Rock 101, editing Firefox dictionary, caption results

Since I can't really listen to my radio for Rock 101, I'll just use their audio player on the website... much better! I love Matthew Good (Band), but there's only so much MGB that I can listen to. :P (even if I *did* have the habit of listening to certain Subwoofer songs all the time on repeat!)

To edit the Mozilla Firefox dictionary: C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\*profile name* persdict.dat holds the personal dictionary entries used by the spellchecker added by you. Right-click, use "Open With," and pick "Notepad." Find the stuff you want to edit, since it's just a big clump of words. Delete it or whatever. Then restart Firefox. (thanks, Corey... but that doesn't work!)

Close Firefox, go to your profile folder and edit persdict.dat with any text editor to remove the word. Another option is to install the SpellBound II extension. It includes the option to edit your personal dictionary. (thanks, Mozillazine Forums!) Restart Firefox, right-click in a text field, choose "Edit," go wild on the editing, disable the extension, and close Firefox before restarting it once more. :P


Today's Freaky Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

An inebriated Belgian woman died in a freak accident when she ended up beneath a heavy grave stone at a cemetery. The 33-year-old was on her way home from a bar in the Belgian town of Pulle in the early hours of Saturday, September 3, 2005 when she took a shortcut through the cemetery. But she urgently needed to relieve herself, and crouched down between two gravestones. As she lost her balance, she grabbed one of the stones which gave way and landed on top of her. The public prosecutor's office said she died of suffocation as she was unable to lift the heavy stone.

Culled from: Reuters
Generously submitted by: Paradox

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See, here in Chicago, they lock up all the cemeteries after dark so this sort of accident can't happen. It's a pity, really - it would be an excellent way to eliminate Cubs fans...

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Morbid Caption Contest Results!

Okay, after some long hours of procrastination, it's time to announce the winner of the latest Morbid Caption Contest! To refresh your memory, here's the lovely morbid fact that it is based on:

An elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it. It said 67 year-old Constantin Mocanu, from a village near the southeastern town of Galati, rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night. "I confused it with the chicken's neck," Mocanu, who was admitted to the emergency hospital in Galati, was quoted as saying. "I cut it ... and the dog rushed and ate it." Doctors said the man, who was brought in by an ambulance bleeding heavily, was now out of danger.

First, let me say that I received over 100 entries, and over 30 of them contained some variation of "Choke the Chicken." Now, while I consider that to be very amusing and I am amazed and appalled that I did not think of that myself... because there were so many similar entries, I decided to eliminate that theme from consideration for the top prize (although a couple well-constructed variations did make honorable mention).

There were so many excellent entries that I agonized for hours - absolutely EXCRUCIATING PAIN - trying to decide which was the best of the grim bunch. In the end, I decided to pick the entries that made me laugh out loud for the top five - and it's obvious that I'm a sucker for a catchy rhyme!

First of all, here's a list of Honorable Mention entries, which had originality, style, and excellent alliteration... but did not quite make me guffaw:

Mistaken mutt munches Man's mangled meat
Neck Checker Wrecks Pecker
Romanian man named "Pet Lover of the Year."
Weenie Whacker Wildly "Wings" Wang
Chicken Choker Severs Stroker
CHICKEN MAKES MAN GO CLUCKING CRAZY
Man Minces Mistaken Member; Frisky Fido Feasts
Crazy Cutthroat Coot Clumsily Captures Clucker, Carelessly Cuts Cock; Confounded Cur Craftily Chews Cutlet
Local Man Chokes Chick, Chops Dick
Man Mauls Member as Mutt Munches, Fowl Play Suspected
Cock-a-Doodle-Don't
COCK-A-DOODLE-OOPS

And now for the top 5! (Drum roll........ CRASH!)

5) Tipsy Gypsy Confuses Prick for Chick (Courtesy Thes-P-N)
4) Cockamaiming (Courtesy Mark)
3) "COCK-a-doodle D'OH!" (Courtesy Derekstef)
2) Chicken Attacked! Tally-whacked! Gave The Dog A Bone! (Courtesy John-Mark)

And the grand prize winner:

1) Geezer Aims For Gizzard, But Hits His Trouser Lizard (Courtesy IHeNdRiXIsGodI)

For this effort, IHeNdRiXIsGodI wins a Morbid Fact Du Jour 10th Anniversary T-shirt! Thanks again to everyone who participated and stay tuned for more contests in the future.

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Morbid Trinket Du Jour!

Who among us can resist a Jesus Is A Zombie T-shirt? No, please don't answer that!

Thanks to Remo for the link.

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Ghastly!

The next time you're involved in a high speed chase, please take a moment to put your seatbelt on. After all, you wouldn't want to end up like Damien Harrington (R.I.P.), would you?

Thanks to Dave for the link.