May 19th, 2008
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 17th, 2008
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A girl in Greece went to the hospital for stomach pain and found out she had an embryonic twin instead. Doctors at the hospital removed a growth and later found that it was a 2-inch embryo.
Wow. Doctors could see that her tummy was swollen, but didn’t expect […]
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May 16th, 2008
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If you really, really love the water, you can do more than have a burial at sea with your ashes strewn across the water. You can get buried in the sea, off the coast of Florida.
And this underwater cemetery has gates, pathways, plaques, and benches. […]
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May 15th, 2008
The next time you’re in Iceland, you could always think about seeking out an unusual stop: the Icelandic Phallological Museum. It hosts a collection of 261 male, um, organs from 90 species. But no humans. Yet.
Four men have promised to donate their penises to the museum upon their deaths. They would join a sperm whale […]
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May 14th, 2008
A man in Illinois loves Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. No, we mean it. He really loves his beer. So much so that he ordered his coffin already - in the design of the can.
Bill Bramanti doesn’t feel sick. He just wanted to work a little ahead of schedule. And instead of putting the Pabst coffin […]
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May 13th, 2008
How was the service on your last airline flight? If you didn’t have to sit in the bathroom, you were treated better than a New York man alleges he was on a JetBlue flight in February.
Reuters reports Gokhan Mutlu checked in for a flight from New York to San Diego and says he was […]
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May 12th, 2008
This is like something out of Wild Kingdom meets the Three Stooges. The Associated Press reports that on Saturday Australian Jason Cull was getting mauled by a 16-foot shark in the waters near Middleton Beach. He wrestled with the shark and finally escaped by poking it in the eye.
Now he, folks, is a […]
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May 9th, 2008
As a woman who has experienced pregnancy - very recently - this story makes me cringe. Michelle Duggar, the woman who has 17 children, is pregnant with her 18th. You may have heard of this Arkansas family due to their prolific offspring. Wow.
Don’t get me wrong - I enjoyed being pregnant. And the results? Totally […]
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May 8th, 2008
From the don’t-try-this-at-home files comes a story of an Omaha man who used a steak knife to perform a tracheotomy — on himself. Steve Wilder woke up with his air passage swollen shut. Unable to breathe, he was afraid to wait for an ambulance.
With no time to spare, he grabbed a steak knife and just […]
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May 2nd, 2008
There’s a new trend in town, one that’s borne of desperation and high gas prices. Well, okay, so it’s been around awhile. But it is gaining in popularity. It’s called ‘hypermiling‘ and it can (allegedly) double gas mileage.
So what does it mean? It includes pumping your tires to the max rating on your sidewalls - […]
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