Jean, Eggs and Ham: HALF-FULL / HALF-EMPTY game!

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February 29, 2008

HALF-FULL / HALF-EMPTY game!

Game_show It's Friiiiiday! Time for the HALF-FULL HALF-EMPTY weekly news game!

  • The cost of bread has gone up 12 percent compared to this time last year because of a global shortage of wheat, affecting costs of tons more products too, according to the Department of Labor Statistics.
    • Half-Full: The Atkins Diet will so much easier to follow now.
    • Half-Empty: Crap, now I can't use the "bread and pasta is cheaper than fruit" excuse.
  • Scientists have found sharks search for food in the same way humans grocery shop, in a "predatory" series of small movements interspersed with large jumps to new locations. 
    • Half-Full: Now there's an explanation for vicious shopping cart aisle attacks...
    • Half-Empty: Creationists are all like, humans in NO WAY resemble sharks!!
  • Americans nationwide threw temper-tantrums and struggled to stay awake when all 7,000 Starbucks stores closed for three hours Tuesday for employee training.
    • Half-Full: That should help indie coffee shops survive, oh, two more weeks.
    • Half-Empty: Only three hours?

Play along and add your comments! See you Monday!

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