Ok, Steve, I’m going to horn in on your appropriate names for people in news stories action, because I can. The chair of a conference on making cities more pedestrian-friendly, called Walk21, is named Jim Walker. Well, at least it’s not as bad as the poorly-named souls who are wheeling around in wheelchairs named Walker. …
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Porn Sunday?
This story wasn’t too special. A bunch of churches want to designate one Sunday a year as the time to rail against porn. But two things stood out for me. First, what is with this guy’s obsession with elephants? He refers to porn as the elephant in the pew because everybody sees it but doesn’t …
There were Thieves, Thieves, Stealing Dying Men’s Cheese, At The Corner Grocery Store.
The UK sucks, but you know where else sucks? Mesa, Arizona! Why? Because if you get smoked by a moron who doesn’t know how to drive because he toasts you at a bus stop, and you happen to have bought groceries, as you expire, and someone is trying to help you, the locals will steal …
Drowning In Stupidity
Wow. The UK is sucking more and more each day. Now, police are being told not to rescue drowning people because they might fall in too. A kid has already drowned in greater Manchester because of this. Police saw him, and then didn’t even try to save him. They’re being told that they shouldn’t even …
Nazi Furniture?
There’s a new line of furnishings in Mumbai, India called the New Arrival Zone for India that features swastikas all over the furniture, but it’s apparently not a tribute to Hitler. What do you get when you take the first letters of New Arrival Zone and India, kids? Nazi! Uh-oh! But apparently, the swastika has …
Let me Tel…ephone You A Story
When I read this story, I almost cried. A library in Prince Edward Island has set up a way that kids can phone in and have a story read to them over the phone. This is because, more and more often, parents just don’t have time to read to their kids anymore, and some of …
Close Enough
Facing charges of assaulting a government official after he allegedly coughed in the face of a police officer who was issuing him a ticket is Kent Kauffman.
Calling Officer Bigballs
Here’s another one for the British police are screwed up files. It all started when Daniel Horne was out with some friends, and got a flat tire. He got out of the car, and started walking down the road looking for help. Someone thought he stole the car, so called the police, and they came …
Contraband Broccoli?
This story makes me giggle. I saw it a month ago, but it didn’t push the right buttons then. Today, it does. Sadly, I had to get the link for it out of the google cashe because it has fallen off the original page where it was found. Yea google cache. It all starts with …
Ths Ttl Hs N Vwls. S T Cl?
No, a cat didn’t just run across my keyboard. I did that on purpose. Can you even read that? It was supposed to be This title has no vowels. Is it cool? The Miami Downtown Development Authority, (DDA), who should be renamed DUH, decided that the new slogan for their downtown should have the o’s …
