Drinking whiskey clear!
I normally hate linking to lists, but this one’s pretty funny!
11) Spanish people to take furious and bitter nap
10) Spain now has to send troops to Iraq and Afghanistan
9) US can continue to occupy Puerto Rico and Guam
8) All 63 serious US soccer fans get that adorable “We’ve turned the corner” delusion they get every few years
Read the rest at the link below!
via on 205th magazine: Top 11 ramifications of the US soccer team’s upset win over Spain.
It’s official, folks!
WASHINGTON (AP)—Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
The nomination was approved by voice vote.
Rooney was a lifelong Republican who backed President Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton during Pennsylvania’s presidential primary last year. He later campaigned for Obama in western Pennsylvania and helped him win the state in November.
In the 1970s, he helped found the American Ireland Fund, an organization that has raised millions for advocacy of peace and education in Ireland.
Rooney’s father, Arthur J. Rooney, founded the Steelers in 1933. The son took over the presidency of the team in 1975 and is a Hall of Fame owner. His Steelers won the Super Bowl this year.
The “Rooney Rule,” which requires any team with a head coaching vacancy to interview at least one minority candidate, was developed by an NFL committee Rooney chaired. Rooney has also participated in labor negotiations between the league and players.
via Steelers owner Rooney now ambassador to Ireland – NFL – Yahoo! Sports.
A boy is out walking with his dad, and he asks, “Daddy, is God a girl or a boy?”
Dad shrugs and says, “I guess he’s both, son.”
“Is God black or white?”
“I guess he’s both, son.”
“Is God straight or gay?”
“I guess he’s both of them, too.”
“Daddy”, says the kidlet, “Is God Michael Jackson?”
Men, prepare to get an erection!
It seems like there’s been talk about The Pacific, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to Band of Brothers, since… well, forever, actually. I remember when Brothers came out in 2002 there was already talk of doing a sequel. And now… 7 looonnnng years later… there’s finally a trailer out for the series:
Oh… my… God! Bring it on!
The show is set to debut on HBO sometime in 2010.
Farrah Fawcett, who made the 70s TV show Charlie’s Angels a massive hit and who for many personified the “All-American girl” look, has passed away from cancer. She was 62. Her longtime companion Ryan O’Neal and close friend Alana Stewart were at her side.
Charlie’s Angels debuted in September 1976, and the show became an instant hit for ABC, largely due to the presence of Fawcett (billed as “Farah Fawcett-Majors” due to her then marriage to The Six Million Dollar Man‘s Lee Majors). Fawcett’s image appeared on thousands of lunch boxes, t-shirts, and perhaps the most iconic poster in American history. Her image was used to sell toothpaste, shampoo and wigs… and even a specialty plumbing device called “Farrah’s Faucet”.
She would shock America by quitting Angels after the first season. Fawcett would appear in a bunch of forgettable films, including her first film, Somebody Killed Her Husband, which critics said should have been called Somebody Killed Her Career. Critical acclaim would finally come for her portrayal of an abused wife in the 1984 TV movie The Burning Bed.
Goodbye, Farrah. You will be missed, angel!
The mystery of dozens of crop circles appearing all over Tasmania has been solved… and the culprit appears to be stoned wallabies!
It seems that the wallabies (smaller cousins of the kangaroo) were eating poppies, getting high, then hopping around in circles, causing the mysterious crop circles to form.
Australia apparently produces around 50 percent of the world’s (legitimate) poppy supply for morphine and other opiate-based drugs.
Read more here.
More news from the ACNA:
His Beatitude, the Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) announced recently that his church has ended its ecumenical relations with The Episcopal Church, and will establish instead formal ecumenical relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
Metropolitan Jonah of the OCA made the announcement June 24 at a plenary session of the ACNA’s founding convocation at St Vincent’s Cathedral, Bedford, Texas.
This is big news, but not “big” news. It still full steam ahead for the ACNA, though, and that’s AWESOME!
via The Living Church Foundation | OCA To End Relations with TEC, Forge Ties to ACNA.
After the jump, there’s a sweet video from the BBC where Philip Glenister is interviewed on a morning show. There’s the usual “why do people love Gene Hunt so much?” question and answer, but also some speculation about the third and final season of Ashes to Ashes.
(Posted after the jump because the BBC’s video player is larger than the layout of this site and cannot easily be resized)
This just in from BabyBlue:
The Anglican Church of Uganda has now officially recognized the Anglican Church in North America and has transferred all their bishops and clergy to the ACNA, Bishop John Guernsey just announced to the ACNA Assembly in Ft. Worth.
The march towards orthodoxy continues! Read about it here.
jimcofer.com is officially the last website to report it, but what the hey… Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson’s sidekick of more than 30 years, passed away at the age of 86. This is probably not much of a surprise to many folks, as McMahon was in poor health for at least the last two years. Still, he will be missed.
Not only was McMahon a regular on The Tonight Show, he also hosted Star Search for several years, co-hosted Bloopers and Practical Jokes with Dick Clark (back when bloopers were unseen by most folks), and was a regular at the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. McMahon was also a spokesman for American Family Publishers (contrary to all the jokes made at the time, which always mentioned Publisher’s Clearinghouse).
Enjoy this clip of McMahon, who had a wee bit too much to drink before going on that night:
That clip is priceless… not only because it’s funny, but because of the unedited nature of the clip. Had this happened today, you know the producers would cut this scene for not being “professional” enough.