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Upstream commerce

Chicken-Fried News once knew a guy who had a problem getting his young son to keep the stream of urine inside the toilet … until the enterprising dad threw a handful of Cheerios into the bowl and told his kid to “sink ’em.” Problem solved! That’s a much cheaper method than BowlsEye, Oklahoma City entrepreneur […]

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Skip the bathroom

It was tough enough that the Ward 7 council member was busted last week for drunk driving. Now, it turns out that Kelly wasn’t simply what the Brits would call “pissed” — he was literally pissed, too. A police officer arrested Kelly early the morning of Jan. 20 after the councilman was found sitting behind […]

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Houdini

Narrated by Mandy Patinkin, the just-OK doc traces his meteoric rise from immigrant to death-defying superstar to spiritualist exposer. Those who’ve never read a book on Houdini — I highly recommend William Kalush and Larry Sloman’s “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero” — are sure to learn something, but for current […]

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Grab ‘n’ go

Wait. Yes, we can. A couple of weeks ago, two lovely ladies (and we’re using that term loosely) pulled a pickup truck outside a Del City plumbing business, according to a report from KFOR-TV. One of the lasses pulled down her sizable drawers, plopped onto the curb and let it flow. No. 1, that is. […]

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