Day: March 9, 2012

You Missed It: Foreign object edition

It’s Friday once again. What are your plans for celebrating Irish History Month? OK, perhaps it’s not officially called Irish History Month, but can you buy shamrock shakes any other time of year? So let’s just call it what it is. If you are truly into celebrating Irish history, get your English friend to slap you around for a while, then go to the nearest pub and sing about it. If you were busy swallowing magnets this week, odds are you missed it.

The Hulkster ran wild all over her
Terry Bollea, better known to you mortals as Hulk Hogan, has a sex tape circulating out there somewhere. The video was apparently taken without the Hulkster’s knowledge, and was filmed during his divorce from his first wife. Suffering from mental distress and acute Hulkamania, Hogan was doing some excessive boozing and coosing for a while. His people aren’t denying the video’s authenticity, but Hogan doesn’t remember the woman. Who could be behind this? Is … is that the Iron Sheik’s music?!

Dive, dive
James Cameron really likes submarines. He loves being deep under water in a small metal tub so much that he set the solo dive record on Tuesday. The thing is, he wasn’t really even trying. Cameron was doing some testing in preparation for a solo trip to the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep, where no one has been for over 50 years. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s familiar with his work. Cameron’s love of the deep can easily been seen in works like The Abyss, Titanic and Rambo: First Blood Part II.

We interrupt this broadcast
There’s a solar storm going on right now, so you may have noticed some issues with over-the-air signals, GPS units and most likely, albinos. But if you have noticed technical problems, it might just be your imagination, because no big issues have been reported as of yet. Sorry, doomsdayers, you’re going to have to wait for something else to end it all this year.

Petty theft is a helluva drug

In what appears to be our unintentionally continuing coverage of the Broward County court system, a young man who was already serving probation for multiple petty theft convictions has been arrested again, this time for stealing the nameplate from a judge’s courtroom door.

Police arrested Steven Mulhall after pictures of him with Broward Circuit Judge Michael Orlando’s courtroom nameplate were found on Facebook following a recent court appearance. He will now face felony charges for the burglary, valued at $40.

We hate to blame the victim here, but how can Broward County expect to rehabilitate a convicted thief if they insist on not fastening their property down with spot welding or crazy glue? If it can hold a construction worker by his helmet, it can change lives, man.

Read the label

Everyone have a good International Women’s Day? It’s not as fun as International Man of Mystery Day, but it is sort of sexy … and preachy now and then. Either way, it’s over. So that means countries around the world can get back to marginalizing the importance of women in society with markedly less flair than hip hop.

In the U.K., a pair of trousers (not “pants,” that means “underwear” there) has what some call a practical joke and others call a sexist tag that the company should be ashamed of. The washing instructions tag gave the usual warnings for a piece of clothing that is 100% cotton, but at the very bottom it read “Or give it to your woman. It’s her job.”