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Schick and X-MEN Challenge You To Accept “X-MEN Challenge”

May 23, 2014 / Paul Eide

Today the latest X-MEN movie, “X-MEN: Days of Future Past”, will be released in theaters. Just like the X-MEN are famous for charting their own paths and tackling any challenge, Schick is challenging men to do the same by changing up their grooming routines.

Schick is giving guys who take the Schick Hydro Challenge the chance to unlock “X-MEN: Days of Future Past” content, and win prizes, while experiencing an amazing shave, or your money back.

The Schick Hydro Challenge works like this: try a Schick Hydro razor and if you don’t prefer it, you get your money back. Those who X-Cept the Challenge can receive a free exclusive X-MEN t-shirt with the purchase of any two X-MEN branded Schick products. Simply look for specifically-marked Schick razors at your local retailer for access to the exclusive mail-in offer.

Schick has also launched the X-MEN Challenge on Facebook and at the X-MENChallenge.Schick.com featuring tons of trivia for fans to challenge each other and see who knows more about X-MEN.

For each game played, fans are entered into a sweepstakes to win various weekly prizes, including “X-MEN: Days if Future Past” movie merchandise and HD flat screen TV’s. One lucky player will win an X-MEN prize pack worth over $1,800.

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Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo and Old Spice working to end “overspraying epidemic”

May 13, 2014 / Paul Eide

There’s a war going on that you may not even know about. We hear a lot about world events like missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Syria and the Middle East. But one thing we don’t hear about is the overspraying epidemic that exists for 75% of guys.

Patriots All-Pro linebacker Jerod Mayo and Old Spice have teamed up to teach men how to scent responsibly and stop this epidemic the way Mayo stopped Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta in the 2013 AFC Championship.

“I’m actually on my way now to educate young guys at Boston University to teach them how to scent responsibly,” said Mayo, concern evident in his voice.

“They know how to drive responsibly, and do other things responsibly. It’s all about scenting responsibly in 2014. I’m very excited to help end the overspraying epidemic that’s happening now.”

One reason the problem has reached epidemic levels is ignorance; 68% of guys admit that no one had ever showed them how to apply body spray properly.

The first step is acceptance — realizing that you have an overspraying problem and then taking the necessary steps to move forward.

Mayo, Captain of the Patriots defense, is here to call out your defensive spray audible.

“There’s some rules you have to abide by. First off, it starts with a shower. You have to take a shower with your Old Spice gel. That helps gets the pores open so you can put on the Old Spice Refresh Body Spray. But the thing about Refresh is that you don’t need too much of it.”

Read the full interview here.

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Product Review: Birchbox Man

May 12, 2014 / Paul Eide

Men get bored easily. No matter how good a grooming product is, and no matter how much we like it, we’re always looking for the newest, hottest thing. Maybe it’s the thrill of the hunt or the excitement of a new conquest, but Birchbox has built a one of a kind delivery system around man’s natural instinct to choose and then fall in love with many partners.

Birchbox was founded in 2010 and helps consumers discover the best beauty, grooming and lifestyle products through monthly deliveries of curated, deluxe samples that are tailored to their grooming likes and dislikes.

Each box includes a mix of products across categories – from makeup and hair, to skincare and body – plus lifestyle extras. An important trend in the evolution of retail for both brands and consumers lies in the discovery experience.

Here’s how it works: For $20 a month, Birchbox will send you a monthly care package of high-end grooming and lifestyle samples from top brands. The contents of the package are determined in part by your Grooming Profile that you fill out on the site.

Click here for the full review.

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Top 10 Male Gold Digger Names

May 9, 2014 / Paul Eide

On the heels of the Top 10 Female Gold Diggers of 2014, DirtSearch.org, a free and anonymous background check site that searches public, criminal, arrest, civil, speeding tickets and more has just released the Top 10 Male Gold Diggers of 2014. The list puts Aaron on top in its DirtSearch Top 10 ‘Dirty’.

Identity theft has been on the rise with 1 in 8 searches coming up with a criminal past, and with that comes a rise in ‘gold diggers’. If you thought just females could be gold diggers, think again. Times have changed and with women bringing home the bacon, more men are looking for financial security.

That coupled with a rise in petty theft, makes the gold digger phenomenon all too common. DirtSearch.org pulled data from over 2 million background searches and looked closely at the top names often searched. What came back once again, were crimes such as petty theft, identity theft, fraud, back child support payments, writing bad checks, and multiple bankruptcies.

Out of that list, the names that came up most often in the top 10 are Aaron, Jeffrey, Kyle, Sean and Brandon.

Here are the Top 10:

1. Aaron
2. Jeffery
3. Kyle
4. Sean
5. Brandon
6. Adam
7. Chad
8. Zachary
9. Stephen
10. Jose

So if you are a woman dating a man and are questioning if maybe your dude has a shady past or a qualified ‘gold digger’ just after your bank account, here are ways to tell your guy is a Gold Digger or make sure he is not on the ‘dirty’ list:

1. He has flashy things but he can’t really explain where they came from.
2. He is constantly talking about materialistic things and has an obsession with get rich quick schemes.
3. Like his female counterparts, they have a sense of entitlement.
3. He gets phone calls and text messages day and night.
4. He has forgotten his wallet more than once with you.
5. He seems too smooth for his own good. The only emotion he shows are on your paydays.
6. He hints around or asks you flat out to help him with a bill.
7. He knows your ATM pin but can’t seem to remember your digits.
8. Girl, he has a talent for skirting the issues.

To see if your man might be on the DirtSearch Top 10 Dirty Report, go here.

Image Credit: Viorel Sima, Dreamstime.com

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5 Craziest Wagers in History from the World Series of Poker

May 2, 2014 / Paul Eide

Below are the five craziest wagers of all time as chosen by the World Series of Poker’s website, WSOP.com.

The list, with bets from name changes to royalty rights, was spurred by the now legendary Stu Ungar wager, in which the player was bet he could not correctly count the last three decks of a six-deck shoe (312 cards!) Ungar, a three-time World Series of Poker winner, identified all 156 cards without missing a beat, earning the man $100,000.

1. A New Zealand man wagered his name in a poker bet and lost. His friends were able to decide his new name and selected the 99-character moniker, Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova, meeting the country’s character limit of 100.

2. A man by the name of Ashley Revell sold his possessions for $135,000. He brought the money to Vegas and bet all of it on red at the roulette table. Lucky for Revell, the ball landed on red, doubling the man’s fortune.

3. U.K. professor, Rob Price, bet $1,600 that golfer, Rory McIlroy, would win the Masters after swearing he saw the athlete’s face in a sweet roll.

4. One of the top five most popular children’s books of all time, Green Eggs and Ham, was written by Theodor Suess Geisal, aka Dr. Seuss, on a $50 bet that he couldn’t publish a book using only 50 unique words.

5. In the 80’s, George Lucas bet fellow director Steven Spielberg that if Star Wars made more money than his own film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg would get 2.5 percent of Lucas’ movie’s profits until death. Spielberg is still getting checks in the mail from his buddy.