The McBournie Minute: The deli that changed the world

A hundred years ago today the World War I: The Phantom Menace began. Unless we’re talking about birthdays or wedding anniversaries, marking the years since an event happened really doesn’t serve much more purpose other than to sell books or fill time on Pardon The Interruption. (What is it with those guys? They have a “Happy Ann’y” for the most meaningless stuff in sports.)

However, marking a century since the beginning of a massive war that claimed at least 39 million lives seems somewhat appropriate, doesn’t it? After all, WWI gave us some of the 20th century’s greatest hits: machine guns, poison gas and Adolf Hitler, all of which have made American movies what they are today.

But it almost never happened. In fact, the whole thing only occurred because one guy was hungry. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: The deli that changed the world

Korean baseball team to outsource baseball fan jobs to robots

Are you located in South Korea? Are you a diehard fan of the Hanwha Eagles? Do you love them, despite their less than stellar record over the years?

Your relevancy has now been made redundant.

In order to market support for the team via the fans, the baseball team has installed a special section in their stadium devoted solely to robots. Because, you know, separate but equal is something that clearly always works as a concept and should never be frowned upon. Fans will be able to upload a snapshot of their face and messages of goodwill and support that can be displayed on the screens of the robots and this is something that can no way end in pictures of genitalia and sexts being uploaded.

Begun the mayfly invasion has

Pray for the people who live along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. They have suffered a devastating attack.

A swarm of mayflies overtook the region, in what scientists are calling a “massive emergence.” There were bugs, lots and lots of bugs. That may not sound so bad at first, but there were so many that a three-car accident was blamed on the swarm. The swarm was so huge that it showed up on weather radar.

We can only hope that these things will disperse and leave these poor civilians alone.