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The piss-can is meant to be placed outside of popular bars and sporting events to keep drunks from peeing all over walls, streets and trees, but I prefer the porta-pisser for at home use.
Remember the Uro-Club? The Porta Potty Piss Trash Can is very similar in that it allows you to pretend to be doing something else while you’re taking a piss — in this case, taking out the trash.
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In Washington State, Dasha, the only semi-attractive blonde in the state took her friend’s advice and painted “ATTN: Police Please Do Not Pull Me Over Just Because I’m Pretty” onto her car window and claims the move has been successful.
The blonde told reporters that she’d been pulled over 30 or more times because of her self-claimed good looks, but after affixing the message to the rear-window of her car a month ago, has not been pulled over since.
This is what happens when a semi-attractive woman with (or without) an …
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While Jonathan Broxton blew yet another Dodger game last night against the St. Louis Cardinals after walking Albert Pujols, Vin Scully attempted to entertain viewers by doing a miniature segment on the shortest baseball player to ever play the game – Eddie Gaedel.
At 3′7″ and just 65 lbs, Eddie Gaedel made his first and only appearance in baseball with the St. Louis Browns on August 19, 1951 – a publicity stunt for the Falstaff Brewing Corporation.
Little Eddie adorned in elf slippers and a jersey with the number “â…›” on the …
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“The sub-species is created in midget-mills and survives off a strict diet of sugar packets and Keebler brand cookies…”
After contestants in an April episode of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice created a detergent ad called “Jesse James and the Midgets,” miniature activists from Little People of America went to the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV, claiming the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.
The contestants on the show, including Joan Rivers, who believes the sub-species is created in midget-mills and survives off a strict diet of …
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Comics writer Mark Sable was intensively searched by the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) after they found a script in his possession about a writer who gets detained and intensively searched for writing a comic about terrorism that seems to predict real terrorist events.
Is it weird that I’m currently watching a movie about an actor who plays a POW in Vietnam and is then taken hostage in ‘Nam, for real? (Tropic Thunder, those facts about the story line might be slightly off).
“What do you mean, ‘my people’?”
“Flying from Los Angeles to New …
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Let this be a lesson to all the fatasses who eat at McDonald’s everyday. AP Michigan reports,
“Authorities said a man faces a felony charge after allegedly spitting on a police officer’s McDonald’s breakfast sandwich. Police said a 32-year-old man was working the drive-thru window at the southwest Michigan restaurant when an unidentified officer bit into an Egg McMuffin on June 3 and immediately realized something was wrong.
A police report obtained by The Herald-Palladium said the restaurant’s assistant manager noted the sandwich contained a “stringy with mucus” substance. She placed the …
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In what’s being heralded by wedding videographer Tony Salvino as “the only time no one got laid on or after a wedding — people tried, both sexes, but no one could figure out how things were supposed to work,” two young Padawans formed a rebel alliance to culminate seven years of knowing one another via preferred online dating service, Star Wars Galaxies — surprisingly no sabers were crossed.
Groom Duncan Thomson dressed as an aging and slightly overweight Han Solo and vowed to the beautiful Sammi Gardiner, “I promise to protect …




