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Mountain Dew Good at Quenching Thirst, Liquifying Rodents

Ross Hyzer |
01.04.2012
I once saw an episode of The Steve Wilkos Show in which a guy was accused of (among other things) stealing a tv from his lady friend.  He maintained his innocence in a rather bo... ...read more
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Woman Swallows Pen, Keeps It In Her Stomach For 25 Years

Ross Hyzer |
12.20.2011
Everyone loves a good medical mystery, just like on that sexy sex show Grey’s Anatomy.  Well, here’s one with a lot fewer hunks but a lot more WTFs:  A 76-year-old B... ...read more

Computers Now Stealing Literature, Dorito Jobs

Ross Hyzer |
12.19.2011
Have you ever wanted to read a story written by a machine, just like the proles did in 1984?  Well your long wait is finally over!  Say hello to Brutus, a computer at Rensselaer... ...read more

It’s Official: Americans are the Coolest

Ross Hyzer |
09.07.2011
Americans worried about crippling levels of unemployment, increasingly unstable income gaps between rich and poor, the apparent transformation of one of our major political pa... ...read more

German Radio Station Offers Funeral Giveaway

Ross Hyzer |
03.08.2011
Picture it:  you’re young, you’re hip, you’re German. You and your friends have the world by the tail, smoking cigarettes in the Altstadt, eating “eis... ...read more

This Valentine’s Day, Say It With Roaches

Ross Hyzer |
02.14.2011
Hoo boy, here it is already Valentine’s Day and you still haven’t picked out a gift for that special someone. You were planning on going shopping over the weekend, b... ...read more

Top Gun Footage Slipped Into Chinese News Segment

Ross Hyzer |
01.31.2011
What is the coolest movie ever?  Yes, it is Top Gun!  Top Gun is boss as hell, with planes going zoom and dudes telling each other they stink but everybody joining together in t... ...read more

Man Found Nude in Cemetery, Photographing Spirits

Ross Hyzer |
12.14.2010
A security camera set up to catch vandals instead recorded photos of a man hanging out fully naked in a cemetery in south Mississippi.  The man was eventually identified as 47-y... ...read more

Chinese Farmer Builds Robots in His Spare Time

Ross Hyzer |
12.13.2010
At the age of 11, little Wu Yulu sat on his doorstep in rural China and dreamed of building terrible man-machines, with all the dexterity and guile of a biological human but mad... ...read more

German City Taxes Sex Work to Reduce Deficit

Ross Hyzer |
12.09.2010
Money:  right now, nobody has any of it.  What can we do to make money exist again, so that we can pay our bills and cover our deficits and keep having fancy things like street ... ...read more


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