The middle-aged man in question has been dubbed the “Grim Eater.” At funerals in Wellington, New Zealand, he’d show up, dressed somberly. He’d pay his respects to the departed, stay out of the way, and then stuff himself on free food at the funeral home, despite obviously not knowing the recently deceased or any of […]
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Fired For Being Hot
Posted 6/04/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganDebrahlee Lorenzana, a 33-year-old from Queens, has curves, and she can’t really hide them. That’s why, she says, she was first transferred from the Chrysler Building branch, and later lost her job at Citibank. Inundated with sexual comments from coworkers, Ms. Lorenzana says she was fired from her job for being too attractive. However, she […]
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McDonald’s Recalls Poisonous Shrek Glasses
Posted 6/04/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganIf your son or daughter is sitting down at breakfast right now, with a big Shrek glass full of orange juice, then you might want to take it from them. Those cute little painted-on Shrek designs just might be fatal! McDonald’s is recalling four glasses promoting the movie Shrek Forever After thanks to testing that […]
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Ferrari World, The All-Ferrari Theme Park
Posted 6/03/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganFerrari World sounds like some kind of cheesy car dealership, doesn’t it? As it turns out, Ferrari World isn’t a dealership for expensive Italian supercars, it’s a brand-new theme park opening up in the Persian Gulf oasis of Abu Dhabi. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is the world’s first theme park dedicated solely to the Ferrari […]
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Lexus’s $350,000 Supercar
Posted 6/03/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganIn a time in which automakers are cutting out historic brands and selling off niche units, the world’s largest automaker continues to reach out to new markets. In spite of performance problems and criminal negligence, people still keep buying Toyotas and Lexus automobiles, so Toyota will keep making them. In fact, they’re expanding their reach, […]
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Fish And Chips Ice Cream!
Posted 6/03/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganI’m not British, but to me the perfect combination of food items is fish and chips. You’ve got fish, so it’s healthy, but you’ve also got batter and fries on the side, so it’s also delicious. (Yes, I know fish and chips is completely unhealthy, just leave me to my happy lie.) I’m in favor […]
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Fat Bird Put On A Diet
Posted 6/03/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhile she’s not a pudgy budgy, there’s one roly-poly little kookaburra in Australia that has suddenly gone from living the high life and chowing down on sausages to working out three times a day with a personal trainer, eating diet food, and living in a bird-style gymnasium. The bird was too fat to fly, thanks […]
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Jonathan Hostetler Is A Dead Man
Posted 6/03/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganDespite having been dead since August 2009, Jonathan Hostetler is in remarkably good health. He’s applying to art school, which is pretty ambitious for a corpse entering his 9th month of post-life status. The 28-year-old man, from Hermitage, Tennessee, is fighting against the authorities after finding out he was mistakenly noted as dead while attempting […]
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Drunk Parrots Falling From The Sky
Posted 6/03/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganAustralia is a land where strange things just seem to happen. First, it rains fish in the desert, and now parrots are just falling from the sky. I can’t explain the raining fish, but as for the lorikeets that are just randomly falling out of trees and dropping to the ground in mid-flight? Apparently, those […]
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Woman Launches Nude Housekeeping Service
Posted 6/03/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganSo you want to hire a maid. I understand that it’s tough to keep the house clean without one, and I don’t blame you for wanting to farm out some of the less pleasant work to a professional cleaner. However, what if you want your house cleaned by a naked maid who just might offer […]
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Mercury Falls Victim To Cost-Cutting
Posted 6/03/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe automotive industry has gotten just a little bit smaller. Joining Oldsmobile on the scrap heap of former brands shelved by their creators, Ford Motor Company has announced that their venerable Mercury brand would be closing down after the 2010 year. Mercury was started in 1939 by Edsel Ford, son of Ford founder Henry Ford, […]
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Porn Actor Goes On Machete Rampage
Posted 6/03/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s hard to get work out there, no matter what your industry. However, when you’re a man in the adult film world? It’s practically impossible to get your foot in the door. That’s the struggle of Stephen Hill, AKA Steve Driver, a 34-year-old porn actor who police say went crazy and attacked three coworkers with […]
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The Robbery of Armando Galarraga
Posted 6/03/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganDetroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga had it. The 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history, and the third this season, was his. All he had to do was beat Cleveland Indians shortstop Jason Donald to first base, field the ball, and it would be in the record books. Unfortunately for Armando, the guy covering […]
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Skiing With Flare
Posted 6/02/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganSki jumping is poetry in motion. All those twists and turns and spins are just awesome to watch and beautiful to contemplate, but they don’t really translate to still photographs in the way artist Greg Maino wanted to capture. However, Greg had an idea to attach lights to the skis to capture the motion of […]
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Military To Adopt NFL-Style Replay System
Posted 6/02/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIn 2009, the US Air Force collected over 1,800 hours worth of data a month from video surveillance systems, most of which comes from those unmanned vehicles and drone planes used to scout the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s a whole lot of video footage; indeed, it is too much for the current video […]
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Hot Pink Jail Uniforms
Posted 6/02/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIs the intent for ease of identification, or to heap on humiliation? That’s the question being asked in Norman, Oklahoma, after Cleveland County sheriff Joe Lester debuted new uniforms for the county jail. Rather than traditional bright orange or traditional white and black stripes, the garish new uniforms look like some kind of New Wave […]
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Scaring Movie Audiences With Animal Screams
Posted 6/02/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganThe people who make movies want to use every trick they can muster to provoke a reaction from the audience. That reaction is the key that separates a box-office bomb from a billion-dollar picture. One of the key elements to any movie is the soundtrack: the music and ambient sounds that fill up the space […]
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Former Governor Caught With Stolen Moon Rock
Posted 6/02/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganIn 1969 and 1974, the state of Colorado was given moon rocks collected on NASA’s various trips to the moon. Both sets of rocks disappeared. About a decade ago, the 1969 moon rocks were found in storage at a state museum and put on display at the capital, but the moon rocks given to Colorado […]
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Breast Cancer Vaccine Developed?
Posted 6/02/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganDespite millions of dollars poured into research, masses of publicity on detection, and research on what foods could and could not prevent it, there’s still no cure for cancer. However, if an injection developed at the Cleveland Clinic proves to be true, we just might be able to prevent breast cancer in the same manner […]
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Homer Simpson: Greatest TV Character Of The Last 20 Years
Posted 6/02/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganLong-running US animated television program The Simpsons is quite possibly the biggest international phenomenon in television history. They’re literally seen just about everywhere and are about as close to an international constant as can be found on planet Earth. The show has been on the air 21 years, is seen in 90 different countries, and […]
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Only Known Photo Of Marilyn Monroe With JFK For Sale
Posted 6/02/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganBetween the three of them, Marilyn Monroe, John Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy have probably been photographed thousands of times. Two of the most famous politicians in the world, and the most beautiful actress to ever grace the silver screen? They’re the subject of dozens of iconic photos, but they’ve never been seen together until now. […]
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NHL Team Needs Your Flushing Hand
Posted 6/02/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganAre you a student over the age of 18 in the Pittsburgh area? Are you potty trained? If you answered yes to these two questions, the Pittsburgh Penguins need your help. The NHL franchise is moving into a new arena, the Consol Energy Center, and they need 250 volunteers willing to help simultaneously flush all […]
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The Prepaid Cell Phone Is Over
Posted 6/01/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s a boon to both the criminal and the criminally poor. They were featured prominently on the show The Sopranos as a great way to make phone calls without attracting too much attention, and they’re beloved by people who either A) don’t like a monthly bill, B) don’t like a long-term contract, or C) like […]
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Welfare Fraud Drives Maserati
Posted 6/01/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganSee that beautiful piece of machinery up there? That’s a Maserati Quattroporte, one of the finest automobiles to ever come out of Italy’s sports car industry. Gorgeous, isn’t it? It’s very expensive, which means it’s not something someone on welfare should even be able to touch. However, a welfare cheat in Cerritos, California had a […]
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Fined For Reading Street Signs
Posted 6/01/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganClaire Hallam was looking for a place to park in Lewisham, a neighborhood in South London. Since London, England, is one of the biggest cities in the world, parking is at a premium. So when Claire saw a blue P parking sign, indicating that sometimes you can park there and sometimes you can’t, she pulled […]
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Google Sued Over Bad Directions
Posted 6/01/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganI’m a big believer in Google Maps. When I have to go somewhere, the first thing I do is look up the directions online. However, unlike some people, I’m blessed with a little thing called common sense. Even if I don’t have the greatest sense of direction, I know better than to stand in the […]
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Quidditch Exhibition Claims New York City
Posted 6/01/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganFantasy, meet reality! For years, people who are typically into fantasy and science fiction and whatnot were beaten up for being nerds and outcasts by the dudes that played sports. That’s just how it used to go: if you were busy working on your Comic-Con outfit, you should expect some antagonizing comments, at the very […]
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Marriage Proposal From Down In The Depths
Posted 6/01/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganToday seems like it’s turning out to be weird wedding day here at PopFi. First we had the pair destined to be together since birth, and then we had the couple that shouldn’t be together because of their shared parent. Now we’ve got a wedding proposal in the least romantic place possible. Steven Sparks, 41, […]
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“She’s My Lover AND My Sister!”
Posted 6/01/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganTwo people who we’ll call James and Maura, both from out of town and visiting friends, meet in a club. In spite of the 150 kilometers (about 93 miles) separating the two of them, they hit it off. After two years of long distance, Maura gets pregnant, and she and James settle down to raise […]
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Google To Stop Using Windows
Posted 6/01/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganFor years, new hires to Google’s employment team were given their choice of desktop computer operating systems. They could go with Windows, Mac, or Linux. However, starting now, one of those choices has been eliminated from the list. At the Googleplex, Windows has been banned from use by new employees. The linchpin of this move […]
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