The new Elmo Live toy is due out this fall and viewers at the 2008 Toy Fair were amazed with the things it can do. Read the rest of this entry »

should I say amphibious vehicles?

CLINTON, Ark. - Charlie Brown is down to seven lives.

Donna and Danny Pistole’s black-and-white cat survived a February tornado that destroyed the family’s mobile home, coming out of nearby woods skittish but no worse for wear. However, the cat took up refuge in a large pile of debris from the storm that the Pistoles set afire last Sunday while cleaning up their property. Read the rest of this entry »

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama musically argue it out over who is the better candidate in this song satirizing “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.”

The Very Lucky Hijackers

Statistically speaking, the probability of the alleged perpetrators enjoying such a run of luck is vanishingly small. The probability that a mission would succeed can be calculated by estimating Read the rest of this entry »

What happened to faking a cough?

Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn’t have to go to work.

When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch (kooch) told them he’d been the victim of a drive-by shooting while he was jogging Thursday. But detectives say Kuch later acknowledged that he asked a friend to shoot him so he could get some time off work and avoid a drug test. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nicolasa the cat rides a wave with Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi at San Bartolo beach in Lima Jan. 31.

A couple sit in in a room at an ice hotel in Shimukappu, Japan, Feb. 6. For about $140, couples can make like meat in a locker there overnight.

An hot air balloon in the shape of Darth Vader from Star Wars is inflated part of the Star Wars exhibition Feb. 12 in Brussels, Belgium.

“From Pantaloons to G-Strings,” an exhibition chronicling the history of women’s underwear, is a hit at the Museum of Industry in Opatowek, Poland. Here, a schoolgirl tours the exhibit on Feb. 14. Read the rest of this entry »