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London’s Best Chocolate Shops

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With the West End welcoming an all-singing, all-dancing Willy Wonka into its warm, theatrical bosom this week, it seemed a good time for us to assess the best of London’s real-life chocolatiers. So if you’re yet to buy tickets for the...Show More Summary

A Visit to Twenty-Four Blackbirds

Santa Barbara has great wine and Mexican food, but have you heard there's a bean-to-bar chocolate maker producing some insanely good chocolate? Look out, Willy Wonka! There's a new mad chocolate scientist around! • Twenty-Four Blackbirds Tour   The Kitchn More

Greatest Horror Moments: Childhood Terrors

"Chitty Chitty Bang! Bang!" The Childcatcher Seriously-this is every childhood horror in one children's musical demon! "Wizard of Oz" Wicked Witch of the West"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" Slugworth Fear of the Dark Everyone...Show More Summary

Talk and Relevant Discussions in Snark - 5-6-13

This week's Doctor Who reminded me of a number of things: Willy Wonka and Bioshock, obviously, but also an old Marvel Star Wars comic called "The Crimson Forever" which scared the holy hell out of...

Sunday Funnies: And We Have a Winner!

      Now this would be a great way to motivate PWDs (people with diabetes) to check their blood sugars more often.     There’s a page right out of Willy Wonka’s playbook, what?  Boy, if only we got… The post Sunday Funnies: And We Have a Winner! appeared first on DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog.

Dude-Where Is My Stylist??? Matthew McConaughey Seen Rockin’ His Wankster Willy Wonka Steez To “Mud” Movie Premiere With His Banger Wife Camila Alves

Camila must not really love Matty if she let him walk out the house like this… Matthew McConaughey Wears Ugly Suit To MUDD Premiere We don’t even know what to call this…”suit” that Matthew McConaughey is wearing. Opting to buck

Traveling Salesmen Selling Fake Willy Wonka Bars in the U.K.

Don't fall for the disguise. Joyous British children are jumping up and down, singing, "I've got a golden ticket," only to find out they've been duped. Traveling salesmen are selling counterfeit Wonka bars to shops and convenience stores,...Show More Summary

Fake Willy Wonka Chocolate Bar Warning For UK

Chocolate lovers around the country are being conned by fake Wonka chocolate bars containing useless golden tickets.Trading standards officers say "massive profits" are being made from the bogus chocolate - which takes advantage of the...Show More Summary

MMO Family: Is it time to regulate MMO cash shops?

"I want it now!" We're all familiar with that screechy demand by Veruca Salt in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. And for those of us raising children, it's an all-too-common request. When kids want something, they'll pull outShow More Summary

It shouldn’t take courage to run a race

Getting a number to run in the Boston Marathon is like getting a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Or it is for a guy like me. Since the likelihood that I would run a qualifying time and earn a spot that way is laughably...Show More Summary

Three Chances to Win $500 Cash Next Week During the Golden Note Sweepstakes

Be sure to tune it to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Breakfast Club and Liar, Liar next week for your chance to win $500. (No purchase necessary)

Candyland: Pip & Pop’s Dreamy, Dyed-Sugar Kingdoms

Between Willy Wonka, Fantasia, and the Candyland board game, who hasn’t let their mind occasionally wander to a place colored with a Lisa Frank palette; where jewels are as common as sand, flowers blossom in every season, and all animals — predators and prey alike — coexist peacefully? Australian artists … Read More

Willy Wonka-esque Flavored Coupons

Entrepreneur: Many dismissed the flavored wallpaper scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as childhood fantasy, but for Adnan Aziz, it was a?

Aren't You Tired of Old Musicians Asking for Money on Kickstarter?

Photo by TattooGoddess via Wikimedia Commons Last week when I logged on to Facebook to catch up on political Willy Wonka pictures and my friends’ general bellyaching about the weather, the terms musical prodigy and Kickstarter jumped out at me. Show More Summary

Aren't You Tired of Old Musicians Asking for Money on Kickstarter?

Photo by TattooGoddess via Wikimedia Commons Last week when I logged onto Facebook to catch up on political Willy Wonka pictures and my friends’ general bellyaching about the weather, the words "musical prodigy" and "Kickstarter" jumped out at me. Show More Summary

Coda DeathWatch, Day 898: Coda Automotive is Coding – Crappy, Expensive Electric Cars – Thanks, Goldman Sachs!

TweetThis is the end of the Coda Automotive DeathWatch, which started on October 14th, 2010. But tell me if I’m wrong, tell me if the final assembly facility in Benicia starts chugging out product all of a sudden ala Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory. Otherwise, I’m concluding that Coda is dead. It’s not responding to stimuli, anyway. [...]

Pencil This In: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory At The Music Box

The other half of the Music Box Theatre's Easter spectacular — we wrote yesterday about the sing-a-long version of The Sound of Music Thursday — is a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at 2 p.m. March 31. Dress up as your best Veruca Salt, Oompa-Loompa, or even Charlie or Willy Wonka and enter a world of pure imagination. [ more › ]

Tool Is Pulling A Willy Wonka And Has Hidden Certificates In The ‘Opiate’ Reissues

Talk about a tease. Tool has announced that there will be five certificates placed randomly within the 5,000 21st anniversary reissues of Opiate, which comes out March 26th via ToolBand. What do these certificates grant? No one knows. It’s not being revealed. In fact, you have to be one of the lucky few who finds [...]

Spartacus: War Of The Damned Watch: Episode 6 - Spoils of War

Spartacus is getting seriously exhausting. Talk about edge-of-your-seat suspense. The series is roaring toward its finale, slashing and stomping on anything in its wake. In the words of Willy Wonka, "The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last." Something tells me it will, all the way until the last drop of blood is spilled. Show More Summary

Story Notes for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Which food company financed the entire movie? Which Willy Wonka star is one of the few actors to win an Emmy, Tony and Oscar? Find out with Story Notes...

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