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Here's the job description: you have to go out drinking with an old man twice a week for about two hours a night. You're paid about $14 an hour, plus...
Posted on April 4, 2008 12:35 AM
It's just a slippery slope away. In London, they perceive a public health problem from people using cell phones, mainly for text messaging, running into things. Their solution? Make stuff...
Posted on March 8, 2008 3:42 AM
They wouldn't promote the movie, but the fictional beverage in it, now that's worth marketing! From Danny Leigh of The Guardian: 1) Early last year, Mike Judge, creator of Beavis...
Posted on December 10, 2007 5:21 AM
A Dutch museum is appealing for donations: they need crab lice - or at least one louse. No questions asked . . . and they are afraid for the species,...
Posted on October 22, 2007 5:50 PM
Obscene Yogurt Conviction....
Posted on January 19, 2006 7:00 PM
Especially on days when they give me so many good stories to blog about. Today's one of those days, and there are so many, I'm gonna stick a bunch in...
Posted on January 12, 2006 2:00 PM
In Belmont, New Hampshire, David Moore decided he'd had enough of his life, and it was time to end it. And he concocted an elaborate plan to commit suicide, planning...
Posted on January 5, 2006 11:00 AM
Classically, justice is portrayed as a blindfolded woman holding scales, symbolizing the ideal that justice should be blind, judging matters regardless of outside considerations. One New Hampshire judge, it seems,...
Posted on January 1, 2006 11:00 AM
Via the recovering Acidman comes this pictorial that gives graphic evidence why those wars in Africa seem to keep going on and on and on: Hardly anyone fighting over there...
Posted on December 15, 2005 5:00 PM
Recently, a commuter in Massachusetts had a rather unusual incident. As he does every day, the man (whose name is being withheld) left his car at the commuter parking lot...
Posted on December 15, 2005 3:00 PM
New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza and New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada will have to fight it out for second billing as New York's top catcher for a little...
Posted on December 15, 2005 2:33 PM
This story has it all - video of the fall, the happy ending, and the surprise pregnancy.SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. -- Shayna Richardson was making her first solo skydiving jump when...
Posted on December 13, 2005 3:49 PM
In Australia, prostitution is pretty much legal. With that obstacle out of the way, the more common laws of economics -- such as supply and demand -- hold much more...
Posted on November 30, 2005 8:00 AM
Looks like Ronald MacDonald is a hamburgler...MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - You'd think that just working at a Wendy's restaurant would be difficult for Ronald MacDonald. Now, the 22-year-old MacDonald...
Posted on November 28, 2005 10:27 AM
"Seamus, you never liked my mother. So why are you so eager to see her in the home all of a sudden?" "Er... no reason, Colleen..." More proof that God...
Posted on November 16, 2005 2:00 PM
Video A video surveillance camera at a South Korean subway station caught a scary scene Thursday. A subway train pulled away from the platform with a baby in a...
Posted on November 12, 2005 2:14 AM
Yesterday morning, a small cargo plane ran into engine trouble just after leaving the Manchester airport. It tried to make it back, but didn't quite make it. It crashed into...
Posted on November 9, 2005 8:00 AM
Colleges are always looking for money, and one of the more reliable sources has always been successful alumni. They are usually willing to kick in a few bucks for their...
Posted on November 4, 2005 2:00 PM
I'll most likely never own a Ferrari, let alone drive one. I'll probably never even get a ride in one, and the one time I touched one, I got a...
Posted on November 2, 2005 2:00 PM
Everyone has neighbors. And nearly everyone has neighbors they don't get along with. Learning to live with their presence is a learning experience we all go through, because we're stuck...
Posted on October 30, 2005 6:30 PM
Matthew O'Neil, a librarian at Palm Harbor Library in Palm Harbor, Florida, hates junk faxes. He's channeled his disgust for one particular fax blaster into small claims court. His reward?...
Posted on October 14, 2005 2:24 PM
Available in the new Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog Full size The M400 Skycar - the worlds first vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Developed by Moller International, the Skycar travels at...
Posted on September 30, 2005 2:47 PM
The entrepreneurial spirit runs strong in the face of disaster. Witness the French Quarter, which knows it's customers.NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - In a sign that things may be returning to...
Posted on September 22, 2005 8:24 PM
Pregnancy sometimes does odd things to women. They find themselves experiencing odd cravings, as their bodies react and adapt to the amazing experience of creating and growing a new person...
Posted on September 9, 2005 8:00 AM
I think of myself as a "born-again skeptic." I have a hard time believing in the supernatural, the incredible, the spiritual. And for the most part, my skepticism has been...
Posted on September 5, 2005 4:55 AM
There's an old bit of observational humor about how some people will drive around a parking lot three or four times to get a spot near the door so they...
Posted on August 17, 2005 11:00 AM
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Just as the McCain/Palin desperation flop-sweat starts to really stink up the country, good news arrives in this afternoon's release of new polling results showing Barack Obama and Joe Biden are widening their lead over John "What Economic Problems?" McCain and Sarah "I can see Russia from my House!" Palin.
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How does John McCain react to the bad economic news? He changes the subject! In late afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 800 points, then recovered slightly in erratic trading to a loss of 764.38, or 7.40 percent,...
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Not only did Palin lie, she was in fact partly or wholly responsible for the failure of the effort she now claims credit for. She's a cheeky monkey donchaknowit youbetcha!
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The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented...
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At the heart of the scandal was Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which took advantage of deregulation in the 1980s to make risky investments with its depositors' money. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators tasked with preventing banking fraud, and championed legislation to delay regulation of the savings and loan industry -- actions that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
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"Bull Durham" sequel is getting made. Kevin Costner will reprise the role of catcher Crash Davis from the 1988 baseball flick. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are also expected to...
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The price of Mean Manor just got $30 million leaner, reports the The Post's Braden Keil. Leona Helmsley's 40-acre estate in Greenwich, Conn. - known as Dunnellen Hall - has...
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Tony Curtis still regrets his flippant crack about how kissing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" was "like kissing Hitler." In fact, he now reveals, he was extremely...
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Eddie Van Halen is engaged to his girlfriend/manager Janie Liszewski, PEOPLE has learned. Van Halen, 53, proposed to Liszewski, 38, on Aug. 4 while they were vacationing in Hawaii. The...
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Detailed below are highlights of a news segment aired Saturday morning on CNN hosted by Christine Romans, who opened with "The populist uprising against the Washington Bailout has its roots in a deep distrust of the Bush Administration, which for...
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