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Jesus Sightings Up 400%

Barely Hanging On — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:38:50 +0000

Watch as the reports of Jesus appearing on toast soar over the next 6 months. It's not the rapture so don't start burning your house down and giving away all of your possessions just yet. It's just the new Jesus Toaster from Burt Impressions. Now you too can pretend that Jesus is speaking directly to you just like all of the others who report Jesus sightings.

Macey’s Christmas Tree Snaps During Hoisting

Barely Hanging On — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:22:01 +0000

The video seems to take a bit before it actually shows up but it's there. I have seen it.

Dude Shoves 18 Quarters Up Nose

Barely Hanging On — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:01:21 +0000

Who wouldn't want to see this? That's talent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXnhwXQFqYU

Russian Man Kept 29 Mummified Bodies

Barely Hanging On — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:22:07 +0000

This might win it for creepy thing of the day, although the day is just starting up for me. I guess he wasn't high on throwing dinner parties. His name is Anatoly Moskvin btw, many new sources hadn't picked that up yet.

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeteries, studying grave stones to uncover the life stories behind them.

What he failed to mention, according to police, was that he had dug up 29 bodies and taken them back to his apartment, where he dressed them in women’s clothes scavenged from graves and then put them on display.

A police video of the man’s apartment in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod released Monday shows his macabre collection of what look like dolls. Lifesize, they are dressed in bright dresses and headscarves, their hands and faces wrapped in what appears to be cloth. Police said they were mummified remains.

Instructions for doll-making were found in the apartment, police said, and the video showed old-fashioned plastic dolls in frilly dresses lying about.

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The Japanese Whopper

Barely Hanging On — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:30:03 +0000

Remember when everything you got from Japan was smaller like cars and transistor radios? You crazy kids don't even know what a transistor radio is. They didn't go small with this new burger from Burger King. It looks like it's made to be sliced into four like a cake but I could have at it after a night of heavy binge drinking and not look back.

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Rainbow Poo is Coming to a Toilet Near You

Barely Hanging On — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:10:47 +0000

What times we live in. Imagine being able to pop a pill, have a poop and find out that you are going to die a horrific death from bowel cancer just like your grandfather and uncles did. Isn't life grand? Maybe you won't have to die after all. The pill you pop is going to make your poop turn colors and tell you what illness you have and hopefully the doctors can get the leaches on you early enough to cure you. That's some serious science.

"Scientists have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to work safely as a biosensor that can detect the presence of toxins and secret an indicator pigment. The synthetically engineered bacteria (which has had its bad bacteria parts removed) could be used to test water or air samples for pollutants such as arsenic or carbon dioxide. Arsenic in the water, the sample turn blue, for example. But that's not all.

By the year 2039, the scientists — who hail from Cambridge University –think that their so-called E. Chromi could be mixed in with a special probiotic yogurt, which when eaten, would colonize the bowels and release pigments in the presence of diseases such as cancer, stomach ulcers and salmonella. If your poo was green, for example, you might have an ulcer, or if it turned orange, you may want to get tested for colon cancer."

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Family Gets Lost in Corn Maze: Calls 911

Barely Hanging On — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:01:28 +0000

I got lost once at the zoo when I was a kid so I recall how awful that feeling can be so I won't pick on anybody in this one. It does remind of an episode of the Simpsons when they were throwing Lisa up above the corn to try and see where they were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oblQonO0Qw

A Massachusetts couple with two young kids has trouble navigating through a corn maze, so they call 911 for help. It took a police officer and his K-9 about 10 minutes to find them in Danvers, Mass. spread. (Oct. 12)

It Must Be Halloween

Barely Hanging On — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:01:10 +0000

This Halloween display in North Carolina prompted a call to 911. Thankfully somebody else called in and let them know that it was just a Halloween display. How many times in the south would you see a man with a beer in his hand trapped underneath a riding lawnmower? Scratch that.

Her Finger Nails Are 18 Years Old

Barely Hanging On — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:21:54 +0000

As records go, this one is a nail-biter.

A Las Vegas singer stepped out in New York yesterday as the proud owner of the longest fingernails in the world.

Chris "The Dutchess" Walton made it into the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records for the first time for having nearly 20 feet of nails on both hands.

"It's kind of like a body part that I was born with, now I don't know what I would do without them," the 45-year-old said.

"I'm pretty sure one day I will cut them, but I can't see it in my head because I'm so used to having them.

"It's like a leg, I wouldn't just chop it off so it's gonna take some thinking."

"The Duchess," a mother of six girls and grandmother of three, says she started growing her nails 18 years ago by accident.

Now the nail on her ring finger is the length of the average human arm, her left pinky nail is almost the height of a New York City fire hydrant, and the middle fingernail on her left hand is as long as two Nathan's hot dogs.

Hungarian Census Takers Have All the Fun

Barely Hanging On — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:38:51 +0000

I delivered pizza in university and was never so lucky. What you are watching is an advertisement from Hungary trying to get people involved with their upcoming census. Count me in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71d7gzymPA0