Bring in ‘da noise, bring in ‘da flunk.
Officials at South Carolina’s College of Charleston have agreed to halt construction of a new campus building during final exams, apparently worried that the noise could affect students’ performance.
The school originally had planned to issue earplugs.
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Garage-door remote-control devices were recently knocked out of commission for miles around when a secretive Air Force facility in Colorado Springs, Colo., tested the radio frequency it plans to use in the event of a homeland-security threat.
It seems that the Air Force uses the same frequency that controls an estimated 50 million garage-door openers around the country.
And unless a slight adjustment can be made in the frequency, affected homeowners will have to shell out $250 each to have new units installed, according to an official with the Overhead Door Co.
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It was a thumbs-up performance.
Circus ringmaster Daniel Renz went on with the show – even after a 5-foot-9-inch crocodile bit off his thumb during a performance in Le Mans, France.
Renz closed his act by holding up his thumbless hand, to enthusiastic applause.
“The audience thought it was just part of the show,” he said.
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Talk about getting the shaft.
A British couple is trying to sell the three-bedroom, semidetached Victorian house they just bought in Cornwall for $2,000, even though it would normally would be worth $200,000.
Why the bargain price? A survey just determined that the house is built over an old tin-mine shaft that could swallow it up at any time.
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A woman in Orissa, India, who recently died at age 120, attributed her long life to good joints – the smoking kind.
Fulla Nayak said she puffed on marijuana cigars daily in the hut she shared with her 92-year-old daughter and 72-year-old grandson.