You can’t die in the house of Parliment

Surveyed as the dumbest law in the UK, it is illegal to die while in the house of Parliment.

The reason actually makes a little bit of sense. Since the house of Parliment is a royal palace anyone dying there is entitled to a statue funeral.

Link from OverLawyered.com

Cooking with Pooh

Two thoughts for the title of this book. One, it’s a major oversight by the authors who just missed that Cooking with Pooh has more of a meaning than just cooking with that bear from the 100 acre wood. Or two, and this is probably it, coming up with a name like that is a excellent move for viral marketing. Heck, I’m blogging about it and so are several other blogs.

Cooking with Pooh cover

Paris Hilton on David Letterman

You know you’re laughing

This is the kind of video you feel guilty for laughing at, but you know you’re laughing anyway.

If sex ed videos were produced by Nintendo

A spammer trying to be helpful, are you kidding

I found a great comment in my moderation queue today. It’s from a guy named Richard who “know(s) you get a lot of spammy comments, I can help you with this problem.” In exchange for placing a link to his site he will talk to the spammers he knows and ask them not to post spam on my site.

Sadly, I know that there are a lot of people out there that would fall for this crap.

… and if Office Space were a horror movie

If Office Space were a drama

Office Space is easily one of my top 10 favorite movies. But if this were the trailer there’s no way I’d watch it.

Why did Fred Phelps cross the ocean?

The Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket in Treviso, Italy on September 3rd as part of their Love Crusades program.

Maybe in a country that doesn’t go quite as far out of its way to protect the rights of idiots to say whatever the feel somebody will finally do what needs to be done and beat the crap out of these guys.

Hillary’s top 10 campaign promises

From Late Night with David Letterman.

My personal favorite:

You’ll have the option of rolling the dice against the IRS for double-or-nothing on your taxes.