Who wants Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Root beer, or Mountain Dew when you can have the new soft drink of choice – Cow Urine? In India, it is the new craze and it is called “Gau Jal” or “Cow Water” in English. This new soft drink was undergoing tests and should be launched shortly. This new soft drink is being made by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which is India’s largest and oldest Hindu Nationalist group.
My personal favorite comment on Michael Jacksonwas a typo referring to him as the "king of pope"....speaking of which, I wonder if the Pope has weighed in on the subject. Not, mind you, that I have any more respect for the Pope than I do for Michael Jackson, but it would be interesting to hear his views on the subject.
It has been six years ago today that actress, Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907- June 29, 2003) died at the age of 96. Hepburn was well known in theatre, film and television, winning four Oscars for Best Actress (out of 12 nominations), an Emmy in 1976 for ‘Love Among the Ruins’ (out of 5 nominations), 2 Tony awards and 8 Golden Globes. Katharine Hepburn was also ranked by the American Film Institute in 1999 as the Greatest Female Star in the history of American cinema.
Some interesting facts that you may not have known about Katharine Hepburn:
A blonde, brunette and redhead all went in for an interview for an administrative position. The brunette is called in first. Her interview goes extremely well, she seems to be what the company is looking for and the last questions the interviewer asks her is, “How many D’s are in Indiana Jones?” The brunette is quick to respond (slightly thrown off guard), “One!?” “Perfect” said the interviewer, we will be contacting you shortly about the job. The interviewer then calls in the redhead. She is a little more fiery and sassy than the brunette, which the interviewer likes. Her interview goes well and the interviewer asks her the same question, to which she replies, “Is this a joke? One!” The interviewer tells her that this is not a joke; they are asking everyone this question. He is pleased with her answer and tells her that they will be contacting her shortly about the job. The interviewer then calls in the blonde. She is charming and cute, but not as smart as the brunette and redhead, but he loves her personality. The interview also goes well and he asks her the final question, “How many D’s are in Indiana Jones?” The blonde sits there for a minute, really thinking. She starts to count on her fingers. She then asks the interviewer for a calculator. The interviewer, confused, hands her one. After punching in a few numbers, the blonde finally says, “22!” “22?” The interviewer says. How did you come up with that number? The blonde says (to the tune of Indiana Jones), “Da Da Da Da, Da Da Da, Da Da Da Da, Da Da Da Da Da, etc.)
HaHa- Perez Hilton is a fool. The celebrity blogger who gets paid for being a judgmental little whiner, has had a rough week. First he forfeited his gay rights credit by calling Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina an “effen fa&&ot”. He then forfeited his dignity when he got punched back in the face by Mr. Molina. He also dragged it on by making videos about the whole mess when he should have just let his bad behavior go the way of Michael Jackson. And now he had his credibility removed personally by the mother of slain gay man Matthew Shepard, whose foundation is one of the biggest gay rights groups in America. It seems Mr. Hilton was counting his law suit chickens before the hens even filed any paperwork by promising that any settlement he gets from the pending lawsuit would go to the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Well, except that the foundation doesn’t want Perez’s homophobic statement money.
Michael Jackson is dead. In the BEST tribute ever, once again and without further ado, the Phillipino prisoners performing the Thriller Video....
The beautiful and talented Farrah Fawcett died this morning around 9am from a long 3-year battle with anal cancer.
Hours before her death, Fawcett was given her last rites and friends close to Fawcett told Barbara Walters that she was hours away from dying. Barbara Walters announced it in the opening of her Good Morning America show.
As the quality of movies being produced in Hollywood goes down, the amount of best picture nominees goes up? Apparently about 60 years ago, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to limit the number of films that could be nominated for best picture to only five. Now, after 60 years of limiting the genres and films that can be selected, the Academy has upped the limit to ten.
Now that ten movies can be nominated for an Oscar, does this mean that the quality of movies being given a "best picture" nod is going to diminish? Long gone are the days when films of high caliber were produced and respected. Not to say that all of the movies produced today are crap, they're not, but needless to say, I think there are a lot of crappy movies out there.
Has it already been 16 years since Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband’s penis? On June 23, 1993 John Wayne Bobbitt had come home to his apartment in Manassas, Virginia after a night out partying and drinking. When he came home it was said that he had raped his wife, Lorena Bobbitt. After he allegedly raped her (which he was tried and acquitted for spousal rape in 1994), she went to the kitchen to get some water and saw a knife.
On this day in history, the very first Dairy Queen store opened in Joliet, Illinois. Dairy Queen was first introduced to customers (before they were called Dairy Queen) back in 1938 where a father and son (John & Alex McCullough) who owned a mix plant business in Green River, Illinois had been experimenting with a soft serve dairy product. In August of 1938, they had a $.10 sample sale of this new soft serve product at their friend, Sherb Noble’s walk in ice cream shop. Within two hours, Noble dished out over 1,600 servings of this new ice cream treat. Since this new ice cream was such a hit, John and Alex decided to name it the “dairy queen”.
I was watching the AMC channel the other day and they were running a Bill Murray marathon! I never realized how clever Bill Murray was until I recently watched Ghost Buster’s again (I had not watched it since I was like 10 years old), although I have always loved him in Groundhog’s Day. While the marathon was going on, right before they would put the movie back on, there were little tid bits of information from other actors, directors and producers that had worked with Bill Murray. Every single person who had talked about Bill Murray said he was a genius. What he did with the minimal amount of direction the directors gave, or the way he popped into his character or the way he interacted with others on screen was just amazing.&nbs
When you've been using the Internet on a daily basis for twenty years, you tend to be jaded. When you've had a couple of email accounts that long, and you work in IT with user and mail servers, you've pretty much seen it all, from Nigerian spammers, to Russian girl friends, to over the 'net purchases of erectile dysfunction pills like Viagra. I reckon I receive about 800 to 1,000 pieces of spam a day. I don't see much of it—but sometimes, a piece of spam manages to squeak by my various pre-sets and filters, and I have to check it by hand.
This one is so weird I can't figure it out either. Sure, it's Viagra spam, but why the bear? Viagra for bears?
Ever wonder where Father’s Day came from? It was founded by a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd who had created the holiday in remembrance of her father, a widow and Civil War Veteran. It was not until 1910 that the holiday was locally recognized, and then in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event. Then in 1966, President Johnson signed a proclamation making Father’s Day the third Sunday in June, and finally in 1972, President Nixon made it into law. Thanks to a loving daughter, fathers everywhere are now recognized on this special day in June.
