Is Your Refrigerator Running? No, We Don’t Have Those Yet

You would likely never have guessed it, but I have been known to make a prank call or two in my day. Shocking, I know. So when I ran acrossthis piece about the earliest varifyable telephone prank, I knew I had to post it. this place is, after all, still all about us and the …

We Should Mosey On Back There And Give Them A Piece Of Our Minds!

As sure as the seasons will change, drunken idiots will bust up restaurants over screwed up orders. In an interview with cops, Slate said that the duo was “upset with McDonald’s because their cheeseburgers had been messed up.” He then “advised that they went home and continued to drink beer and get worked up about …

Not So Great-Grandmother

If I could ask Kimberly King one question, it wouldn’t be who puts down a fifth of Jim Beam while spending the day watching her great grandkids? I already know the answer to that one. She does. The question I’d be asking is what series of unfortunate life choices causes one to be a great-grandmother …

Ahh, The Old You’ve Been Punk’d! Defence

Some days this job is like shooting fish in a barrel. What days would those be, you ask. Well my curious friend, days like the ones when some numbnuts walks in off the street and tries to rob a police station spring immediately to mind. 18-year-old Keithan Manuel’s attempt went exactly as just about anyone …

Boys On The Hood

Update: Stefanski has plead guilty to child endangerment charges and is looking at up to 3 years in prison. *original story below* While this incident from a few weeks back might on some level be sorta fun, I recognize that this one involves a highly dangerous concentration of radioactive retardity. Two Indiana parents are facing …

Long Weekend Audio: Weighty Issues

The audio machine keeps on rollin’. This morning we got to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I got to show you our talking scale…which sounds like my mom! It’s kinda creepy hearing a voice that sounds like your mom telling you your weight. It’s a quick one, only 10 minutes, …

Long Weekend Audio: You’ve Got Questions? We’ve Got Babble.

This will be the last audio of the night. It would have been up sooner but…well…I got distracted. We started off talking about the whole underline/underscore thing. Ro had said that Voiceover says “underline” still, and then Steve said that JAWS says underline too. More and more weirdness. We decided that would be the last …