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Recently, I was talking to my parents.  They’re wanting to go see Italy, but they’re also not wanting to make a long trans-Atlantic flight.  Like I told them, they’ll be inside the plane, not outside, so it won’t be bad.  Just ask the unnamed 20-year-old stowaway who rode on an Emirates flight from Vienna, Austria […]

The Washington Nationals are a terrible, terrible baseball team.  Since the Montreal Expos moved to Washington D.C. and became the Nats, they’ve won pretty much nothing.  Their record inside the Beltway is far below .500, but there’s always been hope in the form of one man:  2009 number one draft pick Stephen Strasburg.  This kid, […]

Tommy Gollick must be a great bowler.  I don’t think he’s a professional bowler as I’ve never heard him, but he’s got to be good because the United States Bowling Congress has credited him with setting a new record after he threw a world record 47 strikes in a row at the Red Crown Bowling […]

Bethany Lott loved mountains.  Richard Butler loved Bethany Lott.  The couple, from Knoxville, Tennessee, were climbing up Max Patch Bald, a mountain near Ashville, North Carolina.  Richard had a ring in his pocket, set on proposing to his girlfriend when they reached the summit.  Unfortunately, the mountaintop proposal went horribly wrong as the couple were […]

In 2003, an ancient Roman cemetery was discovered by a team of archaeologists, lead by Kurt Hunter-Mann, under the northern England city of York, but the purpose of the random burial ground was not easily determined.  Some 80 men were buried there; who were they, and what did they die from?  There were signs of […]

When prison officials at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center search a prisoner, they do as thorough a job as possible, but apparently there are still ways to beat the system.  That’s what guards at the prison in Wenatchee, Washington discovered after a prisoner admitted to the mother of all payloads smuggled into the prison […]

One of the weirder things about birthdays is that when you find another person who shares that date of birth, there’s always an instant connection.  I’m not sure why that is, but the few people I’ve met who have shared my day of birth have always been people I’ve liked.  I’ve never met another August […]

It started as a hobby, borne out of a single trip with some classmates at Manchester Metropolitan University.  Karl Maddocks, a now-25-year-old, and some friends had a nudist experience while on vacation in Wales, and he wanted to share that experience with the world.  Hence Skinbook, a Facebook alternative for nudists that bills itself as […]

Perky Cups is a business that just can’t escape controversy.  I mean, it is a bikini coffee shop, featuring women in bikinis slinging java to waiting customers, so it is going to provoke ire in certain circles, no matter what it does.  (Well, unless it goes out of business.)  However, the shop is in trouble […]

Stephen Fry is one of the most popular celebrity Tweeters on microblogging website Twitter.  The BBC presenter, comedian, and all-around media darling has attracted 1.5 million followers on his Twitter account, and more join every day.  That’s why he was the perfect person to judge the Hay Festival’s most beautiful tweet ever tweeted contest!  Who […]

Today, the first Friday in June, is one of the greatest days on the calendar.  Why is that, you ask?  It’s not the good weather.  No sir/ma’am, the first Friday in June just happens to be National Doughnut Day!  And how could you have a bad day on doughnut day?  You can’t, that’s how!  Dunkin’ […]

When Andrew Brian McKnight showed up for work at the Murfreesboro, Tennessee branch of Waffle House, I imagine he never thought his shift would end with a high-speed car ride on the wrong side of the vehicle.  When three teenagers attempted to dine and dash, McKnight went out to stop them.  Of course, they tried […]