Here are some fun facts about random but interesting stuff, Enjoy!
1. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” [Read more...]
An American man was in a five star Vietnamesse hotel in 2009. He was playing a slot machine and won a jackpot worth $55 million US. However, the casino refused to make the payment claiming that the prize was awarded due to a malfunction. Further, the maximum amount that the slot machine was supposed to payout was a far cry from $55 million at $46 thousand.
The American immediately took pictures of the machine and asked other gamblers present at the time to sign statements saying they had witnessed his win. He then took the casino to court.
In 2013, the courts found that the man should be allowed to collect his winnings. This came at much chagrin to the casino as the payout was more than one thousand times higher than the maximum amount that the machine was supposed to payout.
The court rejected the firm’s argument as it had failed to show evidence of the fault in the machine. Of course, the company representatives said they plan to appeal the ruling.
I’m not advocating hitting up Jackpot city, but $55 million is a tidy little sum!
You can check out more about the story at channelnewsasia.com
On Saturday morning around 5 a.m., a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna was sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen, or 1.8 million dollars, [Read more...]
An Australian court awarded worker’s compensation benefits to a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip. In 2007, during the sexy time, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above a bed in a motel and landed on the bureaucrat’s face. The woman was hospitalized injuring her nose and mouth. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government.
Why shouldn’t worker’s comp. pay?
Source: Vancouver Sun
“For Denis Duthie a bottle of whisky was exactly what the doctors ordered.
And one even rushed off to the bottle store for the vital “medicine.”
Mr Duthie, a Taranaki chef, had Johnnie Walker whisky tube-fed directly into his body by doctors at Taranaki Base Hospital after a heavy vodka drinking session took a horrible turn.
In July this year Mr Duthie, a diabetic of 20 years, was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit after he went blind while drinking at a 50th wedding anniversary party.
Mr Duthie supplied the Taranaki Daily News with his Taranaki District Health Board medical records outlining his unusual hospital treatment.
The notes say doctors suspected the 65-year-old was suffering from formaldehyde poisoning and they decided to start alcohol infusion into his stomach via a tube through his nose.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/8017297/Whisky-used-to-save-blind-drunk-man
This is a great story from the mother nature newtwork:
“A Canadian city has declared Molly, a 3-pound teacup chihuahua a “dangerous dog” and ordered her muzzled after the dog bit a postal worker.
“I don’t even know if they have muzzles that size. I just think it’s kind of silly, to the extreme,” Molly’s owner Mitzie Scott told PostMedia News. “The dog is literally three pounds — it’s the size of an adult shoe.”
The controversy erupted after Molly, 5, bit a mail carrier’s ankle in August after escaping through an open gate at Scott’s Windsor, Ontario home.
That meant under a city bylaw that Molly must be registered as a “dangerous dog” and the owners would have to obtain a million-dollar liability insurance policy for their dog, muzzle Molly and keep her on a leash at all times.
The city also ordered the family to put up signs at the doors of their home which read: “Warning: Dangerous Dog on Premises.”
Haha, I’ll admit that I’m not the biggest fan of dogs, but this article sure does seem ridiculous.
A girl from Oklahoma is having her high school diploma withheld. She finished school with straight A’s and a 4.0 GPA. Her offence came during her valedictorian speech. Her father quoted her as saying ‘When she first started school she wanted to be a nurse, then a veterinarian and now that she was getting closer to graduation, people would ask her, what do you want to do and she said ‘How the hell do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many times.’
Apparently, her diploma is being withheld until she writes an apology for using the word hell.
Holy power trip Mr. Principal.
Source: USA Today
“If you work hard, and put your heart and soul into it … then you are allowed to steal some,” Shivpal Singh Yadav, minister in India’s most populous and politically crucial state, Uttar Prades, told a gathering of local officials. Unfortunately for him, his comments were caught on tape.
BUT, he did make things ok by adding “But don’t be a bandit.”
From: Reuters
Have you heard the controversy about the mystery woman who managed to evade the Olympic Security and presumably James Bond to join the parade of athletes at the Olympic Games. Some people are pretty irate that she was able and would dare to join in. I personally think it is funny and very impressive that she was able to accomplish the feat. Now, lets see if she is able to participate in an event!
I don’t know if it is the best way of paying homage to a pet, but I think I kind of like it. I wonder when you think, “you know, this cat would make a great helicopter!”
I love the first paragraph of the article: “So when cat Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, was run over by a car, his artist owner decided to turn him into a permanent piece of artwork as the ultimate tribute by transforming him into a flying helicopter.”
Check it out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ITO=1490
Awesome!
From: MailOnline
“A Minnesota waitress has sued the city of Moorhead after police confiscated $12,000 that she says was a customer’s tip but that authorities suspect came from a drug deal.”
Story from USA Today
When the default tip on the debit machine in my home town was arbitrarily increased to 20%, I thought it was pretty ridiculous. At the time, I’d argue that 15% was on the high side as I think the entire tipping system has gotten a bit out of control. But, in the outlandish world of tipping, I can see how a server may think that they can get away claiming a $12,000 tip. Apparently, even that amount seems reasonable to some for exceptional services rendered.
I sure would have liked to have been in that Starbucks!
“CHCH television’s signal went dark this morning shortly after the regular news broadcast was overtaken by a porn movie.
Viewers of the News Now broadcast were confronted with hard-core sex scenes at 9:30 a.m. for about three minutes before the channel stopped broadcasting.
“CHCH apologized for what it said was a problem that originated outside of CHCH and outside its owners, Channel Zero.
Reaction to the event was immediate on Twitter.
“Someone hacked CHCH news to play gay porn . . . And every TV in the gym and starbucks was set to it…”
“Watching #chch news when channel cut out and turned into male gay porn.””
From: The Star
I haven’t been contemplating retirement but this is an interesting option. A 76-year-old man has lived the last 20 years in almost complete seclusion on the desert island of Sotobanari. Also, spends the vast majority of time naked.
From Huffington Post
Have you seen this story from Argentina. Apparently, Analia Bouter was 26 weeks pregnant when she gave birth to her fifth child at a hospital in Argentina. The medical staff told her that the infant was born with no vital signs, so the parents went home with a death certificate.
Twelve hours later Analia and her husband decided to go to see their baby’s body, which was being kept in a refrigerated drawer at the Perrando hospital morgue.
‘when a worker opened the drawer, we heard a cry and she was alive.’ Yikes!
From: The Daily News
There is a new iPad and iPhone app that warns ships when whales are nearby. Conservationalists are hoping that this app will save an endangered species from extinction as there are an estimated 350 to 550 of the mammals left in the world.
The Whale Alert app, available for free download, uses global positioning system and other technology to transmit the latest available data about the movements of right whales, which live in the North Atlantic.
From: Sky News
In response to an online campaign urging Mattel to make a Barbie for kids with cancer, the toy maker announced it will introduce a bald Barbie.
From SFgate
I stole/copied these from: http://indyposted.com/12891/happy-birthday-chuck-top-10-chuck-norris-facts/
10. When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks the closet for Chuck Norris.
9. They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn’t take sh*t from anybody.
8. Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that’s why there are no signs of life there.
7. Chuck Norris counted to infinity – twice.
6. There is no chin underneath of Chuck Norris’s beard. Only another fist.
5. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn’t stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.
4. Chuck Norris was born two weeks early because he had some @ss to kick.
3. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris, you may be seconds away from death.
2. Chuck Norris tears cured cancer. Too bad he never cries.
1. Chuck Norris and Mr.T once got into a fight. Mr. T punched Chuck Norris as Chuck Norris round house kicked him in the face. The resulting impact was the 80′s.
This is a great site. Only take a look if you have a lot of time on your hands, because if you are like me, you’ll be stuck on it for a while.
Here is an ad for a jeep on kijiji:
OK, let me start off by saying this jeep is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout chest hair and a five o’clock shadow, this jeep would look like Tom Selleck. It is just that manly.
It was never intended to drive to the mall so you can pick up that adorable shirt at Abercrombie & Fitch that you had your eye on. It wasn’t meant to transport you to yoga class or Linens & Things. No, that’s what your Prius is for. If that’s the kind of car you’re looking for, then just do us all a favor and stop reading right now. I mean it. Just stop.
This car was engineered by 3rd degree ninja super-warriors in the highest mountains of Japan to serve the needs of the man that cheats death on a daily basis. They didn’t even consider superfluous nancy boy amenities like navigation systems (real men don’t get lost), heated leather seats (a real man doesn’t let anything warm his butt), or On Star (real men don’t even know what the hell On Star is).
No, this brute comes with the things us testosterone-fueled super action junkies need. It’s got special blood/gore resistant upholstery. It even has a first-aid kit in the back. You know what the first aid kit has in it? A pint of whiskey, a stitch-your-own-wound kit and a hunk of leather to bite down on when you’re operating on yourself. The jeep also has an automatic transmission so if you’re being chased by Libyan terrorists, you’ll still be able to shoot your machine gun out the window and drive at the same time. It’s saved my bacon more than once.
It has room for you and the four hotties you picked up on the way to the gym to blast your pecs and hammer your glutes. There’s a tow hitch to pull your 50 caliber anti-Taliban, self cooling machine gun. I also just put in a new windshield to replace the one that got shot out by The Man.
My price on this bad boy is an incredibly low $9950, but I’ll entertain reasonable offers. And by reasonable, I mean don’t walk up and tell me you’ll give me $5,000 for it. That’s liable to earn you a Burmese-roundhouse-sphincter-kick with a follow up three fingered eye-jab. Would it hurt? Hell yeah. Let’s just say you won’t be the prettiest guy at the Coldplay concert anymore.
There’s only 142000 on this four-wheeled hellcat from Planet Kickass. Trust me, it will outlive you and the offspring that will carry your name. It will live on as a monument to your machismo.
Now, go look in the mirror and tell me what you see. If it’s a rugged, no holds barred, super brute he-man macho Chuck Norris stunt double, then contact me. I might be out hang-gliding or BASE jumping or just chilling with my ladies, but I’ll get back to you. And when I do, we’ll talk about a price over a nice glass of Schmidt while we listen to Johnny Cash.
To sweeten the deal a little, I’m throwing in this pair of MC Hammer pants for the man with rippling quads that can’t fit into regular pants. Yeah, you heard me. FREE MC Hammer pants.
Rock on.
Indexed.com is an interesting site I came across when I was snooping around on a friend’s facebook page. A blog described as “a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.”
Worth checking out in my books.
Did you see this video game Rapelay from Japan? CNN ran a story about it the other day and since then there has been outrage in America. The game’s storyline goes “The player plays as a chikan (a perverted man who frequently fondles women) in crowded subway trains. A young woman named Aoi has the player arrested for molesting her. Afterwards, the player plans to exact revenge by molesting and raping her entire family.” You get the gist. Pretty bizzare. The game is banned in the US.
A follow up article by CNN says “there have been thousands of comments, more than a million page views and many questions about how a culture can produce this genre of games and then quietly allow the industry to thrive.”
I’m not a gamer, but aren’t the most popular video games in North America based on hunting people down and slashing, shooting, or blowing them to bits?
James Faulkner makes hats out of roadkill.
That is a bit weird.
Regardless, there is something about this photo of him that cracks me up. Very Austin poweresque.
Interesting article in the Globe and Mail:
“There was also significant differences between age groups. For example, while 81 per cent considered penile-anal intercourse as having had sex, the rate dropped to 50 per cent for men in the oldest age group (65 and up) and 67 per cent for women in the oldest age group.”
weird…
After a Canada Goose was held responsible for bringing down US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, New York decided to take action. The city decided to do a cull of Canada Geese, or as this UK paper stated… declare war against the bird!
New York Post and Ashley Dupre? Really? The New York Post has hired Ashley Dupre as a new advice columnist. I think it is quite telling when they describe her as “the former escort who brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer”. What a claim to fame… clearly worthy of an advice column! In her column, she’ll answer those questions you’ve always wanted ask a hooker… sex, love and relationships. I bet that she didn’t think the scandal would have landed her a job in the media, especially not the print media.
I’ll be damned if someone tries to put a lid on my rock horning, even if he who is trying to do the limiting is the one and only Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame. On second thought, if Dee Snider wants to “return the Metal Horns to their one true home and former metal glory”, I may give it some thought. On third thought, isn’t it the “Bon Jovi Rock Lock”. Shouldn’t he be leading the charge? Or, is Bon Jovi (heaven for bid) the root of all rock horning gone bad evil? Check this site out: Take Back the Horns .
I recommend taking a read through a couple of Dee’s posts. He’s well known for being a head banger with a big brain… and pretty make up.
…or I guess I should say, I know I picked the wrong profession when…
I have a strange feeling that I will not be receiving any beer in my pension. But check this out article out.
Right now, retired workers from the Molson Brewery in Canada get six dozen beer per month from the company but Molson plans to reduce that to one dozen beer per month, as of Jan. 1, 2010.
Of all the nerve…
Does the name Reif Larsen ring a bell? If not be patient. We’re predicting in the months and years to come he will become a household name.
Larsen’s own story is almost as amazing as the one he has created in the pages of his debut novel. He was born the son of 2 artists. His father taught print making at Harvard. He, himself, toured throughout his youth as an improv performer prior to enrolling in the Master of Fine Arts program at Columbia. Upon convocation he landed one of the most desirable agents in the literary world which sparked a bidding war for his debut novel. That novel reportedly fetched nearly one million dollars – a feat unheard of in this day and age for a new author. The book went on to be a National Bestseller and is long listed for the Guardian First Book Award.
The novel itself is about a preteen cartographer who rides the rails from his ranch in Montana to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The tale is incredible clever and rich with wit and humour. It’s margins are decorated with Spivet’s illustrations, maps, and footnotes. The book itself is a work of art. The narrative bridges Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, and Kurt Vonnegut. The plot begs to be adapted to a Wes Anderson film.
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is also accompanied by a dynamic website, a series of illustrated t-shirt, and a “hobo hotline” (1-308-535-1598).
Visit: http://www.tsspivet.com/
