Posted in In the News on January 20th, 2007 Comments Off
Ah Canadians, we love them so much. They’re masters of sketch comedy, they invented hockey, and they do wacky things when they’re drunk. Which is all the time. (Must be why they’re so good at the comedy.)
From the Great White North comes the tale of an Ontario man who, in a drunken stupor, tried to […]
Posted in In the News on January 20th, 2007 Comments Off
Slacking off at work is about as American as apple pie, it’s practically an inalienable right in fact. Show me someone who never slacks off and I’ll show you a corporate robotron who’s headed for an early grave. But there’s slacking and then there’s Emmalee Bauer.
Bauer, a 25-year-old office worker in Des Moines, Iowa, […]
Posted in In the News on January 19th, 2007 Comments Off
A Colombian woman called Darling has been told she cannot become a Spanish citizen because of her jacked-up, stupid name.
Years of waiting to obtain Spanish citizenship for Darling Velez, 33, appeared to end with success a few months ago when her application was accepted, but she was shocked when the public registry rejected her name, […]
Posted in In the News on January 19th, 2007 Comments Off
Apparently Amsterdam has decided that it’s damn time to honor some of the hardest working freedom fighters in the world with their very own statue: prostitutes.
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The Amsterdam prostitute statue, designed by artist Els Rijerse, will likely be unveiled at the end of March, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
“In many countries, prostitutes struggle […]
Posted in In the News, Weird Products on January 19th, 2007 Comments Off
Forget about reaching for that Barry White CD the next time you and your special someone are about to get in the mood, just open up a pack of condoms from Ondo Creation.
According to a story from Reuters, this Hong Kong-based company has introduced a line of flavored condoms that come with their own CD […]
Posted in In the News on January 18th, 2007 Comments Off
I have felt many emotions about the Hooters restaurant chain — disinterest, loathing, condescension come to mind — but never disappointment, until today. I know, how can a chain restaurant I have no interest in disappoint me? Well, as much as I have denigrated their menu and concept, I have always admired the company’s pointed […]
Posted in Weird Products on January 17th, 2007 Comments Off
Rubberband wars are pretty awesome, but they tend to be one-on-one sniper battles. Want to up the ante in the rubberband arms race and have the capability of taking out multiple enemies one after another? Enter the Rubberband Machine Gun.
Spotted on Ubergizmo, this twelve-barrel Gatling gun can hold 12 rubberbands per barrel for a total […]
Posted in In the News on January 17th, 2007 Comments Off
Who says that having a monkey escape from the zoo has to be a bad thing?
A chimpanzee named Judy escaped from her sleeping quarters at the Little Rock Zoo recently, and before her handlers could sedate and corral the little beast, Judy cleaned out a toilet and wiped down a refrigerator with a sponge.
The 120-pound […]
Posted in In the News on January 17th, 2007 Comments Off
Environmental officials in two states said they have given up hope of finding the source of a mysterious odor that swept across parts of the New York City area a week ago.
After investigating more than 140 industrial facilities in the northern part of the state to see whether they were responsible for the smell that […]
Posted in Odd Search Terms on January 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Dear Reader,
If so, keep it the hell away from me.
Seriously, though, do you really think a dog could possibly weigh 1000 pounds? Assuming you’re a normal-sized person yourself, that’s like 5 or 6 yous. In a single dog. That weighs 1000 pounds.
The English Mastiff is considered the world’s heaviest dog, but according to Guinness the […]