Captain Lou Albano, one of the most gifted managers to ever pick up a microphone in the world of professional wrestling, passed away today at age 76. He’d been struggling with his health ever since a heart attack a few years ago, and was in hospice care at the time of his expiration. He leaves […]
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Meet “La Bella Principessa,” da Vinci’s Lost Painting
Posted 10/14/2009 12:30 pm by Ron HoganImagine walking into a gallery in New York City and buying a painting. An obscure work, thought to be 19th Century German. It’s a well-made portrait, but nothing special. Then, after careful analysis and the lucky uncovering of a fingerprint, the truth is uncovered: for $19,000 you could have bought an original work of Leonardo […]
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Shoes, Stabbings, And Strippers
Posted 10/14/2009 11:46 am by Ron HoganI didn’t know high heels could be deadly, but Chetania Davis sure did. The 22-year-old was working as a stripper in an Akron, Ohio, club when she had a disagreement with another dancer. So she did what any reasonable woman would do in that situation: she repeatedly stabbed the other woman with the heel of […]
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A Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Hair
Posted 10/14/2009 11:22 am by Ron HoganHow much would you pay for a piece of history? That’s what Leslie Hindman Auctioneers wants to know, as they’re selling off deceased Tankers Fan Club president Gary Pepper’s serious collection of Elvis memorabilia. The crown jewel of the collection? Supposedly-genuine locks of Elvis’s trademark hair that got shaved off when he joined the Army. […]
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Little People Race Causes Big Controversy
Posted 10/14/2009 9:51 am by Ron HoganWhat was intended to be harmless fun now has advocacy groups up in arms. The Midget Cup, a special publicity stunt designed to promote Australia’s Cranbourne Cup horse race, has raised hackles in the land of Oz because it features little people riding on the back of full-sized adults while dressed in jockey silks. Detractors […]
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Kellogg’s To Brand Official Corn Flakes
Posted 10/14/2009 9:28 am by Ron HoganWhen I was a kid, there was nothing I hated more than imitation store-brand cereal. Nothing like digging into a big bowl of Imitation Cocoa O’s when all you really wanted is some Cocoa Puffs. Not that the store-brand cereals are bad, but when you want the taste of something specific, the “close but not […]
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Super Pumpkin Carvings
Posted 10/14/2009 7:42 am by Ron HoganIt’s not the most unusual list of pumpkin carvings I’ve ever seen. Aside from a few surprises, it’s your standard assortment of horror movie characters, sci-fi monsters, robots, and that kind of thing. However, it’s the details that went into these 130 creative Halloween pumpkins passed on via Neatorama that gets me going. These pumpkins […]
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Flu Pandemics And Pregnancy Dangers
Posted 10/13/2009 4:24 pm by Ron HoganAmong the dangers of swine flu, one that has gone under reported is its effect on pregnant women. Not just in terms of it being extra dangerous for those in such a fragile state, but there is a secondary effect to being born during a pandemic that has been reported in the Journal of Developmental […]
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Don’t Moon The Train, Or Else.
Posted 10/13/2009 4:03 pm by Ron HoganA 22-year-old journalism student found himself suddenly forced off the train by staff while it was stopped at a station in Lauenbrueck, Germany. Of course, he shouldn’t have been surprised he got thrown off since he was traveling without a ticket, but that didn’t stop this young man’s righteous indignation. In order to show his […]
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Bambi’s Revenge!
Posted 10/13/2009 1:16 pm by Ron HoganIn the Walt Disney classic Bambi, hunters shoot and kill Bambi’s mom. (I hope that’s not a spoiler for you, but if you haven’t seen the 67-year-old movie now, you never will.) Well, now it’s the deer‘s turn for revenge, and rather than going after parents, they’re coming after children. While playing football in his […]
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Dial The FloH Club
Posted 10/13/2009 12:12 pm by Ron HoganAs a mom on the Brady Bunch, Florence Henderson gave out lots of advice to her brood of many children. Now, the 75-year-old actress is reaching out to help her fellow seniors become proficient in technology. She’s launched the FloH Club, tapping into Support.com’s years of experience in the tech support field to provide low […]
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Owl Versus Truck, Who Ya Got?
Posted 10/13/2009 11:45 am by Ron HoganAn unlucky man from Shoals, Indiana found out the hard way that a speeding pickup truck is no match for a speeding owl. While driving his Ford F-250 pickup truck down US 231 near Haysville, James Ellis and a great horned owl had a nasty collision. Guess who won? Or, rather, guess “whoooooo” won? The […]
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Free House (Limit One)
Posted 10/13/2009 11:11 am by Ron HoganPaul and Michelle Wood has an unusual scheme for raising money. They plan on giving away their house. Confused yet? Here’s the scheme: Paul and Michelle are going to have a trivia contest. Starting November 2 and running for the next 12 weeks, all you have to do is answer a trivia question daily for […]
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The Woman With Half A Brain
Posted 10/13/2009 9:21 am by Ron HoganAt 37, Michelle Mack is like a lot of high-functioning people with special needs. She lives at home with her parents, but she works in data entry, pays rent every month, and is fairly independent given her difficulties with anger control, abstract concepts, and sense of direction/spatial issues. Michelle was literally born with only half […]
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Bagheera Kiplingi, The Vegetarian Spider
Posted 10/13/2009 8:52 am by Ron HoganFor once, here’s a spider with a cool name that doesn’t kill and eat other animals to survive. The Bagheera Kiplingi, a yellowish spider from Central America and southern Mexico, is the first known species that survives mainly on a diet of plants. The Kiplingi feasts on the Beltian bodies located in the leaves of […]
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The Scout Motto: Be Prepared For Violence?
Posted 10/12/2009 6:27 pm by Ron HoganNot one, but two Scouts, a 6-year-old Cub Scout first grader named Zachary Christie and a 17-year-old Eagle Scout and Army enlistee named Matthew Whalen, have been suspended from school in recent days. Matthew got a 20 day suspension, and Zachary got a shocking 45 day suspension. For Zachary, the crime was enthusiasm. He was […]
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Mayor Robbed On Business Trip
Posted 10/12/2009 2:36 pm by Ron HoganFormer NBA star turned mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson just wanted to do a good deed. He was visiting San Francisco for a conference about the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts when he noticed an elderly man struggling to get in a taxi. Johnson, being a kind soul, decided to help the […]
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A Facebook Poke Can Be A Jail-Worthy Offense
Posted 10/12/2009 12:18 pm by Ron HoganOne of the more obnoxious features of Facebook is the “poke” button that allows you to annoy your friends (or complete strangers) with the push of a button. It drives me nuts that people use it, but since it’s part of Facebook, you learn to accept it. However, if you’ve got a restraining order against […]
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Eleven Children Age 7 Or Younger
Posted 10/12/2009 11:29 am by Ron HoganA lot of people say they like children, but Darren Chalk and his wife Dale REALLY love children. The couple, who recently welcomed a set of twins, have 11 of them, so you’d expect they’re great fans of babies. The couple’s child totals are as follows: a set of quintuplets (two boys and two girls) […]
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The Magnificent Mummy And Frankenstein’s Neglected Monster
Posted 10/12/2009 10:09 am by Ron HoganIt’s always strange to have a conversation with some friends, then the next day see someone write something online about the very same topic. In this case, I was discussing the neglected members of the Universal Monsters. While the roll-call of Universal Monsters is quite a bit more varied than I’d ever expected, there are […]
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Carrying The Wife To Victory
Posted 10/12/2009 8:45 am by Ron HoganIn what is rapidly becoming a Columbus Day weekend tradition, Dale and Lacey Castro, a husband and wife from Lewiston, Maine, bested 41 other couples to take home the 10th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship title. The race, over a 287-yard obstacle course, requires the man (or woman) to carry his or her wife/husband […]
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2012 May Be Just A Movie
Posted 10/12/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganGood news, everyone! Remember the whole thing about how the world is going to end in 2012? Well, Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Mayan elder from Guatemala, is tired of the questions and is ready to put our fears to rest. According to him, the world will NOT end in 2012, so cease partying and start […]
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The Frozen, Bloody Self-Portrait
Posted 10/12/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganArtist Marc Quinn had an unusual idea. Using 4.5 liters of blood collected from his body over a 5-month period, he has assembled a self portrait. He didn’t mix the blood with clay, or paint with the blood, or anything of that sort. He took it one creepy step further and made the self portrait […]
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The Hodag, Wisconsin’s Cryptid Nightmare
Posted 10/10/2009 5:21 pm by Ron HoganI think that, if you’ve read this site for more than a few days, you know just how much I love a good cryptid. No matter how crazy, realistic, or completely fake, if you invent or find or whatever a monster of some sort, I’m going to listen to the story about it. I’ll even […]
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Marge Simpson, Playboy Covergirl
Posted 10/10/2009 4:59 pm by Ron HoganIn what has to be one of the most unusual publicity-gathering ploys I’ve ever seen, Playboy Magazine has recently announced that they’re going to have their first animated covergirl. And she’s not Lara Croft, to my amazement. Nope, instead Playboy is going after the animation fan with their selection of Marge Simpson for the cover. […]
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At War With The Moon
Posted 10/10/2009 1:03 pm by Ron HoganNASA’s LCROSS mission set off a firestorm. After all, we were basically bombing the moon. While the mission itself didn’t produce any awesome display of moon pyrotechnics, it did set off one of the funniest Internet memes since the LOLCat, and it all involves Twitter. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at war with the moon. […]
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How Do You Say “Hummer” In Chinese?
Posted 10/09/2009 2:19 pm by Ron HoganThe liquidation of GM began in earnest with the closing of Saturn (brand, not planet). Now, the long-awaited sale of the Hummer brand to Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corporation has finally been completed after stalling out earlier this year. Sichuan Tengzhong takes over 80% of the Hummer brand (super-rich investor […]
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Turning Donkeys Into Zebras
Posted 10/09/2009 12:22 pm by Ron HoganNidal Barghouthi and the staff at the Marah Land Zoo needed new animals. There was just one little problem with that; the zoo is located in Gaza, an area of Palestine under military blockade by Israeli and Egyptian forces due to terrorist activity by Gaza’s ruling party. That makes it a little more difficult to […]
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Most Annoying Word In The US? Whatever!
Posted 10/09/2009 11:32 am by Ron HoganWe all have some word that’s a pet peeve of ours. Some people don’t like the word “moist” and its many connotations. Some people just hate slang in general. However, as any parent of a teenager could tell you, there is no word in the English language more obnoxious than the simple word, “Whatever.” Apparently, […]
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The Hedgehog Rescue Squad In Action
Posted 10/09/2009 10:55 am by Ron HoganAnimals are usually smarter than we give them credit for, but sometimes they need a little help, too. As any pet owner can tell you, the combination of a small opening and a pudgy animal sometimes leads to a sticky situation. One lucky hedgehog is lucky to have escaped intact after getting stuck in a […]
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