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Big News! Some Princess Wants You to Buy Some Stuff She Likes
Emails to news reporters are filled with secret tips, background information, story details, and … this: a picture of a woman who claims to be a countess, claiming to use some cold product. It’s hard...
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The Perfect Summer Movie
Some good news: one of the most original action films in years is getting more screen time in Southern California theaters, starting today. (Details below.) It’s not The Amazing Spiderman, though I...
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Things That Aren’t What They Seem at Your Neighborhood Bar
Are bartenders getting more clever, or are their customers getting more drunker? (Hard to read, but it says “The NAKED truth about our WAITRESSES is that they only FLIRT WITH YOU to get better tips”...
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The Greatest Vending Machine, Ever Invented. Ever.
7-11 is rolling out mashed-potato-dispensing vending machines at stores here in the U.S. USA! USA! Actually, the technology is not new: they already have them in Singapore, and a similar device...
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Comic-Con is Over: but These Images Will Stay with Us Forever
Quick! Post these profile pictures on Linkedin: they scream “I’m unique!” Boy, do they scream it. OK, from this year’s Comic Convention in San Diego: first, there’s: Moving on quickly: there’s, –uh…...
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Urn Your Way to Immortality
This started out, just to be a story about how creepy it is that you can remember the dearly departed with a cremation urn that looks like the dearly departed. Especially, if the dearly departed bears...
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The Business Opportunity of A Lifetime
It’s what makes America great. Two guys, selling tap water to oblivious naive trend-chasers savvy, health-conscious consumers at $2.50 a bottle. In New York’s East Village, Adam Ruhf and Alexander...
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Signs the Housing Market is Really in Trouble
“Owner ready to croak must sell” would be one sign. Another would be calling your house a ‘gem, except for asbestos.”
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Skinning Defenseless Small Animals for Fun and Profit
The old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” And in New Zealand, they have found it. And if not a cat, close enough: a possum. The Taranaki Daily News reports a school district...
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Perfect Parental Notes for Back-to-School
Want today’s wifi password? 1. make your beds 2. vacuum downstairs 3. walk the dog. Perfect for back-to-school season. Or, for the harder-core parent:
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Airport Security’s Least-Favorite Person of the Week
So the guy whose jet-ski conked out, so he had to swim and wade on over to JFK airport for help, now has been charged with trespassing. Let’s review: Daniel Castillo is playing in Jamaica Bay, when...
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Scientific Proof, Dogs are Smarter than Cats
When the standard “warning; dog” signs aren’t enough…. (What exactly is a ‘dog guardian?’ -Ed.) (Photo source: oddee.com)
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Your Dream Job Has Arrived: But Do You Have What It Takes?
Do we believe this? I found it on the internet, so it probably has to be true. Apparently in China, you can get a job (and by ‘you,’ I mean ‘I’) where all you have to do is show up and be a white guy....
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The World’s Best Fake I.D.s — Not
Back-to-school time, is the season when we compare fake I.D.s, obtained over Summer. Uncle Sam is making it harder to get realistic ones, but some of these people aren’t even trying. Still, it doesn’t...
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Why Did the Space Shuttle Have THIS Nickname?
As the last Space Shuttle arrives in Southern California, we get a last chance to think about more than 30 years of memories, among the locals who put the fleet together. (I’m talking to you, Palmdale...
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Photo Proof: There’s “Out of Order,” and there’s “REALLY Out of Order”
Is there a restaurant grade, below “F”? What soda dispenser is gummed up, on 5 of its 6 nozzles? Some other choice samples include nicely labeled ‘out of order’ signs… and nicely labeled signs with...
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We Told You to be Careful When You See a Ball on the Street
Ever teen driver learns that a ball, bouncing into a street, means there’ll be a kid right behind it. if that were true here, it’d have to be a really big kid. On some of these, I’m not even gonna ask...
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Pictures of Why it Pays to Have a Tattoo Artist Who Can Spelll
It says “To young to die – To fast to live.” At least we know, too fast to put the second ‘o’ on the tail end of ‘To.” And wasn’t this (below) the title of a James Bond movie… or is it about an...
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When Good Dogs Go Bad
(May be hard to read: “I sit and stare at people blankly, making them extremely uncomfortable”) (Source: oddee.com)
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Group Costumes for Halloween
Years from now, we’ll hope anyone who participates in group costumes for Halloween, 1) still are friends, and 2) never plan on running for office. This year, so far, I haven’t seen a lot of costumes in...
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