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Congratulations Colorado…

Monday, April 21st, 2008

…on the success of this year’s 4/20 pot smoke-out. Every year on April 20th, thousands of Colorado students participate in a pot smoke-out at 4:20 p.m. This year, 10,000 students participated, up 5,000 from last year.
The media reports:
About 15 CU officers and a half-dozen deputies with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office had a […]

Looking into the future…

Friday, October 26th, 2007

A scientist predicts that —
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.
100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.
The alarming prediction […]

Charged with salting a police officer

Monday, September 10th, 2007

The Drudge Report has provided the link to this juicy tidbit from Atlanta. A McDonald’s employee, Kendra Bull, spilled a large amount of salt over a pile of hamburger. Because the managment was not excited about waste, Bull tried to remove as much salt as possible and used the meat.
Little did she know that a […]

Republican Lawmaker Found Dead

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

20 year Congressman Paul Gillmor (R-OH) was found dead in his apartment Wednesday.
The AP reporst that:
Gillmor’s body was found lying on the floor in his nearby Arlington, Virginia, apartment by members of his staff who went there to investigate Wednesday morning after the 68-year-old lawmaker failed to show up for work, Arlington police […]

That’s my kind of girl! That’s my kind of Mayor! And another beast from TX…

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

She is 40 years old. She is 105 pounds. And she likes romantic walks on the beach…and wings.
Her name: Sandra Thomas.
But she is also known as “The Black Widow” for devoring her food as well as her opponents.
And recently, she beat 12 more weighty opponents in a wing eating contest in […]

Weird News gets weirder

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Who remembers when Pepsi had that commercial where if you accrued 7 million “pepsi points” you could trade for a Harrier Jet? And do you remember there was one (stupid) kid who did accrue the 7,000,000 “pepsi points” needed to trade for the jet. A it turns out pepsi didn’t really have a Harrier […]

Weird news: What’s up with the Dutch?

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

In weird news this week, a young boy was fishing in the waters off the Dutch Netherlands when he saw the bobber dip into the water. He yanked up, but what eventually came to the top was not what he was expecting…
A Dutch scuba diver became the surprise catch of the day for a […]

Kitties and Coldplay

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

In weird new this week, a woman attacked a man at a bar for singing Coldplay. Her apparent reasoning was complex and perplexing. It included, statements such as the “singing sucked” and the “song f**king sucked.”
She probably votes Democrat…
The Smoking Gun described the altercation like so:
[The crazed woman] grabbed at the man’s microphone […]

Can you spare a quarter?

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
So asked Jesus in the gospel of Luke. […]

Thriller

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

This is weird, but strangely catchy, and oddly entertaining.
It is a video of Filipino prisoners dancing in unison and cheorographed fashion to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The Associated Press reports:
The video shot in a provincial jail on the central Philippine island of Cebu show some of the 1,600 inmates dancing in a routine […]

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