They’ll be singing “I’ll Be High for Christmas” this week in Colorado.
Entrepreneurs in the Rocky Mountain State, where voters legalized marijuana, might take a cue from Denver’s Westword newspaper, which published a list of the 10 best pot-themed Christmas gifts.
Included is a special $500 vaporizer that mixes in that sweet, sweet air.
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The outdoor guests are just “feline fine” at this bar.
Animal lover Cheryl Brown, a server at the Yorktown Pub in Yorktown, Va., is a “cat whisperer” who attracts and serves meals to the town’s feral felines.
She and the pub take in donations to defray the cost of spaying and neutering her hometown friends.
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For those who gotta rock, a doctor’s note for disability dough.
A Swedish man claims his strong love of heavy metal keeps him from holding a steady job — so he found a psychologist willing to officially declare him an addict.
The note helped headbanger Roger Tullgren, 42, get disability.
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Experts at Britain’s Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall have grown the world’s most expensive and sweetest pineapple.
Using greenhouses and tons of horse manure mixed with equine urine, the fruit was nurtured over two years using traditional Victorian gardening techniques.
Calculating the cost of the pricey project, each prickly sweet fruit sucked in about $16,000.
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Some words just don’t naturally roll off the tongue.
A poll of court reporters in Great Britain reveals the most mispronounced English words, including “phenomenon,” “remuneration,” “statistics,” “conjugal,” “specific,” “processes” and “development.”
“When it comes to the English language, it always seems to be the same few words that verbally trip people up,” said Leah Willersdorf of the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters.