Archive for the ‘disasters’ Category

Written by Alyx on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 in Britney Spears, celebrities, disasters.
FILM ME BABY ONE MORE TIME…
It’s just what you never wanted.
And it’s not K-Fed this time. In Touch magazine reports some guy from Hawaii boned Bit Bit in June, and made a tape of it.
At least she looked almost reasonable in June. Skanky as hell, but not morbidly obese or bald or anything. He’s [...]

Written by Bill G on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in TV, Trainwrecks, disasters.
I Dream of Donuts
Just like Homer Simpson, a bunch of security guards at a nuclear power plant in Peach Bottom Township, Pennsylvania, have been caught by a hidden camera sleeping on the job.
See the video at CBS.
I love local news. Punctuated by lines like “In case you don’t believe us, here’s video…” and “exclusive coverage [...]

Written by Bill G on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in Movies, accidents, bizarre, culture, disasters, funny video, military, travel.
A Crater and Questions
On Saturday night, a fiery object fell from the sky in Carangas, located in the Puno province of Peru. Stunned residents said they tracked it to a fresh hole in the earth that was more than 60 feet wide, 15 feet deep, filled with boiling water and steaming with noxious fumes, according [...]

Written by Alyx on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in Trainwrecks, bizarre, disasters, sports, travel.
OK, you probably saw this on the odd news somewhere else, but I had to repost it:
TIRANA (Reuters) - An Albanian fishmonger set fire to his van in a burst of anger after the national soccer team lost to the visiting Dutch side, and firefighters failed to extinguish the blaze because someone had stolen [...]

Written by OddCulture on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 in Florida, Trainwrecks, accidents, disasters, travel.
The collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi river is sadly not the first time bridges in America have collapsed.
I-40 bridge disaster
On May 26, 2002, the captain of the tugboat Robert Y. Love accidentally crashed his barge into an I-40 bridge support in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. A 580 foot section of the bridge [...]

Written by Bill G on Thursday, May 17th, 2007 in Periods, disasters.
Dear me. I dare say the proton-electron count this day is most uncomfortable, darling.
Where were you on September 2nd, 1859?
Do you remember the aurora caused by the great solar/geomagnetic storm? Well, you should remember, old timer.
From NASA:
In scientific circles where solar flares, magnetic storms and other unique solar events are discussed, the occurrences of September [...]

Written by OddCulture on Sunday, February 4th, 2007 in 80s, Babes, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Periods, TV, Trainwrecks, celebrities, culture, disasters, food, military, sports.
There are some Super Bowl ads out there that people just love but we don’t.
First, let’s just address the ones that we merely “like” but didn’t like enough to make the top 15 list.
Overrated
Coke - Mean Joe Greene (1979)
Mean Joe trades his jersey for a coke. Awwwwww. But greatest Super Bowl commercial ever? outpost [...]

Written by dj kali_ma on Thursday, January 25th, 2007 in culture, disasters, travel.
Out of the jungle but still lost, the daughter back home after 18 years - World - Times Online
My droog Thuja sent this to me, because she knows that feral children have been an interest of mine for just about ever.
What struck me as creepy/cool however, was this:
“Many Cambodians were forced to spend years hiding [...]

Written by Bill G on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 in Movies, Religion, Trainwrecks, culture, disasters, travel.
From Reuters:
Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
“Fragile travellers can lose their bearings. When the idea they have of the country meets the reality of what they discover it can provoke [...]

Written by dj kali_ma on Sunday, August 6th, 2006 in Religion, culture, disasters.
Coincidence or Conspiracy?
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