A 45-year-old man from New Westminster, British Columbia lost control of the van he was driving Friday night, crashing through a concrete median and going over an embankment before coming to rest at the edge of a cliff about 30 metres above get this,Wreck Beach. I know it’s not the name of a person like …
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Another Fine Parenting Example
Why didn’t this story come in a few hours earlier? I could have included it in my rant about bad parents. Oh well, here it is now, to add to the pile. Scott Scherer and Melanie Hardrath really love to go watch the Packers play. They really love their memorabilia too. But they don’t love …
Another Name In The News
This is the best one of these yet, and by an extremely wide margin at that. Arrested on Tuesday and charged with public indecency after exposing himself and touching an undercover police officer in a local park is 90-year-oldLeonard G. Dickman. I’m not sure if that can ever be topped, but I’ll try.
A New Trend To Follow
I don’t know if anybody else has picked up on this or not, but I’ve been noticing something odd about the news lately. Over the last few weeks, there has been an unusually high number of stories dealing with people whose names somehow relate to the situation that caused them to make headlines in the …
Today’s Unintentional Hilarity
A man is suing the makers of the Boost Plus energy drink because he says it gave him an erection that wouldn’t go away, eventually requiring him to have surgery to bring it down. the name of this poor fellow?Christopher Woods. I don’t think any more needs to be said, and even if it did, …
>What a Realistic Likeness!
>Wow. Talk about driving the point home with symbolism. At Kennesaw State University, a sculpture was unveiled showing Earth, and featured a statue of environmentalist David Brower. Three months later, it collapsed, and, clearly visible in the rubble was an engraving that said “our fragile craft.” Creepy! Officials blame water damage and inadequate adhesives, but …
Who Says There’s No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?
Living in the crazy and uncertain world that we call home, it’s nice to know that now and then it is still possible to stumble across an absolute, irrefutable fact. So in that spirit, I present just such a thing, in the form ofpossibly the worst advertisement for any product in the history of product …
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I Drank Tea, Look Out, World!
Oh boy. This morning, I woke up and decided I felt like having a cup of tea. Sometimes, I can have tea, and nothing will happen. But sometimes, sometimes, … the sheer tornado of energy created by having a tea rivals the cuppa soup craze! And that’s what I feel right now. So I’m going …
What’s with All the Junk Mail?
Holy crap! I have never lived in a place that gets so much junkmail! Every day, I check the mail, and every day, there is mail. But half the time, it’s nothing we want. Pizza ads, eye-glass coupons, information on dial-around phone codes, funeral home brochures, dating service booklets, various phone and cable company pitches, …
Come On Now, Play Nice
Jury Rules Against Woman in Genital Gluing I’m not sure what’s funnier here, the story, or the fact that the name of the woman involved in it is O’Toole. Irony rules.