From Guzzlers to Greenlanders
04 Aug 2006
Size does matter
Fingering the Hummer H2 is so last year. The latest trend in Hummer humiliation? Video of die-hard haters humping the gas guzzlers. If a picture's worth 1,000 words, this specimen is infinity squared. (Safe for work, but only if your boss has a sense of
Photo: ihumpedyourhummer.com
Damn those special effects
Drought-stricken Brits have walloped Woody for being wasteful. Seems the angst king was using tap water as a stand-in for rain on the set of his next film. That's crazy! It's as if you used your ex-lover's adopted daughter as a stand-in for a wife! So he's switched to seawater instead.
Photo: Tomos Brangwyn / WireImage.com
Her name was Lola, she was a penguin
If you think you're hot, imagine what it's like for the 100-plus penguins stranded on Rio's beaches after the ice floes they were lounging on floated up to Brazil and melted. They're gettin' an airlift back to Antarctica, but they'll never be able to un-see those old men in dental-floss thongs.
Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: iStockphoto
Get a load of this
It's not like we listen to the Pretenders, but if we did, we'd reference their song about doing laundry on a Saturday night. Because it's not like we ever do laundry on a Saturday night, but if we did, we'd want to do it at a huge-mongous, solar-powered Laundromat.
Photo: Greenland Brewhouse
Drink to me only with thine ice
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice-cold beer: industrious Greenlanders are making ales from their ailing ice caps. And our newest, bestest, thoughtfulest friends in Wisconsin are brewing gluten-free New Grist. (Can we get our free case now?)
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