Join me briefly in song, won’t you? “In Bolivar Peninsula, in mighty Bolivar Peninsula, the lion swims tonight.” That’s right; in Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, a lion that couldn’t evacuate in time before Hurricane Ike had to swim it out while locked inside a church.
But that’s not the best part.
The best part is that lion […]
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Trapped In Church With A Lion, Riding Out A Hurricane
Posted 9/17/2008 12:30 pm by Ron Hogan
Drunk Man Humps SUV
Posted 9/17/2008 6:35 am by Ron HoganMaybe I’m a little bit jaded by my college experience, and by living in a town with a serious partying weekend every year, but I’ve seen a lot of drunk people doing a lot of drunk things. Plus, with the Internet, you can see drunk people doing some exceptionally insane stuff. I thought I’d seen […]
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Ninja Cat Attacks!
Posted 9/15/2008 10:30 am by Ron HoganCats can do some pretty awesome things. Cats can also do some pretty funny things, as I found out once I got a cat of my own. Check out this insane video of a cat that has learned the secrets of the ninja.
Well, the cat isn’t quite a ninja, as it was caught […]
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Geraldo Doesn’t Surf
Posted 9/15/2008 6:30 am by Ron HoganGeraldo Rivera has one of the longest careers in television that I can think of. It seems like he’s been around forever. From his eponymous talk show that dominated the 90’s to his current slightly more legitimate career as a reporter for Fox News (among other places), the man with one of the […]
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Bears (Well, Guys In Bear Suits) Fear No Hurricane
Posted 9/14/2008 8:16 pm by Ron HoganSometimes I just love people. Take, for example, this guy in a bear suit who showed up during KHOU TV in Houston’s coverage of Hurricane Ike. Even while Galveston’s getting pounded by massive waves, this dude’s out there having a good time. Sick as it might be, I haven’t laughed so hard […]
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After The Gas Crash
Posted 9/14/2008 5:56 pm by Ron HoganEveryone and their mother is scared about the supply of gas. Thanks to Hurricane Ike clobbering America’s major gas refining/oil producing area not long after the previous hurricane, Gustav, hit nearly the same area, fuel prices have shot up throughout the country. Where I live, gas went from $3.40 to $4.15 in two days, triggering […]
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Accidentally Naughty Signs
Posted 9/13/2008 12:25 am by Ron HoganThere are always signs out there that, when you look at them, you just know whoever put the sign up probably wasn’t reading it closely. As someone who wasted five years of college as an English major (plus a year of grad school, so that’s six years of wasted time and money), I see signs […]
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Cat Vs. Printer, Who Ya Got?!
Posted 9/12/2008 6:35 am by Ron HoganI was never a cat person. I was always a dog guy. I wanted a pet that was fun and that was always happy to seem me. Cats were usually too aloof for my tastes. Little did I know that cats were a source of high comedy, like this video from […]
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Six Towers For Real-World Villains
Posted 9/11/2008 10:31 pm by Ron HoganEvery cool bad guy has his own signature home base. The Legion of Doom had the cleverly-named Hall of Doom. Darth Vader has the Death Star. Donald Trump has Trump Towers. If you’re going to be a villain, you need an awesome place to live, and deputydog has six menacing towers […]
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The Filthiest Apartment Ever
Posted 9/11/2008 11:22 am by Ron HoganEveryone has a mental image of a bachelor pad. You know, lots of electronics but no wall decoration (except for maybe movie posters or centerfolds). Old, battered furniture that’s probably reeking of body odors. Big piles of old pizza boxes and maybe some dishes molding away in the sink. Still, no matter how bad your […]
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Real Life Superheroes (And Villains)
Posted 9/11/2008 12:05 am by Ron HoganAs The Dark Knight continues to rake in the money at the box office (over $500 million in the US and $950 million worldwide), it’s clear now that superheroes and their evil counterparts will never fade away. There will always be a market for costumed do-gooders and maniacs, but it’s not always on the silver […]
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The Large Hadron Collider Has Not Destroyed The World (Yet)
Posted 9/10/2008 8:02 pm by Ron HoganEveryone’s been talking about the Large Hadron Collider. It’s the hot new topic amongst the science set, and even those vaguely interested in science, not because of what it does, but because of what it could do. Here’s a great explanation, but I’ll try to mash out a quick one for those not […]
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The Globetrotting Bobblehead George
Posted 9/10/2008 1:05 pm by Ron HoganThere’s a little plastic guy with a big head who is popping up in the strangest of places. His name is Bobblehead George, and his website Where’s Bobblehead George? is getting a lot of attention these days, for a very good reason. From his home base in Nashville, Tennessee, Bobblehead George has gone to Hollywood, […]
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The Rubber Duck Invasion
Posted 9/10/2008 6:26 am by Ron HoganThis news is a little old, but it’s too cool not to pass along, especially given how awesome the images are. On August 31, the annual Great British Duck Race took place in London. Over 250,000 ducks were released into the River Thames, a new Guinness World Record for the most rubber ducks […]
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Crazy Stairs, Or India’s Chand Baori Well
Posted 9/09/2008 11:28 pm by Ron HoganHuman beings can do a lot of things out of necessity. For example, let’s take a gander at the Chand Baori, a famous well from India. Yes, that’s the well above… the crazy thing with the thousands of stairs. Actually, it has 3,500 stairs, is 13 stories, and is 30 meters deep. It was built […]
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84-Year-Old Man With 86 Wives Ordered To Get 82 Divorces
Posted 9/09/2008 4:07 pm by Ron HoganMohammed Belo is a man who loves women. The Muslim preacher, despite being 84 years old, has managed to marry not once, not twice, but 86 times. How he has time for them all (or remembers all their names at his age) I’ll never know, but he still wants more. Unfortunately for Mohammed, local officials […]
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Goofy Golf With Samuel L. Jackson
Posted 9/09/2008 2:54 pm by Ron HoganSamuel L. Jackson is one of my favorite actors of all time. Not because he’s good (though he’s very good when he want to be), but because he’s so unapologetic about how he goes about his business. He’s never turned down a role that I know of, he’s public about his former addiction to drugs, […]
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Cool Pools: The Cement Pond Gets Fancy
Posted 9/09/2008 6:57 am by Ron HoganThe swimming pool has always been a symbol of luxury. After all, it takes money to build one, and money to maintain one. Even the simplest of above-ground pools is an investment in time and maintenance materials. However, if you have the money, you definitely have to have you a luxury swimmin’ hole. The more […]
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NFL All-Pro Chad Johnson Becomes Alter Ego Ocho Cinco
Posted 9/08/2008 1:51 pm by Ron HoganCincinnati Bengal all-star Chad Johnson is one of the most consistently entertaining, consistently crazy wide receivers in the National Football League. From his creative and entertaining touchdown dances (including holding up a sign on the sidelines begging the NFL not to fine him) to his unusual playful taunts (including sending a case of Pepto Bismol […]
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The Procrastination Flowchart: How To Efficiently Waste Time
Posted 9/05/2008 1:33 pm by Ron HoganIt’s Friday afternoon. Everyone’s starting to slow down for the weekend. Who wants to start a project, have it sit for two days, then have to remember where you are Monday morning? Not me, that’s for sure. That’s why it’s time to consult the procrastination flow chart!Make sure you click on […]
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Dumbo’s On Methadone (Or The Junkie Elephant)
Posted 9/05/2008 9:31 am by Ron HoganWhat do you get when you cross the animated Disney classic Dumbo with the movie Trainspotting? Well, probably something like the story of Xiguang (Chinese for Big Brother), an Asian elephant who was addicted to heroin. How in the world does an elephant get hooked on smack?Well, first of all, it would take a lot […]
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The World’s Most Unique Place?
Posted 9/04/2008 6:17 pm by Ron HoganThroughout PopFi’s history, we’ve discussed a lot of unusual places, both past and future, and odd creatures, but we’ve never discussed something as crazy as Socotra, an island located somewhere between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Due to its isolated island location and harsh climate, Socotra is home to more than 800 species […]
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Don LaFontaine, The Voiceover Master, Has Passed Away
Posted 9/02/2008 2:21 pm by Ron HoganDon LaFontaine, who passed away this morning at Cedars Sinai Hospital at age 68, wasn’t a man you’d know by looking at him. He’s been deeply involved in the entertainment industry for 33 years and he’s been featured prominently in over 5,000 movie trailers, but he could walk down the street and not even gather […]
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The “Tree Man” Is Now Wart Free!
Posted 8/27/2008 2:18 pm by Ron HoganThe former “Tree Man of Java,” Dede Kosawa, is experiencing life for the first time thanks to the efforts of the physicians at the Hasan Sadikin Provincial Hospital. It has taken an incredible nine surgeries, but Dede is now 95% wart free and the former “Tree Man” is now able to walk without pain, […]
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The Zombie Chopper
Posted 8/26/2008 2:55 pm by Ron HoganIn news that is sure to make NewsComa a very happy blogger, zombies are getting more and more popular every day. I don’t mean actual zombies, since the smell and the flesh-eating is still enough to keep them far down on the list of invited guests to your average party; I’m talking about movie […]
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The No Longer Pregnant Man Gives Birth
Posted 7/24/2008 9:22 am by Ron HoganThomas Beatie, the famous pregnant man you read about first at Pop Fi, is definitely not a hoax. On June 29, Beatie and his partner (girlfriend, wife? I’m not sure how it works when it comes to pregnant men and their lady friends) welcomed a 9.5lb baby girl, Susan Juliette, into the world. […]
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Live Nude Gamers
Posted 7/01/2008 11:36 am by Ron HoganPeople do a lot of odd surveys. A recent Ipsos Reid poll conducted in Canada at the behest of Microsoft asked a lot of questions about, what else, video games. I suppose they’re trying to find out just where people play games so they can respond and push the Xbox 360 into the proper areas […]
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Don’t Squeeze The Charmin, Wear It!
Posted 6/20/2008 2:26 pm by Ron HoganYou see that lovely wedding dress? It’s not just a lovely outfit, it’s a lovely outfit made of, get this… toilet paper. That’s right, it’s a squeezable soft, extra absorbent, ridged for extra cleaning bridal gown.
That lovely dress, fabricated over a two week period by Katrina Chalifoux, won the fourth annual toilet paper […]
Office Rampage Video Makes Suckers Out Of The Internet
Posted 6/12/2008 9:21 am by Ron HoganRemember that awesome viral video of that office worker going completely insane? Well, as it turns out, that wasn’t just some great hidden camera footage. No, it was just your every day, run of the mill viral marketing campaign. Instead of selling computer products or pepper spray, it was just a video selling […]
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Bombing On The Golf Course (Literally!)
Posted 6/11/2008 2:47 am by Ron Hogan Who doesn’t love a relaxing day on the golf course? The sun’s shining, the grass is green and lush, there’s a nice cool breeze blowing through the trees. Oh yeah, and there’s also discarded military explosives right off the tee box. Wait, what?
Right off the 5th hole, Freddie McGee was operating a bulldozer with another […]
