Outrageous

With the US unemployment rate hovering around nine percent, it’s nice to know someone‘s business is thriving. In this case, that someone is Hallmark, which recently began selling sympathy cards aimed at those who’ve lost jobs.

When rock bands name themselves, it seems they feel proper spelling and/or grammar is only for the radically uncool. Otherwise, we’d have Deaf Leopard, The Beetles, and Fish. And then what would we be? According to this rock and pop spelling test from Penney Design, we’d be a bunch of red pen-wielding English teachers yelling at those long-haired kids to get off our lawns, that’s what...

Appearing on the TV show ‘Guinness World Records Japan,’ Chinese acrobat Sun Xi Zhong set the world record for Most Stairs Climbed on the Head by scaling an incredible 15 steps using only his noggin.

Headed down an escalator at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Dallas-based hairdresser Isis Brantley (who counts neo-soul singer Erykah Badu as a client) was stopped by TSA agents who insisted on checking her ample Afro hairstyle for explosives.

Borders bookstores will shut their doors forever at the end of this month, and in a final kiss-off to those who patronized the once-popular chain, employees at one of Borders’ franchises hung in their display window a bitter note which listed all the things customers had done to piss them off over the years.

Setting: a backyard pool somewhere in suburbia. Crickets chirp, the air-conditioner hums, and a little boy standing by the pool chews on his goggles. After about 15 seconds of this tranquil scene, the camera finds a little girl, also poolside in a bathing suit. “I’m pooping,” the little girl matter-of-factly declares.

A man dressed as the popular kids’ show character SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police yesterday in Los Angeles after an altercation between him and two women got  violent.

A boy in the Cambodian village of Koak Roka has gained worldwide attention for suckling milk directly from a cow’s udders, Reuters reports.

While at the courthouse taking care of the paperwork to divorce his third wife, Missourian George F. Blackburn decided to do something he’d been thinking about for a long time. He changed his name to Led Zeppelin II, in honor of his favorite rock album.

When Chinese police pulled over a regular-sized eight-seat minivan, they were shocked to find a whopping 64 children stuffed inside of it.

Have you ever thought, “I wish I could know what it felt like to get shot or stabbed, but without the risk of death or permanent injury?” Well, a Japanese research group may have figured out a wearable way to simulate the feeling without all the actual shooting or stabbing.

There’s drunk, really drunk and so drunk you think you’re licensed to perform dentistry. A Port St. Lucie, Florida man was so liquored up he attempted to pull his own tooth, forcing his wife to call the cops to get him to stop.