We all know Ozzy's a prankster. Granted...some of the pranks he's pulled are really sick such as biting the head off of a dove. That's pretty sick but sweet at the same time. Here's Ozzy with a prank that I'd put under the "cute" category. He's at a wax museum and pretends to be apart of the exhibit.
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING!
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I thought this was a really cool piece so I've decided to share it with you. You never think guys like Lars had to look up to anyone because they've always been "the man". Well, he really looked up to Dio who just passed away this past Sunday. Tune in on Saturday for our tribute to Ronnie at 7.
A Letter to Ronnie
Dear Ronnie,
I just got off stage in Zagreb. I was met with the news that you've passed on. I'm kind of in shock, but I wanted you to know that you were one of the main reasons I made it onto that stage to begin with. When I first saw you in Elf, opening for Deep Purple in 1975, I was completely blown away by the power in your voice, your presence on stage, your confidence, and the ease with which you seemed to connect to 6000 Danish people and one starry-eyed 11 year old, most of whom were not familiar with Elf's music. The following year, I was so psyched when I heard the results of you joining forces with my favorite guitar player. You guys sounded so right for each other and I instantly became Rainbow's #1 fan in Denmark. In the fall of 1976, when you played your first show in Copenhagen, I was literally in the front row and the couple of times we made eye contact you made me feel like the most important person in the world. The news that you guys were staying in town on your day off somehow embedded itself in my brain and I made the pilgrimage to the Plaza Hotel to see if I could somehow grab a picture, an autograph, a moment, anything. A few hours later you came out and were so kind and caring... pictures, autographs and a couple minutes of casual banter. I was on top of the world, inspired and ready for anything. Rainbow came to Copenhagen a couple more times over the next few years and each time you guys blew my mind, and for a good three years were my absolute favorite band on this planet. Over the years I've been fortunate enough to run into you a half dozen times or so and each time you were as kind, caring and gracious as you were in 1976 outside the hotel. When we finally got a chance to play together in Austria in 2007, even though I may not have let on, I was literally transformed back to that little snot nosed kid who you met and inspired 31 years earlier and it was such a fucking honor and a dream come true to share a stage with you and the rest of the legends in Heaven and Hell. A couple of weeks ago when I heard that you were not going to be able to make it to the Sonisphere shows that we would be sharing this June, I wanted to call you and let you know that I was thinking of you and wish you well, but I kind of pussied out, thinking the last thing you needed in your recovery was feeling obligated to take a phone call from a Danish drummer/fan boy. I wish I'd made that call. We will miss you immensely on the dates, and we will be thinking of you with great admiration and affection during that run. It seemed so right to have you out on tour with the so-called “Big Four” since you obviously were one of the main reasons that the four bands even exist. Your ears will definitely be burning during those two weeks because all of us will be talking, reminiscing and sharing stories about how knowing you has made our lives that much better.
Ronnie, your voice impacted and empowered me, your music inspired and influenced me, and your kindness touched and moved me. Thank you.
Much love,
Lars
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There's always sort of been a rule in sports that everyone follows but no one really knows about. If you get hit in the junk, do not clutch at the jewels. It's just not good for TV. Sami Salo broke this rule in Vancouver's hockey game with Chicago last night but he did have a good reason. He suffered a ruptured testicle from a slapshot.
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The relatively new phenomenon of streaking is awesome. I think it's hilarious! The security people at the various sporting events sure don't find it funny and they've been trying to come up with ways to stop it. They sure found a way to stop it in Philadelphia...TASER!
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It finally happened. One of the most anticipated reunions in rock took place on April 16th and Soundgarden posted one of the songs on YouTube. Check it out!
The original line-up will be playing later this year at the annual Lollapalooza festival. Who else is hoping these guys do a world tour?!
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Mr. Ovechkin is the centre of controversy all over again. Here's why:
Is he a bad guy for spraying the poor little kid or was it all in good fun?
I'm honestly having trouble deciding because I can't stop laughing at the video. It's so funny! Let's face it...the kid didn't get hurt from some snow. I can admit that the incident added a whole lot more to the "hate" factor in this playoff series.
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It's really sad. I'm still in the itchy stage and the Devils are down 3-1 in the series to the Philadelphia Flyers. I still have confidence that they can come back but they can make no more mistakes. The quality of my beard is solely on the back of that team!
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The week of April 18th-24th is Administrative Professionals Week and April 21st is the biggest day of celebration. It is kind of hard to define what an "administrative professional" is because their duties are so widespread. They do everything! We're going to thank you for all that you do by having a contest specially designed for you.
Wednesday morning at 9:00 AM, Chris will read an exerpt from a cheesy romance novel. As you hear it, type it up with proper punctuation and spelling and send it to cgill@newcap.ca to win yourself a prize.
Good luck and thank you for all your hard work!
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Do not leave cookie sheets on the burner!
There's the damage I did. I was stupid (as always) and turned on the wrong burner, the one that had this cookie sheet on it. Smoke was bellowing off of it and it set off my smoke alarm. Thankfully I and nothing else got hurt.
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A playoff tradition that I like to take part in is growing a beard until my team gets knocked out of the playoffs. Sometimes you get a pretty good beard going cheering for a team like the New Jersey Devils. As I've gotten older, more rules have been put in place for me. Some workplaces don't like beards, some women don't like the beards and that's my number one problem. Here is my progress so far but it's all subject to change if certain women in my life make me shave.
Notice the chin hair. That's a goatee. Not a full playoff beard. If the Devils make it deep this year, it will fill out the playoff beard. Updates will be posted every week!
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Today's a great day to be alive, isn't it? It's an even better day to be a rainy one. We need all the excuses we can get to sit on the couch and watch playoff hockey all night.
I'm a New Jersey Devils fan and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the first round is going to be a piece of cake. Philadelphia Flyers? Pfft. You better pick them in this pool.
If you love hockey, why not just pick who you think is going to win so you can win some sweet prizes? You can win numerous gift certificates to Game-On Sports and the grand prize is AWESOME. A Bud Light beer fridge stocked with Bud Light. It doesn't get much better than that.
By the way, if you entered for the regular season pool, the same log-in information will work!
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I guess Tiger's new strategy to earn the public's respect back is to humiliate himself.
It's certainly a hard-hitting commercial. In case you didn't know, the man lecturing Tiger is his deceased father. Is he humiliating himself with this commercial or is he somehow using his father's inspiration to help him on the course? What do you think?
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These guys are always packin' if you know what I mean. It's been proven with Gilbert Arenas going to court after bringing firearms to the arena. Would you really want to pull a prank on one of these guys?
A ball boy for the Denver Nuggets had the guts to! Last week I posted a video of someone buttering a floor but the ball boy actually filled Kenyon Martin's Range Rover with buttered popcorn. I think it's a pretty good one!
Martin sure didn't appreciate it though. Here's what he had to say on the ordeal:
""That ain't no [expletive] joke," Martin said. "I'm going to find out who did it ... put my [expletive] hands on one of y'all. I'm going to put my hands on whoever did it. You better believe that. It's [expletive] personal. You better believe it."
He also threatened that he would skip the playoffs if no one owned up to it. The ball boy ended up admitting he did it to one of the owners of the Denver Nuggets and everything is fine now.
Why is it that hockey is considered such a barbaric sport? It may be on the ice but off of it all the players seem to be pretty good natured. Maybe it's because the sport's dominated by Canadians and we know how to take a joke.
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In honour of April Fool's Day, here's one of my favourites! Explicit language warning! He only says what you'd say if the same thing happened to you though...
What's the best prank you've witnessed? Leave a comment!
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Wrestlemania XXVI was this past Sunday and two days later, I still can't get the images out of my head of The Undertaker handing Shawn Michaels his last tombstone piledriver. Awesome. I think it's awesome and all but this guy really takes it to another level and has become an underground favourite with wrestling fans.
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Have you ever wanted to punch a little kid or his/her mother? I have. I hate when kids stare at me yet they do it all the time. They just stare. No matter how many faces I make or how much I ignore them, they still just stare.
I decided to do some very extensive research on the issue at hand and found this answer:
Babies and children like to look at the prettiest things they can find. They have shown that babies are attracted to the most symmetrical face. It just sounds like you are unusually pretty. Maybe they are just in awe!
Suddenly I feel so much better about myself.
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Everyone knows who Weird Al is! At least I think so since I've always listened to him. He's a hero of mine.
Now I have no idea if this is real or just a two minute clip for us to laugh at but here's a movie preview for the movie "Weird"
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The internet has been around for quite some time now. It's a tool that helps dumb people look smart. Honestly. All people do is whip out their "SmartPhones", look up the answers for life's questions and it makes them feel intelligent. Have you ever wondered what would happen if the internet suddenly shut off?
I have a feeling it would be along the lines of this.
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A Sad Day in Music History
NOT!
NZ Entertainment is reporting that Miley Cyrus is walking away from music because she is lacking inspiration. Apparently, the album that she is releasing later this year will be her last because she wants to rediscover herself as an artist.
I have a question. Who did she inspire anyway?
Another question. Why does she have to be inspired to sing songs that someone else wrote for her? She has one writing credit on her album that came out last year. One. Don't insult me by telling me it's a Miley Cyrus album when it's not. It might as well be Milli Vanilli.
Billy Ray Cyrus on the other hand....yeah! Achy Breaky Heart is AWESOME (even though he didn't write that either). The mullet was sweet though.
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I've always wondered if there was an opposite to anorexia. I did some limited research and found something called "bigorexia". What prompted this very limited research involving Googling "opposite of anorexia"? This.
Someone actually wants to be 1,000 pounds? Sick. I guess this woman is perfectly capable of doing physical activity but she chooses to go shopping with a scooter. She chooses to spend $815 a week on groceries for herself. Wow.
The most disturbing part of the article is the way she makes money to support this "habit". If I was a girl, I would probably think the most disturbing part is the kids that have to live with this slob....but I'm a guy.
People pay to subscribe to her website on the internet to watch her eat and wash herself. Do you love bacon so much that you would get off on watching a 600 pound woman rub the grease all over her busoms? There's a fetish for everything.
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There's been a lot of interesting happenings lately in the NHL and it all started with Matt Cooke's questionable hit on Marc Savard.
It was a very dirty hit as you can see...now we move on to Alexander Ovechkin's hit on Brian Campbell.
Quite the questionable hit too. However, I think that Campbell made a mistake by turning his back to Ovechkin. He shouldn't have done that. He knows that Ovechkin is a wreckless player and was planning on hitting him.
The difference between the two hits? Alexander Ovechkin got suspended for two games and Matt Cooke was handed no suspension. That doesn't make any sense! He threw his arm in the air so he could hit Savard in the head and he's a repeat offender too! Ovechkin is a careless player at times but if Cooke is going to get off with nothing then Ovechkin should be left alone.
These hits will not stop if the NHL won't be consistent with the way they're policed. These hits are also the reason why hockey has a bad name and Americans are scared of it. It's weird, I know. They watch the barbaric NFL where much worse things have happened but they're Americans. Enough said. Leave them alone!
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Fake or not you need to admit that this is very entertaining on Friday. What was he trying to do with that remote? Smuggle it across the border?
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Do you remember high school drama? A guy didn't really want to break up with his girlfriend face-to-face so he hired a friend to do their dirty work.
I totally remember girls getting mad about the way their men would break up with them and vice versa. These days...it's frowned upon to dump someone via text message or over Facebook. The worst way to dump someone has not even been mentioned yet.
Click here to dump that smelly girlfriend in the classiest way possible.
I can't believe anyone would do this but it gets used. idump4u.com is a site where the people there get hired to do someone's dirty work, record the phone call, and put it on YouTube.
Remember. If someone ever calls you a bad person...there's always someone who's worse.
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E*Trade...the company with the famous "talking baby" commercials is getting sued. This is the ad in question:
Guess who is orchestrating the lawsuit. Lindsay Lohan.
"They're using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn't they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody's talking about it and saying it's Lindsay Lohan," her lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said.
I guess she's trying to market herself as a star that uses one name (i.e. Sting, Oprah). I'm sorry. When someone says "Lindsay", Lindsay Lohan doesn't pop into my head.
And since when is being an alcoholic the same as being a milkaholic? A spokesperson for E*Trade defends the company by saying they "just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team."
Since Lohan's lawyer suggested they use the name Susan, I suppose Ms. Boyle will have her panties in a knot soon too.
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And let the line-ups begin. Thousands of men are now applying to be on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to sit across from Meredith Vieira!
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June 26th...Rexall Place in Edmonton....
Iron Maiden
It's going to be an awesome show. Dream Theater is the opening act which makes it that much better. Tickets go on sale next Saturday so check back here for the ticket link when Ticketmaster puts it up!
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Fighting in women's sports does not happen all the time...it's very rare. We almost saw a full blown fight in a women's soccer game a couple months back but it finally happened! Here's what happened in a college basketball game a few days ago.
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When the NHL came! I'm so glad to have the NHL back. There were 12 games on the schedule yesterday and I was happy to see Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils beat the San Jose Sharks, one of the best teams in the league.
However, the mention of Mr. Brodeur brings me to another topic. I have recently been accused of not caring about what the rest of Team Canada accomplished because Brodeur wasn't in net. First of all....this accusation comes from a man that thinks every fight Tiger Williams had should have counted as a goal so I should really throw it to the wayside.
He's a Canucks fan and I'm a Devils fan. The difference is I can see a good goalie when one shows up. Martin Brodeur is the best goalie to have ever played the game and would have won the rest of the tournament if Canada had played the way they ended up playing. Hockey is a team sport. If the team in front of the goalie doesn't play well, they usually don't win. Especially an entire tournament.
Others think Brodeur only is good because of the team in front of him. Have you watched hockey since 2003? No? Well, New Jersey isn't the defensive powerhouse they used to be. Brent Sutter was the coach. An offensive juggernaut.
So congratulations to Team Canada and congratulations to Marty Brodeur for being a class act during the whole tournament. He always had a smile on his face on the bench and was happy for his team winning gold.
Go Devils!
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