Megan Fox has no qualms about publicly declaring her love for people. After all, this is a woman who told anyone with an ear and a press badge that she’d like to sleep with actress Olivia Wilde. Now she’s apparently moved on to Korean pop stars. While making the Transformers press rounds in Europe, Fox said 26-year-old R&B singer (and budding actor) Rain is the new hotness, in her eyes: “There is this Korean Justin Timberlake named Rain, and I’m really on his situation now. I’m trying to fix this up. I’m working hard.”
What she’s trying to fix up, exactly, isn’t clear. But her comparison to America’s favorite former teen-pop superstar is a bold statement, indeed. After checking out one of his music videos, we have to at least give Rain props for his decent choreographed moves.
Rain, a.k.a. Jeong Ji-hoon, is a pretty big star on his native continent, and like Justin, he also acts and has a clothing line. But in all fairness, I think it’s high time everyone stops declaring anyone in a trendy hat to be the second coming of JT. Also: The title of the song below is “It’s Raining.” So he’s a master of the dance floor and self-serving puns? Hmm. UPDATE: Replaced “It’s Raining” with his newer 2008 jam, “Rainism.” (Thanks, Mixers!) Pun comment still stands.
Watch the video and tell us what you think of Rain: Talented and Timber-esque, or is Megan Fox crazier than we all thought?
The suspect walked out of a Victoria Secret store with 160 bras
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - There’s a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, the latest in a string of bra burglaries in the area.
Since February, authorities say 452 bras valued at nearly $19,000 have been stolen from two of the chain’s southwest Florida locations. Six different bra thefts at the stores have been reported during that time.
Investigators said a female customer walked into the store Thursday and immediately went to a four-drawer cabinet with new bras of the PINK brand name. The store manager told deputies the woman waited until employees were busy helping customers and then thrust the bras into a bag and exited the store.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The father of a measurement known as the “Smoot” returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.
Oliver Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members decided to lay him on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. After discovering Smoot measured 5 feet 7, they marked the bridge in those increments, with an eventually exhausted Smoot getting up and down for each new measurement.
They soon determined the bridge was 364.4 Smoots long.
Today, Google.com’s calculator function can convert any measurement into Smoots.
The original Smoot, who later became chairman of the American National Standards Institute, spoke Saturday at “Smoot Celebration Day” at MIT and received a plaque. The plaque will be installed on the bridge this year.
“This plaque will brighten the lives of windblown pedestrians,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said during the presentation.
Smoot said the freshmen who repaint the Smoot markers on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge every year may not appreciate how good they have it.
“For years, the police departments of Boston and Cambridge took this as an infraction and would chase the guys repainting the marks — but they called a truce,” Smoot said. “I’m not sure if they tell the freshmen that at least you won’t get hauled into jail.”
Simon Pegg says his ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’ co-star Megan Fox is the “most beautiful geek” he has ever met.
Simon Pegg says Megan Fox is the “most beautiful geek” he has ever met.
The ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’ actor - who stars alongside Megan in the film - was surprised to find the ‘Transformers’ star is as much of a nerd as he is.
Simon, 38, said: “We wrapped early one day and went to a bar. Megan and I sat in the corner, got really p***ed and had a good chat.
“She’s really sharp and actually a bit of a geek. Queen of the geeks - the most beautiful geek I’ve ever met.
“Even if she did keep pointing out I was old enough to be her father.”
According to Simon, the 22-year-old beauty is so stunning she has the ability to impair men’s vision.
He added: “Megan is perplexingly beautiful. She walks into a room and your eyes go out of focus.”
‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’ is released worldwide from October 3.
The catwalk really was a catwalk Thursday. Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress strutted their stuff at New York’s Algonquin Hotel.
The feline fashion show unfolded in the dining room where Dorothy Parker presided over famously catty Round Table literary luncheons in the 1920s.
Thursday’s show benefited an animal welfare group and honored Matilda, the Algonquin’s resident cat, who just turned 13.
She is the hotel’s ninth cat since the tradition started in the ’30s, when actor John Barrymore dubbed a bedraggled stray Hamlet.
Earlier in the day, Matilda, a pedigreed ragdoll breed with long, silky, cream-colored hair, held court on a chaise longue by the entrance.
In her honor, cocktails with names like Purr-tini and Pink Pussycat were being served at $20 apiece to guests including representatives of the nonprofit North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, on Long Island. The adoption shelter, which was to receive the proceeds of the benefit, offered more than a dozen homeless cats for adoption.
The Westchester Feline Club supplied the show-quality cats, with fashions created by New Jersey pet fashion company Meow Wear.
Matilda has become an Algonquin celebrity, with her birthday celebrated every year. She also receives about 30 e-mails a month, which are answered by longtime Algonquin employee Alice De Almeida.
“We from Stuttgart in Germany are really your fans,” says one such missive. “We’ve read about you in our newspaper und about the very fine lodge in which you live.”
It’s signed, in German, “Miau.”
Forensic experts checking foot against a national registry of missing people
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish police said they have found a human foot inside a shoe, which washed up on a beach near one of the country’s most popular tourist resorts.
Police said the discovery was made Tuesday in Tylosand near Halmstad on the southwest coast. Police spokesman Christer Harplinger said it included a shoe “containing a sock, with a foot inside it.”
Forensic experts in southern Sweden are checking the foot against a national registry of missing people.
In Canada, several running shoes containing human feet have been found on island shorelines along the Strait of Georgia. Canadian authorities say they haven’t reached any conclusions about the origin of the feet.
We’ve all been there. You’re walking along, enjoying a nice walk, when all of the sudden you’re confronted by an alcoholic bum who would like some cash. They want to make you think they will use the money for food or gas or something useful, but you know they are just going to go buy some booze.
Well, I think that this is an occasion where giving the bum some counterfeit money is ok.
Think about it. Let’s say he gets caught. Will he be any worse off? Probably not. At least he would get a place to stay for the night and possibly a meal. On the flip side - what if he can pass the phony money as real money? Well, then he’ll get some real cash, which will only hurt dumb business owners. Win, win, win.
I’m tellin you - passing fake money to bums is a GOOD idea…take it for what it’s worth.
~CheesePlay
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