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Towel Found in Woman, Law Suit Won

January 28th, 2007 at 12:47 pm » Comments (1)

The family of a woman who died 7 years ago filed and won a law suit against an Ohio Clinic, alleging that the surgeon left a rolled up towel inside her chest, according to Reuters.
[Bonnie] Valle had surgery for emphysema at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 and died at age 60 in 2002. She donated […]



Man Survives Falling 16 Floors

January 23rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm » Comments (1)

You see people dropping dead from buildings all the time in the movies, but in real life that may not be the case.
A Wisconsin man, Joshua Hanson, had somehow broken his hotel hallway window glass and plummeted 16 floors, landing on the roof overhang one floor up from the street.
As it turned out, the moron […]



Don’t Blog About Avoiding Work…at Work

January 23rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm » Comments (0)

A woman was denied unemployment benefits after she was fired for misusing company time and using her boss’ computer to keep a journal writing about her efforts to avoid work. Emmalee Bauer wrote some 300 pages describing all her efforts to avoid as much work as possible. Her journal was used as evidence at […]



World’s Whackiest Ice Cream Flavors

January 15th, 2007 at 10:53 pm » Comments (0)

I’m all for ice cream and trying out new flavors and all. But even I have limits. It’s bad enough that people put ice cream on chicken fried steak, but to have soy sauce and garlic mint flavored ice cream is just plain sick. Damn them Japanese and their disgusting ice cream flavors.
Some of these […]



Wiil You Die for Me?

January 14th, 2007 at 10:51 am » Comments (2)

Will you die for a Wii? Literally. Jennifer Strange, 28, apparently did, after she competed in a Sacramento radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom in order to win a Wii system.
“She said to one of our supervisors that […]



Tara Reid’s Hair Makes You Wonder

January 13th, 2007 at 4:53 pm » Comments (0)

Tara Reid wanted to make sure she was the mane star at the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Carnival in Australia by showing up with what we would call a mob on her head. Seriously, even Scar from The Lion King has better hair days.

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Steve Wynn Damaged Picasso, Sues

January 12th, 2007 at 8:00 am » Comments (0)

It seems Steve Wynn, owner of Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, wants to make up for the loss of the infamous Picasso painting which he bought for $48.4 million and accidentally poked a hole through by suing the insurance company Lloyd’s of London for not paying him the demanded amount of $54million.
The lawsuit in U.S. […]



Teacher and Butt-Printing Artist Fired

January 11th, 2007 at 10:00 am » Comments (0)

A Virginia art teacher whose other profession is a “butt-printing” artist has been fired from Monacan High School. Apparently, the school board does not like that he’s not setting a good example for his students by having this “offensive” off-hours job. That and because he goes on iFilm to advertise his works in a thong […]



$8.2Bil Lost on Unredeemed Gift Cards

January 9th, 2007 at 9:02 pm » Comments (0)

Before you decide to give your friends and family a gift card, read this article first.
Gift card sales were estimated at $82 billion this year, more than 20 percent over 2005 levels. But an estimated 10 percent of the $82 billion will be lost to consumers due to unredeemed value on the cards, […]



Angelina Jolie: A Mockery to Virgin Mary

January 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am » Comments (4)

Just in case there isn’t enough news about Angelina Jolie in the world, how about this controversial painting that depicts her as the Virgin Mary, holding a buncha kids, hovering over Walmart? Artist, Kate Kretz, explains on her blog that the painting addresses:
The celebrity worship cycle…because of her [Jolie’s] unavoidable presence in the […]



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