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Sports Fan Names Newborn Son ESPN

Posted by Adam on October 7th, 2006

I’m a big sports fan, but doesn’t naming your child ESPN (pronounced Espen) qualify as child abuse? How about if you also give him a middle name of Montana because you were a big Joe Montana fan?
I’m guessing born into that family, he probably wasn’t destined to be president anyway. But give the kid […]

Study: celebrities more narcissistic

Posted by Adam on September 6th, 2006

Get the F outta here! Narcissistic, you say? No way.
You gotta love these hard-hitting, controversial clinical studies. Wait, this just in. Apparently bears shit in the woods.

Little league football coach attacks opposing player

Posted by Adam on September 5th, 2006

And this year’s award for Father of the Year goes to …
Cory Petero, 36, of Riverbank, CA for running into his son’s little league football game and decking an opposing player after the boy committed a late-hit on his son. Not wanting to wait for a late-hit penalty - and it wasn’t a bad […]

Always scary when you see a man trying to break into the cockpit … especially when it’s the pilot

Posted by Adam on August 31st, 2006

In mid-flight, the pilot of a Canadian airliner got up to use the restroom and left the co-pilot to fly the plane. When he finished and tried to go back into the cockpit, the door was jammed. He then spent the next 10 minutes banging on the door and talking to the co-pilot over […]

Taller people are smarter?

Posted by Adam on August 26th, 2006

“While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it’s not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequality — tall people are just smarter than their height-challenged peers, a new study finds.”
Yeah, that’s why most of the smartest people in the world are in or from Asia. Land […]

Face off: baseball bat vs. weed whacker vs. hammer

Posted by Adam on August 24th, 2006

Ah, you gotta love Floridians and their violent ways.
On Tuesday, three lawn workers in Florida got into a fight. But they didn’t go into the scrum empty-handed. One grabbed a baseball bat, the other picked up a weed whacker (”to defend himself”) and a third ran in to break up the fight wielding […]

“It’s not mine, I swear”

Posted by Adam on August 23rd, 2006

A 29-year-old guy traveling with his mother to Turkey was stopped at airport when officials found something strange in his bag. Not wanting his mother to know that he had packed a penis pump, he told the officials it was a bomb.
I’ll move right past the part where he’s traveling with his mother yet […]

Swedish broadcaster has porn mishap

Posted by Adam on August 22nd, 2006

Over the weekend, Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT accidentally
went on the air with a porn movie playing on one of the monitors in the background.
The monitor was earlier being used by some of the employees to watch sports. But apparently that channel routinely shows porn after midnight and the boys forgot to change the channel. […]