Kinda Funny

Another brilliant and hilarious web 2.0 marketing ploy along the lines of The Sith Sense and The Subservient Chicken: Send a Snakes on a Plane prank call from Samuel L. Jackson (via Waxy.org) In other funny Samuel L. Jackson news, it's been reported that he will play the voice of God in a new audio version of the Bible (via Digg).

July 2006 seems to be the month of ironic DUI incidents... First, in mid-July, Peter Coors (executive of the Coors Brewing Company) lost his license as a result of a May incident. From an AP article on MSNBC.com:

Beer baron Peter Coors' driver's license has been revoked after his arrest for drunken driving following a wedding celebration. Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign and was driving impaired on May 28. Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving the wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. He faces a July 20 arraignment and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.

Then, at the end of July, Mel Gibson (who has long been dogged by charges of anti-Semitism due to his Passion of the Christ movie and statements about the holocaust made by his father) was arrested for DUI and made sexist and anti-semitic comments. Slate.com described the controversy and showed some of the police report here.

From an AP article of the same title on MSNBC.com:

A former handyman has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection. Charles "Chick" Lennon, 68, received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before Viagra went on the market. The Dura-II is designed to allow impotent men to position the penis upward for sex, then lower it. But Lennon could not position his penis downward. He said he could no longer hug people, ride a bike, swim or wear bathing trunks because of the pain and embarrassment. He has become a recluse and is uncomfortable being around his grandchildren, his lawyer said… Lennon cannot get the implant removed because of health problems, including open-heart surgery, his lawyer said.

If you watch TV, you must have seen that goofy Head On commercial. Apparently, it's at least partly intentional. Get the story from Slate here.

From an article of the same title by Darren Rovell on ESPN.com:

Now this is really fantasy sports. The Schaumburg Flyers, an independent baseball team located 30 miles from Chicago, have agreed to turn over to fans the managerial decisions such as the batting lineup, fielding positions and the pitching roster for the second half of the club's season. The project, called "Fan Club: Reality Baseball" is the result of an alliance between production company LivePlanet, which will be responsible for the behind-the-scenes storytelling, and Microsoft's MSN, the Web site that will display everything from the team's day-to-day statistics to video highlights with the potential to stream games live.