Michael Scott's Mentor Dies at 102

Horace "Hotplate" Wells of Lenoir County, North Carolina, was a local legend who claimed to have invented the hush puppy. During his storied life, his occupations included male Rockette dancer, piranha farmer, prison guard, executioner and, in the later years, notorious nurse butt pincher. Perhaps his greatest contribution to humanity though was coining the phrase "that's what she said."

Vegas Taking Bets on Which Dictator Will Fall Next

Muammar Gaddafi of Libya


Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen


Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus

Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria

Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yeman had the best odds at 4 to 1 until recent events.

Not So Reassuring Links

• Latvian Lawyer shoots man for telling him to stop chewing popcorn loudly during Black Swan; waits till after lesbian scene.
  
• Trashy chicks in Denny's brawl after one asks to pass the maple syrup. "Bitch, your pancakes look fine to me," other replies.
  
• Kadafi best dressed dictator of all time.
  
• No more Italians in Little Italy; only 6% Italian American and none Italian born.

Wife Agrees to Have Sex with Husband Every Day for a Year... In Exchange for Book Deal

Charla Muller wanted to give her husband something special for his 40th birthday, so she promised to have sex with him every day for an entire year. How did she bear this gruesome task? Well, you'll just have to read the book to find out.

Perhaps Julia Roberts and Richard Gere will team up again to play this couple in the movie version.

Germans Stuff Girl in Box to Feign Modern Technology

Actually, it's a marketing campaign, "life's too short for the wrong job," for the career services website jobsintown.de.

Drunken Invincible Man Shrugs off Train Collision

In Saskatoon, Phoenix, a witness saw an intoxicated 29-year-old man get hit by a train, causing him to fly through the air, then get up and simply walk away. Police found the man several blocks away, unaware of what had happened but indicating pains in several parts of his body. An ambulence brought him to the hospital where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries. No word on whether he proceeded to fly around the planet in a counter-clockwise direction to reverse the flow of time and bring back his dead girlfriend. Presumably, it will be difficult to convince the man to curb his drinking for health reasons. Patrons of his local bar are probably already cringing at the thought of how often they are gonna have to hear, "Oh, you think that's bad? Did I ever tell about the time I got hit by a train?"