Friday Snippets and Soundbites

Welcome to Friday, ec fans! (It's been a kind of long week for us here in the office, so Friday is being celebrated with much excitement this week!)

We hope today is a day of celebration for you today, too. And if you need a little help finding a reason to celebrate—or at least laugh—we've got just the thing for you in today's post of all news random and weird. And if it's simply not enough, be sure to check out page 38 of this month's (and every month's) issue of ec.

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A refreshing dress
Every year we come across strange stories about teens who've made prom outfits out of all kinds of interesting materials. Like duct tape, garbage bags, or whatever. This year's latest: a dress made out of gum wrappers. That's right. An Iowa teen made her dress entirely out of gum wrappers from Wrigley's "5" gum. And she didn't stop there, Elizabeth Rasmuson also made a matching vest for her boyfriend to wear. Both items are blue and white, like the wrappers for the couples' favorite gum. Rasmuson got the idea after hearing about someone making a dress out of duct tape and started making plans for an interesting dress of her own. She and your boyfriend began collecting gum wrappers last August, but she says she stopped counting after 200. For more info and to see the dress and local news videos, go here.


No more food fights for you
It seems even school cafeteria food fights have embraced technology. A few weeks ago, students at Atlantic City High School orchestrated a whole food fight via cell phones, but don't think the fight went unnoticed. Nope, the cafeteria staff and school administration wasn't pleased with the students' actions or the big mess that had to be cleaned up. The administration actually has policy in place when food fights happen: for the next couple of days, students only get foods that meet the most basic food requirement on their plates for the next couple of days. So on Wednesday and Thursday, students only got cheese sandwiches. The school superintendent says they'll get a regular meal today and stands firmly behind the policy. Read all about it here.

ec's new friend

The staff of ec magazine has a new friend who will take a little bit of explaining. See, a few years ago, we had a managing director who was a big Chuck Norris fan. So, somewhere along the line, someone gave him a cardboard stand-up of Chuck. Let's just say that Chuck had a lot of adventures after he came to live on our floor. When that managing director moved on to another position in our company, he left the Chuck Norris stand-up behind. (I know, right?!) So, Chuck floated aimlessly around the department for a bit, then languished for months and months in an empty office. Earlier this week that office was being cleaned out and the ec team decided to take possession of Chuck. So now he's hanging out in one of our offices. We think Chuck needs to go on some adventures. . . .that will of course be shared with you. Any ideas for what he should do?