It was one piece of cheese. One simple slice of yellow, square, dairy product, and it was enough to make the local McDonald’s franchise in Lemmer, Netherlands, fire an employee. A co-worker had bought a burger, and then later asked for a slice of cheese. The fired waitress gave it to her, and when word […]
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Miramax Films, 1979-2010
Posted 1/29/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganIt had a good 30 year run, but one of the most famous distributors of independent and critically acclaimed movies, Miramax Films, is being shuttered by parent company Disney. Named for Miriam and Max, the parents of founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the studio started out in Buffalo, New York before hitching its star to […]
Read »Bacon-Themed Envelopes And Other Fancy Foods
Posted 1/29/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganAt the 35th annual Winter Fancy Food Show, there was one familiar company. J&D’s Foods, the company whose corporate motto is, “Everything should taste like bacon,” made an appearance with a new product that should look awfully familiar. The inventors of bacon-flavored popcorn debuted their latest creation, the Mmmvelope. That’s right, bacon-flavored mailing envelopes that […]
Read »Wolves And Pipes Do Not Mix
Posted 1/29/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganPeople love wolves. Granted, they’re not so awesome when they’re eating your livestock, but on a philosophical level, most of us like the imagery that wolves suggest. Wild, free, howling at the moon in triplicate, getting their wolf head stuck in a pipe… wait, what? Quick, someone call Wolfie Blackheart! One of her fellow canines […]
Read »Hercules, The Largest Living Cat On Earth
Posted 1/29/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganSee Hercules up there? He’s yet another Guinness World Record holder. In his case, he’s the largest living cat on earth, and a wonderful example of the principle of hybrid vigor (the principle behind the world’s largest housecat breed). His father was a lion, and his mother was a tiger, which means Herc is a […]
Read »Porsche Thief Steals A Ride To Court
Posted 1/29/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganTony Van is a hairstylist by trade, but a car thief by vocation. I can say this fairly confidently because, while facing trial for stealing a $125,000 Porsche Carrera, he only knew of one way to get to the court house. That way involved stealing another car, this time a Lexus. He then drove his […]
Read »The Older The Man, The Higher The Pants
Posted 1/29/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the oldest jokes in the book. Old guys love to have their pants pulled up to just under their arm pits. Everyone has a laugh, and then we move on to black socks and sandals in Boca Raton. Well, as it turns out, the joke is funny because it’s true, according to […]
Read »MLB 2K10’s Million Dollar No-Hitter Challenge
Posted 1/29/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganNo doubt your mother and all the other authority figures told you that you’d never get anywhere in life playing video games all day. Now, 2K Sports is offering you a chance to show them all how wrong they were. All you have to do is pitch a perfect game in MLB 2K10 for the […]
Read »Airport Security Guard’s Unnerving Power Nap
Posted 1/29/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen Bucky Turco was traveling through New York’s LaGuardia Airport, he saw something that nobody wants to see. On his way to the departure gate for his Frontier Airlines flight to Denver, he passed a Transportation Security Administration officer slumped in a chair, sawing logs. He instantly got out his cell phone and snapped […]
Read »Reclusive Author J.D. Salinger Dead At 91
Posted 1/29/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganJ.D. Salinger’s published works were fairly limited. He only published four books total (two books, one pair of novellas, and a collection of short stories), but when one of your books is The Catcher in the Rye, one book is all you need. After all, that perennially popular novel has sold upwards of 65 […]
Read »Oscar The Dog Is Hungry For Golf Balls
Posted 1/29/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganThe name of the five-year-old black Labrador retriever in question is Oscar, but you may as well call him Rattles. Oscar and his owner Chris Morrison generally go for walks along one of Dunfermline, Scotland’s three golf courses. As such, Oscar picks up a lot of golf balls and brings them back to Chris; […]
Read »Dog Rescued From Ice Floe
Posted 1/28/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganMost of the time, the crew of the Baltica might see a seal sunning himself on the ice floes of the Baltic sea during their research trips out into the ocean. Nobody expected to see a dog stranded some 18 miles out to sea! But there was Baltic, a generic mutt, stuck on the ice […]
Read »Motorcycle Gets 214 Miles Per Gallon!
Posted 1/28/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIt looks like some kind of futuristic travel pod, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. Behind that aerodynamic shell is a simple Honda Wave Innova motorcycle that has been customized to get over 214 miles per gallon of fuel by velomobile designer Allert Jacobs. Not only did his design make the vehicle more fuel conservative, it […]
Read »The World’s Largest Bottle Of Wine
Posted 1/28/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganHave you ever wondered what it’d be like to be a really tiny person? Well, wonder no more, because the vineyards of Wang Chen Wines have made the world’s largest bottle of red wine. Stand next to that, and you’ll know what it feels like to be as tall as a coffee cup! The bottle […]
Read »Counterfeit Bribe Money
Posted 1/28/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganSome people believe that the US government is corrupt. While it is, the corruption is at the highest levels of power, where big companies give big campaign contributions to Senators and Congressmen in exchange for special privileges and friendly treatment. However, in India, every level of government is corrupt and bribes are expected for every […]
Read »Is Lab-Grown Meat Kosher
Posted 1/28/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganWhen I first read about lab-grown meat, the first question that popped into my head was, “Is that kosher?” It’s not that I’m Jewish, it’s that the idea of being told what you can and can’t eat by God kind of fascinates me. In college, I had a Jewish friend who worked at a barbeque […]
Read »New Hampshire Is Three Wolf Shirt Country
Posted 1/28/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt started off as a joke. Nobody would possibly believe that a shirt with three wolves and the moon on it would give you special powers, right? Well, for the state of New Hampshire and printing company The Mountain, makers of the Three Moon Wolf shirt, that little article of clothing has special powers. The […]
Read »Wolf Woman/Amateur Taxidermist
Posted 1/28/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganShe was born Sarah Rodriguez, but the 18-year-old girl from San Antonio, Texas prefers to be called Wolfie Blackheart. If you think that’s strange, you haven’t heard the half of it! Not only does she go by Wolfie, she believes that she is a werewolf or wolf woman. She has a pack, she wears a […]
Read »A Second Man Is Pregnant
Posted 1/28/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganSomeone decided to do Thomas Beattie, AKA The Pregnant Man, one better. Not only is Scott Moore a second man that has found himself pregnant, Scott Moore did Beattie one better because Scott is also married to a fellow transgender, his technical wife Thomas Moore! Scott Moore, upon getting a sex change, changed his sex […]
Read »Is That A Lizard In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
Posted 1/28/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganEurope is home to a ravenous reptile collecting community. That’s why so many people take great steps to tape, stuff, or otherwise hide reptiles, lizards, and other creepy crawlies on their body for animal smuggling purposes. While a lot of Europeans have stuffed a lizard in their pants, none of them have gone as far […]
Read »The Apple iPad: Just What Is It?
Posted 1/28/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganIf you’re wondering what the big deal about Apple’s latest launch is, I’ve got your answer. Well, okay, I don’t personally have your answer, but I know people that can point it out to you. Basically, the Apple iPad is something designed to fill in the product gap between a full-sized computer, e-reader, and a […]
Read »Dungeons & Dragons Is A Bad Influence On Murdering Prisoners
Posted 1/27/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganYou’d think that prison officials would want to keep their prisoners out of trouble, but apparently that’s not the case in Waupun State Prison in Wisconsin. While they are a fairly progressive prison, having hired a pagan priestess to serve as one of the institution’s two chaplains, they’re stuck in the 80’s when it comes […]
Read »Maybe It Was A Cocaine Doughnut?
Posted 1/27/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganWhen a 21-year-old woman got pulled over by police near Maryville, Tennessee, she thought she had the perfect excuse. You see, she got caught red-handed. Well, actually, she got caught white-nosed. When she was pulled over, police found her with cocaine residue on her face, which she tried to pass off as having eaten some […]
Read »The Reverend Shoplifty McGee
Posted 1/27/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganYou wouldn’t assume that a Roman Catholic priest would also be a shoplifter. If there’s one person store security can trust, it’d be him, right? Well, in the case of Rev. Steven Poole, a priest for two Catholic Churches near West City, Illinois, that’s not the case. Rev. Poole is charged with two counts of […]
Read »Lance Corporal Miss England
Posted 1/27/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganThe previous Miss England, Rachel Christie, was an Olympic sprinter before she became a beauty queen. However, after a nasty bar fight with a fellow beauty pageant contestant, she’s been forced to resign in shame. Good thing she didn’t fight with the runner up, because odds are she’d get her butt handed to her! That’s […]
Read »The Sphinxa Hut
Posted 1/27/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganPizza Hut delivers to the Pyramids. It might sound funny, but it’s actually true. The image you see there isn’t Photoshopped. Giza, Egypt, has grown so great that it now encroaches on the location of the Great Pyramids, and that view you see is from the Pizza Hut that’s basically across the street. Apparently, the […]
Read »Man Stung By Bee Nearly Buried Alive
Posted 1/27/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganJozef Guzy is a beekeeper by trade. At 76 years old, he’s got the usual health problems associated with advanced age, but he’s otherwise healthy. That didn’t keep him from being mistaken for dead after being stung by a bee and knocked unconscious. Due to the cold and his slowed breathing, doctors pronounced him as […]
Read »The Incredible Shrinking Babies
Posted 1/27/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganYou think the opposite would be true. People are smoking less, gaining more weight during pregnancy, and prenatal care is the best it’s been throughout human history. All those things should lead to bigger, healthier infants, but no. None of those factors are stopping the shrinking of American newborns. Babies weigh less now than they […]
Read »Ad Discriminates Against Unreliable Workers
Posted 1/27/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganAs the director of Devonwood Recruitment, Nicole Mamo deals a lot with Jobcentre Plus. They’re the British version of the unemployment office mixed with a headhunting service. Basically, you show up, file for unemployment or benefits, and look for a job at the same time. However, when her ad asked for a reliable person to […]
Read »NFL Game Most Watched TV Show Since 1998
Posted 1/27/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe National Football League is America’s most popular sport, and the ratings show that. Last week’s Saints versus Vikings game was a barn-burner. I watched it, and I wasn’t the only one. The program was the most-watched TV show since 1998, with a staggering 57.9 million viewers tuning in! That 46 share makes the game […]
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