You know what makes a good meal any time? Pancakes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, side dish, or even dessert, throw me down a stack of flapjacks with some syrup or fruit, and I’m a happy camper with a full belly. Be they buttermilk or cornbread, pancakes are awesome. You know what else is awesome? This automatic […]
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Toyota Recalls Fatal Floor Mats
Posted 9/30/2009 12:45 pm by Ron HoganSpeaking of clunkers, there are about 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus owners who aren’t very happy right now. After all, their floor mats might kill them. Owners of the following makes and models of some Toyota/Lexus vehicles should be on the lookout, as the floor mats in their cars just might wedge under the gas […]
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Ohio State Pride Via Clunkers
Posted 9/30/2009 10:20 am by Ron HoganThe US government’s Cash for Clunkers program was wildly successful, but that just means that A) a lot of new cars were sold and B) there are a lot of used cars just sitting around, waiting to be sent to the junkyard or scrapped for parts or whatever the government decided to do with their […]
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Home For Sale, With Beautiful View Of The Nuclear Plant!
Posted 9/30/2009 9:45 am by Ron HoganWhen you look at the home, it looks great. A gorgeous 3-bedroom fishing cottage with a brand-new kitchen, original wood paneling from the 1930’s, a master bedroom with fireplace, and an observatory situated on half an acre of land near the Dungeness National Nature Reserve. It has a private driveway, is less than 5 minutes […]
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911 Dispatcher Fights Fires At His Own House
Posted 9/30/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganAs a 911 dispatcher in the Boston suburb of Quincy, Massachusetts, Mike Bowes handles all kinds of emergencies, but he’d never handled anything like the house fire call he got at 10:45 PM on Monday night. As it turns out, the house fire he was sending emergency crews to was his house, AND his parents […]
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Alcohol-Free Alcopops
Posted 9/30/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the hot trends of the past 10 years or so has been the growth and consumption of drinks known as alcopops. Basically, they’re like beer, except that they’re heavily flavored and usually strive to look as little like beer as possible. They’re usually citrusy yellow or fruity red, and they’re incredibly sweet if […]
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The World’s Tallest Horse
Posted 9/30/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganEven as Clydesdales go, Poe is unusual. A rescue animal taken in by Shereen Thompson from Ontario, Canada, the 20.2 hands high beast just might be the world’s largest horse. His measured 20.2 hands works out to be nearly 81 inches tall, which means that Poe stands a robust 6 feet 8 inches tall, rounding […]
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Honoring Ultraman Via Graffiti
Posted 9/30/2009 5:00 am by Ron HoganWithout the tireless efforts of special-effects guru Eiji Tsuburaya, the world would be missing quite a lot of things. Although he is most famous as the creator of the incredibly popular Ultraman, without him there would be no Godzilla, Mothra, Ghidorah, or any of the other giant colorful characters that make up the kaiju world. […]
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Monstrous Balloon Animals
Posted 9/30/2009 4:00 am by Ron HoganThey’re the stuff of nightmares, and they’re crafted out of every child’s favorite disposable plaything. Meet the creations of the brilliantly mad sculptor Jason Hackenwerth. He crafts fierce monsters, some over 40 feet long, out of nothing but pure balloons. That’s right, brightly-colored, inflated, rubber tubes and spheres, thousands of them, are the key to […]
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Hooray For Coffee Day
Posted 9/29/2009 11:15 am by Ron HoganIt’s the most wonderful time of the year. The air is getting cool in the mornings, there’s a fall breeze in the air, and of course, it’s National Coffee Day 2009 here in the United States! There are free offers, coffee celebrations, a java-themed writing contest, and Starbucks is celebrating the spirit by launching a […]
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Freddy Is Back In 2010
Posted 9/29/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganNormally I loathe remakes, but I have to admit there’s something about the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street that has me kind of excited. Maybe it’s the fact that Jackie Earle Haley, one of my favorite actors, is taking over the striped sweater and mangled face. Maybe it’s the fact that the […]
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Bizarre Bottom-Feeding Fish Found In Brazil
Posted 9/29/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganIn the latest in a series of nature’s ugliest animals, a sea turtle conservation group in Brazil has fished up the dead carcass of what was thought to be a previously unknown species. While the gelatinous, 6-foot-long fish isn’t some new species, it is an incredibly rare deep sea bottom-feeding fish known as the jellynose […]
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Banned Book Week
Posted 9/29/2009 5:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s kind of surprising that in this day and age, people are still trying to get books removed from school libraries and the general circulation. Given the depraved and shocking things available to any child with a netbook and a web browser, you’d think there’d be greater concern placed on parent supervision rather than community […]
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Swarms Of Angry Bees Attack After A Car Crash
Posted 9/29/2009 4:30 am by Ron HoganA word of advice for you, the PopFi reader. If you ever see a car accident involving a van carrying hives of bees, don’t stop to help. I don’t care how hurt the people inside might be, or how bad the wreck looks, just use your cell phone to call the cops and just keep […]
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Beer Brawl Leads To A Fire Ball
Posted 9/29/2009 4:00 am by Ron HoganHere’s a word of warning to all you drunks out there. Never mess with a man’s beer. No matter how indestructible you might feel after a few drinks, if you get into an argument with 42-year-old John Harper over brewskis, just let it go because he will drag you into the woods and light your […]
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“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” Inspiration Passes Away At 46
Posted 9/28/2009 6:51 pm by Ron HoganLucy O’Donnell-Vodden, the inspiration for the classic Beatles song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds has shuffled off the mortal coil to join Beatles songwriter John Lennon in the sky with those very same diamonds. Lucy was only 46 years of age, having passed away after a prolonged and difficult battle with the autoimmune disorder […]
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Four Weddings And No Funeral
Posted 9/28/2009 1:30 pm by Ron HoganI’ve got a wedding to go to this weekend. My friends Adam and Jillian are getting hitched. There’s going to be a big dinner and they’ve booked an awesome old plantation along the river and it’s going to be a wonderful and lavish affair, but it’s just going to be the two of them getting […]
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Fanged Frogs And Other Freaks
Posted 9/28/2009 1:02 pm by Ron HoganThere was a treasure-trove of new creatures discovered along the fertile Mekong River in Southeast Asia. Among the 163 creatures are some pretty unusual animals, from the cat ba leopard gecko to the most fearsome frog on the planet, the Khorat big-mouthed frog. I call this frog fearsome for a reason. Not only is it […]
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The Blood-Powered Dracula Lamp
Posted 9/28/2009 9:46 am by Ron HoganBritish artist Mike Thompson has designed one of the most unusual art pieces I’ve ever seen. Well, it’s kind of an art piece, but it’s also a functioning lamp powered by human blood. There’s even a video of the project in action, so you can see just how the blood-powered lamp is supposed to work. […]
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The Stomach-Smashing Super Scooby Hamburger
Posted 9/28/2009 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhile Americans still lead the world in monster-sized food, our cross-Atlantic compatriots the British aren’t content to let us rest on our laurels. Pressing us in the giant hamburger category is a little dish called the Super Scooby from fast food joint the Jolly Fryer in the Bristol village of Filton. This thing is so […]
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Famous Geek Movie Plot Holes
Posted 9/28/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganI went with my father this weekend to catch the new Bruce Willis movie Surrogates, and throughout the entire movie, my dad would lean over to me and make random comments about various plot holes as he found them. I’d tell you some (there were many), but it might spoil the movie for the few […]
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Vicious Pomeranian Served With “Kill On Sight” Order
Posted 9/25/2009 9:56 pm by Ron HoganPomeranians are those tiny, yappy dogs that you used to see rich women dote on like children before the Chihuahua became the fashionable dog to carry around in a purse and tape ribbons and bows onto. Well, it took years of cuddling, snuggling, and embarrassing outfits, but Gizmo the Pomeranian finally snapped. After a 10-day […]
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Poisonous Spiders Invade San Diego
Posted 9/25/2009 1:15 pm by Ron HoganSan Diego, California, has a problem with spiders. These aren’t the cute David Bowie kind or the useful silk-making kind, these are the invasive, super-poisonous kind. Originally from South Africa, the brown widow spider, also called the gray widow, brown button spider, or the geometric button spider has spread like wildfire throughout the United States […]
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Half Red, Half Green, All Apple
Posted 9/25/2009 12:08 pm by Ron HoganKen Morrish has been growing apples in his backyard in the village of Colaton Raleigh in Devon for 45 years, and in that entire time, he’s never seen something like the half-green, half-red Golden Delicious apple he recently plucked from his tree while gathering some apples for his sister-in-law. Finding a fruit like this is […]
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Six-On-One Karaoke Beating
Posted 9/25/2009 9:45 am by Ron HoganWhile karaoke might be on the decline, it’s still really popular. When Leidy Alcantara went out to her local hot spot in Stamford, Connecticut for a sing, she never imagined that her choice of a song by Colombian singer Juanes would offend any others. As it turns out, she was wrong, because her singing was […]
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Stalking From Above
Posted 9/25/2009 9:11 am by Ron HoganRemember the scene in North By Northwest where Cary Grant is being chased by a guy in a crop duster? It was ranked as one of the top movie moments ever, and always places highly in any scary movie scene list because there’s something intensely frightening about someone who can drop out of the sky […]
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Draw Me A Cake
Posted 9/25/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganIn honor of the Sci-Fi Channel‘s (now called Syfy) 17th birthday, the folks at Sci-Fi Wire put together a great gallery of 17 awesome-looking sci-fi cakes. Now, those are some seriously awesome cakes, but not all cakes turn out so good. After all, there’s a reason Jen Yates started the brilliant website Cake Wrecks, which […]
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Ric Flair’s Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket
Posted 9/25/2009 5:30 am by Ron HoganIn what is one of the weirdest celebrity endorsements (and perhaps stretching the definition of celebrity) is the following weird advertisement for the Whoooooo! Scratch-off Game from the North Carolina Education Lottery. Apparently, Ric Flair is the most popular person in North Carolina, and he’s kept really busy in his semi-retirement doing things like this. […]
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Take The Ghostbusters Tour Of Manhattan
Posted 9/25/2009 5:00 am by Ron HoganI love Ghostbusters. Actually, that’s not strong enough. I LOVE Ghostbusters. I think it’s one of the best movies ever made, thanks to the special effects (awesome at the time), the humor, the action, and the pitch-perfect cast of gifted comedy actors. Now, thanks to Ironic Sans’ interactive Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters, if I […]
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“Glambo” KO’s British Army Elites
Posted 9/25/2009 4:30 am by Ron HoganAshley Wolfe, AKA Glambo, is the hottest thing to hit Great Britain’s fighting since Ricky Hatton left Manchester for America. She’s not some kind of mixed martial artist, but the 5’3 blonde from Abbotsfort, British Columbia, Canada has gotten a lot of attention thanks to her ability to crack open heads. You see, her husband […]
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