A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada and the Bahamas, to name just a couple. Britain's been dumped more times than Taylor Swift. But did they go writing whining songs about it? No.