Archive for the ‘news’ Category

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BOMB THREAT IN LA

August 5, 2008

According to Defamer, a bomb threat has been called into the MGM building in Century City. It is set to go off at noon today. Everyone is being evacuated from the building until at least 2pm.

UPDATE: This was a false alarm…

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UNMANNED SPOKESDRONE COMPLETES FIRST MISSION

August 5, 2008

The Pentagon has developed an unmanned spokesdrone which through highly sophisticated technology is able to dodge important questions as well as provide vague and unhelpful answers.

“It’s also capable of serving jail time”

Via The Onion

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CHRISTIAN BALE ARRESTED

July 22, 2008

Christian Bale was arrested this morning for assaulting his mother & sister on Sunday in his hotel in England. I’m sure the altercation went something like this:

Christian: Mom, did you love the movie? I’m batman!
Mom: Yea, but why did you have to do that voice the whole time? It was a little much.
Christian: What? That’s my batman voice, so that they don’t know who I really am.
Sister: Yea, but Mom’s right. Couldn’t you have talked normally? I mean do you really think you have THAT distinguishable of a voice in all of Gotham that you have to talk like your about to cough up a lung? I wanted to give you a lozenge for your throat
Christian: Why I oughtta…

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NEWS CLIP COMPILATION

June 25, 2008

Because it’s always fun to watch others fail, a new addition to the numerous compilations of newsroom slip ups.

A Goldberg Find via Gawker

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YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN RIDICULOUS

June 19, 2008

A 12 year old girl in Canada sued her father for grounding her. The crazier part is that she won and the court reversed the grounding. I guess this is another reason for Americans to threaten to move to Canada (or maybe vice versa?)


T Douadi find via Sydney Morning Herald

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Teleprompter mishaps

June 12, 2008

See O’Reilly! There’s no need to argue and try to have what’s on the prompter changed. This news anchor shows us that its just as easy to just read it through and pretend like whatever you just said never happened.

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REPORTIN’ FROM THE STREETS

June 11, 2008

A reporter goes from Bryant Gumbel to Mike Tyson after a bug flies into his mouth. (Livadary and Sehgal find)

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REPORTIN’ FROM THE STREETS

June 11, 2008

A reporter goes from Bryant Gumbel to Mike Tyson after a bug flies into his mouth. (Livadary and Sehgal find)

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REPORTIN’ FROM THE STREETS

June 11, 2008

A reporter goes from Bryant Gumbel to Mike Tyson after a bug flies into his mouth. (Livadary and Sehgal find)

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REPORTIN’ FROM THE STREETS

June 11, 2008

A reporter goes from Bryant Gumbel to Mike Tyson after a bug flies into his mouth. (Livadary and Sehgal find)

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