Entries tagged with 'Oddities'
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A Purple Heart in Pizza Delivery
Now this is dedication to your job: TAMPA, Fla. — It'll apparently take more than being shot to keep Thomas Stefanelli from making his rounds as a pizza delivery man. He suffered a gunshot wound to his leg Saturday, but the 37-year-old continued to make four more deliveries in Tampa. He said he was shot by a man in a Halloween mask who was demanding money. Stefanelli said his cell phone wasn't working, so he drove to his next delivery address to call his boss. He then made three more deliveries before being taken to a hospital. Bullet Wound...Mr. Smith Gets Indigestion in Washington
You know Slice is asleep at the bandwidth, or that the pieman who spearheads this fine service has been moonlighting for another, when we miss some important pizza news breaking from our nation’s capital. As first reported in last week’s edition of the Onion, the senior circuit of Washington’s bicameral legislature cajoled its members to an after-hours session by fronting the bill for burning the midnight olive oil. Senators Lured Back To Emergency Session By Promise Of Free Pizza WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. senators from both parties, tired and eager to go home to their families after a hard day of legislation,...There's a Riot Goin' On
Well, there was a riot goin' on Down Under until pizza was brought in to end a prison hostage situation. Inmates at Risdon Prison Complex in Hobart, complaining about objectionable prison conditions, took a guard and some other prisoners hostage Saturday but released them after bogging in to some pizza. The BBC reported that, during the 40-hour standoff, the inmates "laid waste to the area, destroying computers and files." The network also says, "Initially, the prisoners had drawn up a list of 24 demands, which reportedly included offering more job opportunities to inmates and increased pay for that work." From...Pizza, Delivered in 30 Seconds or Less
Some of our readers more in tune with the music of the blogospheres will have seen this photo from blogger KDunk already—if not on her own site, then perhaps on Curbed and Kottke.org. It's a great photo with a great story behind it. As Curbed recounts: KDunk: Hey, what’s going on here might I ask? Pizza Guy: That’s Rosie. She sends a bag down every night at closing and we give her the leftovers. KDunk: That’s great! Do you mind if I take a picture? Pizza Guy: Sure! Why not? Hey, not a slice wasted! Top that, Domino's. [Thanks...Slice-cycles: Pizza Cutters as Art
Take a spin: Artist Frankie Flood's pizza cutters take inspiration from chopper motorcycles and fringe culture. Clockwise from top left: Mantis (2003), Psycho Pizza Cadillac (2003), Easy Rider (2001), Pizza for Life (2002), and Phatboy (2003). [Credit: Frankie Flood] Some of you might have caught these pizza cutters yesterday on gadget blog Gizmodo. If you didn't see them there, behold them here. Artist Frankie Flood creates "machined pizza cutters [that] draw inspiration from chopper motorcycles and attempt to reclaim the mythology and economic usefulness of the American worker as patriarch; translating machine or functional object into flesh and blood."...http://pizza.google.com ?
GOOGLE BUYS GEEKS PIES Silicon and Slices: Computer-science majors at the University of Maryland enjoy pizza courtesy of Google. The web company buys smart and stressed students pizza as part of a recruitment program. Pop-quiz: I am ... A. a computer-science or engineering student B. a pizza lover C. stressed out D. all of the above Time's up. Put down your pencils. If your answer was D and you go to the right school, Google would like to buy you some slices. They say there's no such thing as a free lunch, and this program is no exception. Google hopes...SJPizza
Some slice shenanigans involving former Sex and the City star and current Gap-commercial ingenue (at least until the Joss Stone ads start airing) Sarah Jessica Parker were reported in yesterday's New York Post. Her limo driver clipped some pizza-eating dude on the street and dude got angry: The bizarre showdown captured in these exclusive photographs [see scan, above] occurred last Thursday morning when Parker was being driven through Midtown in a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car that had picked the 40-year-old actress up outside her home. The Town Car was turning east from Sixth Avenue and accelerating when its side...Jacko Jurors Pounce on Pizza
It says something when pizza is the only thing more appealing to Michael Jackson jurors than the amusing antics of Wacko Jacko himself. On Tuesday, the jury, of its own volition, tacked on 15 additional minutes to its 10-minute-long snack break. From the Scotsman: Judge Rodney Melville has been running an unusually rigid schedule with no lunch hour, just three quick snack breaks during six hours of testimony – a hunger-inducing regimen he calls “the Melville diet.” When jurors took an extra 15 minutes getting back into their seats Tuesday, he offered an explanation. “The Olive Garden heard a CNN...Round and Round: Pizza at Leisure Time Lanes
PICK IT UP: Bowling and pizza just seem to go together. I mean, both the balls used in the sport (above left) and pizza (below) are round. "Lo Karb" (above right), after getting two strikes in a row. This reporter and this website's city editor, Seltzerboy, left work yesterday with no intention of seeking slices. No, we were off to Leisure Time Lanes, in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, with some coworkers, to bowl a few frames. But alas, though pizza is our raison d'être, it is also our albatross, so we weren't surprised when the stuff reared its...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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