Remember those WWF Superstars action figures from the mid-to-late 1980s? Unless your answer is an unequivocal YES!, you should probably just move on and forget about taking this WWF Action Figure Quiz from mental_floss.
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Remember those WWF Superstars action figures from the mid-to-late 1980s? Unless your answer is an unequivocal YES!, you should probably just move on and forget about taking this WWF Action Figure Quiz from mental_floss.
Over at mental_floss, readers submitted photos of their strangest local businesses. Hilarity ensued.Hilarity and dick jokes. See the whole gallery.
Test all that Saved by the Bell knowledge you've accumulated over the years with today's mental_floss quiz.
I always had a sneaking suspicion that Chris Berman was a huge dick. Finally, proof.
With Tom Brady gimping around the West Village last week, people have been talking a lot about his backups, Matt Gutierrez and Matt Cassel. This got me thinking about the other guys who earned Super Bowl rings by holding clipboards and mastering sign language.
So I pissed away a few hours putting together this quiz for mental_floss.
Super Backups: The Men Behind The Men Behind Center
If you remember Joe Namath's understudy, here's a chance to finally put that knowledge to good use.
Welcome to the YBNBY Hall of Fame - celebrating the some of the best stories we've posted in the three years that we've been publishing.
Just to take a break from the pornography-themed HoF inductees (don't worry, there'll be more tomorrow), here's one that touched a nerve with our male audience, and ensured we were pretty high in Google's rankings for anyone ever searching for "Ashley Manning" -

Yesterday, a friend asked me whether Colts QB Peyton Manning was married. I'm supposed to know these things. So I fired up The Google. Turns out Peyton does wear at least one ring. Ashley Manning, above, is a real estate developer and 1997 graduate of the University of Virginia.
While this information was easy to locate, I was surprised to not find one definitive source for photos of NFL players' wives. Not to mention a little let down.
Which brings me to my YesButNoButYes New Year's Resolution. In 2007, if I'm Googling something and can't find it, I must fill the void. It's time to give back. Without further intro blabber, I offer you this semi-complete (yet nonetheless definitive) list of the women behind the men behind center.
An April 2005 Champions League quarterfinal between A.C. and Inter Milan seemed like a great place to renew their bitter intercity rivalry – or at least wreak some senseless havoc. Although A.C. won the first of two matches and had gone up 1-0 in the second, Inter thought it had scored an equalizer on a header with twenty minutes left. Much to the displeasure of Inter fans, referee Markus Merk disallowed the goal because an Inter player had fouled A.C. goalkeeper Dida while jockeying for position.
Like any reasonable mob would, Inter fans responded by pelting the field with hails of bottles and that most European of riot weapons: the lit flare. As Dida cleared away bottles from the pitch to set up a goal kick, he was struck in the shoulder with a flare and received minor burns. The match was restarted after a thirty-minute delay, but more thrown flares led to its abandonment and A.C. Milan receiving credit for a 3-0 victory.
Inter Milan was fined a record 200,000 Euros for the riot, and their fans received the sports version of being sent to their rooms: the club’s first four 2005-2006 home matches were played in empty stadiums, effectively making them the soccer equivalent of Atlanta Hawks home games.
For six more – including fans coming together to bring down an Emperor and lots of groin punching – read the complete article.
I've been looking into the whereabouts of past advertising icons for mental_floss. Nothing had me more mesmerized than these classic Crazy Eddie spots, many of which I found at Must-Be TV.
Lots, lots more craziness after the jump.
"Happy Fun Ball" is one of my favorite Saturday Night Live commercial parodies. After doing some reading of actual drug warning labels, I realized this sketch wasn't much of a stretch.
• "Gas with oily spotting, loose stools, and more frequent stools that may be hard to control."
• "[In a small number of people] your skin and the whites of your eyes turn yellow."
• "Serious risks include decreased sweating."
I posted this quiz over at mental_floss: The Not-So-Fine Print: Popular Drugs, Ominous Labels. Match the drug to the safety information on its warning label. Are you taking the drug that might cause hard-to-control defecation? Better test your knowledge of possible side effects.
Here are a couple more to start 2007.
Kelli Croyle
Brodie Croyle did not win the starting job in Kansas City. No reason to feel sorry for him.
Emily Harrington
Big offseason for her husband Joey. He gets bumped into a starting role in Atlanta after Michael Vick's dog-killing escapades, and also got hitched.
If there is an outcry for more research into the other quarterbacks' wives, there may be a more thorough update later this season.
Incredibly cute babies. Being bowled.
Sad news about Phil Rizzuto. I was a huge fan. And I happened to be at Yankee Stadium for Phil Rizzuto Day in 1985, where Tom Seaver (of the White Sox) won his 300th game and the Yanks gave Scooter a (holy) cow. The cow stepped on Rizzuto's foot, knocking him over.
Here are a few YouTube videos featuring The Scooter.
Rizzuto promoting Yankee Gym Shorts Day.
Rizzuto and Yogi Berra plugging WABC radio.
And here's a link to his famous work for The Money Store. Sadly, none of his announcing highlights, or anything from his Hall of Fame speech. I'll be on the lookout.
Two things I know nothing about:
1) The market
2) TV shows that cover the market
Is Jim Cramer always this nuts? Jump ahead to the 2:00 mark.