Christmas is the season for fun videos of all sorts, but nobody does fun viral videos like the guys at Rebel Virals. They’re the maniac minds behind this season’s funniest Christmas card/parody, which you can see at the Rebel Christmas Card site. If you’ve ever wanted to see Jack Bauer interrogating Santa Claus, they’ve got […]
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Cops To Wear Personal Video Surveillance Cameras
Posted 12/22/2009 7:30 am by Ron HoganThese days, with video cameras in every pocket and around every corner, you are always being watched. There’s no group that gets watched as often as the police do. There’s just something about seeing someone interacting with the cops that makes drivers want to slow down and gawk. It’s only right that the police get […]
Read »Holidays Increase Quilted Toilet Paper Sales
Posted 12/22/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe holidays are upon us, and that means it’s time to start having holiday parties. If you’re anything like the average person in Britain, that means you rush out to the store and buy quilted toilet paper and ground coffee? Apparently so! In these leaner economic times, the first thing to go is the extra-soft […]
Read »Tour The Griswold Home From National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!
Posted 12/22/2009 6:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the most famous, and in my opinion, best Christmas movies ever made. It’s the 1989 comedy National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and for years it’s been a must-watch for me at Christmas time. No matter how Grinch-like I might be feeling, it helps to flick on the TV and watch the Griswold family’s […]
Read »Cop Pulls Gun During Snowball Fight.
Posted 12/22/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganLike I’ve always believed, if you give a man a license to carry a weapon, eventually the power goes to his head. That’s the case in Washington D.C., where an impromptu snowball fighting flash mob got a little out of hand when a cop pulled his weapon after being hit by snowballs. Not even […]
Read »Web 2.0’s Social Suicide Machine
Posted 12/21/2009 10:00 am by Ron HoganI haven’t logged into Facebook in a few months now. However, I’m still being bombarded with emails from the service, and apparently, my Facebook friends are being commanded to write something on my wall in an attempt to get me sucked into the service. Sorry, friends, it’s not going to work. For people burned out […]
Read »Real Steel: Epic Warhammer 40K Role-Playing
Posted 12/21/2009 9:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s no secret that I’m a huge nerd. As often as I mention role-playing games and as often as PopFi covers LARP events, it should be pretty obvious that at certain times in my life I indulged in a little role-playing. These days, it’s mostly via computer RPGs and video games, but I have been […]
Read »$72 For A Taco
Posted 12/21/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganIt pays to work at Taco Bell! In Sandusky, Ohio, workers at a Taco Bell restaurant received a very generous tip from a very intoxicated patron. The unidentified man bought a single taco, then proceeded to give the staff $72 for his purchase. When asked to take his change, the man refused and left the […]
Read »Croak-mas Trees Full Of Frogs
Posted 12/21/2009 8:30 am by Ron HoganPeople in Anchorage, Alaska are advised to be on the look out for invaders. No, not alien invaders; invading frogs. It appears that some Christmas trees being sold in the city have had secret passengers, namely Pacific Chorus frogs (also called Pacific tree frogs). While these frogs are native to significant portions of the Pacific […]
Read »Kansas Man Does Incredible Hulk-Like Rescue Of Girl
Posted 12/21/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganNick Harris isn’t a power-lifter. He’s about 5’7″ and 185 pounds. However, when it was a life or death situation, Nick Harris is not a man to be trifled with. When 8-year-old Ashlyn Hough, a friend of his daughter, was trapped beneath a car, he went Superman and lifted the car off the little girl. […]
Read »Man Marries Video Game Girlfriend
Posted 12/21/2009 7:30 am by Ron HoganJapan is a very odd society, but no members of that society are as strange as the otaku. Think of a video game nerd mixed with someone with agoraphobia and absolutely no social skills, and you’re getting close to people like SAL9000. He has a real name, but prefers to go by SAL9000 because he […]
Read »Kremlin Buzzed by UFOs
Posted 12/21/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganLast week, we had a UFO that actually turned out to be a Russian missile malfunctioning (supposedly) over Norway. Now, there’s an unexplained flying object that’s been spotted over the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Is this one going to be explained away as some sort of Norwegian missile gone off course? Or will they UFO […]
Read »Jesus 1, Santa 0: Merry Bloody Christmas
Posted 12/21/2009 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to controversial Christmas decorations, there’s always the sexy nativity scene that has to be topped. However, a guy in Nipomo, California has taken that sex and replaced it with a little violence. Ron Lake, who is house-sitting, crafted a very controversial Christmas display depicting Jesus shooting Santa Claus in the chest with […]
Read »Teen Girl Runs Away After Denied World Record Attempt
Posted 12/21/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganLaura Dekker was born to be a sailor. It’s easy to say that about a girl who is born on a yacht off the coast of New Zealand. She took to the sport at an early age and at age 13 was trying to become the youngest girl to sail solo around the world in […]
Read »Brittany Murphy Dead At 32 From Heart Attack
Posted 12/20/2009 3:14 pm by Ron HoganHollywood actress Brittany Murphy, who made her name as Eminem’s love interest in 8 Mile and broke into Hollywood as the dorky sidekick in the classic 1995 comedy Clueless, has passed away. She was discovered in an unresponsive state at about 8 AM this morning by her husband Simon Monjack, and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai […]
Read »Hot Christmas Gift: Divorce Vouchers
Posted 12/18/2009 9:30 am by Ron HoganOver the past 5 years or so, gift certificates have gone from a “I don’t know what to get you, but I feel like I have to get you something!” gift to an accepted, even welcomed present. After all, nobody shops better for you than you do, and in the event you don’t spend the […]
Read »Man Strangles Rabid Bobcat
Posted 12/18/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganJames Gruver is not a man to trifle with. While he’s an older gentleman at 61 years of age, he’s no push-over. After all, this 6’8″ mountain man strangled a rabid bobcat to death with his bare hands after it attacked him at his Crown Creek Trail, Arizona home. The cat jumped at him and […]
Read »Keep Your Hands Warm While Keeping Your Lungs Black
Posted 12/18/2009 8:30 am by Ron HoganI’ve known a few smokers in my time. For example, my grandmother. She continued to smoke even as her emphysema got worse and worse. She’d smoke with her oxygen tube in, and did for as long as she could manage. It’s tough to quit, and if you’re a smoker, you’re not going to let a […]
Read »YouTube Video Earns Man $30 Million Hollywood Deal
Posted 12/18/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganYou’re just minding your own business, walking down the street or doing whatever it is that you do, and someone comes across you. Boom, you’re discovered! It’s every person’s Hollywood fantasy, but Fede Alvarez is living it. The producer/director/animator/jack of all trades from Uruguay has made his celluloid dreams come true, after his short film […]
Read »Fox Puppet Too Foxy For TV
Posted 12/18/2009 7:30 am by Ron HoganOn the surface, it seems like a harmless production. Hedgehog House, at a children’s theater in Zagreb, Croatia, is a fun-looking little play with a lot of fuzzy, cute anthropomorphic animal puppets as the stars. Everyone loves puppets; how could this possibly go wrong? Well, parents are complaining that Hedgehog House is more Avenue Q […]
Read »This Is Why You Respect Your Elders
Posted 12/18/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen I was growing up, my parents always told me to respect my elders. They said the usual things about how they fought in WWII for us and how one day I’ll be an old guy who might want a little respect for going through a lot in my life, but they left off the […]
Read »Cache Of Stolen Gnomes Recovered
Posted 12/18/2009 6:30 am by Ron HoganResidents of a Mount Vernon, Washington neighborhood were shocked to discover that, after a wind storm had knocked down a neighbor’s privacy fence, the neighbor had an unusual collection. She had a bunch of gnomes. You know, those little stone lawn gnomes with the pointy red hats and beards, often seen doing whimsical things in […]
Read »The 12 Days Of Christmas, Cop Style
Posted 12/18/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s not often that we get to see the people behind the badges. I mean, we all know cops, and we all know of cops, but sometimes it’s hard to remember that behind the uniform is just a person, like you or me. Some of them are dour, some of them are goofy, some of […]
Read »Off With Her Hair!
Posted 12/17/2009 10:30 am by Ron HoganLamya Cammon, like most first grade students, can get a little annoying. After all, she’s a little kid, and while they have a concept of the word no, they don’t really get it, nor do they really pay attention when you repeat to them, over and over, to stop being obnoxious. That’s why when Lamya […]
Read »Karate Monkeys Turn On Their Master
Posted 12/17/2009 10:00 am by Ron HoganLo Wung had a great idea to make a little extra money. In Nshi, Hubei Province, the Chinese man had a bunch of monkeys that he’d trained for a show. Why not train them to do taekwondo? I mean, it’s an Olympic sport, Chinese people love the martial arts, and everyone loves a monkey! You […]
Read »Surprising $22,000 Phone Bill
Posted 12/17/2009 9:30 am by Ron HoganTed Estarija found out the hard way that if you give a teenager a cell phone, you’d better spring for the unlimited package. His 13-year-old son racked up a $22,000 phone bill in one month on his father’s Verizon plan. How’d he do that? It was easy; he just used the Internet on the phone. […]
Read »A Lucky Man’s Very Unlucky Wife
Posted 12/17/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganWhen Arnim Ramdass won the lottery, all his money problems were over. He and some of his coworkers won a $19 million dollar lottery together in 2007! Time to quit your job and live the high life, right? Well, Arnim might have quit his job, but he never shared his good fortune with his wife, […]
Read »Delivering A Baby Via Internet
Posted 12/17/2009 8:30 am by Ron HoganLeroy Smith was relaxing at home when all of a sudden, his wife Angela started being wracked with powerful contractions. The pregnant woman was going to give birth, and there wasn’t going to be time enough for the midwife to arrive. So he did what any child of the Internet age would do: he picked […]
Read »Have Yourself A Heavy Metal Christmas
Posted 12/17/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganI admit, one of the problems I have with getting into the holiday spirit is that, well, Christmas music is kind of lame. I mean, it’s the same songs you’ve heard for your entire life, and most of those songs are hundreds of years old, so there’s not much you can do with them to […]
Read »Flasher Girl Hit By Distracted Driver
Posted 12/17/2009 7:30 am by Ron HoganLike a lot of high school-age girls, Cherelle Dudfield wasn’t really thinking. After all, she got dared to stand in the street and flash her breasts at traffic by her friends, and you’d be crazy not to take up the challenge! She’d had a few drinks that night, so her inhibitions were lowered enough to […]
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