Megacryometeor?
What do you do when a fifty-pound chunk of ice crashes through your roof out of the clear blue sky?
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Rest in Peace, Weekly World News
It is with a sad heart that I read that the Weekly World News is on it’s deathbed. When I worked at the Postal Service, one of my colleagues brought a copy in every week so that people could keep up with the news of how President Clinton (and later Bush the Younger) were getting …
“Your plant just called to say ‘I’m thirsty!'”
Oh wonderful, yet another species that will call up and bug me to do things for it.
“ExxonMobil sends man 2,000 credit cards”
I hope he has a really big wallet.
“PC EZ-Bake Oven”
Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that this is a hoax. Or maybe that’s “fortunately,” because if it weren’t, GoddessJ would insist that I buy one for her.
“Each Wore a Tiny Trench Coat”
You’ll have to skip down the page a little, but it’s worth the effort… fourteen “trained squirrels,” equipped with “espionage systems of foreign intelligence services,” were supposedly caught in Iran. Pull the other one, guys. I’m sure intelligence services would love to be able to do that kind of thing, but I really doubt the …
“Grief Counseling Expert Available […] Regarding Harry Potter”
Our copy of the last Harry Potter book arrived early Saturday morning, and GoddessJ devoured it like a starving woman at an all-you-can-eat banquet. I got it late that evening, and read it at a much more leisurely pace, finishing it Monday evening. I find it hard to believe, but Rowling actually managed to live …
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“Vandals attack man’s Hummer, leave note”
While I can’t agree with the actions, I can understand the sentiment.
“Random Japanese Weirdness”
A friend of ours (hi, interrobang!) recently wrote this amusing post. So now we know…
“Mobile phones ‘dumbing down brain power'”
This article warns: “In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes, a quarter of all Britons do not know their own landline number while as little as a third can recall more than three birthdays of their immediate family.” Oh no! The world is coming to an …
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