Aug 162013
- 12 Absolutely Terrifying Two Sentence Horror Stories: Awesome!
- Lady In Black: ‘Burka Avenger’ Fights For Pakistan’s Girls: “A caped crusader is on the loose in the mountains of Pakistan, but she’s not your traditional superhero. The Burka Avenger wears a flowing black veil — only her brown eyes are visible — as she fights corrupt politicians and religious zealots. Her weapons of choice: pens and books.”
- Millikin University Professor Under Fire After Discovery That He Is A Former Mental Hospital Patient Who Killed His Family: Wow. Crazy story of the day, by a long shot.
- Rubber Ducky Map: “In 1992, around 29000 rubber ducks fell off a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean. This is where they made landfall.”
- Tennessee judge, citing Jesus, changes baby’s name from “Messiah”: “A Tennessee woman named her baby Messiah, but she and the boy’s father couldn’t agree on whose last name he should bear. So they went to court. Except at a hearing in Cocke County Chancery Court on Thursday, Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew changed Messiah’s first name. ‘The word Messiah is a title, and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ, the judge told WBIR-TV, a local channel.” I’d like to introduce this judge to the concept of “separation of church and state.”
- The 35 Best Times Someone On Facebook Thought ‘The Onion’ Was Real: Why I am not surprised that this gullible idiots are also pretty much illiterate?
- The 5 Most Insanely Misunderstood Morals of Famous Stories: Cracked discusses Atlas Shrugged… and gets more right than many mainstream news outlets.
- “Weird Al” Yankovic – Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me: Oy, I could have used this back in the day.
- Fierljeppen (literally far-leaping) is a traditional Dutch sport: I hereby propose this bit of crazy for one of the Feats of Strength for the next ATLOSCon!
- Chinese zoo tries passing off dog as an ‘African lion’: Dude, NO.
- 29 Dogs Who Forgot How To Dog: #8 is all legs and testicles. (No, really!) Still, I love #13 the best.