I could think of many other ways to improve my kids grade point average than this!  Or at least make the sign legible! After getting a GPA of 1.22 he was sent to the street corner for 4 hours with this sign – “I did 4 questions on my FCAT and said I wasn’t going [...]

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Those wacky folks over in Japan are at it again! More than 1,000 avid fans descended on a camping site on the outskirts of Tokyo on Sunday, with more than 200 teams competing in the Japan All-National Hole Digging Competition. At stake was the much-coveted Golden Shovel award. The majority of the teams taking part [...]

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Monopoly of the future is soon to be available in a space-port store near you. In the new version of Monopoly, the game’s classic pastel-colored bills and the designated Banker have been banished, along with other old-fashioned elements, in favor of a computer that runs the game. Hasbro showed a preview of the new version, [...]

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It seems one of these guys finally got knocked off by an angry bird.  Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, California, was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he was injured in Tulare County on Jan. 30, the Kern County coroner said. An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental “sharp force [...]

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Talk about pointless? A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals from clement valla on Vimeo.

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No image yet but I am sure one will pop up shortly.  A mother in Myanmar says her baby girl’s 12 fingers and 14 toes have been no disadvantage — her grip may even be stronger than normal — and now she’s grasping for a Guinness record. Phyo Min Min Soe, 26, knew her girl [...]

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Graham Short etched the motto “Nothing is impossible” which measures just a tenth of a millimetre. The letters are invisible to the naked eye, and can only be read with a medical microscope at 400 times magnification. It took Mr Short, 64, around 150 attempts before he was able to complete it. Engraving at such [...]

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After burning through 10 jobs in 10 years Franklin Scheinder decided to make a living telling his crummy job story! Schneider has skimmed money off token sales at a mall arcade, manned the cash register overnight at a XXX video store, harassed people during dinner as a telemarketer, worked at a failed start-up and shredded [...]

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Ok, not really but it sure looks yummy!  Just in time for Valentines Day!

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The warning label on this drug would be quite long and more than a bit strange! A French father-of-two is to take GlaxoSmithKline to court on Tuesday, alleging the British firm’s drug to treat Parkinson’s disease turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict. The 51-year-old’s lawyers say their client’s behaviour changed radically after [...]

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