I gotta have more vuvuzela: Don’t expect the folks running the World Cup soccer tournament to squelch the playing of vuvuzelas, the swarm-of-bees-sounding horns popular with African fans but annoying to some TV viewers.
You might as well try to pry the cowbells out of the hands of Everett Silvertip fans.
Put away the fine china: Microsoft’s XBox 360 is attempting to out-Wii Nintendo with its new Kinect technology, which does away with the controller wand and controls game characters by following players’ body movements.
Which means that you should soon be able to watch YouTube videos of overenthusiastic XBox players putting their feet through TV screens, tripping over sleeping dogs and generally flailing about as if they’ve been caught in a Category 5 hurricane.
Ill humor man: An Everett ice cream vendor reportedly threatened a rival vendor with a steak knife Sunday near Smokey Point because the second vendor was selling on his turf.
The Buzz School of 31 Flavors of Legal Advice suggests the man offer a defense of temporary insanity, brought on by listening to the tinkly strains of “Pop Goes the Weasel” for 10 hours straight.
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