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What’s the Most Annoying Thing People Do in an Elevator? — Survey of the Day
The ideal elevator passenger stands still with his eyes forward as he waits for his floor. However, during the countless elevator rides we take during our lives, we’ve all come across a fellow traveler whose behavior is less than ideal.
So what are the most annoying things people do on an elevator?
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Polish Olympian to Sell Bronze Medal to Help Sick Five-Year-Old
The 2012 Summer Games are over. But the Olympic spirit lives on thanks to Polish windsurfer Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, who will fulfill the promise she made to the family of a five-year-old who suffers from cystic fibrosis by selling her bronze medal.
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Do You Support a Manned Flight to Mars? — Survey of the Day
Mars is in the news these days thanks to the Curiosity rover which recently landed on the red planet. The goal of the six-wheeled robot is to find signs of life on Mars, and NASA also hopes that its 23 month mission will increase public awareness of the space program.
But will it rekindle interest in sending a manned mission to Mars?
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High School Senior Combats Bullying With ‘Good News Only’ Twitter
Kevin Curwick is a senior at Osseo High School in Osseo, MN. He’s also the captain of the school’s football team — which makes him an unlikely candidate for cyberbullying.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme Brags Of Showing Kylie Minogue His ‘Thailand’
Generally, we wouldn’t waste a lot of space on a story about a celebrity revealing he slept with another celebrity in 1994. But when one of the names is Jean-Claude Van Damme it’s worth hearing more because the man famous for his fighting also has quite a way with words.
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Naked Man Covered In Crisco Just Wanted To ‘Party’
Chad William Forber is clearly a party animal. But his preferred way of getting down isn’t for everybody. The 41-year-old was arrested by police after they got a call that a naked man was wandering around the downtown area of Rock Island, Illinois early Monday morning. When the cops found Forber, he was covered in Crisco.
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We Like This ‘Baby Got Back’ Supercut and We Cannot Lie
Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ is one of those songs that’s hard not to sing along to, no matter what your opinion of women with prominent posteriors is. But no boozed-up rendition of the 1992 hit is going to be able to touch what you just saw in the supercut above.
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Cat Interrupts College Lecture By Crashing Through Ceiling
In this hilarious video, students at Costa Rica’s University of Peace are being lectured on something called “theory of change.” If it was anything like our college courses their minds are wandering and they’re getting a little drowsy. Then, suddenly, a cat crashes through the ceiling in the front of the room, sending the class into hysterics. Ceiling cat strikes again!
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Bears Break Into Cabin, Drink Over 100 Beers
For teenagers, a popular rite of passage is going up to a buddy’s summer cabin and seeing how much beer they can drink. Apparently bears like to do this too, as a Norwegian family learned the hard way.
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Coach Kicks Hot Coeds Out Of Stadium During Football Practice
There is little more brutal in a free society than football practice in August. The Tigers of the University of Missouri were going through that horror show when, on the horizon, appeared two coeds, tan and lithe.
The shapely ladies were running the steps of Faurot Field. Or were they just visions? Pleasant thoughts that dance about the brain right before it shuts down with heat stroke?
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Vietnamese Airline Fined For In-Flight Bikini Show
The flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang only takes about an hour. That’s not nearly long enough for a movie, but the folks at VietJetAir were able to come up with a far superior way to keep their passengers entertained.
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Have You Seen the ‘Busty Skywalker’ Yet?
In Russia, skywalking is all the rage with the kids. They film themselves casually walking across something really high — like a suspension bridge or the top of skyscraper — without any harnesses or safety equipment.