James Blunt Sold His Sister on eBay

The "You're Beautiful" singer said he did indeed sell his sister on eBay… but it was for a good cause.

"I came back to the flat where my sister was staying and she was crying because she couldn't get to a funeral in Ireland. The planes were on strike, the ferry was out of season, and there were no trains."

So he came up with an innovative solution to the problem. "I ended up whacking it on eBay: 'Damsel in distress seeks knight in shining armor! Desperate to get to a funeral in southern Ireland, please help!' The bids flooded in and the guy who won had a helicopter."

A little more than three years later the fairy tale has a happily ever after ending. Blunt says. "That was three years ago. This summer they're getting married. That was the stupidest thing I've ever sold on eBay – my sister."

Second Life in Real Life

A great promotional video for the ad agency Draftfcb using their Paris office staff showing just how ridiculous Second Life would look if it took place in our first life.



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Get A First Life is a fabulous Second Life parody by web geek Darren Barefoot. Membership is free. Linden Labs’ (the creators of Second Life) great comment on Darren’s blog post. Instead of sending him a cease-and-desist letter, which is all too often common for harmless fun, they granted him license to use the modified version of their logo.

They Were Not Filming A National Lampoon Movie

A Meadville, PA street was turned into a giant pinball playfield when a 1,500-pound wrecking ball broke loose from a crane cable and rolled nearly three-quarters of a mile downhill, bouncing from one side of the street to the other damaging more than a dozen vehicles.

The wrecking ball finally slammed into the trunk of a car, which hit the car in front, and sent that car hitting the car in front of it. All three cars were pushed approximately 20 feet from the impact. Can you imagine filling out the insurance records and explaining that "yes a wrecking ball slammed into the back of my car."

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