June 11--The public, it was announced Thursday, will be able to get its hands on the much-anticipated consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in early 2016, and each unit will come with an Xbox One gamepad. Or so it will seem.
Pizza Hut will offer the Hot Dog Bites Pizza, with "hot dog bites" in the crust, for a limited time beginning next week. A chance to choke to death with every bite!
Hot Dog Bites Pizza aims to combine pizza with pigs in a blanket. But it's June, so the blanket is probably unnecessary, leaving just the pigs with the pizza.
The FIFA spokesman who called the arrest of top officials a "good day" has resigned after saying in an interview: "FIFA President Sepp Blatter, the director of communications and the general secretary are all sitting in a car -- who is driving? The police." He may have been joking.
Normally appending "-gate" to scandals since Watergate is to be avoided. But with the resignation of Poland's parliamentary speaker and treasury, health and sports ministers after recordings of their restaurant conversations leaked, it's tough to hate Waitergate.
Researchers reportedly have found that a tribe from Papua New Guinea that once ate relatives' brains at funerals is resistant to certain types of dementia. Food for thought next time a thought is stuck on the tip of your tongue.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch is reportedly planning to turn over the reins of his media empire to two of his sons. At age 84, Rupert knows there might be a Hot Dog Bites Pizza out there with his name on it.
Enforcement of Chicago's new $10 minimum hourly wage will rely largely on worker complaints against noncompliant employers. Hmm. You don't suppose the sort of business that would stiff its lowest workers might also trim its payroll of "non-team players," do you? Yeah. Great system.
Out to crush an illicit beer-and-booze business annually grossing the equivalent of at least $1 billion today, the feds hit Al Capone and 68 henchmen with a 5,000-count indictment 84 years ago Friday. Already appealing a contempt conviction, Capone had been indicted six days earlier for tax evasion.
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