Day: January 26, 2012

I’d like to buy a vow–bleargh!

In a recent interview with Dan Le Batard on ESPN2 (which often fills their “sports” content with spelling contests and Skip Bayless), Pat Sajak admitted that he and co-host Vanna White were often spinning under the influence in early episodes of Wheel of Fortune. The pair would take two-and-a-half hour lunches at a Mexican restaurant, Los Arcos, and consume anywhere from “two or three or six” margaritas before taping the last episodes of the day.

Sajak joked that they would “have trouble recognizing the alphabet,” which probably explains why the show eventually switched to touchscreen letters for Vanna.

Soylent Green no longer people in Oklahoma

A state bill is on its way through the Oklahoma legislature preventing human fetuses from being used in food. This has resulted in one question by many people: “Why exactly was this needed?”

Senator Ralph Shortey claims to have research that reveals food industry companies having used human stem cells in the creation of items, including artificial flavors. Though it’s not known if anyone outside of Shortey and his group have seen this research, the bill has nonetheless been introduced and awaits discussion from Shortey’s peers. Have no fear, though, as the bills makes no mention of animal fetuses. Connoisseurs of super-veal, you’re still okay.

We would like to pass on something Senator Shortey: if The Guys are not given 100 thousand non-taxable dollars in the next three months, the world will explode. We’re not saying at all that we will cause the world to explode or even do any damage; however, we do have major intel that only we need see to substantiate this claim.

Even security problems are cuter in Canada

Imagine you live in Canada, and what’s worse, you have to be on time for your flight at 5:40 a.m. or whatever the conversion rate is these days. Now imagine that your early-morning flight is cancelled because there is a cat running loose on the plane.

That’s exactly the nightmare that several Air Canada passengers lived yesterday. Their flight was grounded because a cat got loose and was hiding in the cockpit. There’s no way to know if it was trying to go after the bird/bat that has been stowing away on flights recently.

They don’t have air marshals up there like we do here in civilization, so authorities were powerless to stop the feline, which refused to make any demands.