Weird News |
These are just some stories that i thought were kinda odd and pretty funny. |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Longtime umpire Bruce Froemming has been suspended for 10 days and has lost his opening-day assignment in Tokyo for using an anti-Semitic slur to describe a major league baseball administrator, sources said. USA Today reported Friday that Froemming had been pulled from the Japan trip and was expected to be suspended for the slur in a conversation about umpiring administrator Cathy Davis. The newspaper said Froemming called Davis a "stupid Jew bitch." Two baseball management sources, speaking on the condition they not be identified, told The Associated Press late Thursday night that Froemming was suspended for 10 days without pay. Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:00:30 PST Story from AP / BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press (via ClariNet) |
If you thought school spirit meant just plastering your college bumper sticker on your car, think again. These days, devoted alumni and fans of their college team can show their undying school spirit — in a college-themed casket. "It's definitely different than a T-shirt," Pat Walker, operations manager of Duke University Stores, said. (Taken from a story on FOXNews.com) |
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In fact, claims Los Angeles dentist Harold Katz, so many celebs have stinky breath that he's built a business of treating performers with halitosis.
"There are a handful of A-list movie stars, a lot of B-list. A lot of them are singers," said Katz, who describes himself as the "fresh-breath guru to the stars." Katz won't reveal the names of any clients. But he did say one of the first celebs to visit him was a well-known singer who often appears in Las Vegas. "One reason they're so concerned is that when they're singing they have their mouths wide open and people close to them," said Katz. "They're afraid of someone detecting bad breath on them." A white tongue signals a problem, so singers sometimes worry people will notice it. 
Stars like Hugh Grant and Ben Affleck might not be such a huge draw at the box office if the audiences could take a whiff, according to some reports. And Clark Gable might not have made women yearn to kiss him the way Vivian Leigh did in Gone With the Wind. "No one ever talks about stars with bad breath," said E! online columnist Anderson Jones. "Fame gives off such a powerful aura that it blinds us to the things that make these stars human." Rumor has it cohorts of Grant begged him to eat a Listerine strip at last year's Academy Awards, according to Katz — who tried unsuccessfully to contact the Two Weeks Notice star about treatment. "I couldn't get to him — he had an army of people around him," Katz said. Affleck's leading ladies have also fussed about his icky breath, according to British newspapers, including the London Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. "Sandra Bullock recently complained that her co-star Ben Affleck had smelly breath," the Telegraph wrote, after the duo worked on Forces of Nature. |
