Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
The Nets can't even succeed at failure
The New Jersey Nets aren’t going to be the worst team in NBA history.Brook Lopez had a career-high 37 points and Yi Jianlian had a career-best 31 and the Nets eliminated any chance of setting a record for fewest wins in a season, beating the Detroit Pistons 118-110 on Friday night for their first winning streak of the season.
“We’re smiling,” said point guard Devin Harris, who had 12 assists. “It’s good to get two wins in a row, but we’re not satisfied. We want to continue to be better and finish the season on a high note.”
Even if New Jersey (9-63) loses its final 10 games, it can do no worse than tie the league mark for the worst record (9-73), set by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1972-73.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Money can't bring you happiness, but chalupas can
Three men demanded food, not money, during an armed robbery at a fast food restaurant in south Charlotte late Monday night.According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, three black males in a white vehicle pulled up at the drive-thru window.
One of the people inside the vehicle pointed a handgun at the clerk and demanded food.
The robbers were given fried apple pies and they drove away
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
You have to wonder if the casket will be half-priced
The world's shortest man, China's He Pingping who was just over 74 cm tall (29 inches), has died at the age of 21 from apparent heart complications, the Guinness World Records book said. He, who suffered a form of primordial dwarfism and was recognized as a world-record holder in 2008, died on Saturday in Rome, where he was taking part in a TV show.
"For such a small man, he made a huge impact around the world," Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of the London-based Guinness World Records, said in a statement.
He was born in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia in 1988. According to the BBC, he was admitted to hospital two weeks ago after suffering a chest complaint.
Guinness announced his death late on Monday.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Breast cheese!
No matter what the city says, Lori Mason insists the breast milk she supplied her cheese-making husband is more wholesome than anything on the shelves at Whole Foods. Her milk is 100 percent organic, free range, and foie gras-fed, she told The Post.
"I eat healthier than your average cow and I'm not pumped full of steroids!" Mason said.
When Mason's husband, Daniel Angerer, blogged about making some of his wife's excess breast milk into cheese, customers at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, began demanding to have a taste.
But as The Post reported yesterday, even though expressed mother's-milk cheese is not against health codes, city officials strongly advised Angerer to desist.
The cheese could pose a potential health hazard, the officials said.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/human_cheese_ma_don_have_cow_mspd5ZGAOOcFwi48jnErwN#ixzz0hmf6qfaPLindsay Lohan's a milkaholic!
Actress Lindsay Lohan has sued an arm of E*Trade Financial Corp., the operator of a popular online brokerage, alleging the company misappropriated her name and personality in a recent television advertisement. The suit, filed in state court in Mineola, N.Y., on Monday, seeks $100 million in damages and demands that the company stop airing the ad.
The commercial features a baby boy chatting online through a Web cam with a baby girl, but in the voices and vernacular of a flirtatious, much-older couple. After the boy explains why he failed to call the girl the night before, the girl asks the boy, accusingly: "And that milkaholic, Lindsay, wasn't over?" That prompts a second baby girl, presumably "Lindsay," to jump in the frame on the boy's side. "Milk-a-what?" she asks into the camera, her voice loud and shrill.
The lawsuit alleges that the depiction of the second girl "disregarded and violated" Ms. Lohan's right "to the exclusive control of the commercial use of her likeness, name, characterization and personality." It also alleges violations of two sections of New York's civil-rights law.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Farrah Fawcett Snubbed at Oscars?
We noticed it. You noticed it. Her friends noticed it. But apparently the powers that be weren't as clued in. We're talking about Farrah Fawcett's omission from the In Memoriam segment at last night's Oscars, possibly the biggest snub of all at a ceremony that otherwise unfolded as expected.
"I would not say that it was an oversight," Leslie Unger, spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tells E! News. "No matter how carefully and how conscientiously people address who is included, there are people who just simply can't be."
But why was someone like Michael Jackson, with a far skimpier film résumé than Fawcett, whose film roles earned her both Golden Globe and Spirit Award nominations?
"In any given year there will always be some people that other people think should have been included and that there's more justification for one person versus another," says Unger. "It is impossible to include everybody."
If you live to 100, you grow a horn
An elderly Chinese woman has shocked friends and family by growing a devil-like HORN from the top of her head. The strange growth began appearing on 101-year-old Zhang Ruifang's forehead last year.
Since then it has reached more than two inches long — and a matching horn looks to be appearing on the other side.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The World's Youngest Air-Traffic Controller
A major inquiry was launched yesterday over claims a child directed pilots at New York's JFK airport. Audio recordings made in mid-February apparently featuring a child's voice - with one pilot replying "Awesome Job!" - were posted on a website for plane enthusiasts.
Investigators are taking the claims seriously because the period coincides with a winter break for New York schools.
The voice makes five transmissions to pilots preparing for take off from one of the country's busiest airports. In one, the voice says: "Jet Blue 171 contact departure." The pilot replies: "Over to departure Jet Blue 171. Awesome job."
The child seemed to be under adult supervision as a male voice says with a laugh: "That's what you get, guys, when the kid's out of school." In another, the voice clears a jet for take off and says: "Adios, amigo."
The Federal Aviation Administration said children are allowed visits with strict rules, but added: "Pending our investigation, the employees involved are not controlling air traffic."
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
This has the makings of an incredible comedy film
A self-styled Hindu holy man and a British Airways flight attendant have been arrested in Delhi on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-dollar prostitution racket.Police said that Shiv Myra Dwivedi, a Hindu swami, used his temple in south Delhi as a front to provide as many as 200 prostitutes, including flight attendants and students, often to clients in five-star hotels.
In his spiritual guise he claimed a following of more than 100,000 people, including leading politicians. Undercover officers arrested him, another alleged pimp and six alleged prostitutes including two flight attendants, one from British Airways and one from the Indian airline Jagson, on Friday evening, Delhi police said.
The six women, aged between 19 and 30 and including an MBA student, each gave fake Indian names, apart from one identified only as “Ms. Julie.”
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
"IF I CAN'T HAVE THIS MONEY NOW I'LL EAT THIS CARDBOARD, I SWEAR!"
A man was flying with Ryanair when he discovered he won €10,000 as part of one of the company’s promotions. After learning that he couldn’t get the money at that moment, he became frustrated: The unnamed man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow, in Poland, to East Midlands Airport when he won €10,000 with the scratch card.
Cabin crew on the flight confirmed he had a winning card, but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as they did not have enough cash on board the plane.
Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket while on the flight on Thursday.
Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for Ryanair, said the cabin crew and some passengers had attempted to persaude the man not to eat the ticket, but he stood up and ate it anyway.
Cabin crew on the flight confirmed he had a winning card, but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as they did not have enough cash on board the plane.
Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket while on the flight on Thursday.
Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for Ryanair, said the cabin crew and some passengers had attempted to persaude the man not to eat the ticket, but he stood up and ate it anyway.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Don't be surprised when Virginia Tech enrollment hits an all-time low
At Virginia Tech, where tailgating and raucous apartment complex parties are time-honored rituals, university officials are turning increasingly to Mom and Dad to curb problem underage drinking. This semester, the school in Blacksburg, Va., began notifying parents when their under-21 students are found guilty of even minor alcohol violations such as getting caught with a beer in a dorm room.
Although it's common for colleges to alert parents of major alcohol offenses — or when a student faces suspension — Virginia Tech is part of a small but growing number sending letters home on minor ones.
Tiger Texting Revolutionizes Cheating!
Want to cheat on your spouse, but not end up like Tiger Woods?There's an app for that.
A new iPhone application called Tiger Text eliminates the possibility of damaging evidence being left behind by erasing text messages from recipients' phones.
"People text like they talk," the app's creator, Jeffery Evans, told Time. "And some of the things they say, taken out of context, can come back to haunt them."
A sender using the Tiger Text application can set how long they want the message to stay on a recipient's phone before it is deleted for good.
Users can also choose a "delete on read" setting, giving people a set time to look at the text before the message self-destructs, "Mission: Impossible" style.
Evans claims the app's name was chosen before Woods was outed as a philanderer late last year.
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