Help wanted: Beer drinker. Expenses paid.
Here's the job description: you have to go out drinking with an old man twice a week for about two hours a night. You're paid about $14 an hour, …
Tag: odd
Mandatory helmets for pedestrians?
It's just a slippery slope away. In London, they perceive a public health problem from people using cell phones, mainly for text messaging, running into things. Their solution? Make …
Mutilate your thirst
They wouldn't promote the movie, but the fictional beverage in it, now that's worth marketing! From Danny Leigh of The Guardian: 1) Early last year, Mike Judge, creator of …
Next “Endangered Species”: Crab lice?
A Dutch museum is appealing for donations: they need crab lice - or at least one louse. No questions asked . . . and they are afraid for the …
Three words that I never thought I'd see together in a headline…
Obscene Yogurt Conviction....
Some days I just love the Boston Herald…
Especially on days when they give me so many good stories to blog about. Today's one of those days, and there are so many, I'm gonna stick a bunch …
So much for his blaze of glory…
In Belmont, New Hampshire, David Moore decided he'd had enough of his life, and it was time to end it. And he concocted an elaborate plan to commit suicide, …
Taking the "blind justice" notion a bit too literally…
Classically, justice is portrayed as a blindfolded woman holding scales, symbolizing the ideal that justice should be blind, judging matters regardless of outside considerations. One New Hampshire judge, it …
"Gun control means hitting your target"
Via the recovering Acidman comes this pictorial that gives graphic evidence why those wars in Africa seem to keep going on and on and on: Hardly anyone fighting over …
A real secret Santa
Recently, a commuter in Massachusetts had a rather unusual incident. As he does every day, the man (whose name is being withheld) left his car at the commuter parking …