Wacky And Weird

  • Posted: August 28th, 2012 - 6:39am by Doug Powell

     The only thing worse than state-sponsored jazz NPR running an analysis of Mitt Romney’s Mormon-based diet is that Republicans are paying the worst band ever – Journey – to do a post-hurricane concert for the faithful at a cost of only $500,000.

    That’s a lot of graduate students.

    And according to NPR, Romney has an “affection for feeding Jimmy John's subs to the press on the bus.”

    How many got E. coli from the sprouts used by Jimmy John’s over the past two years?

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  • Posted: August 28th, 2012 - 5:50am by Doug Powell

     http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/34e50264dd/everyone-poops-the-romcom?playlist=featured_videos

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  • Posted: August 20th, 2012 - 2:46pm by Doug Powell

    Federal prisoners in Texas unknowingly ate pet food due to problems with the resale of meat from an East Texas food company that specializes in fajita meat, according to federal authorities.

    The Dallas Morning News reports John Soules Foods, Inc. of Tyler has agreed to pay $392,000 to settle a case brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

    It involved raw “beef trimmings” that were intended for pet food cans but ended up being eaten by humans.

    The government’s three-year investigation found that the problems occurred in late 2006 and early 2007.

    John Soules Foods had problems “getting some of their beef trimmings product to freeze properly,” authorities said.

    As a result, the company sold some boxes of those trimmings to a meat broker who agreed to sell it as pet food, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The boxes were not marked as pet food.

    That broker violated the agreement and sold the trimmings to another broker for human food. Some of it ended up being sold to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for human consumption.

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  • Posted: August 20th, 2012 - 2:28pm by Doug Powell

    Embrace your vomit. Make it your own. Be proud.

    Fox Sports Southwest reports that Cole Beasley, an undrafted rookie out of SMU battling for a spot on the Dallas Cowboy’s depth chart, is trying to make the most of his opportunity and leaving it all on the field — literally.

    Beasley had a breakout game Saturday night against the San Diego Chargers with seven catches for 104 yards. After being tackled in late in the fourth quarter, Beasley made his way to the sideline, but not before losing his lunch on the field.

    By Saturday afternoon, the video had gone viral.

    “I was tired, but the reason I came off was because I landed on the ball, and the ball knocked the wind out of me and made me have to throw up a little bit,” Beasley told The Dallas Morning News. “Tired had a little bit to do with it, but it was more the ball knocking the air out of me.”

    But, should Beasley make the team, evidently we should expect this from him.

    "You'll probably see me throw up a lot more than just then," Beasley said. "I throw up a lot before the games, too. I'm not ashamed of it at all."

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  • Posted: August 15th, 2012 - 1:46pm by Doug Powell

    A woman, who slipped in vomit at a Whitesnake concert at the Newport Leisure Centre in Dec. 2011 is reported to be suing Newport Council for compensation.

    Lindy Butcher says she was walking to the Loft Bar in the centre with her friend when she suddenly slipped and fell down onto her knees.

    As she was being helped up, she was told that she had slipped in a pool of vomit.

    She was taken to the first aid room where she was cleaned up with disinfectant and treated for her injuries. Her knees were bruised and she had pain in her neck, shoulders and ribs. She has since been referred to a physiotherapist by her doctor for treatment on her injuries.

    The South Wales Argus reports that she is now making a public liability claim against Newport Council. Allegedly, the vomit was reported to bar staff who tried to notify cleaners. However, the fact the venue was extremely busy made locating and clearing up the vomit difficult.

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  • Posted: August 15th, 2012 - 2:14am by Doug Powell

    Following U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Locte’s admission that he pees in the pool, the train wreck that is Kathie Lee and Hoda on NBC decided to share their thoughts on the issue – 10 days later.

    Lochte had originally said, "There's something about getting into chlorine water that you just automatically go."

    Wannabe microbiologist Kathie Lee chimed in this morning that, "chlorine doesn't take care of ALL the germs.”

    "Don't you pee in the shower?" asked Hoda.

    KLG admits that she does, but only because she's concerned about the earth, and doing so saves a flush.

     
     
     
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  • Posted: August 13th, 2012 - 2:26pm by Doug Powell

    That’s my pie.

    The Southland Times reports a drunk Australian man was arrested for disorderly behavior after he went into a Queenstown bakery and ate another customer's pie.

    The man, 33, who refused to give police his details, was taken to the police station, where he vomited on arrival.

    Sergeant Mark Gill said considering the amount of tourists that came through Queenstown at this time of the year, the number of drunk-related incidents sounded a bit worse than it was.

    Gill said there was always going to be these sorts of problems, but Australians "as a rule" were generally no worse than New Zealanders or anyone else.

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  • Posted: August 4th, 2012 - 9:41pm by Doug Powell

    Being in jail is a training school for how to get away with stuff.

    I did 6 weeks dead time between conviction and sentencing in 1981 at the local jail – the equivalent of maximum security -- and saw drugs enter daily. Since any visits were behind Plexiglas, the preferred method was via the exercise yard – we got 30 minutes a day in a small basketball-sized court surrounded by 20 feet of brick and topped with razor wire. People on the outside would flick half a cigarette, with the tobacco removed and filled with hashish, over the wall so it looked like another discarded butt.

    At the minimum security institution, where visits involved contact, the preferred method was a long kiss and a balloon full of pills. I was just happy with some contact (thank you, Alison).

    But, even wise guys can get it wrong.

    The Arizona Republic reports that four state prison inmates were hospitalized with suspected botulism poisoning Friday after apparently drinking homemade prison alcohol,.

    Three were reported in stable condition Friday night. The condition of the fourth was not known late Friday.

    All four inmates had been housed in the maximum-security Eyman complex in Florence.

    "It's not an airborne illness," said Pinal County spokeswoman Heather Murphy. "It has to be ingested or injected. We cannot confirm it at this time, but we believe it to be contraband prisoner-made alcohol."

    In some cases, inmates use fruit and bread from their food trays to ferment an alcohol concoction.

    Barfield said that she once found about two gallons of homemade alcohol in a garbage bag.

    "It's that easy," Barfield said.

    But because the smell is so overpowering, corrections officers can easily detect the contraband, which is flushed down the toilet, she said.

    In 2011, 12 inmates at the Utah State Prison in Draper developed botulism after drinking a concoction made from fruit, potatoes, bread, water and sugar.

    In 2004, four California inmates were hospitalized after contracting botulism from a two-gallon batch of prison-made alcohol.

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  • Posted: August 4th, 2012 - 11:10am by Doug Powell

    Fresh off a Salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 425, Kung Fu Kitchen & Sushi figured they’d dip into the lucrative food porn pool and start offering sushi served on naked men and women to the tune of $500 per “human platter” last month.

    They discovered that if you put wasabi on your nipples, they’ll burn for a week.

    “There’s a lot of things you don’t think about when it comes to naked sushi,” restaurant owner Nathan Lieberman told ABCNews.com. “Now, we put plastic over the nipples, like Saran, and then we cover the nipples in wasabi.”

    Lieberman said naked sushi was the brainchild of Chef Glenn Lopez, who works in the kitchen. Lieberman figured the Japanese have been dining off naked bodies for “thousands of years” and wanted to give his patrons “the royal treatment” for Miami Spice, the city’s restaurant month, he said.

    Initially, Lieberman said he was going to hire models from a modeling agency, but his servers begged him for the job.

    Kung Fu’s most recent restaurant inspection occurred in May and included seven critical violations – one of them being a lack of soap for handwashing.

     

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  • Posted: August 4th, 2012 - 2:18am by Doug Powell

    Chlorine is your friend. I tell that to soldiers going overseas, and to Sorenne going swimming. Because everyone pees in the pool. Even Olympic champs.

    Ryan Lochte told Ryan Seacrest this morning, when Seacrest asked if swimmers ever pee in the pool -- Ryan replied, "Of course. We always do."

    When asked if he ever peed during one of the races in London, Ryan said, "Not during the races, but I sure did before in warm-up."

    According to Lochte, "There's something about getting into chlorine water that you just automatically go."

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