Category: Scary

Dead whale explodes in busy city street

A decomposing sperm whale has exploded while being transported through a Taiwan city, splattering cars and shops with blood and blubber.

While that whale spontaneously combusted, we prefer to help them along here in Oregon, and blow them up ourselves.

Update: Here’s a link to a picture of the mess in Taiwan.

Sir Bill Gates?

Actually, since he’s American, he’ll be “Bill Gates KBE” (which stands for “Knight Commander of the British Empire”). Full Story.

So let’s see here…If I remember correctly, he’s in the same company as a gay/bi man (Elton John), a fruit cake (Ringo Starr has been knighted, if I remember correctly), a speed demon (Roger Banister) and a pure genius (Tim Berners Lee). That’d be a fun party.

You and your dog are too close when…

Do you chat naked?

If you do, please don’t ever tell me that. But if you’re into that sort of thing, iChatnaked is looking for beta testers.

Some scary e-mail statistics

Not only does a recent study show that up to 40% of legitimate e-mail never gets delivered, but 63% of all e-mail now sent is spam. It’s no wonder Chris thinks RSS is bigger than Jesus. Hell, I had trouble with my UtterlyBoring.com Headline List and AOL blocking e-mails from it. More and more people are reading this site via my RSS feed, and, considering these stats, I’m starting to see why.

That’s going to sting a bit

Bad: Getting Stabbed on a Cold Night

Ladies and Gentlemen, the world’s drunkest man

With a blood alcohol content of 7.22 (what is Oregon’s legal limit, .7 I think or .07? I can’t remember), I think we have a new winner.

How to find expensive stuff on Amazon

Just keep this wishlist bookmarked. Between the backhoe to the wine cellar, there’s some expensive stuff there.

“This is a story of a famous dog”

For the dog that chases its tail will be dizzy

These are clapping dogs, rhythmic dogs

Harmonic dogs, house dogs, street dogs

Dog of the world unite

I don’t know, George, you’re starting to look like a spray-painted dog yourself:

George Clinton gets busted on a cocaine charge, claims innocence. Mug shot from Smoking Gun.