Category: Amusements

As I write this, the 2001 Glutton Bowl is on the Fox Sports channel, with contestants vying to eat as much as possible of hot dogs (25), hamburgers (11), whole beef tongues (1.5), mayonnaise (128 fl oz), or whatever in a limited time. The Weekly Standard has a piece on the event and other forms of competitive eating.
Each competitor is introduced with some fact about their background; my favorite was the guy who had been banned from an all-you-can-eat shrimp restaurant.

It’s a regular SpongeBob crime wave.
First some oversized figures of SpongeBob Squarepants were swiped from Burger Kings in Michigan, Minnesota and Utah.
Now police in Wisconsin are on the lookout for spongenappers who clipped a six-foot Squarepants that was promoting the SpongeBob movie opening.
No ransom note was left in Sheboygan — although in Minnesota, the list of demands includes ten Crabby Patties for SpongeBob’s return.

It’s too late to get one for today!

New wine bottle holds 1200 glasses

The 153kg bottle was the work of master glass blowers in the Czech Republic, and holds the equivalent of 173 standard bottles of Beringer Vineyards 2001 Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. That translates to 1200 glasses of wine.
The bottle, dubbed Maximus, was certified as the world’s largest by the Guinness World Records. The Morton’s steakhouse chain, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, partnered with California-based Beringer to create the record-setting bottle.

A meteor is coming and we’re all going to die, British teacher tells pupils– link via Drudge

A British schoolteacher, attempting to motivate her pupils into making the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to smash into the Earth and that they should all return home to say goodbye to their families, a report said.
The teacher at the high school in Manchester, northwest England, only realised her lecture was misjudged when many of the assembled teenagers started crying, the Sun newspaper said in its Friday edition.
According to the report, the unnamed female teacher made the announcement to around 250 pupils at St Matthew’s Roman Catholic High School during their regular morning assembly..

Defying Islamic traditions, a Bahraini woman disguised herself as a bearded Muslim sheikh to lead Friday prayers but was stopped before she reached the pulpit, a cleric said on Thursday…
“At first I didn’t think it was a woman. I thought it was just a cleric I didn’t know. Then when her beard began to slide off and her voice grew soft during a scuffle we found out she was a woman,” the sheikh said.