Here's a scenario: You start a rock band, which you just happen to name after spending several hours huffing paint and drinking bleach. You spend a few years playing small clubs until you're discovered by a major label and start selling a lot of records. And suddenly you realize that the stupid name you thought up when you were huffing all that paint is going to follow you around for the rest of your life.
Here are the 25 bands who, regardless of their own musical quality, have the stupidest names on record.
source: cracked.com
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July 1, 2007
The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History
9 Superhero Powers That Would Be More Trouble Than They're Worth
Sure, who hasn't wished for superpowers? Super-speed, super-flight, super-strength—these are the cool powers, the ones with which all comic book superheroes seem to do so well for themselves. But there are a few lesser-known powers found in the funny pages that nobody wants to be saddled with. Any practical use they have would be countered by the sheer embarrassment and/or inconvenience of having them.
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June 30, 2007
Marvel Comics Buries Captain America
It's a funeral fit for a superhero.
In the drizzling rain at Arlington National Cemetery, thousands of grieving patriots solemnly watch as the pallbearers — Iron Man, the Black Panther, Ben Grimm and Ms. Marvel — carry a casket draped with an American flag.
Yes, folks, Captain America is dead and buried in the latest issue of Marvel Comics' "Fallen Son," due on newsstands the morning after Independence Day. After 66 years of battling villains from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull, the red, white and blue leader of the Avengers was felled by an assassin's bullet on the steps of a New York federal courthouse...More?
source: newsvine.com
Holmes & Cooney Remember Fight That Divided America
Gerry Cooney had just lost two points for hitting low, and both Larry Holmes and the desert heat had combined to sap his strength. Now, as the 10th round began, his manager leaned into the corner and urged him to fight even harder.
Amid the din of 25,000 people in the parking lot at Caesars Palace, Dennis Rappaport was playing the last card he had.
"America needs you," Rappaport told his fighter.
He wasn't far from the truth.
Back in Cooney's dressing room, a phone had been specially installed. The president of the United States was going to be calling to congratulate him if he won.
There was no phone in Holmes' dressing room.
"I was that close to getting that phone call," Cooney said, chuckling at the thought. "I might have become the vice president, who knows."
It was 25 years ago on a blisteringly hot night in Las Vegas, and Holmes was defending his heavyweight title against the big-punching Cooney in the richest fight of its time. The fight was an intriguing matchup of puncher versus boxer, but that wasn't why each fighter was making $10 million...More?
source: mmmanews.com
Patience Pays Off Big for Dallas iPhone Fan
DALLAS -- No doubt you've seen people all over the country who camped out for hours to get the hot new iPhone. So how did one local guy get the gadget AND eight crisp $100 bills to boot? More
source: www.myfoxdfw.com
Concussion Crisis
...Christopher Nowinski, a former professional wrestler who worked with Mr. Benoit, and who was forced to quit because of head injuries, said he believed that repeated, untreated concussions might have caused his friend to snap.
“He was one of the only guys who would take a chair shot to the back of the head,” Mr. Nowinski said, “which is stupid.”
Mr. Nowinski has written a book called “Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis” (Drummond Publishing Group, 2006), about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition that can cause memory loss, depression and “bizarre, paranoid behavior.”
Mr. Nowinski said that he had been trying to persuade the coroner examining Mr. Benoit to allow a brain exam to look for the telltale neurofibrillary tangles in the brain’s cortex, but that he had thus far been rebuffed.
“Part of me hopes there was something wrong with his brain,” Mr. Nowinski said...More?
source: www.nytimes.com
Check out Chris Nowinski's Site: Concussion Crisis
Hilarious - Radio Contest Gone Horribly Wrong
This is an absolutely hilarious true story regarding a radio show contest.
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June 29, 2007
June 28, 2007
Owner of Ladder in District Feud Sets Home Afire, Shoots Himself
A Northwest Washington man who has been in a tense neighborhood dispute over a ladder apparently set fire to his home and shot himself yesterday after authorities came to his residence, D.C. police said.
Nathaniel Rabinowitz was scheduled to appear today in D.C. Superior Court in a dispute over a ladder he chained to the back of his Logan Circle rowhouse. Neighbors and police have said that criminals used the two-story ladder to break into other homes on the block.
Nathaniel Rabinowitz, 60, refused to remove the ladder, which stands two stories tall and has been chained to the back of his house since 2001.
Rabinowitz, who put the ladder up in 2001, has said he has a right to keep it. He was hospitalized last night with a gunshot wound to the head....More?
Teen's Myspace Page Helps Scuttle a Plea Bargain
NASHUA – Photographs posted on a Hudson teen’s Myspace page have helped to scuttle a plea bargain that would have kept him out of jail for a fatal car crash last summer, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Justin Shepherd said he has withdrawn a plea offer in the case of Michael Munoz Ramirez, 17, of 4 Twin Meadow Drive, Apt. B, who faces two counts of vehicular assault.
Police said Munoz lost control of his Nissan while speeding on Old Derry Road in Hudson on July 29, 2006, and veered into oncoming traffic, running headlong into a Ford Explorer driven by Kellie Carlin, then 45, of Hudson. His friend Nathan Hergenhahn, 16, was killed in the crash, and Munoz, Carlin and her 13-year-old daughter all were injured.
Shepherd and Munoz’s lawyer, Michael Bowser, had planned to pitch the plea deal again Thursday to Judge William Groff, who had rejected it as too lenient previously.
After seeing photos of Munoz apparently taking part in an underage drinking party, however, and consulting with Hergenhahn’s mother, Patricia Cyr, Shepherd said he can no longer support the plea bargain.
source: nashuatelegraph.com
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
