Headlines - 02/09/2010
Glossy News
Prisoner Brutally Beats Cellmate With Prosthetic Arm
Rochester, NY – Hugh Buttnum, an inmate at the Monroe County jail in Rochester, NY, is in critical condition after a fellow inmate ripped off Buttnum’s prosthetic arm and beat him with it. Evidently, inmate J. “Johnny” Johnson was not aware that his new cell mate, Buttnum, had been fitted with a prosthetic arm when [...]
TheSkunk.org
Rejected Super Bowl Commercials 2010
Every year, television networks reject a large number of advertisements from airing on the Super Bowl broadcast. Here’s an assortment of commercials that were rejected from this year’s big game:
The Texas Cockroach
GM’s Substandard Market Niche Threatened by Toyota
The Texas Cockroach is a satirical newspaper from the mythical small town of LaCucaracha, Texas. In LaCucaracha, football is king, and citizens have a choice of 137 churches. The Texas Cockroach parodies the unique culture, lifestyle and politics found nowhere else but Texas. Pour yourself a tall glass of iced tea, sit back, and take a virtual stroll through the streets of LaCucaracha. God Bless Texas.
Dotpenn
Senator Struggles To Find More Groups To Disillusion
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter (Democrat, for now) is finding it harder and harder to antagonize new voting blocks.
The senator, who's managed to upset feminists, anti-feminists, Republicans, Democrats, conspiracy theorists, bald people, and people named Arlen, is trying to connect with new voters, in order to turn his back on them.
"I don't know what more I can do," Specter said at a recent national prayer breakfast for Veterans of anti-American Insurgencies."I stand by my record of offending both sides of the aisle and some people who are across the aisle, down the hall, and in another room."
Specter even backed Martha, or Marsha, or Mary Coakley over eventual winner, Scott Brown.
Specter's campaign manager, Salvador Daly, said the senator is not ready to give up.