Bachelor Bob

All he wanted to do was share his big moment with as many eyeballs as possible. He was supposed to pop the question during the Super Bowl during a commercial, but when the spot was yanked, the guy behind MySuperProposal.com settled for having the ad run tonight during the popular show "Veronica Mars", his dear one's favorite program. "JP" explained it a little on his site yesterday before he popped the question: At various...

#92 Female astronaut drives from Texas to Orlando in a diaper (so she wouldn't have to stop) to try to kidnap a woman boning the dude she wants to be boning. - NPR #93 Group of bull sharks ram, sink shrimp boat - Local 6 #94 Palm Bay Police Chief says F the FAA, he wants his drones - Florida Today photo by Peggy Archer...

Women like little things: iPod Nanos. Miatas. Engagement rings. Tom Cruises. Men, we like big things. There hasn't been a television made that I would say, "Oh no, that's too big for the living room." We like gigantic tubs of margarine, we like monster truck tires on our Hummers, and we like heaping mounds of mashed potatoes to be served with virtually every meal. A few years ago a website called TinyUrl popped up,...

Footage from a British news program shows Shia Iraqi soldiers beating Sunnis as US military watch and laugh. Can we just go home now and let these people kill each other without our meddling?...

#87 Woman fakes her own death but gets discovered AT HER OWN WAKE - St. Pete Times #88 Eighteen endangered young whooping cranes found no safe haven in Florida. They were led there by a man in an ultralight plane, and were killed in the recent storms - AP #89 Technical school student in Coconut Creek, angered that his school wasn't teaching anything about Black History this month, stabbed three school officials with a...

Quite a few of the other Gothamist sites have an occasional feature called Photo of the Day where they spotlight a superb photograph of their pitiful city. Our editor isn't a fan of such posts. He likes beefy information in the stories that are posted to LAist. He thinks we should throw pretty pictures on news posts. Like we're arty or punk rock or something. This week he hasn't been 100% "in the game",...

This was supposed to just be a reminder to sign up for the Super Bowl contest before kickoff, but I may as well tell you how I came to my prediction of Bears 41, Colts 16 with Devin Hester running for 170 yards. Let it be known that I am not a psychic or a medium or seer or anything, I'm just a mild mannered American man who watches way too much football and...

#81 Tallahassee hunter kills a Hermaphrodite Deer - WRAL #82 "A survey of 1,600 Central Floridians found that two-thirds of them could not name either of the state's U.S. senators (both of whom reside in Central Florida). [Also,] 40 percent of Floridians could not identify the three branches of American government. - TC Palm #83 Central Florida parents are upset about free porn on cell phones - Local 6 #84 With a SWAT team...

#72 - Florida St. researcher claims to have found a new form of human, a hobbit - Reuters #73 - Miami is already preparing for the party that they will host when Castro dies - Miami.com #74 - Of the over 400,000 Floridians who have successfully registered to carry concealed weapons include 1,400 who have pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies, 216 who have outstanding warrants, 128 were named in active domestic violence...

1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida #80 Imagine you are 21 years old, you get raped, and you have the courage to go to the police and turn to them for help. Then imagine that the police run your record and find that you owe some money. Then imagine that the cops lock you up. She was in Tampa on Saturday afternoon for Gasparilla, a pirate-themed parade that draws thousands each year. She...