Bacon Explosion - Your Heart Will Hate You For It
Posted in Consumer, Ridiculous But True on Feb 4th, 2009
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Hilarity Ensues with Funny Town Names Across The Pond
Posted in Blah Blah Blah, Ridiculous But True on Jan 27th, 2009
CRAPSTONE, England — When ordering things by telephone, Stewart Pearce tends to take a proactive approach to the inevitable question “What is your address?”
He lays it out straight, so there is no room for unpleasant confusion. “I say, ‘It’s spelled “crap,” as in crap,’ ” said Mr. Pearce, 61, who has lived in Crapstone, a [...]
Ignorance Alive and Well in New York City
Posted in Consumer, Products, Ridiculous But True on Jan 23rd, 2009
At at a time when any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery popular with celebrities and shows like Sex and the City has outraged neighbors by selling a “Drunken Negro Face” cookie in, um, “honor” of President Obama. [Video below.] A shocked [...]
The $100 Trillion Banknote - USA Next?
Posted in Economy, Finance, Government, Ridiculous But True on Jan 16th, 2009
Zimbabwe unveiled a 100 trillion dollar note Friday in the latest grim measure of its staggering economic collapse, heightening the urgency of a new round of unity talks set for next week.
Veteran leader Robert Mugabe and opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai are set to hold talks Monday with key regional leaders in a bid to salvage [...]