{"id":18,"date":"2003-03-14T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2003-03-14T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T18:45:19","slug":"pop-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/14\/pop-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop News Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are these spec-ads?  Do people actually air this stuff?  Am I missing good commericials because I&#8217;m too quick to skip them on my TiVo?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/funny\/basketball.mpg\">This is some GREAT stuff!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day when I was still in high school, people had this major issue with dropping their beepers in the toilet.  I have no idea why that would happen, but it was funny none-the-less.  These days you hear the same story but with cell phones &#8212; and I still think its pretty funny to hear a cellphone vs. toilet story.  But this has definitely got to take the cake &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=573&#038;ncid=757&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/nm\/20030314\/od_nm\/odd_kenya_latrine_dc\">Three Die Retrieving Phone from Latrine<\/a>.&#8221;  My god.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/archives\/Procrastination.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/archives\/Procrastination.html','popup','width=490,height=396,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">procrastination<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximonline.com\/\">Maxim<\/a>&#8230; and Stuff is almost as good.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffmagazine.com\/articles\/html\/article_235.html\">articles like this one<\/a> make me feel that all the money I haven&#8217;t spent on Stuff is worth every penny. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Joe Millioinaire?  Love it?  Hate it?  Don&#8217;t care?  Wanna kill a few minutes?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/articles.php?a=1337\">Check this out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had a school bully&#8230; and sometimes he&#8217;d extort money from you&#8230; well, he tried&#8230;  Its seems that there&#8217;s some new Uber-Bully out there now &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi.co.jp\/news\/20030312p2a00m0fp017000c.html\">this particular one <\/a>raked in almost $13,000!<\/p>\n<p>Hiccups?  Can&#8217;t get rid of them?  If you&#8217;ve tried everything and nothing has worked, you might want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/user\/smalin\/hiccup.htm\">this reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And to completely de-bunk the whole japanese faux-see-through skrits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/skirts.asp\">read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ever see &#8220;FISH&#8221; on the back of a food truck?  Ever wonder why you never see BEEF? or CHICKEN?  Paul tells me that &#8220;FISH&#8221; stands for &#8220;Federally Inspected Safe Handling&#8221;.  Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>And PLEASE PLEASE don&#8217;t use your Razor Air-go for acts of violence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/wire\/2003\/03\/14\/pogo_stick\/index.html\">like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are these spec-ads? Do people actually air this stuff? Am I missing good commericials because I&#8217;m too quick to skip them on my TiVo? This is some GREAT stuff! Back in the day when I was still in high school, people had this major issue with dropping their beepers in the toilet. I have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}