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What 'Big' Taught Me

1) Interactive comic books will be the next big thing.

2) Entry-level computer programmers make enough money to rent and furnish a lavish NYC apartment.

3) You can get a job with zero experience, no background information, and without filling out a W-2.

4) Women find men with a childish personality charming and attractive, and want to sleep with them.

5) Knowing how to play the piano will land you a big promotion.

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My freshman year of college, my ginger roommate bought some alcohol before he went home one weekend. When he left, my friends on my floor and I emptied his clear raspberry vodka into another bottle and replaced it with salt water (so that it wouldn't freeze) and put it back in the freezer. A week or two later, he and his friends were sitting around our room, drinking salt... Read More » water, and acting drunk. He even noted that he could "really taste the raspberry." The look on their faces when we told them that it was salt-water was priceless...and I'm sure the placebo effect immediately wore off!