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The funniest quote I saw about the big winter storm;

"I’m going to get coffee, cigarettes and cat food,” Holly Vines of Little Rock told Reuters, “then I’m going to get my sable coat out of storage in case I have to sleep in it.”

That cracked me UP!!

I didn't even know about cobalt blue dangit!

Cobalt is so 2013. The Pantone color of 2014 is "radiant orchid." (And the crowd goes wild.)

 Researchers at MIT have discovered the world's hardest tongue twister. “Pad Kid Poured Curd Pulled Cold” is so hard to say, no test subjects could repeat it ten times fast. In fact, some people's brains shut down and they stopped talking altogether. Lead MIT researcher, Dr. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, will present her research on alternating repetitive tongue twisters at 166th meeting of the Acoustical Society Of America this week.    The reason no one can say this is because it's stupid. It doesn't make any sense at all. At least Peter Piper made sense! 

I don't even know what I can say about this;

What do the president of Syria, Pope Francis and Tea Party darling Ted Cruz have in common with Miley Cyrus and Edward Snowden, the American fugitive who leaked thousands of classified documents to the press?

They’re all among the top 10 finalists for Time’s Person of the Year, the magazine revealed Monday on TODAY.

The iconic title ultimately will go to the individual chosen by Time editors as someone who has, for better or worse, had the most impact on the world and the news for the past year.

This year’s short list includes a wide variety of finalists, from heads of state to Cyrus, who ranked high in the weekly magazine’s public poll. 

“Power is not just political. It can be cultural, it can be spiritual,” said Nancy Gibbs, Time’s managing editor. Cyrus “came in like a wrecking ball, literally” she said, referring to the entertainer's hit song and the risqué video that continued to keep her in the public spotlight. "At a time when you’re living with an explosion of exhibitionism since we all now carry cameras with us at all times, she is a symbol of the way we live.”

Time will announce Wednesday who it selected as 2013 Person of the Year on TODAY.