Showing posts with label cause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cause. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2008

'When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza line...'

A Florida pizza parlor has set the Guinness World Record for longest line of pizzas. Delicioso!

Scott Van Duzer and employees of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta created a chain of pizza on Saturday that reached just over 722 feet. A judge believes it broke a previous Guinness World Record of just over 611 feet that was set in Italy in 2006.

The record-breaking event was also for a good cause: The parlor raised money for a St. Lucie County firefighter and his family who had their home destroyed by fire earlier in the week.

I still question where people come up with this stuff? Longest line of pizza? Like, what? But I love how Florida steals this record away from Italy. That's just messed up.

Teams of people turned out for the pizza line, which I'm sure had nothing to do with the fact that it was free pizza all around once the length had been tallied.

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Help the children!

I got this information via Facebook event, and I'd like to put the word out for readers to lend a hand - it takes like, three seconds, and it's for a great cause!

Colgate-Palmolive and Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation have teamed up this year to help children with Sickle Cell Disease and their families cope by providing 'Fun Centers' in hospitals, and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia is in the running.

I know many readers are not from the Philly area, so I guess you could vote for another hospital if you really wanted to...but if it doesn't make a difference to you, vote for St. Chris' and help the kiddies!

Besides, Philly can't win Super Bowls or World Series or Stanley Cups...(haha, sorry, had to put that in there), you can help them win something!

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Shake it like a snow globe

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have launched a set of animated holiday e-cards to promote mockery and malevolence of animal-abusing celebrities, featuring--who else? Michael Vick.

The cards depict each celeb in his or her own snow globe world, participating in some activity that PETA deems cruel, i.e. wearing fur, hunting, skinning chickens. The user can select which card they'd like to view and click and shake the snow globe.


Vick's features the football star clad in an orange jumpsuit and football helmet, pacing the grounds of prison while security guards and growling dogs patrol.

Other celebs include Dick Cheney, Colonel Sanders and Kate Moss.

My personal fav is Mary Kate and Ashley Olson, which Peta has lovingly named "Hairy Kate and Trashley Trollson." The twins scream when they're flying through the air and return to a dancing position once you've stopped shaking, but then randomly some old man stumbles by and throws up on them, and they say, "How rude!" Any old school Full House reference gets an A in my book, whether the card is lame or not.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Boobs from a boob

If you're still stuck on what to get people for Christmas, considering shelling out like, $300 to bid on porn star Mary Carey's breast implants on eBay!

The star of "Big Breasted Beauties" has recently removed her 36-DD implants for 36-DDD, and said that while under anesthesia, she realized that she could sell the used implants to benefit cancer research.

She's gotta be one smart porn star to come up with that while unconscious.

The current high bid on eBay is $2,700 (plus $12 shipping). Carey says she wants the winner to have a "Mary Christmas"--brilliant!

Carey said she will donate 90 percent of the autograph fake boob proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and the rest of the money will go toward her mother's medical bills, because she jumped out of a four-story building last year. Um??

"I'm actually overall very anti-plastic surgery. I watched my mom go through 11 surgeries (for her injuries) and it's like, for me to voluntarily put myself through that, the only right thing to do is make money and donate it to charity." --Mary Carey
Other than her adult films, you may remember Carey from her campaign for governor against Arnold, but you can catch her beating drug and alcohol addiction in VH1's new reality show "Celebrity Rehab," starring Dr. Drew, coming soon.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Kill some time for a cause

I apologize for the scarcity in posting; it's a busy life a journalist leads.

...But to kill time and improve your vocabulary while simultaneously feeding the hungry, visit this site. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. For each word you correctly identify, 10 grains of rice are given to the hungry.

Challenging game with worldly benefits - yum.