Saturday, September 29, 2007
Early CocaCola Labels
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The 25 Ugliest Celebrities
The 25 Ugliest Celebrities
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Who said you have to be hot to be famous? Below is the 2007 list of the Ugliest Celebrities!
25. Renee Zellweger
Did anyone see Bridget Jones’ Diary? One glance at Renee in that Playboy Bunny costume should be enough to realize why she made this list.
24. Jay Leno
Don’t let his massive, crescent-moon shaped face distract you from his terrible monologues. It’s all part of the plan. He’s difficult to look at, and about as funny as ball cancer.
23. Goldie Hawn
Let’s call Goldie “weathered”, to be nice. I assume we’re all in agreement that women with side boobs should not wear such revealing dresses? That said, it takes a brave person to wear a wig made of straw in public.
22. John Heder
John Herder is living proof you can actually breed Barbaro with a Nathan’s Hotdog.
21. Carrot Top
Carrot Top looks like a real life hobgoblin … on steroids … with a perm … but less funny.
20. Howard Stern
You could argue that if we include Howard Stern on the list, we should also include Slash and Joey Ramone. But both of them use their hair as a mask - and sadly, Stern doesn’t. Somehow, someway, Stern is even ugly on radio. Even more shocking, this face is post-plastic surgery.
19. Fergie
Her lovely lady lumps ain’t that lovely, especially when dripping with the crotch-sweat apparent at so many of her concerts. The busted-ass eyebrow ring circa, 1993? Saucy!
18. Tori Spelling
Her father Aaron Spelling has been dead for six months and still is substantially better looking.
17. Clay Aiken
He’s kind of like an ugly duckling that grew up into an uglier version of Martin Short, only with red-hair, and a mouthful of baby teeth. And if he looks like this on the street, imagine how unattractive he is when taking a wide stance in an airport restroom.
16. Star Jones
The surgery can’t remove all the skin that used to hold in her fat. So it ain’t just her shirt that she’s now tucking into her Size 6 jeans. And she looks like the box that Nell Carter gets shipped in.
15. Kirsten Dunst
I guess she’s kinda cute… if you are into trailer park chicks. Or if you have a fetish for super tiny teeth, in which case, you’d probably be better off banging a porpoise. Snaggletooth is much more fit playing the role of a vampire or jack o’lantern rather than a superhero’s girl.
14. Willem Dafoe
He’s great because he starred in The Boondock Saints. But not that great, because he starred as the cross dressing gay cop in The Boondock Saints. And looked more like a woman than I do most days.
13. Brigette Nielson
Nothing will get you on a list quicker then a pair of veiny porcelain beach balls. She’s so ugly that Mark Gastineau used to make her wear his helmet - backwards - when he banged her. And it only got worse as Flavor Flav’s clock slapped off her face repeatedly.
12. Sarah Jessica Parker
The demonspawn of the toll-collecting ogre and the wicked witch of the west, our favorite Sarah Jessica Parker role was when she played Dee Snyder in Twisted Sister for all those years.
11. Flavor Flav
A clock on my chest proves I don’t fess,
I’m a clock-a, rock-a rockin’ wit-da-rest,
Flavor in da house by Chuck-D’s side,
with a face that looks like I was trapped in my mom’s birth canal for about 27 seconds too long….”
10. Steve Buscemi
He was Ugly in Reservoir Dogs. He was Ugly in Fargo. And more recently, he was Ugly in The Sopranos. The guy is good.
9. Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson went from giving kids wet dreams to dishing out nightmares with her new “Howard the Duck” look.
8. Amy Winehouse
Sure, she’s young, and thin, and trendy…. And by “trendy” we mean “a heroin-addicted, hepatitis-infested skeleton.”
7. Tim Burton
The ratlike grin says “Who stole my cheese?” and the hair says “Yes, it’s pubic!” Couple those with a scorching case of halitosis, and you’ve got a goddamned trifecta! Only someone this repugnant could develop a story as dark and deeply emotive as Edward Scissorhands.
6. Lyle Lovett
Behold! It’s Lyle, the probiscis monkey!
5. Kelly Osbourne
Kind of like The Cure’s Robert Smith, but with a vagina.
4. Perez Hilton
There’s nothing like a bitchy queen with absolutely no sense of style and a connection to the internet. Give me a tweezer, some clippers and a gag, and he’ll be as good as new. Love the gingivitis!
3. Michael Moore
Nobody likes a fat kid. And even less people like a fat kid who shoves their politics down everyone else’s throat. Hasn’t this portly gadfly made enough money to buy himself a gastric-bypass and a nice Schick Quattro by now? Less Moore, please.
2. Michael Jackson
On Halloween at the Neverland Ranch, the pre-teens strewn across his bed were the treats and Michael’s face was the trick.
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue Who?
Michael Jackson.
1. Courtney Love
What in the world did Kurt ever see in this hag? She just needs someone to take her in, feed her, shower her, and buy her some Summer’s Eve.
http://campussqueeze.com/static/the-25-ugliest-celebrities.html
Who said you have to be hot to be famous? Below is the 2007 list of the Ugliest Celebrities!
25. Renee Zellweger
Did anyone see Bridget Jones’ Diary? One glance at Renee in that Playboy Bunny costume should be enough to realize why she made this list.
24. Jay Leno
Don’t let his massive, crescent-moon shaped face distract you from his terrible monologues. It’s all part of the plan. He’s difficult to look at, and about as funny as ball cancer.
23. Goldie Hawn
Let’s call Goldie “weathered”, to be nice. I assume we’re all in agreement that women with side boobs should not wear such revealing dresses? That said, it takes a brave person to wear a wig made of straw in public.
22. John Heder
John Herder is living proof you can actually breed Barbaro with a Nathan’s Hotdog.
21. Carrot Top
Carrot Top looks like a real life hobgoblin … on steroids … with a perm … but less funny.
20. Howard Stern
You could argue that if we include Howard Stern on the list, we should also include Slash and Joey Ramone. But both of them use their hair as a mask - and sadly, Stern doesn’t. Somehow, someway, Stern is even ugly on radio. Even more shocking, this face is post-plastic surgery.
19. Fergie
Her lovely lady lumps ain’t that lovely, especially when dripping with the crotch-sweat apparent at so many of her concerts. The busted-ass eyebrow ring circa, 1993? Saucy!
18. Tori Spelling
Her father Aaron Spelling has been dead for six months and still is substantially better looking.
17. Clay Aiken
He’s kind of like an ugly duckling that grew up into an uglier version of Martin Short, only with red-hair, and a mouthful of baby teeth. And if he looks like this on the street, imagine how unattractive he is when taking a wide stance in an airport restroom.
16. Star Jones
The surgery can’t remove all the skin that used to hold in her fat. So it ain’t just her shirt that she’s now tucking into her Size 6 jeans. And she looks like the box that Nell Carter gets shipped in.
15. Kirsten Dunst
I guess she’s kinda cute… if you are into trailer park chicks. Or if you have a fetish for super tiny teeth, in which case, you’d probably be better off banging a porpoise. Snaggletooth is much more fit playing the role of a vampire or jack o’lantern rather than a superhero’s girl.
14. Willem Dafoe
He’s great because he starred in The Boondock Saints. But not that great, because he starred as the cross dressing gay cop in The Boondock Saints. And looked more like a woman than I do most days.
13. Brigette Nielson
Nothing will get you on a list quicker then a pair of veiny porcelain beach balls. She’s so ugly that Mark Gastineau used to make her wear his helmet - backwards - when he banged her. And it only got worse as Flavor Flav’s clock slapped off her face repeatedly.
12. Sarah Jessica Parker
The demonspawn of the toll-collecting ogre and the wicked witch of the west, our favorite Sarah Jessica Parker role was when she played Dee Snyder in Twisted Sister for all those years.
11. Flavor Flav
A clock on my chest proves I don’t fess,
I’m a clock-a, rock-a rockin’ wit-da-rest,
Flavor in da house by Chuck-D’s side,
with a face that looks like I was trapped in my mom’s birth canal for about 27 seconds too long….”
10. Steve Buscemi
He was Ugly in Reservoir Dogs. He was Ugly in Fargo. And more recently, he was Ugly in The Sopranos. The guy is good.
9. Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson went from giving kids wet dreams to dishing out nightmares with her new “Howard the Duck” look.
8. Amy Winehouse
Sure, she’s young, and thin, and trendy…. And by “trendy” we mean “a heroin-addicted, hepatitis-infested skeleton.”
7. Tim Burton
The ratlike grin says “Who stole my cheese?” and the hair says “Yes, it’s pubic!” Couple those with a scorching case of halitosis, and you’ve got a goddamned trifecta! Only someone this repugnant could develop a story as dark and deeply emotive as Edward Scissorhands.
6. Lyle Lovett
Behold! It’s Lyle, the probiscis monkey!
5. Kelly Osbourne
Kind of like The Cure’s Robert Smith, but with a vagina.
4. Perez Hilton
There’s nothing like a bitchy queen with absolutely no sense of style and a connection to the internet. Give me a tweezer, some clippers and a gag, and he’ll be as good as new. Love the gingivitis!
3. Michael Moore
Nobody likes a fat kid. And even less people like a fat kid who shoves their politics down everyone else’s throat. Hasn’t this portly gadfly made enough money to buy himself a gastric-bypass and a nice Schick Quattro by now? Less Moore, please.
2. Michael Jackson
On Halloween at the Neverland Ranch, the pre-teens strewn across his bed were the treats and Michael’s face was the trick.
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue Who?
Michael Jackson.
1. Courtney Love
What in the world did Kurt ever see in this hag? She just needs someone to take her in, feed her, shower her, and buy her some Summer’s Eve.
Labels: Celebrity, Entertainment
Read more!Monday, September 24, 2007
Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, September 11, 2007
Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, September 11, 2007—A giant sign worthy of Times Square in New Yorkmarked the arrival of a new millennium in the Ethiopian capital on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands packed the city's central square to ring in the year 2000.
The traditional Ethiopian calendar, based on the one used in ancient Egypt, has 12 months plus an extra five-to-six-day period that serves as a 13th month. Over the centuries this has caused a seven-year lag behind the calendar used in the Western world.
Celebrations included fireworks, feasts of goat and mutton, and the music of U.S. pop celebrities the Black Eyed Peas.
Security was tight, however, as political unrest continued in the country's eastern region near Somalia and border strife persisted with neighboring.
"I hope the next thousand years will deliver peace and unity," one partygoer told the Reuters news service.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
WORLD'S RICHEST ROYALS
The world's richest royals
By Devon Pendleton and Tatiana Serafin Forbes.com
Published: September 16, 2007
Last year's movie sensation, The Queen, about Queen Elizabeth II, captured the monarch's lavish lifestyle with footage of her opulent castles and many servants. Not a bad life, but she comes in a mere 11th on our ranking of the world's richest royalty, worth an estimated $600 million. She can take some comfort in the fact that she's the world's wealthiest female ruler and just one of two women to make our list.
In the top spot is the Sultan of Brunei, worth $22 billion, 36 times more than the Queen of England. The Sultan who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty recently celebrated his 40th anniversary as ruler of the oil-rich land. The only other Asian monarch to make the cut is the world's longest-reigning living monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the deity-revered king of Thailand, who we estimate is worth $5 billion.
In Pictures: World's Richest Royals
More than a third of the rulers, six to be precise, preside over oil-rich territories in the Middle East including the Emir of Qatar who funded Al Jazeera, the King of Saudi Arabia who is building a $26 billion city named in his honor and the ruler of Dubai, whose government bought stakes in HSBC and Deutsche Bank this year. The region's richest is Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ranked No. 2 overall, who rules over the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi, home to one-tenth of the world's oil reserves.
We estimate his net worth to be $21 billion. He is promoting the territory as the cultural hub of the Middle East and plans to open a Frank Gehry-designed branch of the Guggenheim Museum in 2011. Seventy-eight-year-old Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah took over as emir of Kuwait last year after the crown prince was deemed too ill to ascend the throne; he wasted no time in voting for a significant raise in the royal family stipend.
In Pictures: World's Richest Royals
In Pictures: The World's Most Eligible Royals
In Pictures: Hottest Billionaire Heiresses
In Pictures: World's Billionaires 2007
In Pictures: Richest People You've Never Heard Of
The list's youngest member and the only one from sub-Saharan Africa is 39-year-old King Mswati III of Swaziland, with a net worth of $200 million. Almost every year, he chooses a new bride from among 20,000 naked bare-breasted virgins; so far, he has 13 wives and is building a palace for each. The list's only bachelor is Prince Albert II of Monaco. Best known as a playboy who fathered two children out of wedlock, he inherited the tiny principality that is just about the size of New York City's Central Park in 2005, after his father died.
Prince Albert's title, and much of his fortune, has been in his family for 700 years. But that's not unusual for these dynasties. Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein, for instance, resides over a $4.5 billion fortune that stretches back 900 years and encompasses a 400-year-old art collection with 1,600 paintings, including 33 Rubens, the largest such collection in private hands.
The collective worth of the list's 15 rulers is $95 billion, about the size of the gross domestic product of Chile or New Zealand. The only ruler who doesn't preside over a geographic territory is the Aga Kahn. Rather, he is the spiritual leader of the world's dispersed 15 million Ismaili Muslims. A suave businessman, he's been in the press recently because he is divorcing his second wife; his first ex-wife reportedly received a $20 million payout.
Keep in mind that the wealth of the royals is often shared with extended families and often represents money that is controlled by them in trust for their nation or territory. Therefore none of them would qualify for our list of the world's billionaires, regardless of their net worth.
Another note: While we have tracked the fortunes of a few high-profile royals like the Queen of England and Sultan of Brunei for years, this is the first time we scoured the globe in search of a truly definitive list. Monarchs of such countries as Spain and Japan failed to make the cut.
By Devon Pendleton and Tatiana Serafin Forbes.com
Published: September 16, 2007
Last year's movie sensation, The Queen, about Queen Elizabeth II, captured the monarch's lavish lifestyle with footage of her opulent castles and many servants. Not a bad life, but she comes in a mere 11th on our ranking of the world's richest royalty, worth an estimated $600 million. She can take some comfort in the fact that she's the world's wealthiest female ruler and just one of two women to make our list.
In the top spot is the Sultan of Brunei, worth $22 billion, 36 times more than the Queen of England. The Sultan who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty recently celebrated his 40th anniversary as ruler of the oil-rich land. The only other Asian monarch to make the cut is the world's longest-reigning living monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the deity-revered king of Thailand, who we estimate is worth $5 billion.
In Pictures: World's Richest Royals
More than a third of the rulers, six to be precise, preside over oil-rich territories in the Middle East including the Emir of Qatar who funded Al Jazeera, the King of Saudi Arabia who is building a $26 billion city named in his honor and the ruler of Dubai, whose government bought stakes in HSBC and Deutsche Bank this year. The region's richest is Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ranked No. 2 overall, who rules over the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi, home to one-tenth of the world's oil reserves.
We estimate his net worth to be $21 billion. He is promoting the territory as the cultural hub of the Middle East and plans to open a Frank Gehry-designed branch of the Guggenheim Museum in 2011. Seventy-eight-year-old Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah took over as emir of Kuwait last year after the crown prince was deemed too ill to ascend the throne; he wasted no time in voting for a significant raise in the royal family stipend.
In Pictures: World's Richest Royals
In Pictures: The World's Most Eligible Royals
In Pictures: Hottest Billionaire Heiresses
In Pictures: World's Billionaires 2007
In Pictures: Richest People You've Never Heard Of
The list's youngest member and the only one from sub-Saharan Africa is 39-year-old King Mswati III of Swaziland, with a net worth of $200 million. Almost every year, he chooses a new bride from among 20,000 naked bare-breasted virgins; so far, he has 13 wives and is building a palace for each. The list's only bachelor is Prince Albert II of Monaco. Best known as a playboy who fathered two children out of wedlock, he inherited the tiny principality that is just about the size of New York City's Central Park in 2005, after his father died.
Prince Albert's title, and much of his fortune, has been in his family for 700 years. But that's not unusual for these dynasties. Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein, for instance, resides over a $4.5 billion fortune that stretches back 900 years and encompasses a 400-year-old art collection with 1,600 paintings, including 33 Rubens, the largest such collection in private hands.
The collective worth of the list's 15 rulers is $95 billion, about the size of the gross domestic product of Chile or New Zealand. The only ruler who doesn't preside over a geographic territory is the Aga Kahn. Rather, he is the spiritual leader of the world's dispersed 15 million Ismaili Muslims. A suave businessman, he's been in the press recently because he is divorcing his second wife; his first ex-wife reportedly received a $20 million payout.
Keep in mind that the wealth of the royals is often shared with extended families and often represents money that is controlled by them in trust for their nation or territory. Therefore none of them would qualify for our list of the world's billionaires, regardless of their net worth.
Another note: While we have tracked the fortunes of a few high-profile royals like the Queen of England and Sultan of Brunei for years, this is the first time we scoured the globe in search of a truly definitive list. Monarchs of such countries as Spain and Japan failed to make the cut.
Labels: World Business
Read more!Wednesday, September 19, 2007
How to Hide An AeroPlane Factory
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Mosque in Brunei
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque
Built: 1958 Cost: USD $5,000,000 Type: Holy place Observation deck: Yes Location: Kampong Ayer, Bandar Seri Begawan (formerly Brunei Town)
A mazing in appearance, but too beautiful to be true, The Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is Brunei's proudest architectural achievement. It sits on an artificial lagoon near the Brunei River in Kampong Ayer, which is appropriately enough, known as a "water village." A structure in the water that resembles a ship was at one time used for official state ceremonies. The mosque is the largest in the Far East, and considered among the most beautiful in the world. It reaches a height of 52 meters and is topped with a gold dome supported by walls of Italian marble, which also forms the mosque's columns, arches, and towers. The stained glass was hand made in England and the carpets are Saudi Arabian
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Built: 1958 Cost: USD $5,000,000 Type: Holy place Observation deck: Yes Location: Kampong Ayer, Bandar Seri Begawan (formerly Brunei Town)
A mazing in appearance, but too beautiful to be true, The Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is Brunei's proudest architectural achievement. It sits on an artificial lagoon near the Brunei River in Kampong Ayer, which is appropriately enough, known as a "water village." A structure in the water that resembles a ship was at one time used for official state ceremonies. The mosque is the largest in the Far East, and considered among the most beautiful in the world. It reaches a height of 52 meters and is topped with a gold dome supported by walls of Italian marble, which also forms the mosque's columns, arches, and towers. The stained glass was hand made in England and the carpets are Saudi Arabian
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