Category: Defies a category!

UP IN SMOKE, OR STILL IN DEBT?
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reuniting for Cheech and Chong Get Blunt, a new movie in the famed stoner franchise. The flick, written and produced by Chong’s daughter, actress Rae Dawn Chong, sees the pair performing community service as anti-drug preachers in a boys’ home.

Here’s today’s most fun time waster!

Why Is This Not A National Holiday?!?

Did you know that today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day?

Radio Station Guilty in Dry Ice Stunt
LONDON (Reuters) – A British radio station pleaded guilty Friday to injuring four listeners who suffered severe frostbite after sitting on dry ice for a competition.
After the “Coolest Seats In Town” challenge by BRMB radio in Birmingham, the participants — aged between 15 and 30 — had to be hospitalized and suffered scarring.
“We pleaded guilty and have been fined 15,000 pounds ($25,000),” a spokesman for BRMB told Reuters.
The Health and Safety Executive, the safety watchdog which brought the prosecution, said the temperature of the dry ice — frozen carbon dioxide — was minus 108.40 degrees Fahrenheit.
The prize for the contest held in August 2001 was tickets to a music festival called “Party in the Park.”
The radio station said it was sorry about what had happened.
“We deeply regret the consequences,” said Paul Davies, operations director for the Capital Radio Group.
“It was never our intention to place anyone in jeopardy and we sincerely apologies to the participants and their families for their injuries and distress.”
Davies said an internal investigation had been carried out to ensure a similar incident did not occur again.
Over the last few years the station has run several publicity stunts which have aroused controversy.
One promotion led to two strangers getting married, winning cash, an exotic honeymoon and the use of an luxury apartment. The competition prompted criticism from church groups which said it demeaned the dignity of marriage vows.
The couple separated after a few months.

Gollum At The Golden Globes

Source: Ringer Spy Cat

Tupperware Says the Party Is Over in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) – The party’s over for a generation of housewives after Tupperware said on Thursday its army of sales agents will be scrapped.
For around half a century, British women used to hold get-togethers in their front rooms, so-called Tupperware parties, to sell the plastic food containers.
But 21st century life has sounded the death knell for one of the country’s most enduring — and mocked — traditions.
“We needed to update our business model,” said Jane Garrard, vice president for investor relations at Orlando-based Tupperware.
About 1,500 sales demonstrators in Britain will have their contracts ended on March 30.
Terence Cosgrave, editor of Retail Intelligence said he believed the waning popularity of Tupperware parties was due to changes in eating habits.
“Tupperware was primarily used for storing food. Nowadays more people buy convenience foods and have less use for containers,” he told Reuters.
He added that Tupperware, which was seen as a revolution in food hygiene and kitchen style when it was introduced, had faced increasing competition from other manufacturers.
In recent years Tupperware parties have also had to compete with the glamour of lingerie and wrinkle-smoothing Botox parties.
Tupperware said it may focus on selling through retailers.
MOURNED BY SOME
Although the Tupperware party, a sign of sophistication in the 1960s and 1970s, had become a butt of satirists in later years, the end is still likely to be missed by some.
Helen Fairweather, 64, said she attended Tupperware parties in the 1960s.
“You would get a group of friends together — bit like an Ann Summers lingerie party — and a person from Tupperware would come along to show their wares.”
“You’d provide some nibbles and then, to lighten up the mood a bit, you used to have a little general knowledge quiz and the winner would get a piece of Tupperware,” the London pensioner said.
But Fairweather said Tupperware was expensive and in time it discolored.
“You might as well buy the cheap ones and throw them away.”
Geoff Jones, 72, a retired railway worker, from London, remembered his wife regularly hosted Tupperware parties.
“It used to be a social thing, something for the ladies to get together,” he said, quickly adding he had never attended one himself.
Perhaps summing up the problem Tupperware faces was a comment from a member of the younger generation:
“Tupper-what party? Never heard of it. Sounds kinky,” said 25-year-old office administrator Sally Wilkes from Croydon.

Curious?
Ever wonder what the price of the “satisfaction of helping someone” was?

Britney’s Love Life Stirs Speculation

NEW YORK (AP) √≥ For those keeping score on Britney Spears’ love life, she’s either back with Justin Timberlake or she’s dating Fred Durst.
News reports and the Limp Bizkit front man’s postings on his band’s Web site have fed the rumor mill about the 21-year-old pop star’s recent romances.
Ex-boyfriend Timberlake, 21, said he was “definitely single” during a taping of the “Wayne Brady Show” Monday. But he was reunited with Spears Monday night at the American Music Awards, and the New York Post reported the two were seen kissing later that night.
Meanwhile, Durst’s comments on his band’s website address the 32-year-old rocker’s rumored romance with Spears.
In a Jan. 9 posting Durst wrote, “I really like her and that’s about all I should say. She’s a sweet amazing girl and I’m happy to know her right now.”
Two days later, Durst added another posting.
“Anybody out there who has a serious problem with my feelings for Britney should just chill and worry about your own feelings for a minute. You can’t help what happens in life because everything happens for a reason,” Durst wrote. “I am a good judge of character and so is she. It just happens to be a person that I would have thought could make me feel this way. And believe that I have never felt this way, so there. If you think I’m going soft then you go ahead and think it.”
Publicists for Spears and Durst were not available to comment.
Here’s hoping that SHE did it all for the nookie.

Reality show offers shot at Tyson
A reality show starring Mike Tyson and a brave member of the public is being shopped around by a California Production company, the Hollywood Reporter says.
Triage Entertainment, the outfit behind the “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” special the aired last year, is in talks with Tyson’s management to finalize an agreement that would pair an ordinary man against the former world heavyweight champion.
Several U.S. networks are said to be interested in the show, which would follow the contestant through intense training before the match.
Tyson is infamous for his bad behaviour both inside and outside of the ring. After serving 3 years in jail for rape in the 90s, he shocked audiences when he bit off part of rival Evander Holyfield’s ear during a 1997 fight.
Last year, he was denied a Nevada boxing licence after attacking competitor Lennox Lewis at a press conference. The current world champ beat Tyson when the bout eventually took place in Memphis.
Tyson is set to face Clifford Etienne on February 22, in his first fight since the defeat.

Can a Giant Lava Lamp Save the Town?

SOAP LAKE, Wash. (Reuters) – Build a giant lava lamp and they will come?
Worried that visitors don’t stop at Soap Lake any more even though its medicinal waters reputedly can cure anything from sheep parasites to snake bite, civic leaders are seriously considering trying to revive the tourist trade with a psychedelic blast from the past: a towering 60-foot-high lava lamp in the center of downtown, complete with viewing platform.
After all, look what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris and the Space Needle for Seattle.
“Whether it will ever be finalized, I don’t know, but a lot of people are interested in it,” Mayor Ken Lee told Reuters by telephone. “I’m for anything that will bring tourism back into our city.”
Soap Lake in eastern Washington state has been shrinking since the 1930s, when a devastating drought and the Great Depression nearly erased it from the map. The massive Grand Coulee Dam project nearby brought highways and irrigation channels that kept some businesses alive through the 1960s.
But now two-thirds of its 1,700 inhabitants live in subsidized low-income housing. With little help available from the town, the lava lamp’s champion, architect Brent Blake, is shopping the idea to big glass makers and philanthropists. The price tag, still as nebulous as the goo that would drift around in the lamp, could reach several million dollars.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen could make an ideal benefactor, though Blake has yet to speak with him. Among many projects, Allen built a rock ‘n’ roll museum in an unusual colored-blob building next to Seattle’s Space Needle.
“There’s nothing difficult about building this thing, except for the glass vessel, which is basically a giant pop bottle,” Blake said.
There is also no guarantee that drivers will stop for lunch or shopping in nearly deserted downtown Soap Lake. But the glistening hippie throwback would certainly get their attention.
“I just thought: how can we stop the cars driving by on the highway? Then I drew a lava lamp and just thought, this was really cool,” Blake said.
So cool it even has its own web site.