BOSTON (Reuters) – Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan’s Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead.

Celebrities may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.

Redneck Truck Jump This dude gets some insane hang time on a backyard snow/dirt ramp. What do you think is more screwed up from the landing, the cars shocks or the drivers spine?

Dog Terrified Of The Car Wash Hilarious reaction from a dog as he travels through a car wash for the first time.

A Swedish woman discovers her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.

Dude Rocks Out With gAtari: Atari 2600 Guitar If you're old enough to remember Atari 2600, you remember that it had some memorably bad music. This dude has turned an Atari 2600 into a musical instrument and uses it to rock a crowd at Blipfest.

By encircling | December 30, 2011 - 10:21 pm - Posted in funny news weird news funny images funny videos funny pics
1 to ryan stiles’ nose, how indescribable is this forum?

A venomous cone snail engulfs its prey before spearing it with a harpoon-like barb and paralysing it, footage shows.

Parkour Chick Smashes Face On Vault Move It looks like she wanted to end 2011 on a painful nose… I mean, "note."

Tank-Tracked Truck Great. Now there's no escaping rednecks.

A Painful Year For BMX Great compilation of some of the hardest hitting BMX wipeouts from 2011.

Chick Has Strange Talent Here is a talent that's bound to raise a few eyebrows.

Kanye West Could Have Been Killed Amazing that Kanye managed to go on with the show and continue to risk his life like that.

Amazing photos of Kanzi the bonobo lighting a fire and cooking a meal.

Michigan’s Lake Superior State University is featuring those phrases in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, …


A SHORTAGE of grasshoppers is a serious problem in a country where the insects are eaten as bar snacks with beers.


LONDON (Reuters) – Bunga Bunga, Zenga Zenga, a tweeting cobra and other wacky news capped a year that saw the capture of America’s most wanted man and the overthrow of dictators.

A 99-year-old Italian man is divorcing his wife of 77 years over an affair she had in the 1940s.

Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can’t go together.

A South African newspaper apologises after tweeting an inaccurate report about Nelson Mandela being hospitalised.

Samoa and Tokelau skip a day and jump to the other side of the international dateline to align with trade partners.

A SHORTAGE of grasshoppers is a serious problem in a country where the insects are eaten as bar snacks with beers.


Occasionally we all wish we could skip a day. Well now that wish has come true for the people of Samoa.

Occasionally we all wish we could skip a day. Well now that wish has come true for the people of Samoa.