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Title: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Bison on January 11, 2014, 11:28:10 AM
A man in Australia had to be rushed to hospital in terrible pain after a large cockroach crawled into his ear as he slept, and an attempt to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner failed.

http://news.sky.com/story/1193182/cockroach-burrows-into-sleeping-mans-ear
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Gusington on January 11, 2014, 03:19:15 PM
Jesus tap dancing Christ.
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Staggerwing on January 11, 2014, 03:35:44 PM
Maybe he just got back from Ceti Alpha V...
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: LongBlade on January 11, 2014, 05:46:43 PM
I thought it was US boots on the ground in Somalia.
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Bison on January 13, 2014, 09:16:26 AM
Police in Connecticut say they're looking for a man who smashed his vehicle into a gas station in Newington, swiped a banana from a shelf and ate it before leaving early Wednesday morning. Nothing else was taken.

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/man-crashes-conn-gas-station-steals-banana-21474896
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Martok on January 13, 2014, 10:20:51 AM
People are indescribably weird. 
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 10:26:27 AM
yeah, its a good thing we're normal.   ::)
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: undercovergeek on January 13, 2014, 10:58:41 AM
Quote from: Martok on January 13, 2014, 10:20:51 AM
People are indescribably weird.

You say weird..... man's just focused.... wants a banana, goes and gets a banana!
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Martok on January 13, 2014, 11:06:07 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 10:26:27 AM
yeah, its a good thing we're normal.   ::)
I'm perfectly well aware we're the proverbial pot discussing the proverbial kettle.  ;D  I'm just sayin', is all. 




Quote from: undercovergeek on January 13, 2014, 10:58:41 AM
Quote from: Martok on January 13, 2014, 10:20:51 AM
People are indescribably weird.

You say weird..... man's just focused.... wants a banana, goes and gets a banana!
I guess some folks will do anything for spider-infested fruit.  ??? 

Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Staggerwing on January 13, 2014, 08:04:47 PM
Adds texture and some protein.
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: DoctorQuest on January 13, 2014, 08:14:00 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 10:26:27 AM
yeah, its a good thing we're normal.   ::)

No lie, Bwanna......
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Bison on January 14, 2014, 12:01:02 AM
(Reuters) - Kraft Foods is warning it may run short of its Velveeta cheese product, right at a time of high seasonal U.S. demand for the orangey-yellow foodstuff.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-kraft-velveeta-idUSBREA0617020140108
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 14, 2014, 12:43:02 AM
there will be blood in the streets!
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Gusington on January 14, 2014, 10:55:19 AM
Orangey-yellow foodstuff.
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Martok on January 14, 2014, 03:38:42 PM
Quote from: Bison on January 14, 2014, 12:01:02 AM
(Reuters) - Kraft Foods is warning it may run short of its Velveeta cheese product, right at a time of high seasonal U.S. demand for the orangey-yellow foodstuff.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-kraft-velveeta-idUSBREA0617020140108
I saw that.  As an admitted fan of Velveeta cheese (especially in conjunction with chips and watching the Super Bowl), this makes me sad. 

Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: LongBlade on January 14, 2014, 04:28:55 PM
Quote from: Martok on January 14, 2014, 03:38:42 PM
Quote from: Bison on January 14, 2014, 12:01:02 AM
(Reuters) - Kraft Foods is warning it may run short of its Velveeta cheese product, right at a time of high seasonal U.S. demand for the orangey-yellow foodstuff.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-kraft-velveeta-idUSBREA0617020140108
I saw that.  As an admitted fan of Velveeta cheese (especially in conjunction with chips and watching the Super Bowl), this makes me sad.

Well gentlemen. There were a few golden bars of Velveeta at my local Target store today and I picked one up for my wife, who feels much like you do about it.

Personally I think it's overrated, but if that's what she wants for the Superbowl then it's a small price to pay.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 14, 2014, 04:34:16 PM
did you forget the Ro-tel?
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: DoctorQuest on January 14, 2014, 04:42:10 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on January 14, 2014, 04:28:55 PM
Quote from: Martok on January 14, 2014, 03:38:42 PM
Quote from: Bison on January 14, 2014, 12:01:02 AM
(Reuters) - Kraft Foods is warning it may run short of its Velveeta cheese product, right at a time of high seasonal U.S. demand for the orangey-yellow foodstuff.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-kraft-velveeta-idUSBREA0617020140108
I saw that.  As an admitted fan of Velveeta cheese (especially in conjunction with chips and watching the Super Bowl), this makes me sad.

Well gentlemen. There were a few golden bars of Velveeta at my local Target store today and I picked one up for my wife, who feels much like you do about it.

Personally I think it's overrated, but if that's what she wants for the Superbowl then it's a small price to pay.

In that context it is no worse than what most people will eat and drink that day.
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: LongBlade on January 14, 2014, 05:34:56 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 14, 2014, 04:34:16 PM
did you forget the Ro-tel?

There doesn't seem to be a shortage of that.
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Bison on January 15, 2014, 08:46:47 PM
A would-be burglar was stopped in his tracks when he failed to break into a Chicago, Illinois neighborhood bar because he was pulling on a door marked 'PUSH.'

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/burglar-stymied-when-he-pulls-door-marked-%E2%80%98push%E2%80%99-221610223.html
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: skeptical.platypus on January 15, 2014, 09:13:15 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 13, 2014, 08:04:47 PM
Adds texture and some protein.

That's what she said!
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: skeptical.platypus on January 15, 2014, 09:22:44 PM
If you are a convicted felon (and unregistered sex offender), don't go on television to show yourself handling and firing the long guns you say you'll use to steal other people's shiny AR-15's. Lotsa police have shiny AR-15s.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/01/man-on-doomsday-preppers-arrested-on-weapons-charges/
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Martok on January 16, 2014, 02:36:16 AM
LOL.  I never get tired of stupid-criminal stories. 

Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Bison on January 21, 2014, 07:29:39 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Candy company Jelly Belly announced new draft beer and chocolate-covered Tabasco flavored candy beans at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco.
Time magazine reported the company, which manufactures its famous jelly beans in Fairfield, Calif., announced its new newest flavors during the Sunday through Tuesday Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco.



Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/01/21/Jelly-Belly-announces-draft-beer-chocolate-Tabasco-flavors/UPI-62971390338454/#ixzz2r5BYHYDM
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: Bison on February 09, 2014, 10:08:23 AM
Police responding to reports of screaming coming from a home in Maine didn't find a victim of domestic violence as they feared. Instead, they found an amorous pig.

http://news.yahoo.com/maine-police-investigating-screams-happy-pig-111757559.html

Uh...what the hell is going on up there Mirth?
Title: Re: The most important thing to happen in the world in the last week...
Post by: skeptical.platypus on February 09, 2014, 01:24:16 PM
Quote from: Bison on February 09, 2014, 10:08:23 AM
Police responding to reports of screaming coming from a home in Maine didn't find a victim of domestic violence as they feared. Instead, they found an amorous pig.

http://news.yahoo.com/maine-police-investigating-screams-happy-pig-111757559.html

Uh...what the hell is going on up there Mirth?

"Amorous" is a bit of an assumption on the China, Maine State Troopers' part, innit? Who among us can't think of five women we'd rather be dropped into a pen with less than a back to back cop rock/red dawn ii marathon?  I mean, put me down in front of five women on The View, and I'm screaming, too. And not amorously.


Also -- China, Maine? Thank goodness we've got all american names here. Like Humptulips.