Recently, a shadowy Howard Hughes-y media mogul issued a decree from Chicago's Tribune Tower that over a hundred words and phrases would be stricken from the vocabulary of Tribune's WGN radio station. We have officially withdrawn all our applications for employment with Tribune, because as our reporting in this piece clearly demonstrates -- in italics, even! -- we simply can't string together a ...

Since St. Patrick's Day has long been not so much a holiday as a day when people will literally skip work so they can go out and start drinking as soon as bars are legally allowed to serve alcohol, it stands to reason that drunken shenanigans are a big concern. In an effort to curb the more lethal ones, many cities offer free cab rides for those too wasted to get home on their own. Here's a ...

It's a fact that everyone loves the PuppyCam, except for those few people with an abnormal hatred of puppies. (And, frankly, we don't speak to those people.) But PuppyCam isn't the only cam out there to take precious time away from your job and loved ones. Oh no, there's plenty more weird stuff to stare at, from leprechauns to the inside of some dude's fridge. 1. Grass Remember how ...

Generally speaking, if something is organic, it's probably best if it's not also horribly polluted. If it's organic compost, it shouldn't contain all the toxins filtered out of storm water, sewage, industrial and medical waste that gets flushed down the toilets of nine California counties. Except this time it did. San Francisco residents with a green thumb were offered the chance to get some ...

Women's basketball has been a bit of a maligned sport over the years, whether due to sexism or just a lack of publicity to get the game out there. But if you want to put butts in seats, a good way to get things started is by having 6-foot-8 rebound machines like Brittney Griner decking other players. As you can see in the video, Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle grabs Griner and takes her for a ...

Over the past few years, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been getting a lot of attention. It just floats out there in the ocean, polluting an area that may be up to 5,800,000 square miles, made up of 100 million tons of crap, mostly tiny pieces of plastic floating just under the surface. As far as refuse goes, the Pacific garbage patch is some impressive stuff. But it's not the only ...

If since the year 2000 you've been cursing humanity for the lack of jetpacks and rocket cars, it's time to tone down those foul-mouthed rants and set your sights on NASA's Puffin aircraft. Sure, it's named after the dorkiest (and apparently most delicious) of all penguin-like birds, but it also takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. Up until now, the coolest form of one-person ...

In honor of the birthday of the illustrious Dr. Suess, we searched far and wide and found some of the best body-art expressions of Suessian love, because unlike kanji symbols or tribal armbands, the Lorax is timeless. Even though the good doctor died in 1991, he published over 60 books for children in his time and each one was a masterpiece of figures that he probably never intended to be ...

Odds are that you're familiar enough with Brent Spiner to know that he played Data on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for the majority of our childhoods. And like many celebrities, Spiner has a Twitter account, likely foisted upon him by his agent, who assured him it would be good for his image. And given the nearly one-and-a-half-million followers Spiner has accumulated, it appears she was ...

Like strip clubs, pep rallies are generally pretty high-energy and exciting. Yet when two Winnipeg, Manitoba, teachers tried to merge the two in front of a crowd of high school students, the results were less than stellar. The scene, in which a male teacher grinds on a female teacher sitting in a chair, before getting to his knees and placing his face between her legs, was caught on cell phone ...