Humans have created an entire industry around their newborns including producing book after book of suggested baby names. And apparently every one of these books spells the name Britney/Brittnie/Brittany/Brittnee a different way. Scientists have discovered that parrots also apply names to each of their individual chicks, all without the aid of the publishing industry. Thanks […]
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Police Chief Has His Wife Ticketed
Posted 9/30/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganThey say that power corrupts, but don’t tell that to Vincent Caruso. Caruso is the Chief of Police in Lodi, New Jersey, and if you hear him tell it, he’s not any more above the law than anyone else. In fact, he may be even more under the law than others, and it’s of his […]
Read »$10 Million Bank Error Leads To Arrest
Posted 9/30/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe “runaway millionaire” is running no more. In 2009, Leo Gao asked for a $100,000 overdraft to support his ailing service station in Rotorua, New Zealand. Well, that $100,000 became $10 million thanks to an error by Westpac. When Gao noticed the error, he and girlfriend Kara Hurring split the money up into multiple accounts, […]
Read »Holly Madison’s $1 Million Dollar Breast Insurance
Posted 9/30/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganHolly Madison knows where her money comes from, and it’s not her thumbs or her hair. No, the former Playboy model turned television star has two big money-makers, and they’re bolted onto her chest. Holly Madison has taken out a $1 million dollar Lloyd’s of London insurance policy on her breasts. Madison, who stars in […]
Read »Bank Of America To Charge $5 Per Month For Debit Cards
Posted 9/30/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganAre you a Bank of America customer? Then I suggest you put the debit card away and start researching where the closest ATM might be, because you’re going to need that knowledge. Bank of America, or BofA, has announced that they’re going to change their policy regarding debit cards soon, and like most policy changes, […]
Read »Red Tide Creates Glowing Waves Near San Diego
Posted 9/29/2011 8:00 am by Stephanie SturgisWhat lives beneath the sea’s surface is still very often a mystery. And I’m not just talking about narwhals and their jousting. Marine biologists are still trying to gain knowledge about many of the tiniest sea creatures. Bioluminescence is currently attracting the attention of both professionals and folks who just like visiting the beach in […]
Read »Thieves Steal Woman’s Driveway
Posted 9/29/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganSharon Gould left her Georgian-era home in Tadworth, Surrey, for a few hours, possibly to run errands, maybe get a meal, y’know, the usual stuff that folks do when they leave their home. When the 52-year-old woman returned to her home, she found that she had been the target of thieves. The criminals didn’t break […]
Read »Meet The Amazon Kindle Fire
Posted 9/29/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganIf you want some exciting news, then I have some exciting news for you. Amazon’s best-selling Kindle, which basically created a market for ebooks, is going to be branching out officially. Amazon is preparing to launch a $199 iPad killer dubbed the Amazon Kindle Fire; meanwhile, they’re also improving the original Kindle by making it […]
Read »The Rare Fried Egg Star
Posted 9/29/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to stars, there are normal stars and there are the more unusual astronomical phenomenon. Among the more unusual things to be found within our great and beautiful universe, there’s the concept of the yellow hypergiant star. Think of the sun, then make it a star 1000 times as big as the sun […]
Read »Red Sox, Braves Complete Epic Collapses
Posted 9/29/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganTwo different divisions in baseball, but the stories are the same. On the last day of the season, two teams went from front-runners to also-rans in the blink of an eye, completing a pair of historic collapses the likes of which Major League Baseball has not seen in years. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox […]
Read »Toe Sucking Fairy Arrested
Posted 9/28/2011 9:04 am by Stephanie SturgisSandal-wearing women in Arkansas, rejoice. The Toe Sucking Fairy has been arrested. As PopFi reported last week, women in Arkansas were being accosted and their toes were the object of the assailant’s desires. It turns out, the perpetrator was exactly whom the authorities were tracking as a the primary suspect. The recent crimes of toe […]
Read »Ice Cream Mascot That Looks Like KKK Member Scares Customers
Posted 9/28/2011 8:04 am by Stephanie SturgisThere’s a new ice cream controversy and it doesn’t involve Schweddy Balls or breast milk or a pregnant nun. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. That saying gets attributed to Sigmund Freud frequently, but apparently he never really said it. However when driving by at 40 mph, citizens of Ocala, Florida who notice someone […]
Read »Jousting Narwhals
Posted 9/27/2011 9:05 am by Stephanie SturgisEven without actual unicorns or a Pegasus, nature produces some freakish animals. The platypus brings together some unusual characteristics of both mammals and birds. The world’s ugliest dog reminds us that even pets are a bit weird. Even a freaky looking Bambi can grab our attention. But there are beasts swimming beneath the ice encasing […]
Read »Drag Queen Gang Caught Shoplifting Boas And Butt Pads
Posted 9/24/2011 8:33 am by Stephanie SturgisRuPaul will likely be shaking her head in shame when she hears about these outlaw drag queens. A gang of drag queens that has been terrorizing Central Florida fabric and hobby stores was finally caught in the act. The unorthodox gang shoplifted thousands of dollars of merchandise over the past year. They weren’t stuffing stolen […]
Read »Toe-Sucking Bandit Strikes In Arkansas
Posted 9/23/2011 11:34 am by Stephanie SturgisWomen in Arkansas may want to put away their flip-flops and open-toed sandals for a while. A toe-sucking assailant is harassing women at their homes and in stores in the town of Conway in the Natural State. An elderly woman sitting in front of her apartment was approached by a stranger who complimented her feet. […]
Read »Dinosaur Feathers Trapped In Amber
Posted 9/23/2011 8:30 am by Stephanie SturgisMost of the time when we think of dinosaurs the first thing that pops into our mind is a giant T-Rex or a triceratops which might be kin to the horniest dinosaur. Well, imagine a feathered dinosaur from 80 million years ago, give or take a million. Fossilized proof of feathers has been found before, […]
Read »Massive Satellite To Crash To Earth Today
Posted 9/23/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganSo far, the planet we live on (Earth, unless you’re reading this from Mars or something) has successfully avoided all the space junk littering its upper atmosphere. There are hundreds of satellites and whatnot floating around over our heads, and thus far nothing major has crashed into earth. Well, nothing man-made anyway; we still get […]
Read »Texas Eliminates Death Row’s Last Meal Tradition
Posted 9/23/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe last meal that kicked off the controversy was an epic one. Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed on Wednesday after being found guilty of the horrific dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in 1998, must have ordered everything he could think of in an attempt to be too fat to execute. He asked for two chicken fried […]
Read »Particles Break The Speed Of Light, Upturn Physics
Posted 9/23/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganIn 1905, the smartest man in the known world, Albert Einstein, postulated the theory of special relativity. In that theory, Einstein said that the speed of light is a universal constant, and that nothing can go faster than light. Well, according to the scientists at CERN, that might not be true. A beam of sub-atomic […]
Read »TSA Pokes Enormous Afro In Search For Explosives
Posted 9/22/2011 12:15 pm by Stephanie SturgisHair! It’s not just a hippy musical from the 1960s. Now hair is considered a dangerous hiding place for weapons, at least according to the Transportation Security Administration. That’s what Dallas resident Isis Brantley learned when she traveled through Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta. The hairstylist was chased down in the airport and had her giant […]
Read »Denver Duo Take Dead Pal For Night Out On Town
Posted 9/22/2011 9:53 am by Stephanie SturgisSometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to a dear friend, but even then you shouldn’t haul his dead carcass around town and abuse his ATM card. In a real-life version of Weekend at Bernie’s corpse abuse, two Denver men were arrested after taking a dead friend along for a night out the town. Robert Jeffrey […]
Read »Thief Identified By His Bright Blue Eyes
Posted 9/22/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to robbery, the best idea is to disguise yourself as best you possibly can. Cover yourself and hide every distinctive feature. If you have to, wear sunglasses. For one thief, the lack of sunglasses was his give-away. Nineteen year old Conor McClelland was identified by a store clerk thanks to his unusually […]
Read »“Back To The Future” Redubbed By One Man
Posted 9/22/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganFor kids of a certain generation, Back To The Future is a big deal. There’s a resurgence of interest in BTTF thanks to the 25th Anniversary of the first movie and a growing interest in Back To The Future Day and the like. Like most folks, Matt Mulholland likes BTTF, too. Matt Mulholland has redubbed […]
Read »Italian Parents Sue To Evict 41-Year-Old Son
Posted 9/22/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganItaly has a problem with children who simply refuse to leave the nest. Dubbed “mammone,” or mama’s boy, they are young Italian males who simply do not grow up and leave the house. An estimated 48 percent of Italians between the ages of 18 and 39 still live at home, but one family’s lawsuit may […]
Read »R.E.M. Is Done After 31 Years
Posted 9/22/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganIn 1980, a band came out of Athens, Georgia, that took a generation by storm. They’re arguably the band that invented college rock, and by touring throughout the South at colleges and universities, a band formed in a college town became the symbol for college alternative rock. As the musicians grew, the band itself grew […]
Read »Google+ Now Open To Anyone
Posted 9/21/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganRemember when people were scrambling to get invitations to Google+, and even going behind the back of the system to sneak invite people? Remember when Google+ was the hottest social network, thanks to its grown-up population and lack of obnoxious, spammy games and apps and whatnot? Well, if you haven’t gotten through the doors of […]
Read »Mom With Two Uteruses Has Two Babies
Posted 9/21/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganFour years ago, Andreea Barbosa learned about an unusual medical condition she has during a routine exam. She is one of 2000 women world-wide who have a condition known as uterus didelphys, which means she has two separate uteruses, rather than one. For most women, that means their chances of having children without fertility treatments […]
Read »Ron Artest, AKA Metta World Peace, Out On DWTS
Posted 9/21/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWell, that was quick, wasn’t it? Much like Jerry Springer in years past, Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest, currently known as Metta World Peace, might have set a record for futility last night on Dancing With The Stars. The locked-out NBA player turned dancing star found himself on the wrong side of a 14-point […]
Read »Nicholas Cage’s Civil War Twin
Posted 9/20/2011 8:48 am by Stephanie SturgisActor Nicholas Cage is an eccentric dude, but is he immortal? That’s the not-so-serious question floating around lately after an eBay auction grabbed some attention. The item up for bid is a photo of a Tennessee man who lived during the Civil War. No, it’s not a newly discovered tintype of Confederate general Robert E. […]
Read »Mariano Rivera Saves Game 602, Becomes All-Time Saves King
Posted 9/20/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganIn the ninth inning, with the New York Yankees leading the Minnesota Twins by a score of 6-4, Mariano did to rookie Chris Parmelee what he has done to thousands of baseball players in his career: he struck the rookie out with a cut fastball. Not only was it Rivera’s 42nd save of the year, […]
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