Meanwhile, Walkoff Made It Down Without Incident

This is very sad especially since she sounds like such a lovely person, but I can’t lie to you people. Even in my older, mellower state, someone named Rohloff…well…rolling off is still going to get a laugh and a post out of me. By the time Grace Rohloff reached the top of Half Dome, smiling …

Better Than Eating Them, I Suppose

I don’t know what prompted Joseph Weaver to resign from his position at the Jacksboro Tennessee police department, but clearly, he’s upset about it. A very odd kind of upset, but definitely upset. Weaver, according to police, admitted to throwing several cans of Vienna sausages at the home of the town’s vice mayor Jimmy Snodgrass, …

Look, Guys! It’s The Inside Of My Skull Where My Brain Used To…Never Mind

After all these years, I’ve gotten to the point with fireworks injury stories where I’ve seriously caught myself thinking “meh. Guy blew his hand off. Whatever.” I’ll read them just in case there’s a funny detail buried somewhere, but most of the time they get a quick scan and then it’s on to the next …

Best News Bloopers For June, 2024

Let me make sure I have this right. If you look at a baby hippo, you can tell that it looks like a fully grown hippo, only smaller? And if you look at, say, a puppy or a kitten, you’ll know right away that there’s a difference between them and the hippo? Fascinating! And before …

I Have The Meats…And Some Odd Rectal Issues

I’m not sure where to start here, so we’ll just pick it up from the part where police in Florida were called to an area near a Speedway convenience store to deal with a naked fellow who was standing on the side of the road and yelling at a woman for some reason. That winds …

The Sporting Goods Store Did Not Account For All Of The Dicks In The Area

Calling in a fake bomb threat and active shooter to a store across the street from where your boyfriend is about to get arrested for shoplifting maybe isn’t the smartest thing you could do, but I’ll go ahead and put it in the category of ideas so crazy they just might work. Distraction can be …

Would You Like Fries With That? Should I Toss Them In The Coke?

I haven’t heard anything about how Google and Wendy’s are doing with their AI ordering experiment, but according to this here report from the BBC, IBM and McDonald’s have been trying something similar and it’s gone so well that the system is being removed this summer. It seems that it failed for the very reasons …

We Hope You’ve Enjoyed Flying With Us Today, And That You Will Continue To Enjoy It While We Ruin Your Plans For No Good Reason

Passengers travel from London to London on 9-hour ‘flight to nowhere’ Pilots on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Texas discovered a minor technical issue while over Canada and decided to return to the UK rather than divert to a local airport I was not on this plane, but I can feel my blood …

He Was A Good Man, Taken Too Soon By The Schools And The Gun Lobby That Swore To Protect Him

In the right context, I don’t see anything wrong with asking high school students to write their own obituaries. I took a writer’s craft class when I was that age, and I recall more than one assignment that required us to write things about ourselves. It wouldn’t have felt out of place at all if …