radio showprep: 5 things a guy should never say to a woman, your kid wants an ipad for school, and what google thinks of your state

Show Starters Friday 08/17/12

cuttin' cake

• New Kid Donnie Wahlberg is 43
• Sean Penn turns 52 (I never knew he was younger than Madonna!  Gnarly!)
• Robert DeNiro is 69 (cape fear)
• Belinda Carlisle is 54 (she describes her band, the go-go's)

new flicks opening today

The Expendables 2 w/ Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and more... This looks really, really cool.

ParaNorman Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Sparkle stars Jordan Sparks and Whitney Houston

primetime friday

abc: 20/20 is new with extreme parenting and "when animals strike back"
cbs: Teachers Rock, a concert honoring teachers featuring Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Fun, Josh Groban, and Garth Brooks
nbc: Dateline is new at 10pm
fox: preseason football featuring the Lions visiting the Ravens
cw:  all reruns tonight

pop quiz:  friday mash-up

What do these three songs have in common?

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• Waiting for a Star to Fall (Boy Meets Girl)
• Don't Rush Me (Taylor Dayne)
• Toy Soldiers (Martika)

They were all hits the same year...what year?

1987, 1989, or 1991?

Answer:  1989!

pop quiz 2

9% of women say they would do (this) to please a guy...what?

Answer:  Change their hair color! http://www.glamour.com/beauty/blogs/girls-in-the-beauty-department/2012/08/would-you-change-your-hair-col.html

joke of the day

Two classmates were chatting in their lunch break...
"I know how to get money real quick" says one,” how?"
"go to your dad and say, "I know the truth" and he'll give you money"
So the young boy went home and said "dad, I know the truth" and
his dad gave him ten dollars and told him not to tell anyone 'the truth'.
He then went to his mother, " Mom, I know the truth” he said.
"Please don't tell your dad" she said and gave him twenty dollars.
Content with thirty dollars he went outside to go to the arcade and saw the milkman. "I know the truth,” he shouted out.
The milkman replied "Well come and hug your real father then"

What Guys Should Never Say to Women

5 things a guy shouldn't say to a girl from CollegeCandy.com

• Have you ever considered getting plastic surgery?
• You remind me of my mother
• That's nonsense!
• Good girl!
• Men aren't programmed for monogamy

Facebook/Phones:  Ladies -- your turn -- what do you wish men would stop saying?

There are 13, get the rest here

Back to School!

What tops your kid's back-to-school list?  Here's a hint -- it's probably not new clothes!  More than 40% of kids between 8 and 18 years of age would rather have a new smartphone, laptop, or tablet.  That's way off what parents think their kids want with 43% thinking it's a new wardrobe.

Facebook/phones:  What's the strangest thing on your required back-to-school shopping list?  What's impossible to find?

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What Google Thinks About our State

A blogger wanted to dig up the biggest stereotypes held by different U.S. states, and she found no better source than Google's autocomplete.

Autocomplete follows what you're typing into the Google search engine, and tries to fill in the sentence using other search phrases that start out the same way.

For example:  Typing  "Why is Georgia so..." will bring up autocomplete words like 'hot', 'racist', and 'boring.'

For Indiana it's also 'boring'.  Same thing with Maine.  In fact, people that live in 18 states wanted to find out why it's so boring.

Other interesting results:

• Arizona:  'crazy'
• Virginia: 'fat' 'weird'
• Colorado: 'healthy' 'skinny' 'awesome'  (who searches for 'why is colorado so awesome?')
• Connecticut and Pennsylvania:  'haunted'
• New Mexico:  'enchanting'

Type is "why is (insert your state) so..." and find out!

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