.
Holy cow – Wikimedia Commons! That’s a pretty daring selection for Picture of the Year! (Click on pic to enlarge.)
A question mark? On a plain white background? Really? We could see if the question mark was next to a nice, soft waterfall, or a goat—goat pictures are HOT right now!—but sheesh. And the composition is just so dull, too. If it were like this:
As a new addition to our blog, we will be offering a puzzle of the week. Each puzzle will be selected from one of our unique puzzle books. Today’s puzzle is an oddly shaped word search from Uncle John’s Bathroom Puzzler: Word Search. So grab a pencil–erasers are encouraged–and get searching! Start by printing a PDF of the puzzle. And when you are done, check out the answers.
So you’ve probably never heard of Ranulph Fiennes. No, he’s not the father of actor Ralph Fiennes (they’re actually third cousins). All you need to know about him is that he’s one of the most fearless—and curious—people on Earth. It’s even official. In the 1980s, Guinness World Records named the British writer/adventurer/knight/politician “The World’s Greatest Living Explorer” by the Guinness Book of World Records. Now nearly 70, Fiennes continues to embark on incredibly dangerous expeditions. His many adventures could easily fill a dozen biographies, but here are a choice few.
From the Huffington Post:
As the customer finished his meal at Grill Royal restaurant and went to pay, he learned the $134.66 bill had been covered, UPI reported.
The waiter told him George Clooney was behind the gesture. The actor thought he and his friends, who were seated at the next table, had disturbed the man.
“That’s not true at all,” the man told Bild newspaper. “They had behaved in a very cultivated manner. I was stunned.”
Uncle John Says:
Like every other Doomsday prediction before it, the world failed to end on December 21, 2012, due to the “Mayan Apocalypse.” Those who believed that the ancient race’s prediction of the end of a calendar cycle somehow equated the end of humanity were left embarrassed, especially those who did things like invest in underground bunkers or expensive survival gear. So, when is the next apocalypse? The good news, doomsayers (and bad news, everyone else): according to Dr. F. Kenton Beshore, founder of the World Bible Society, the world is scheduled to end in 2018. Pop psychic Jeanne Dixon, before her death, claimed 2020. And, of course, there’s the ever present threat of a looming zombie apocalypse. However and whenever it comes, get ready with some of these not-at-all ridiculous products.
Skyfall hit theaters in November so it should be safe to finally talk about a popular (but strange) fan theory regarding James Bond. (If you still haven’t seen the latest—and best-reviewed and highest-grossing—Bond movie ever, there’s spoilers ahead.)
Theory: There is no one real James Bond. “James Bond” and “007” are just code names used by multiple spies over the years.
We’re right in the middle of Awards Season. Last month Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes were awarded, followed by the Golden Globes, and in the next few weeks, we’ll see the Emmys and Oscars. And while most artists and performers would be thrilled to get any one of these awards, there’s always the occasional grump who gets a prize from his/her peers and says “no thanks.” Here are a few prize examples of people who rejected awards.
Ving Rhames. In 1998, the actor won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a made for TV movie or miniseries for his title role in HBO’s Don King: Only in America. When he went on stage to receive his award, he turned it down, and, in the spirit of “giving,” gave the trophy to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, nominated for 12 Angry Men. Lemmon said it was “one of the sweetest moments of his life.” Rhames insisted Lemmon keep the award; the Globes’ governing body later quietly had a second trophy sent to Rhames.
It’ll be changed soon, for sure – so here’s a screen grab of the Wikipedia list of Super Bowl winners – up to 2015:
No, silly, this story’s not from the Wall Street Urinal – it’s from the Wall Street Journal!
Oh man, this is funny:
The innovative wordsmiths at the BRI have once again taken a popular puzzle form to a whole new level. The results: a word puzzle game, called BLOX. The concept of Uncle John’s Bathroom Puzzler: BLOX is easy. We’ll provide you with a configuration of letters and tell you hoe many words we found. Your job is to find those words and scribble them down in the blanks.
Click through for an example of the game and a puzzle to do at home.
Answer to our BLOX puzzle. Common Words: ACHE, ACHY, ACNE, ACRE, ANCHOR, ANCHOVY, AVER, CAGE, CANE, CARGO, CAVE, CAVER, CHANGE, CHAR, CHARGE, EACH, EAVE, ECHO, ENGRAVE, ENGRAVER, GAVE, GRAVER, GRAVY, GROAN, HANG, HANGOVER, HAVE, HOAR, HOGAN, HORA, HOVE, HOVER, NACHO, NAVE, NAVY, NEAR, ORANG, ORANGE, ORGAN, OVER, OVERCHARGE, OVERHANG, RACE, RACER, RAGE, RANCH, RANCHER, RANCHO, […]
.
Wo – he must love what he does:
Above cryptic crossword No 25,842 sat a set of special instructions: “Araucaria,” it said, “has 18 down of the 19, which is being treated with 13 15”.
Those who solved the puzzle found the answer to 18 was cancer, to 19 oesophagus, and to 13 15 palliative care. The solutions to some of the other clues were: Macmillan, nurse, stent, endoscopy, and sunset.
Speaking from his home in Cambridgeshire, Araucaria said this particular puzzle had not taken him very long, adding that a crossword had seemed the most fitting way to make the announcement.
“It seemed the natural thing to do somehow,” he said. “It just seemed right.”
IT was so hot in the South Australian outback town of Oodnadatta yesterday that the local servo stopped selling petrol.
The Outback town has been sweltering through one of its great heatwaves with the temperature soaring above 40 degrees every day this year, reaching a peak of 48.2 degrees yesterday.
“The ground, the building, everything is so hot, you walk outside and you feel it’s going to burn you,” Pink Roadhouse owner Lynnie Plate said.
Mrs Plate said the Roadhouse couldn’t serve unleaded fuel after midday because it was vapourising and wouldn’t pump in the extreme heat.
A dog shaved like a lion made for an eventful night for Norfolk, Va., dispatchers, when several people who saw the dog on Tuesday called 9-1-1 to report a lion on the loose, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports.
The newspaper obtained 9-1-1 call audio, in which one woman says, “There was a lion that ran across the street – a baby lion. It was about the size of a Labrador retriever.”
The dog’s owner, Daniel Painter, told the Virginian-Pilot that he shaved his pet to look like the mascot for Old Dominion University.
Too much. “It was about the size – and genus – of a Labrador retriever!”
They’re loud. They’re obnoxious. They’re mesmerizing. “Infomercials”— ads for silly household products have been a part of TV since the early 1970s, usually airing in the wee hours when ad time is cheapest. Here’s the story behind three memorable “as seen on TV” products.
