A Chicago Cubs fan named Greg wanted to give his girlfriend a marriage proposal that she’d never forget. So he popped the question via the video scoreboard during a game on Monday night at Wrigley Field. There was just one problem — she wasn’t in her seat at the time.
July 25, 2012 You'll never believe what The Damson Dene Hotel, which touts itself as the perfect destination for a “peaceful break away from it all” in England’s picturesque Lake District, used to replace Bibles in each of it's 40 guest rooms -
In July of 2008, the carcass of a bloated, chimera-like animal washed ashore in Long Island. The ‘Montauk Monster‘ terrified and fascinated the nation that summer, with zoologists eventually concluding the beast was probably a water-damaged raccoon, rather than some sort of byproduct of a top-secret experiment gone horribly wrong.
Four years later, it looks like we have another monster on our hands.
It’s not that uncommon to see children flying by themselves. But an 11-year-old English boy took that concept to a whole new level this week.
July 23, 2012
Germans love him, but who knew David Hasselhoff was such a wanted commodity here in the US? That’s what a convenience store chain is wondering after hundreds of giant promotional cardboard cut-outs of the ‘Baywatch’ star have gone missing.
You’d think that, out of all the different kinds of livestock, turtles would be the easiest to keep penned in. And yet, some 1,600 turtles recently fled a Georgia farm. Granted, it was probably a very slow break for freedom.
It should come as no surprise that the newest startup in the East Village section of New York City is even more ridiculous than those that precede it. The Big Apple is known for its food ‘niche’ stores — The Hummus Place, The Dumpling Man, Rice to Riches, a spot dedicated solely to rice pudding. And Pickles. Oh, and Mayonaise. Who even LIKES mayo that much to warrant an entire business dedicated to its “Empire”?
So when we heard about the latest of these “boutique” stores, we were only too amused to hear what it specializes in: tap water.
July 19, 2012 With shoes on, a Burger King employee posted a picture of himself standing in two bins of lettuce used for hamburgers. But he's not havin' it exactly his way.
Houma Police arrested 24 year old Thomas J. Phillips Sunday for operating a Walmart motorized scooter while having a blood alcohol content of .179.
July 18, 2012 Val Patterson knew he was dying, so he wrote his own obituary that would appear in Utah's Salt Lake Tribune after his death.
It’s been fourteen years since an original episode of ‘Seinfeld’ aired, yet the sitcom still looms large over pop culture.
The latest example of the lingering effects of the seminal show come from the ‘The New Yorker,’ which is using a cartoon featured on a famous ‘Seinfeld’ episode for its latest reader caption contest.
