Archive for January, 2005

Blueprints for the Brady House

For those of y’all watching Nick at Night, here’s a link for you. It’s the blueprints for the house in the Brady Bunch.

Ouch! Castration should not be a do-it-yourself procedure

A Nevada man is hospitalized after performing a castration on himself. At 1:30am Monday morning, the 50-year-old man called 911 when he could not stop the bleeding. Paramedics responded and transported the man to the hospital.
Citing privacy issues, all the hospital and police officials would release is that the man did succeed in [...]

Any 8th graders want to be strippers?

For the third year motivational speaker William Fried came and talked with 8th graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School. Fried gave a 55-minute presentation titled “The Secret of a Happy Life” at the school, just as he has the two previous years. And, like the past two years, Fried included exotic dancing [...]

Romanian couple names their son Yahoo!

A Romanian couple dated for 3 months before they decided to wed. Like many other couples, they met over the internet. Last December, the pair had a son that they named Yahoo in gratitude for allowing their meeting.
Source: News.com - Yahoo! It’s a boy!

Mario fan with a little too much free time

Using 272 sticky notes and about 6 hours, Douglas Lalonde created a mosaic of Mario of Nintendo fame. See the process here.

Crazy For You Bear - not a hit with mental health advocates

A teddy bear is being referred to as “”a tasteless use of marketing that stigmatizes persons with mental illness” by the executive director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. The bear, intended for sale around Valentines Day, is called the ‘Crazy For You Bear’ and is sporting a straight jacket.
The [...]

You can’t get your colon cleaned in Logan, Utah

A Logan, Utah, woman is fighting the city council to allow her to run a business out of her home. The business is for a medical procedure known as colon hydrotheraphy. Yes, it is what you’re thinking. She injects water into the rectum of the patient to loosen them up.