Police in Iowa City, Iowa, arrested a man for illegally entering a home while dressed as a cowboy. The cops didn’t believe his excuse that he was just getting into character for a role in a movie called “Broke-In Mountain.”
A yoyo distribution company says sales of the stringed toys in England is up tenfold from a year ago when the economic downturn started. They’re not sure if Brits are using the yoyos to take their minds off their problems or to club tourists and steal their travelers checks.
James Cameron's “Avatar” passed “Star Wars” to move to No. 3 movie on the all-time domestic box office charts. When asked to comment, Yoda said, “People blue D 3 big sucks time.”
The loser in Romania's presidential race last year claims he was subjected to attacks of negative energy by aides of eventual winner Traian Basescu during a debate. To prevent that from happening in 2012, Sarah Palin is looking for someone to design her an aluminum foil outfit.
An entrepreneur in Vietnam purchased a 35-ton block of jade for $2 million and wants to turn it into the world's largest jade Buddha. The current record was set by actor John Goodman while auditioning to play the Incredible Hulk.
Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show ratings have gone up 50 percent since NBC decided to can him and bring back Jay Leno. It’s working so well, once Jay finally takes over, network executives plan to leak weekly rumors on who might replace him.
An 18th-century account of how Isaac Newton developed the theory of gravity has been posted on the Internet. And to make the story more interesting for today’s kids, the apple now has its own Facebook page.
A California middle school was put on lock-down after authorities were called to check out an 11-year-old student’s science project, a motion detector. They decided it was safe but confiscated it anyway because it looks like it might work on White House gate-crashers.
A New York woman is suing her neighbors because they play opera on their piano and it keeps her and her son from sleeping at night. It’s so bad, the son thinks his favorite cookies are called Figaro Newtons.
Former President Bill Clinton visited Haiti but he didn’t bring along former President George W. Bush, the other half of the humanitarian aid team put together by President Obama.. Bush wanted to go but was waiting for an anti-voodoo cap from Pat Robertson.
Sources with "Two and a Half Men" say Jon Cryer was the target of a threat by his ex-wife, Sarah Trigger. If Cryer and Charlie Sheen keep having problems, CBS should spin off the son and Berta the housekeeper and call it Jake and the Fat Maid.
A half-smoked cigar British Prime Minister Winston Churchill put down before a Cabinet meeting in 1941 is up for auction in England. It was right before a less well-known speech Churchill gave when he said he had nothing to offer but “a blunt, toil, tears and sweat.”
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