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Hey Lady! Your Buttons Are Backwards!

By Ryan | Published: September 17, 2010

After conducting extensive research, I’ve concluded that this whole “online video” thing might be catching on. Not wanting to be a stick-in-the-mud blog I’m bringing you the very first LSNED Fact on Film! Written and directed by me, with production assistance by really cool technology, I present the tragic and true tale of women’s buttons. [...]

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Leather belt fashion over function

By Ryan | Published: August 30, 2010

After losing a little belly this summer, I’ve become more aware of my belt. It’s about an inch and a half wide, made with fairly thick “genuine” leather, and a heavy steel buckle. I would estimate it to hold over 200 pounds without any trouble. The phrase “swatting flies with a sledgehammer” comes to mind. [...]

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How Clowns Use Eggs to Trademark Their Face

By Ryan | Published: May 19, 2010

For the next couple days I’m going to be hanging out with a few hundred people with strange fashion sense at a clown convention. So many clowns, but I shouldn’t have any trouble telling them all apart. You see, to copy another clown’s look is about the worst thing you could do in the funny [...]

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FACT: a woman in high heels is more deadly than an elephant

By Ryan | Published: November 25, 2009

Not only am I a man, I’m a man who doesn’t always wear matching socks… so women’s high-heel shoes are a mystery to me. How can these ladies bear to stand on their tippy-toes all day? Why put yourself at the mercy of a metal sidewalk vent? Why do you still wear them during winter?!? [...]

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FACT: a pair of trousers is one item unless you use a pair of scissors

By Ryan | Published: October 19, 2009

English is tricky. A pair of scissors, or just scissors, while made with two pieces would cease to exist if they were taken apart. It would become two blades. So why are they a pair? This became my quest this morning, and it proved rather difficult to answer. A pair of eyeglasses makes sense since [...]

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FACT: the necktie was inspired by 17th century Croatian soldiers

By Ryan | Published: October 14, 2009

If you thought camouflage cargo shorts were the only cool fashion trend to come out of the military, whoo boy are you ever wrong! That more or less useless little bit of cloth that men (and sometimes women) tie around their necks every morning first entered the fashion world by force nearly 400 years ago. [...]

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FACT: denim jeans are named after two european towns

By Ryan | Published: August 11, 2009

Denim fabric, most commonly used for jeans, is a type of twill fabric. Serge is another name for such a fabric, and way back in the 1500s it went into serious production in Europe. One particular variety was made in the town of Nimes, France. It came to be known as serge de’ Nimes. (serge [...]

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