Saturday, July 5th, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#138)

Yes, Virginia, there are mutants.
And they are really scary.
Except for Jetman - he’s all about the technology.
And I was a little worried when I read about Das Uberboy until I remembered that the Supreme Court said that I can have all the guns I want and I don’t even need to form a militia.
h/t: randy

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#137)

The citizens of San Francisco are preparing to confer an honor upon President George W. Bush that he may not really want.
They’re going to name a sewage treatment plant after him.
… a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the [...]

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Saturday, June 21st, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#136)

People often get their panties in a wad and it often leads to litigation:
A 52-year-old Los Angeles woman is suing Victoria’s Secret, claiming one of its thongs snapped and a piece of metal scratched her cornea.
Macrida Patterson, who works in parking enforcement for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, filed a lawsuit stating she was [...]

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Saturday, June 14th, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#135)

Reptiles Gone Wild:

York, PA Officials Close Eatery After Finding Turtle in Sink
Long Island, NY Mother Finds Snake Coiled Around Sleeping Baby’s Leg
Scotland Woman Charged with Tortoise Abuse
Australian Toad Survives Forty Minutes in the Stomach of a Dog
Stranded Scuba Divers Fight Off Komodo Dragon

Don’t laugh — every one of these scenarios could have been the plot [...]

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

What Are You Doing Tomorrow?

You may want to clean out the fallout shelter and stock up on MREs.
According to Yisrayl “Buffalo Bill” Hawkins of Abilene, Texas, a nuclear war will begin on Thursday, June 12 at the latest.
And this time, he means it.

What a bunch of hooey…
Everybody knows that the real “House of Yahweh” in Abilene, Texas is located [...]

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Saturday, May 31st, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#134)

Food disappearing from your refrigerator?
Does your pay-per-view bill seem to be getting a little higher each month?
Do your kid’s stories about her “invisible friends” seem to get more and more realistic every day?
Maybe somebody is living in one of your closets…
A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up [...]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#133)

The St. Paul Saints minor league baseball team will be honoring National Tap Dance Day by giving away “bobblefoot” dolls to the first 2,500 fans at Sunday’s game.
The keepsakes consist of a miniature bathroom stall with a couple of lower legs and feet. One of the feet is springloaded and “taps,” which, the Saints’ press [...]

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Saturday, May 17th, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#132)

A Japanese lingerie company has manufactured a solar-powered bra.
The “Photovoltaic-Powered Bra” comes with a detachable solar panel that can produce enough energy to power an iPod or mobile phone. It is also environmentally-friendly and made of high quality organic cotton.
Unfortunately, the bra is still in the concept stage and has two drawbacks: it’s not [...]

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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#131)

An Ohio woman has found Jesus in an unusual place: in the ultrasound of her developing fetus.
Monet Sledge of Lorain, Ohio was shocked when she saw what appeared to be an image of Christ on the cross in the ultrasound image of her first child.
Her sister, a mother of four, believes she also saw [...]

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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#130)

A new exhibit in a Tel Aviv, Israel art museum features German heads full of cooties.
The controversial display consists of seven young Berliners who spend all day and night in the museum with lice in their hair.
According to the artists, the intent is to blur the lines between art and reality — they are guests [...]

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