Covered in oil after resetting a sensor in the aircraft’s nosewheel, the pilot stood on a chair in the terminal building and pleaded with the exhausted tourists to join him
The craze for flash mobs — where jokers gather en masse at a moment’s notice, perform an inane activity and then disperse quickly — is spreading across Europe
In a delightful scam that should be a warning to editors everywhere, one Michael Burdick of Las Vegas created a web site, Hunting for Bambi, offering rich jerks the chance to hunt down naked women with paintball guns in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas, at four grand a time. The service did not, of course, exist. The only point of the exercise was to sit back and watch as the US media wallowed in an opportunity to present themselves as outraged crusaders for women’s rights, without bothering to check their facts
Monty, a Shih-Tzu, in Greater Manchester has been offered a gold credit card from the Royal Bank of Scotland with a spending limit of £10,000
Malaysian Muslim men can divorce their wives through text messages on mobile telephones. Anyone who is gutless enough to initiate a divorce using SMS is someone you should be glad to be shot of
Both of the beasties are firmly of the opinion that their heads belong in the refrigerator. This is why the closest object to their questing muzzles is their own bag of green beans.
They like to help put the groceries away. Making sure the beans are readily accessible prevents things like entire cartons of eggs from mysteriously disappearing.
For once not looking insane or otherwise deranged, the malamute helps herself to the beans.
Landover Baptist Church offers yet another amusing and enlightening article from the Pastor Deacon Fred on ridding your community of the scourge of athetists
Neville Kan, a London dentist, drilled away almost half of a healthy tooth to punish a patient who owed him money
Takara, Japan’s number two toy maker, is set to launch a device in November that translates cats’ meows into human speech, following the smash-hit dog-language electronic interpreter Bowlingual
Harvard has revoked its admission of Blair Hornstine, the prospective member of the Class of 2007 who made national headlines when she sued her school system to ensure she would be her high school’s sole valedictorian, following a widely-publicised report that Hornstine had plagiarised material in articles she wrote for her local paper
Russia’s only sniffer cat, hailed for its successes in the campaign against the bloody and lucrative world of caviar smuggling, has been run over and killed in a suspected contract killing
Some idiot at work has stuck a poster of Justin Timberlake half naked up on one of our toilet cubicle doors at work. This has now resulted in me never going in the third toilet cubicle and I’m sure many others feel the same. What’s really scary is that I’m one of the youngest females here and I find this guy repulsive, so that means that the older more mature women in content and customer service think he’s hot, mate
. UUgghhh!
On another note I cannot locate an iPod. I’ve been told by various Apple stores that stores all over Australia are still waiting to fill back orders. GGRRRRR I want my iPod NOW damn it!
Hopefully my frustration will be replaced with one of these gorgeous objects of appley-loveliness within 2 – 3 weeks.
It’s bad enough having to pummel your well-intentioned friends when they e-mail you with urban legends disguised as dire warnings without having to weed the same crap out of the media as well.
US News & World Report editor Mort Zuckerman recently provided anecdotes to make the point that these days anyone… can haul anybody into court for just about anything
. Unfortunately Zuckerman is either a lazy journalist, completely clueless or amazingly gullible, as his facts turned out to be fiction.
The Urban Legend Reference Pages traces the bogus lawsuit anecdotes back to spam from 2001, which listed six separate supposedly outrageous legal awards.
US News is refusing to issue a correction, even after copping a reaming from the Washington Post.
An investigation has begun after sightings of a legendary ape-like beast in the forests of central China
Danny Wallace accidentally founded a group whose sole purpose is to perform unsolicited acts of kindness to unsuspecting strangers. Finally, a cult really worth joining
Being the proud owner of a plush Cthulhu myself, I was overjoyed to find this disturbing site.
Dread plush Cthulhu rises from the non-Euclidean washing basket… can Professor Blue Smush DinoBaby save the world from this adorable menace?
Claiming that the drugs you were taking are to blame for your dodgy behaviour is as misguided as saying you did it for god, the devil made you do it, movies / television / music / video games are to blame, or the mysterious voice at the back of the refrigerator won’t leave you alone. This is a guy who already had a bent for underage girls.
Can’t believe the obvious typo in the headline implying that the drug is responsible rather than the man. It should read: Serial paedophile clutches at straws.
The drugs weren’t a trigger, but they were used as bait — apparently he didn’t have any boiled lollies on him at the time.
Scotland may be the most popular UFO destination on the planet, but Roswell, New Mexico is the old favourite for government conspiracy buffs who believe the US government has been hiding proof of an alien spacecraft crash in 1947. Popular Mechanics has recently gained access to de-classified documents from the Roswell military base, and they contain no entries of unusual events or activity. I wonder if the release of these documents will deter the conspiracy theorists?
Trainspotting is the much-maligned pastime revolving around the writing down of the serial numbers of locomotives. As if having everybody snickering at them wasn’t bad enough, reports suggest that spotters are now facing a security crackdown
For the man who has everything; the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WWII and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944 is currently for sale — via Slashdot
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