Times Square, Macy’s and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade down Broadway in New York City are all part of one giant package which makes the attractions in New York much more valuable than the sum of each individual attraction.
And Mayor Bloomberg’s latest boneheaded idea cuts the legs off from underneath the Macy’s Parade by rerouting it off […]

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Thomas
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Hundreds of people in Queensland, Australia hunted down thousands of cane toads, caught them alive and brought them to a ‘toad day out’ festival, where the toads were all slaughtered as part of a plan for a genocidal termination of the toxic toads across Australia.
At the festival, people eat snacks, sipped cold drinks and took home […]

Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Thomas
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What do Paris Hilton and the ShamWow Guy - Vince Shlomi, have in common, aside from the fact that they’re both spoiled celebs? Turns out they both know how to pick a fight with the hired help at nightclubs in posh Miami hotels in the wee hours of the morning.
According to RadarOnline, party hound Paris Hilton and latest […]

Posted on March 29th, 2009 by Thomas
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Look, if you have something better to do - like watching a soap opera or snoozing on your couch - I suggest you do that, instead of reading any further. But if you’re so lame that a ghost of a Victorian Lady floating sighted on Google Earth interest you more, then read on, by all means.
Sarah Knapton, writing […]

Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Thomas
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Betcha didn’t know that the MTA is the business of building New York motels specifically made for rats. They’re called roach motels, and the MTA is using them to trap the significant and thriving underground subway rat culture.

That’s the rats which frolic and go about their daily routine on the NYC subway tracks in-between trains, while bored passengers […]

Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Thomas
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The Olympics present a splendid opportunity for various civil rights groups and other sundry hell-raisers to blackmail the authorities into compromising, because they don’t really want to fan the media flames over some minor incident, fearing that it could escalate into an international embarrasment.
And so it begins for the Britons. According to the BBC, a […]

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Thomas
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If you’re looking for some interesting Cape Cod motels, try out the Hyannis Travel Inn on North Street in Hyannis, MA. Turns out they offer freshly dead turkeys along with the morning coffee. Well, actually, the turkey came up and offered itself, but still…
Jake Berry of the Cape Cod Times reports that 2 customers and a […]

Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Thomas
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What’s the first thing that British tourists do when they land up at a foreign destination? They start whining, is what.
This according to the “European Travel Trend Survey,” conducted by Sweden based Kairos Future, based on data collected from 11,000 people in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. The survey fingers Britons as the […]

Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Thomas
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History repeats itself all over again. On Dec 15, 1989, artist Arturo Di Modica dropped off a 7000 pound bronze bull in front of the New York Stock Exchange, meant to rally the people and the markets into a bull run after the terrible recession.
The police seized the sculpture and threw it into an impound […]

Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Thomas
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At long last, AIG issues travel guidelines to it’s staff. But, alas, these guidelines have nothing to do with nixing spa retreats at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, nor do they specify that employees should check-in at cheap Phoenix motels instead of the posh Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort. 
Apparently, public anger at the $165 million […]

Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Thomas
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