Archive for March, 2006

T.O. raps and gets rapped back

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Dallas Cowboys WR, Terrell Owens, produced a rap entitled “I’m Back”. You can hear it when you visit Terrell’s website. Or if you want, you can buy the mp3 for only $3.99, a nice bargain I might add. Why get a song on ITunes for .99 when you can pay 4x for T.O.

You can also join the “Terrell Owens Fan Club” for only $59. What do you get?
- (1) Exclusive Fan Club Terrellowens.com Hat (Flex Fit)
- (5) Free downloads of I’m Back mp3 Full version
- (4) White TO.com Stadium Cups with a Blue T Logo Click Here

So some T.O. hater and Eagles fan has created a sweet video using T.O. music…yes, he sings over it.

George Mason: Ethics classes cancelled too

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

After George Mason upset UConn to reach the Final Four, GMU Provost thought students might need some time off recovering from the upset and wrote:

As you know, lots of our undergraduates had an exciting time yesterday in response to the basketball victory. Without in any way wishing to distort our priorities, I write to urge a bit of leniency in response to any absences from undergraduate classes today. Thanks for your understanding.

An AOL intern and blogger and GMU student got all-access credentials despite the fact he’s just an intern and sat on the front row. He writes:

“After the game, my brother and I went to the GMU locker room where I ran into forward Jai Lewis. I have class with Jai, but have never actually met him. What was caught on tape was a brief conversation that is hilarious, only because of the overwhelming irony.

Me: “Yo, I’ve got class with you.”
Jai: “Oh yeah? What class?”
Me: “That ethics class, Thurdays at 4:30. You missed the test on Thursday. What, did you have bigger things to do?”
Jai: “Yeah. I heard it was hard though.”
Me: “It was alright. I just talked to the teacher and he said he’s gonna give you an ‘A’.”
Jai: “Oh yeah? I hope so.”

Mrs. Doubtfire jailed for illegal moustache

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

No doubt you’ve heard of this story this week…it’s worth hearing about it again just to look at the woman’s moustache.

March 28, 2006 — Two children who had been living in North Carolina with their mother — who allegedly passed herself off as a man and asked the kids to call her Daddy — have been reunited with their father and will return home to Arizona.

Ernest Karnes and his ex-wife, Shellie White, had joint custody of their two children when White left their home state of Arizona in 2003, taking Erica, then 5, and Dusty, then 3. Tracked to Roanoke Rapids, N.C., White was arrested at her home on Friday.

White said that her masculine appearance was nothing new, and that she had even considered a sex-change operation for a time.

“I have looked like this since … and DMV [Department of Motor Vehicles] records can show … since round about 2001,” she said. “This is just the way I look.”

The U.S. Marshals Service said that White was using her ex-husband’s name and identity at one point, as well as other male aliases while on the run.

The children said they were calling White “Daddy” and the woman she was living with “Mommy” because White had asked them to.

After awhile he started asking us to call him Daddy, and we got real confused,” Erica said.

Story

Don’t Call Him Jesus

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Bosses at a Stockholm hospital have asked a nurse called Jesus to change his name, after concerns that it might cause confusion among patients.

According to Jesus, an auxiliary nurse at Huddinge hospital, his superiors were worried that patients told “Jesus will be coming soon ,” might get the wrong idea.

“If they thought that Jesus was coming they might believe that they were already dead,” the nurse told The Local.

Jesus, who will now use his middle name Manuel, said he didn’t have a problem with the change.

“I understand why they wanted me to use my middle name,” he said.

But, he added, “my name never usually causes me problems.”

Story

Because Of Winn-Dixie

Monday, March 27th, 2006

A New Orleans Saints player, defensive end Jimmy Verdon, was arrested and jailed by Kenner police on Sunday morning and charged with three misdemeanors, including battery on a police officer with injury, Kenner police said Friday.

Verdon, a seventh-round draft pick from Arizona State, was discovered by Kenner police at about 8:45 a.m. Sunday morning sleeping or unconscious in front of a Winn-Dixie supermarket in the 4000 block of Williams Boulevard, according to police spokesman Capt. James Gallagher.

“The officers went there to investigate and saw the guy sleeping in a chair in front of the store,” Gallagher said. “When they shook him to wake him up, he jumped up and started fighting. They wrestled with him, ended up arresting him and charged him with battery on police, resisting an officer and disturbing the peace.”

“He appeared to have been drinking,” Gallagher said.

One of the officers involved in the arrest suffered a sprained wrist, Gallagher said, but returned to duty after being checked at a hospital.

NOLA.com story

Wrestling For Jesus

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

In the summer of 2003 God called a group of individuals into a ministry the likes of which very few have entered. God asked these 10 people to begin a wrestling ministry.

A few of the Wrestlers:

Darkness:
Weight: 178lbs, Height: 6′9″
Entrance Music: “Metal is Forever” (Primal Fear)
Titles Held: Current Tag Team Champions, United States Champion, Cruiserweight Champion
Comments: Darkness is not exactly what you would envision as the name of a Christian wrestler. How can you wrestle if you only weigh 178 lbs and you’re 6′9″?

Zion:
Weight: 185lbs, Height: 6′2″
Finish Move: Fall of Zion
Entrance Music: “Your Powerful” (Skillet)
Titles Held: Cruiserweight Champion
Comments: He’s from Nagasaki, Japan, but uses a mask to disguise the fact that he’s white.

They even have a Hall of Fame which has inducted four members including Grandma.

Interested? You’ll need to pony up $600 for the first year. However, ” Please do not let this be the determining factor in your decision. If you really want to become a Superstar then talk to us and lets see what can be done if you do not have the money.”


I wasn’t quite sure what he had going on here. At first glance it just appears to be a motorcylclist, but upon further review, you’ll notice him blowing something that might be a ram’s horn.

http://wrestlingforjesus.org/

Bunk bed playhouse gone awry

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Michael and Sharen Gravelle lost custody of 11 kids they had in their foster home Monday. They are accused of abusing their 11 adopted special-needs children by making them sleep in cages.

The Gravelles deny abusing the children, ages 1 to 15, and say the beds were necessary to protect the youngsters, who suffered from psychological and behavioral problems.

Most of the 40-inch-high, 30-inch-wide kinder-coops had chicken wire to prevent the kids from escaping. Another had two pieces of wood across the entrance door to prevent it from being opened without the Gravelles’ knowledge.

Michael Gravelle claimed that “a licensed social worker” as well as an adoption agency told the Gravelles to build the enclosures to prevent the children from eating “batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain,” which they had previously done.

Jesse Gravelle (pictured right) testified that his father sat him and his brother down when they were youngsters after Jenna left home and “told us that he had inappropriately touched her.”

Jenna Gravelle, 31 year old daughter claims, claims they (children) weren’t allowed to use their washing machine and dryer. The parents wouldn’t buy them food or clothing. Her little brother had rubber bands keeping his shoes together.

A school-age child of the Gravelles also testified in court that he and his siblings would be punished if they opened the doors at night and set off the alarms. He said he was forced to sleep in a bathtub for 81 days after he wet his enclosure. He said the Gravelles forced him to stay in his “box” for up to two weeks for taking peanut butter, bread and cereal from the kitchen. But he said he liked the couple and felt safe in their home.

The Family Defense Network of Ohio has published video interviews with the Gravelle’s and is reportedly helping raise contributions for them. In this video, Sharen talks about what she was thinking about when the children were removed from and home and references Matthew 18 [verse 10] and talks about angels looking after the kids. She says: “Lord, I bet your angels are busy today.”

MSNBC story

Lucy update: Jesus was a liberal

Monday, March 20th, 2006

During a recent campaign stop, Dem. candidate for governor of Alabama had these things to say:

She recalled being 11 years old and joining a rural Baptist church “on about the 14th stanza of ‘Just As I Am.’”

Noting that 40 years have passed since Lurleen Wallace’s election, Baxley smiled and said, “The Bible talks about 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and then a leader came to lead them out.”

Baxley characterized herself as a “conservative Democrat,” but she said she won’t get upset if someone calls her a “liberal,” provided they use it to describe someone who cares about people.

“In my opinion, if you read about the life of Jesus, he was a liberal,” she said.

Story

Buddha Boy Update

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Mentioned here last November, Buddha Boy, Ram Bahadur Banjan, 15, disappeared Saturday from a forest where he had meditated for the last 10 months, during which his associates said he consumed no food or water.

Hundreds of people scoured a jungle in southern Nepal on Sunday for a missing teenager who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha.

Police official Gautam Raj Kattel said some people said they saw Banjan walking southwards before dawn on Saturday. His clothes were found near where he had been meditating.

Leprechaun spotted in Mobile neighborhood

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Large crowds have formed at night in Crichton, a Mobile, AL neighborhood, with binoculars and cameras looking for a Leprechaun that has been spotted in a tree.

One man [pictured left] says to the crowd, “Who all seen Leprechaun say Yah!”, and the crowd responds with a “Yah!”. He appears to be under the influence of a narcotic. Looking at his teeth you’d guess Meth. I would also say he’s related to former American Idol contestant, Leroy Wells, also from Mobile.

One lady offered this explanation for the appearance: it was some crackhead that got ahold of the wrong stuff and it told them to get up in the tree…

Another man giving directions to the tree tells cars passing by, “Don’t be afraid [of the Leprechaun], Don’t be afraid.” He also possesses a flute that he says was passed down from his great-great grandfather who was Irish. This gentleman is African-American.

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