Eddie Doyle, bartender for 35 years at the Bull & Finch, the Boston tavern that inspired the television show “Cheers,” has been laid off. Poor guy has gone from the place where everybody knows your name to the unemployment office, the place where everybody knows you’re broke.
The winner of the 47th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest held recently in Key West, Florida, played Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night.” If you closed your eyes and listened, you could almost hear Sinatra shoving the conch shell down the guy’s throat.
A New York man is suing a New Jersey psychic, claiming the golden statue he paid her $250,000 for to ward off negativity doesn’t work. Her lawyer is demanding the figure be reduced by $50 for the visit where she correctly predicted the guy would fall for the scam.
Police in Oklahoma say a man was robbed of his casino winnings by two women who offered to give him a massage and then removed his pants and stole his $2,000. The guy is lucky he wasn’t trying to get a massage after gambling in Las Vegas because that’s all he’d get for $2,000.
Fleetwood Enterprises, a maker of recreational vehicles and manufactured housing, has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will close its travel-trailer operations. It’s tough selling trailers when nobody wants to come anywhere near the lot during tornado season.
Commenting on the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama said that Tibet has become “hell on earth” under China’s control. The Dalai Lama never uses words like that, which explains why, at about the same time, Pope Benedict felt a disturbance in the Force.
Police in Hampton, Virginia, confiscated about $1.2 million in illegal drugs from fans attending a reunion concert by Phish. Times sure have changed. During their heyday, $1.2 million in drugs was what fans brought just to make it through the opening act for the Grateful Dead.
Researchers in Sweden say a chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo planned ahead to throw stones at visitors by collecting the rocks and hiding them. He must have been planning for a visit from former President George W. Bush because he also had a stash of shoes.
Authorities in Pennsylvania are warning McDonald's restaurants to crack down on alleged drug activity conducted by employees in Pittsburgh. You know you’re at one of these restaurants when the drive-through clerk asks, “Do you want to get fried with that?”
A Maryland man known as “Santa Bob” to kids who visit his Christmas tree farm was sentenced to 18 months supervised probation for growing pot on the farm. Santa Bob got caught when he told the kids Donner and Blitzen had been replaced by Harold and Fumar.
Britain's Costa Coffee company has taken out a $14 million insurance policy on a taste tester’s tongue. That’s the most a tongue has been insured for since Jenna Jameson retired.
NASA announced it has started streaming live video views of the Earth from the International Space Station. This explains all those college students watching the NASA web site while they moon the moon.
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