Category: Defies a category!

Where Are They Now?
Have you ever wondered where they are? This satire reveals what really happened to characters from your favorite songs, including Jack and Diane’s Diane (“I work at Best Buy”) to Roxanne’s Roxanne (“Reported missing by an anonymous tip in 1989”).

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G_o_ Lu_k!
Hey, have some fun! Play “The Simpsons Hangman!”

Go Ahead, Waste More Time!
Having a rough Monday? Maybe some sand art therapy will help calm you down.

The Forbes Fictional Fifteen
If fiction can be regarded as a culture’s subconscious, then it’s clear that we are a nation obsessed with the very rich. From avaricious caricatures like The Simpsons’ Montgomery Burns to literary character studies like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby, our culture–both high and low–is littered with images of billionaires and tycoons. Some characters are intentional riffs on real-life counterparts, most famously Orson Welles’ blistering portrayal of William Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane.
Others, like Gordon Gekko from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, came to symbolize both a man–convicted inside trader Ivan Boesky–and an era: the go-go 1980s. To be sure, many are pure products of the imagination. But given the legion of publicity men and image handlers surrounding the typical real-life billionaires, understanding these fictitious characters is as close as most of us will come to grasping the minds of the very rich.
Rank Name Net Worth
1. Santa Claus $ ?
2. Richie Rich 24.7 billion
3. Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks 10 billion
4. Scrooge McDuck 8.2 billion
5. Thurston Howell III 8 billion
6. Willie Wonka 8 billion
7. Bruce Wayne 6.3 billion
8. Lex Luthor 4.7 billion
9. J.R. Ewing 2.8 billion
10. Auric Goldfinger 1.2 billion
11. C. Montgomery Burns 1 billion
12. Charles Foster Kane 1 billion
13. Cruella De Vil 875 millon
14. Gordon Gekko 650 millon
15. Jay Gatsby 600 millon

Gun-Toting Brazilian Forces DJ to Play His Album
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) – A gun-toting musician forced a southern Brazilian radio station to play his debut album for more than an hour on Wednesday after apparently having no luck opening the doors of show business, the man’s father said.
Marcus Vinicius dos Santos, 27, the vocalist for the rock group ACC — a Portuguese acronym for “Beyond the Gray Sky” — stormed disc jockey Marcio Paz’s booth at Atlantida FM in the city of Porto Alegre and forced him to play his album “Phases of Life.”
“He is a quiet boy,” his father, Getulio dos Santos, told Reuters. “I’m surprised by what happened.”
The five-member band portrays itself as futuristic superheroes living in a post-apocalyptic world. Vinicius dos Santos goes by the name “Cram” and wears Alice Cooper-style black eye makeup.
The episode was reminiscent of the 1994 Hollywood movie “Airheads,” in which dimwitted members of a rock band, fed up with rejection from music industry executives, take matters into their own hands and hijack a radio station to air their songs.
The Brazilian incident ended after about 70 minutes when Vinicius dos Santos surrendered to police, who had evacuated the building. Nobody was injured in the incident and Paz later informed listeners where they could buy the band’s album.

My Little Baby Sister Turns 30 Today (Seen here in a photo from 1986)!

Happy Birthday, Tammy!

“He would make bold statements like ‘He invented the question mark.'”
Little-known fact: Today is the 20th birthday of the smiley face “emoticon,” or, as you probably recognize it, :-).
Find out more about the icon’s origin.

9-1-1 makes one New Yorker VERY happy!
We’ve all heard the eerie coincidences in the events of September 11, 2001 as related to the numbers of its date … how it was symbolic to be 9-11, and how the twin towers resembled the #11, and so on.
Well get ready for one more.
The winning New York State Pick-3 Lottery Numbers on September 11, 2002 were, 9-1-1.
And in that order, no less.

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