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Vaynerchuk may be the best wine salesman in the country, but he's even more interested in selling himself. A kid who franchised lemonade stands when he was just 8, he built his Russian-immigrant dad's New Jersey liquor store into a business that rings up $50 million a year in in-store and online sales after reading Wine Spectator and figuring out that some people collect wines just like he collected baseball cards. In 1994, when the magazine named Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon the wine of the year, he persuaded his dad...
...dad would often say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." The phrase originated with an offer first proffered in American saloons in the mid-1800s. In order to draw patrons, drinking establishment would offer free lunch as long as patrons purchased a drink with their meal. Elaborate economic discourses have ensued over the years, arguing that a free lunch is a logical impossibility. Still, if search data is any indication, we're obsessed with finding just about anything that's free...
...scene in which Willis yanks a guy out of a parked car for trying to get to second base with a college student. She yells at Willis' character for intervening, calling him John. He tells her that he hates when she calls him that. So she calls him Dad. It's kind of creepy, the fun we're supposed to be having assuming a college kid is his girlfriend, and it gets one to thinking about Willis' dating life. When I ask him about it, he turns the question on me so that I'm the creep: "That thought never...
...become cool to be a dad," says Wyatt Andrews, a correspondent for CBS News who has three children: Rachel, 8, Averil, 7, and Conrad, 5. "Even at dinner parties, disciplinary techniques are discussed. Fathers with teenagers give advice about strategies to fathers with younger kids. My father was career Navy. I don't think he ever spent two seconds thinking about strategies of child rearing. If he said anything, it was, 'They listen...
BRING BACK DAD...