Google Earth!  Right now Santa is over the border of Russia and China, and he seems to be making good time. The tradition of NORAD tracking […]

A 39-year-old man had a very narrow escape from a bullet-related death last weekend.  Police in Lancaster, Pennsylvania say the man was driving in his car when he was fired upon on Sunday evening.  The bullets ripped through his automobile, and one even hit the man.  Fortunately for him, his belt stopped the bullet.  Must’ve […]

It’s the anti-Christmas, so it goes without saying that I love it to a disturbing degree.  Everything about Festivus, the holiday invented by the Costanza family on that classic sitcom Seinfeld, is just perfect in its insanity.  From the unadorned aluminum pole known as the Festivus pole to the feats of strength and the airing […]

Europe has some very strange holiday customs.  For example, Krampus.  There’s also the Yule goat, which since 1966 has been erected in Gavle, Sweden.  In Swedish custom, before Santa Claus became popular in the 20th Century, men dressed as goats and gave out presents to good children.  To remind folks of this custom, an ad […]

When Kang Wannian was out gathering freshwater clams near the tiny village of Mengla, Yunnan Province on the Chinese border with Laos, he spotted something unusual.  It was a rare Indochinese tiger, one of only 1000 in all of Asia, and possibly the only one in China.  He did what any reasonable person would do […]

Meet George.  Giant George, that is.  This blue Great Dane is, quite possibly, the largest dog in the world.  Yes, even larger than Boomer the Molosser, the previous largest dog in the world.  This big beast is 7 feet, 3 inches long, 43 inches tall at the shoulder, and weighs an impressive 245 pounds!  Every […]

It’s no secret that I love all manner of horror and brutality in my movies, and nothing hits my anti-Christmas streak like a good, old-fashioned Christmas slasher movie.  That’s why I love those awful old pictures like Silent Night Deadly Night and Jack Frost.  It’s not that they’re good (they’re not); it’s that they’re perversions […]

While the Internet has a history dating back to the 1960’s, in many ways it didn’t become a part of people’s lives until the spread of broadband brought it to homes in the early 2000’s.  Once it took off, it sunk its claws deep into the global psyche.  These days, people can’t function without the […]