Blackboard is resting.

Dear friends.

Due to a very busy schedule, blackboard is having a rest. I will be back, fresh-faced and full of humour very, very soon.

Adios,
Birta

Ricky Lackley

Ricky Lackey has six children on the way. Don't call them sextuplets - they're each with different women. When Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Melba Marsh asked Lackey during sentencing Friday on a charge of attempted theft how many children he had, the 25-year-old said, "None, but I have six on the way."...read more

potato bomb

A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds. ...read more

Amma fann sprengju í kartöflupokanum

marriage over the phone

Símabrúðkaup úrskurðað lögmætt

in the name of love

A South Korean woman has set an unofficial world karaoke record after singing nearly 1,000 songs in just under 60 hours, reports say. Kim Seok-ok dropped to the floor after her marathon effort, which she said she undertook to cheer up her sick husband....read more

Söng í 60 klukkustundir til að gleðja veikan eiginmann

cheap pumpkin pies

A man has applied to divorce his wife of 18 years after he found she was feeding him pumpkin instead of zucchini, as he had previously thought....read more

a super bullet

A man accidentally discharged a new pistol he was unfamiliar with, firing a bullet that nicked his arm and eventually ended up striking a man using the bathroom in another building, police said. ...read more

girl scout selling cookies

Some people shake their head at buying Girl Scout cookies. But an elderly woman in the far southern reaches of St. Louis shook a shotgun, police say. ...read more

a snake ate eleven dogs

The trick in any good horror story is identifying the real monster out of all the scary possibilities. Recently, there was a news story about Ali Yusof, an orchard keeper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia who wanted to keep pests and pilferers out of his fruit trees. So Yusof stationed, not one guard dog, but 11 of the fearsome beasts to frighten off any fruit-loving intruders who dared to tread upon his orchard. ...read more