Some British weirdos are in the
second phase of testing for an inhaled erectile dysfunction drug. Asthmatics worldwide about to face an interesting new problem.
Here's two adjectives you would never apply to the same person simultaneously: Jamaican goth. But if you were to believe
The Jamaica Observer,
pale, dreadlocked, mascara-ed freaks are overrunning Kingston high schools. I'd panic, but I think I'd be laughing too hard to run.
URLs can sometimes tell the whole story: I give you
WhatJeffKilled.com. A couple in California are documenting the various rodents, lizards and other small animals a tomcat named Jeff is killing and bringing to their back door. I love the Internet.
You thought Smith, Jones and Brown were popular? How about Li, Wang and Zhang? China reports that
the Wangs alone account for 93 million people in China alone.
The BBC has figured out the secret of Web traffic:Write a story about a man being forced to marry a goat. The story has been on the news organization's Web site for 14 months and, despite being hidden deep in the archives, gets 100,000 unique hits daily. Dot's Droppings gets a thousand per shot, tops. Let's change that, shall we?
In "Medical Procedures That Scare the Crap Out Of Me" News: Doctors are now
shoving medical instruments into your belly button and maneuvering them through the skin with magnets. Also known as the
"Wooly Willy" surgical method.
Today's
Several Minutes Of Your Life You Will Never Get Back was inspired by a trip through my DVD collection (if my dog house can have a laptop and wifi, it can have a DVD player, OK?). I give you two clips and a trailer from
the greatest motion picture of this modern age: Batman: The Movie, starring Adam West, Burt Ward, an exploding shark and a pesky giant novelty bomb:
Trailer
"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb"
"Holy sardine! Hand me down the Shark Repellant Bat Spray!"
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