Snakes in a Parcel

With Halloween here, the holiday season has officially begun. Soon enough, packages will arrive at your door, and they can only be filled with presents and steaks of the month, right?

That’s what postal workers in South Africa thought as they opened a mail bag. But, then a white python slithered out. Four snakes in all were found inside the bag from a single parcel. Say what you will about the animal menace, but at least they know how to save on postage by shipping themselves in bulk.

Enjoy checking your mail today, and Happy Halloween!

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Let’s leave the term microtransaction out of this

Apple has told you before in the past that there is no such thing as porn on their glorious and devoutly holy iPhone, especially in their App Store.

Rick Snee has told you otherwise.

What neither side has told you is that there a special function in the iPhone that you haven’t been told about. It’s not the Find iPhone, it’s not the Find Friends, it’s Find Prostitute! No, really, and China doesn’t exactly seem to be too keen on it. Feeling lonely at night? Need a special service that you could tip a little extra at a massage parlor? Siri might be able to help you out.

The smart drunkards

When you feel like alcohol makes you smarter, you may actually be right.

According to a study, heavier drinkers tend to be smarter than those preachy teetotalers and casual drinkers. A study of kids 16-years-old in the U.S. and U.K. found that years later, the subjects who were smarter also tended to drink significantly more than their dumbass counterparts.

While we’re not sure if drinking makes you smarter, or you’re smart, so you drink, one thing is for certain: If you’re drinking, you are among the intellectual elite.

Eat My Sports: Not the greatest

So today is the day where we get back the sport that makes it seem as if the MLB season is too short, basketball. Tonight’s showdown between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics wil begin with the Heat having their ring ceremony and handing LeBron James his first (not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven) championship ring. And while everyone is saying that this is the beginning of him basically owning the next 10 titles, let’s hold off before just handing out the greatest ever title.

James won his only championship in a strike shortened season. You know what other team was able to accomplish that but never won again? The Atlanta Braves. A strike shortened season had the Heat, a very young team, playing every other night, and these guys had the gas to do it. But veteran teams like the the Celtics and Lakers had their teams finally break down at the end of the year because of the rigorous schedule. The time to gameplan was taken away. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Not the greatest

Red Leaf Down

Since 2001, the U.S. has beefed up border security, which has resulted in a few complications, like American citizens living in the U.S., yet walled off with Mexico. And northern citizens, who have cozied up with Canada over the past couple of centuries, even sharing towns and currency, have argued that there’s no reason to secure both borders. Were it possible to actually eat words, we imagine this argument would taste as shameful as licorice-flavored edible panties from Spencer’s, for animals have discovered America’s most vulnerable spot to attack: Canada.

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer — mounted, in this case, in a car — attempted to break up what appeared to be illegal mid-road moose assembly. It turned out to be an ambush, and the officer narrowly escaped with his life after a bull moose charged his trusty steed. The attacker broke off his front bumper, pierced the driver’s side window and injured the officer. Also, it left hoofprints on the roof and trunk, which may have desecrated the Canadian maple leaf if they put those sorts of things on their police cars.

Unfortunately, the RCMP were unable to get their mooses moosen meese antlered men, which means these armed and dangerous beasts are heading for our border while we’re distracted with Hurricane Sandy. It’s time to wall off Canada and their animal terrorists for good.

Event that gets shut down early still gets crazy after everyone leaves

Quick, everyone, it’s pop quiz time!

What do you get when you combine the an arena in New York, a Halloween themed event held for the public, underage teenagers, underage drinking and public underage fornication? Obviously, the correct answer to that equation is an event that gets shut down early.

But! What if you throw a low flying helicopter that decides to land around people into the mix while officers are shutting down the party?

Then you get this past Saturday night at the Nassau Coliseum. Also, surprisingly enough, a true story.

Tread lightly in NYC this week

It comes as a shock to no one who has been there that New York City is a pretty dirty place. They’ve got alligators in the sewers and hipsters running wild in the streets. But Hurricane Sandy could make it much, much worse.

Last year, when Hurricane Irene struck, New York Harbor’s Gowanus Canal nearly flooded, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down far stronger than last year’s storm, people are worried that the canal will flood this time, sending heavy metals, oil and human excrement into the streets of Brooklyn. That’s right, a canal called “Gowanus” may end up causing there to be poop in the streets of a major city.

It should be pointed out that the streets of Brooklyn are already filled with urine, but no storm can be blamed.

The McBournie Minute: Tips for surviving any storm

In case you missed the sound of wind lashing the side of the building, Hurricane Sandy is here, which means that federal workers and schoolchildren alike have the day off. Many of us don’t have that luxury, and have been forced to either go into work, or to work from home, all the while wondering when that tree is going to fall on our car.

Sandy is no ordinary hurricane, not by a longshot. Named for every meteorologists’ favorite character from Grease, Sandy is fresh off of wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, it chugged its way up to the U.S., and was actually heading out to sea when a cold front pulled it back in, like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III. (Hurricane Sandy is a big movie buff.) And now it’s combining with that cold front and a nor’easter to turn into what NOAA has dubbed the “Frankenstorm.”

Let’s remember, this is a dangerous storm and everyone in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast needs to take this seriously. So I put together some safety tips for all of you.
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