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Archive for the ‘Funny’ Category

May 21st, 2008

Farmer Uses Mules to Save Gas

We may need to start a “Gas Is Ridiculously High” Category. A farmer in Tennessee’s Warren County tells the Associated Press he can’t afford fuel for his tractor anymore. So he’s using two mules and a tractor rake to gather hay from their fields.
It’s getting crazy, folks. I’m looking into buying a Segway. Or […]

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May 19th, 2008

It’s a urinal - no, it’s a game

Two Belgians launched a new video game that is played at a urinal. Players can kill aliens or ski while relieving themselves. The name of the game? “Place to Pee.”
The designers got the idea while drinking, what else, Belgian beers. They must have been drinking a lot of beers. The game is made up of […]

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May 11th, 2008

Bridge meant to speed commute bogs down with sightseers

Last week marked the opening of the world longest cross-sea bridge in China. The Hangzhou Bay Bridge is supposed to cut travel time between Ningbo and Shanghai from four hours to two and a half.
Instead, drivers are slowing on the bridge to take a look at the scenery. Police have fined over 300 drivers for […]

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April 30th, 2008

Free Viagra in Santiago, Chile - Olé!

Wanting to improve quality of life in a Santiago suburb, Lo Prado’s mayor is handing out free Viagra to local senior citizens. Residents over 60 who are registered with the municipality’s health service are eligible. That means about 1500 people can get up to four little blue pills a month.
The seniors do have to be […]

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April 28th, 2008

Brawling Bride Goes to Jail in her Wedding Gown

Image details: Marzipan couple on wedding cake served by picapp.com
File this under things not to do on your wedding day - get in a brawl and get sent to jail. A Pittsburgh couple got into a fight at the Holiday Inn. It started in a hallway when the groom karate kicked his bride and knocked […]

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April 24th, 2008

Banana Prank Results in Suspensions

Eleven seniors at a Zion, Ill. high school were suspended for a prank. A student in a gorilla suit chased banana-clad students around the hallways at the Zion-Benton Township High School.
The suspensions will last seven days. Seven days, people! For a prank where people were amused. No one was hurt, maligned, abused, or even embarrassed. […]

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April 23rd, 2008

Jell-O Truck Wreck Causes Traffic Jam

Image details: Esquire Magazine and Village Academies Honor Bill Cosby, James P. Comner served by picapp.com
I want you to read this story out loud, you see, and do it in your best Bill Cosby voice. Hey, hey, hey!
First Coast News reports that a truck driver in Jacksonville, Fla. is being treated for a wreck that […]

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April 18th, 2008

Baseball Team Gets 66 Runs in Two Innings

Here’s an interesting sporting tidbit from Reuters News Service. Thursday they reported a Japanese high school baseball team forfeited a game after giving up 66 runs in 1 1/3 innings of play.
The poor kid on the mound had thrown 250 pitches, giving up 22 runs in the first inning and having allowed 40 more […]

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April 14th, 2008

Boy Challenges World Record- By A Nose

You know we at Simply Dumb love the Guinness Book of World Records. One could almost make up a record off the top of their head and it would probably be in there. Case in point: Thirteen-year-old Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour Friday in the Blaine, Washington public library, using his nose. […]

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April 4th, 2008

Smithsonian Is Not Smarter than 5th Grader

Staff at the world-renowned Smithsonian Institute Museum of Natural History are red-faced after a 5th grader on a family trip pointed out a mistake that’s been there for nearly 30 years.
Kenton Stufflebeam, an 11-year-old from Michigan, noticed a bold notation in the museum’s Tower of Time display that mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era. […]

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