Avis brings Wi-Fi to rental cars
I think I can honestly say “what they heck are they thinking?” Avis Rent-a-car has announced they they will be having wi-fi equipment installed in some of their rental fleet that will allow streesed...
Author: WeirdHarold
Fart causes emergency landing for plane
In the world of strange stories, this one pretty much takes the cake… or at least cuts the cheese. Seems that during a recent flight, a woman had the urge (and the need, apparently)...
Snake King dies from, well, Snake bites
Is it just me, or could we maybe have seen this one coming? Ali Khan Samsudin is known as Malaysia’s snake king. He has performed with snaked for a living as well as for...
CBGBs runs out of time
The club CBGBs, which was the launching point for bands such as The Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Blondie, and many others has reached the end of it’s time. The building that it is located...
Trekkies bid like confused Ferrengi
Christies held an auction of star trek memorabilia and collectibles, about 1000 lots total of stuff from the actual making of the shows, including a captains chair and other interesting things. They thought they...
Corn Maze
I have done this before, and it is really a blast. This time of the year, when the corn has been taken in but the stalks still stand, some farmers will make “corn mazes”. ...
You Tube becomes Google Tube?
The internet land grab continues without stopping, I guess. The snapping up of popular (sut usually very unprofitable) websites by the biggest companies continues. It has been that long since Fox Companies / Rubert...
Dog Gets Tagged, bounty hunter gets bail.
Okay, I am sure that many of you have seen the show on A&E TV called “Dog the Bounty Hunter”, basically following around a bounty hunter / religeous wingnut as he goes about his...
Why I hate flying
It seems these days that all the nutjobs and scewups can afford airlines tickets. This has made flying a very difficult deal. With all the security, checks, xrays, take off your shoes extra checks...
Katie Couric on CBS News
I spy, with the evil CBS eye… someone who isn’t a man doing the news at CBS. That’s right, starting today… Katie Couric (will she change it to Kate to be more serious) will...
Stuff Starting… New TV Season!
Fall is upon us. How can I tell? Well, besides the strange fact that September came and it started raining, well, because the new TV season is effecgively upon us!  While most of the...
Hedgehog Humbles McDonalds
Seems that the McFlurry lids used in the UK happen to be a bad size for the local hedgehogs. Seems they get their heads stuck in them, and becomes a trap that is fatal...
BP Investigates for Gas price fixing
I guess this goes into the category of “score one of the little guys”. BP, already under investigation for potentially having manipulated the market price for propane is now under investigation for the same...
Hurricane Season
I guess I am lucky, because I don’t live in the south east, so I don’t have to deal with hurricanes. But with the arrival of the first hurricane of the 2006 season, Hurricane...
