Jeremy Taylor
Angry Birds Space Will Have You Squashing Pigs ‘Star Trek’ Style
Last week Angry Birds invaded Facebook, and next month the sling-shot strategy game will be headed to the final frontier. Yup, it’s Angry Birds Space.
Woman Has Only Eaten Cheese Pizza For 31 Years
We’ve all briefly contemplated an all-pizza diet, usually after biting into a particularly tasty slice. Englishwoman Claire Simmons has been living that dream for 31 years. Not so surprisingly, it plays out like more of a nightmare.
Can Online Relationships Be Considered Cheating? — Survey of the Day
A good amount of time and energy on the internet is spent by folks trying to make some sort of romantic connection.
Many of these relationship never make it offline, but they can be intense, nonetheless.
‘Simpsons’ Fans Set Guinness World Record for Continuous TV Watching
When we heard about ‘The Simpsons’ Ultimate Fan Marathon Challenge, in which ‘Simpsons’ fanatics would compete to see who could watch all 500 episodes of Springfield’s finest in a row, we said it couldn’t be done. Eighty-six hours and 37 minutes of continuous TV watching without any sleep just seemed too much for any human to endure, even though ‘Simpsons’ fans are made of strong stuff (and also b
Teenage Sweethearts Reunited After 70 Years Apart
There aren’t going to be too many tales of long-lost love in the future, thanks to social media sites which make it just about impossible for folks to really lose touch with each other.
But there was obviously no Facebook when Betty Hove and John Grosch meet in the early 1940s. He was 17 and she was 16 and they quickly became sweethearts. But as their relationship began to blossom, Grosch joined t
Marines Drink Cobra Blood in Training Exercise
The Armed Forces will do anything to give our fighting men and women an edge. Apparently, that includes some training exercises that would be right at home on ‘Fear Factor.‘
During the joint drill ‘Cobra Gold,’ which takes place annually in Thailand with our Asian allies, Marines from the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment were photographed eating frogs, lizards and scorpions as part of a team bui
Minnesota Man Steals $25,000 Worth of Tide Detergent
If it’s gotta be clean, it’s gotta be Tide. If it’s gotta be stolen Tide, it’s gotta be Patrick Paul Costanzo. Costanzo systemically stole $25,000 worth of Tide liquid detergent from a St. Paul, Minnesota store over the course of a year...
Is Your Cell Phone Or Your Spouse More Helpful? — Survey of the Day
It wasn’t so long ago that all you could do on a cell phone is make or receive calls.
Now these amazing mini-computers will tell you where you are, where you need to go, and provide you a movie to watch while you get there. Spouses, on the other hand, more or less have the same abilities as they’ve always had.
What the Heck Was Bill Murray Wearing at the Pebble Beach Golf Tournament?
It was a pretty epic weekend of golf at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, with Phil Mickelson destroying Tiger Woods on the final day to take the $1,152,000 first prize.
But the big star at Pebble Beach was Bill Murray, like he always is.
Hero Bus Driver Rescues Students From Burning Bus
You can’t get much more heroic than rescuing school children from a burning bus. Which is why public school officials and firefighters in Charlotte, North Carolina are raving about school bus driver Lindora Richardson, whose calm in the face of potential catastrophe may have saved the lives of the six children on her bus last Wednesday afternoon.
What’s the No. 1 Quality People Look for In Their Relationships? – Survey of the Day
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, romance in the air. However, when TouchTunes recently polled 120,000 adults as part of their third annual Love Survey, they found that the quality most important in a romantic relationship had nothing to do with chocolate, sexy lingerie or candlelight dinners.
Eli Manning vs. Peyton Manning, Who’s the Better Manning? – Survey of the Day
Now that the dust has settled on Eli Manning’s second Super Bowl victory — and second Super Bowl MVP title — it’s time to compare the legacy of this New York Giants quarterback with that of his older brother, 11-time Pro Bowler and four-time regular season MVP, Peyton Manning.