“Mr. Whipple” kicks the Charmin.

It’s a sad day for toilet paper obsessives everywhere as Dick Wilson, best known as the neurotic grocer who defended Charmin bathroom tissue from the groping clutches of lonely housewives, has passed away:

The man famous as TV’s “Mr. Whipple” died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, . . . → Read More: “Mr. Whipple” kicks the Charmin.

New York’s Queen of Mean has kicked the bucket.

Say, do you guys remember Leona Helmsley? Seems she just shuffled off her mortal coil:

Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein.

Already experienced in real estate before her marriage, Helmsley helped her husband run a $5 billion empire that included managing the Empire State . . . → Read More: New York’s Queen of Mean has kicked the bucket.

Maybe Lindsay Lohan’s problem is the advice she’s getting.

So for the past few days I’ve had more than a little downtime at work which is why you’ve actually seen some entries posted by me during the day. I’ve had the same three tickets for the past three days and all three of them require someone else to do something first that hasn’t happened . . . → Read More: Maybe Lindsay Lohan’s problem is the advice she’s getting.

True Believers™ out to Christianize everything they can.

There’s this niche of Christians out there who seem to have this overwhelming need to take a popular idea and try to Christianize it. Take MySpace.com for example. Throw a little Jesus in it and mix on the high setting and you get HisHolySpace.com:

HisHolySpace.com is an online Christian Community that is structured on the . . . → Read More: True Believers™ out to Christianize everything they can.

Dominoes Pizza’s new commercial frightens me.

Have you seen this new Dominoes Pizza commercial?

Gives me the heebie jeebies every time I see it. Especially the dude with the big eyes. They haunt my dreams. Always watching, staring, blinking with enough force to blow over small children and pets.

. . . → Read More: Dominoes Pizza’s new commercial frightens me.

Newsgasm: Anna Nicole Smith is dead and no one knows why…

…but they’re working really hard to speculate the living shit out of the possibilities. It seems every little crumb of info the news media can get their hands on is being slapped onto a taffy puller and stretched as far as they can manage. For example: When paramedics arrived her heart wasn’t beating (a common . . . → Read More: Newsgasm: Anna Nicole Smith is dead and no one knows why…

Pop culture gave Boston a bomb scare today.

Seems the folks in Boston were scared out of their wits over a possible bomb threat today:

The discovery of a series of suspicious objects on bridges, near a medical center, underneath an interstate, and in other crowded public places have set off a wave of bomb scares across Boston, snarling traffic and subways across . . . → Read More: Pop culture gave Boston a bomb scare today.

Crikey! Steve Irwin is dead!

The man known as “The Crocodile Hunter” has kicked the bucket, but interestingly enough it wasn’t a croc that got him:

The naturalist and television star Steve Irwin has died in a diving accident in far north Queensland. He was 44.

Police say he was stung through the heart by a stingray while diving off . . . → Read More: Crikey! Steve Irwin is dead!

Mel Gibson busted for DUI.

Looks like Mel Gibson might have a bit of a drinking problem:

“He was going 87 miles per hour in a 45-miles-per-hour zone,” Whitmore said.

Deputies conducted field sobriety tests. A breath test indicated Gibson’s blood-alcohol level was 0.12 percent, Whitmore said. California drivers 21 and older must remain under 0.08 percent.

Hell, around some . . . → Read More: Mel Gibson busted for DUI.

CBS to put ads on eggs.

The folks at CBS have come up with a novel means of getting the word out on their fall lineup of TV shows. They’re paying a company to laser etch 35 million eggs in September with blurbs promoting various CBS shows using really stupid egg puns. An example of which would be: CSI “Crack the . . . → Read More: CBS to put ads on eggs.