Now I can really make the twisted images I see in clouds. Imagine explaining this idea to someone before you started building it.

Once you pop, you just can’t stop.  That’s exactly what the designer thought when he requested being buried in his ingenious design of the Pringles canister.

Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.

Baur’s children were just honoring his burial requests when they split the remains into two urns and a Pringles can.  One urn was buried with the Pringles in his grave in suburban Springfield Township, and the other urn was given to one of his grandsons.

Fred Baur invented the totally tubular container in 1966 to better house the tasty treat invented by Alexander Liepa with the help of Gene Wolfe.

Uh, where are my cookies? I always miss out on the goodies, I need to find some little girl scouts to sell me cookies, they never hit up my neighborhood.

I was shocked when I read this story though, 17,000 boxes is a lot of cookies, but it isn’t anywhere near impossible. Think about it, everyone loves girl scout cookies, who can say no?

Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, sold 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year, which shatters her troop’s old record and is believed to be a national record, though Girl Scouts of the USA doesn’t track individual sales.

I always thought they tracked individual sales, but I guess that keeps them from competing with ill-mannered thoughts about the competition.

Why did these girls work so hard to push these delicious cookies on to willing customers? So they could take a trip to Europe of course! They saved up $21,000 for their trip and were able to take a 10-day tour next winter.

Troop 813 is the super-selling troop, and this isn’t the first time that they have succeeded at selling their weight and then some in cookies. These girls funded their trip on a Caribbean cruise, and were also able to swim with dolphins with that money.

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Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa suffered from macular degeneration for the past decade. His left eye is completely blind and his right eye has limited peripheral vision. Since 1997 he hasn’t been able to see, but on Saturday he threw 12 consecutive strikes at a bowling alley in Iowa. This is the first perfect game in that alley since 1984, so the onlookers were pretty excited.

Century Lanes owner Clem Ledoux said Davis’ game didn’t draw much attention until he reached 10 strikes. That’s when folks poured out of the bar to watch his final two shots.

Man, in a real alley I can’t throw higher than 100. In Wii bowling my high score is 250, but that was all luck.

I never thought I would see such devotion to Pabst Blue Ribbon. 67-year-old Bill Bramanti ordered a special coffin, one that he hopes he won’t need to bury anytime soon. His novelty coffin was ordered from “Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.”

Bill Bramanti threw a party on Saturday and filled his new red, white and blue PBR coffin with ice and his favorite beer.

This quote I thought was funny, and reminded me of my grandpa Joe, “”Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?” said Bramanti’s daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.”

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In light of the newest addition to the Grand Theft Auto series, here is a 7-year-old boy who stole a car hoping to “hoodrat” it out with his buddy.

The two 7-year-olds stole the car and crashed drove it several miles before the axle and wheel fell off.  There is nothing I could possibly say that would make this video any more funny than it already is on its own.  The hilarity is rather sad though if you think about it.  His poor grandma, who wants to beat his behind, has to pay the damages.  Funny note on that is the boy asked, “can my mom help too?”  when the cop  told him his grandma had to pay the damages.

I sure do hope that his grandma does beat his butt for that, hopefully she spanks the ghetto out of him.

Those Truck Nutz dangling from your red Silverado might cost you a $60 fine. That’s right, those conservative bastards in Florida are trying to fine you for displaying your manhood on your trailer hitch! Bring down the man, pull out your Nutz.

I don’t see this going too far, honestly they’re just fake testicles. They are more funny than they are offensive, anyone to disagree?

Hex, the six-week, old six-legged kitten is looking for publicity to help her owners afford surgery to remove the extra appendages. Hex was supposed to be a twin and when the two didn’t separate in the womb, Hex came out with 6 legs.

Hex reminds me of the story of Henry the Hexapus, the 6-legged freak in a 8-legged world.

How much would you pay for wine? A Chinese entrepreneur purchased a mix of vintage wines for $500,000, his previous large purchase was only $59,880. The mix of vintages of Romanee Conti, is considered to be among the world’s most exclusive wines with only 450 cases made each year. The Beijing-based billionaire purchased “12 bottles of Romanee Conti 1978, two bottles of the 1961, 1966, 1996 and 2003 and single bottles of the 1981, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2002.”

Interesting record making tid-bit:

Malcolm Forbes, the late publisher of Forbes’ magazine, set a record in December 1985 when he paid 105,000 pounds, then about $162,750, for a 1787 bottle of red wine made by Bordeaux’s prestigious Chateau Lafitte.

In 2006 the Antique Wine Company sold the world’s most expensive bottle of white wine, a regular-sized bottle of Chateau d’Yquem 1787 for just under $100,000.

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is completely selfless, Improv Everywhere set out to make a little league baseball game the best game ever. These kids got to enjoy a professional style baseball game, just like a major league event. The coaches, parents and all the children had no clue the treat they were in for on that seemingly ordinary day.

Improv Everywhere worked with the league commissioner to get the kids’ names and access to the field to set up their equipment for the game later that day. NBC Sports also worked along side the team of improv actors to get the Jumbotron and the Goodyear blimp.

How great, such a heart warming experience.

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