Archive for April, 2010
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Friday, April 9th, 2010Because, you know, everyone deserves to drink beer at work, right? A few hundred warehouse workers and drivers at Danish brewer Carlsberg halted work for a second day on Thursday to protest a company decision to limit beer drinking at work to lunch breaks. The strike in Denmark followed the company’s April 1 decision to [...]
The Funniest Headline Of The Week
Friday, April 9th, 2010It comes to us courtesy of TMZ: “MTV Starlet Hurts Neck in Hummer Incident.” (Insert your own jokes here.) Taylor Terry — the 18-year old blonde stunner on MTV’s “My Life as Liz” — received injuries to her neck … and her precious Hummer H3 after a gnarly collision on a Texas highway. Taylor tells [...]
Weekend At Bernie’s 3: Final Departure
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Two women were arrested after trying to smuggle “contraband” aboard an airliner yesterday. What was the contraband? Read on. Two women were arrested at a British airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight bound for Germany, police said on Tuesday. The 91-year-old deceased man was pushed in a wheelchair [...]
Demi Moore Is Happy With Her Body
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Um, yeah, so am I. For years interest in her figure, and how she kept it in shape, overshadowed her acting career. And Demi Moore did little to discourage the scrutiny – now admitting that she had an ‘extreme obsession’ with her body. But at 47 the actress says she is finally happy with her [...]
Obama To Revamp Terror Terms
Thursday, April 8th, 2010My God, this man has no clue. No frakkin’ clue. President Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counter-terrorism [...]
Kicked In The Ice
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Well, our hockey season ended last night. The short version is that we lost by a score of 7-2. The long version is, well, longer. (And since I am still angry about this, I apologize in advance for the verbiage.) The series was a best-of-three contest, and we lost the first game by a score [...]
Humpday History Highlight
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010April 7, 1945 – Japanese Battleship Yamato Sunk By Allied Forces On this day in 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, ostensibly the greatest battleship in the world, is sunk in Japan’s first major counteroffensive in the struggle for Okinawa. Weighing 72,800 tons and outfitted with nine 18.1-inch guns, the battleship Yamato was Japan’s only hope [...]
Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Born to run from husbands, that is. As if I needed another reason to despise this no-talent, raspy-voiced, Lefty crooner. A New Jersey couple ended their marriage Tuesday after the iconic rock singer reportedly came in between them. Wow, that is possibly the most double-entendre-filled, poorly-worded sentence I have ever read. The glory days are [...]
McNabb Compares Himself To John Elway
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was introduced as a member of the Washington Redskins yesterday. In the midst of that press conference, Mr. Throws at Feet compared himself to my sports idol, Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway. Someone better give McNabb a drug test, stat! Instead, he is with the Redskins and new coach [...]
Women Hold Topless March In Maine
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Check out the smile on the guy with the Celtics hoodie. Protests we can believe in! About two dozen women drew a crowd of onlookers when they shed their shirts and marched downtown in Maine’s largest city to promote what they call equal-opportunity public toplessness. Organizer Ty MacDowell said the point of Saturday’s march in [...]
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