Recent pop culture events that hit the headlines or just plain intrigue
Shelly Winters, Rest In Peace
My favorite character played by Ms. Winters was in The Poseidon Adventure. In that movie she was an overweight has-been who swore she had one more last swim underwater in her. Which she did. Winters' character swam some distance underwater as the plot required to get the remaining cast to safety. Winters' character died after that swim but the rest were saved.
May Shelly Winters rest in peace in heaven where everyone is skinny and can swim underwater for hours.
Now This Is Neat
Imagine how much genuine comet dust would get on E-bay. Even more so from a comet named Wild 2. The possibilities are endless. Comet dust enclosed in necklaces. Comet dust sprinkled throughout the burned ashes of the cremated. Comet dust good luck charms could get some buyers.
Then again, consider the scams.
Heh.
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah, Jan. 15, 2006 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) — After a seven-year journey, a NASA space capsule returned safely to Earth on Sunday with the first dust ever fetched from a comet, a cosmic bounty that scientists hope will yield clues to how the solar system formed.The capsule's blazing plunge through the atmosphere lit up parts of the western sky as it capped a mission in which the Stardust spacecraft swooped past a comet known as Wild 2.
"This is not the finish line. This is just the intermediate pit stop," said project manager Tom Duxbury of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which managed the $212 million mission.
Ebert and Roeper's Worst Movies of 2005
Provided as a public service. I never saw a single one.
Roger Ebert's Worst Movies of 2005:1. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
2. Dukes of Hazzard
3. Dirty Love
4. D.E.B.S.
5. Son of the Mask
6. Doom
7. Constantine
8. Undead
9. Elektra
10. Fantastic FourRichard Roeper's Worst Movies of 2005:
1. Dukes of Hazzard
2. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
3. Monster in Law
4. The Longest Yard
5. Stealth
6. Miss Congeniality 2
7. The Man
8. Guess Who
9. Bewitched
10. The Legend of Zorro
Article comments
1 - Mark Saleski
many late-term partial birth abortions are for the purposes of sex selection
got any proof?
2 - Scott Butki
Booger sugar? You mean cocaine?
I remember thinking myself a genius when I figured out one way to "solve" the rubiks cube: I peeled off the stickers and put them in the "right" places and then... ta da! I was done.
That only works once, though.
3 - KYS
Lol Scott! I used to pop the peices out and put them back in the right place.
4 - Shark
Patfishy: "...In our own country, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling which took the legislation and oversight of abortion out of the lawmaking process on to a federal right, many late-term partial birth abortions are for the purposes of sex selection."
Too bad the Supreme Court hasn't approved a mandatory post-partum with a rusty chain-saw for all liars, jingo writers, and right-wing propagandists on the internet.
Have a nice day!