Proverbial

So that whole thing about Gisele Bündchen running naked around Manhattan was just a joke. But I still think she could use this moment to make a nice gesture: why not find out how much the tabloids would’ve paid for a picture of her paying said bet, and then donate that sum for some charity [...]

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The greatest living american, according to Google. Guess they’re not that immune to bombing, after all.

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Midget funerals, according to Brazilian wisdom, is one of those things that are supposed to exist but no one has ever actually seen. I couldn’t help but think that that might have something to do with this piece of trivia from this Werner Herzog text:
I was shooting a film with an entire cast of midgets, [...]

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Heh:
Seven months after a conclave of scientists downgraded the distant heavenly body to a “dwarf planet,” a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed world back some of its respect. State lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill that proposes “as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico’s excellent night skies, it be [...]

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I’ve always thought of clowns as very sad characters, so in need of the audience’s laugh as to willingly make fools of themselves. Which is why I can’t really think of anything more depressing than news of a clown being killed on stage. I can even imagine some people laughing when the man was shot, [...]

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Cisco says (.br) that Milton Friedman Day is one holiday that’ll never be set by the government. That may be so, but truth is there’ll be plenty of fitting celebrations throughout the world.
Meanwhile, with the Saginaw Spirit’s win over the Oshawa Generals, the Canadian city must be making preparations for the imminent Stephen Colbert Day. [...]

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This has got to be the most ridiculous moment in the history of sport:

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