This shows that motherhood wins out above all: Kari Smith sold her forehead space to a virtual casino for $10,000, to help her son in school because he'd fallen behind after Smith's sister died in a car accident. In reverse to some of these stories, Smith set up an auction, the bidding for which had reached nearly $1,000 before GoldenPalace.com answered her "buy now" price of $10,000. Smith says she chose the casino because it also works with charities.
This shows that motherhood wins out above all: Kari Smith sold her forehead space to a virtual casino for $10,000, to help her son in school because he'd fallen behind after Smith's sister died in a car accident. In reverse to some of these stories, Smith set up an auction, the bidding for which had reached nearly $1,000 before GoldenPalace.com answered her "buy now" price of $10,000. Smith says she chose the casino because it also works with charities.
This is the opposite, but it was too good to not include: A jokey invention called the Forehead Ad Blocker, which you can wear over glasses so that you don't have to see the garish words and designs etched over someone's eyebrows.
It was 1999, and the nation didn't yet know of the horror that would be brought with Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. A radio station contest for the first prequel offered $1,000 to anyone who would change their name to that of a Star Wars character. North Carolina teacher Jennifer Briggs proudly switched her name to Obi-Wan Kenobi; The Smoking Gun has the documents to prove it.
Unfortunately, it looks as if Briggs' request were denied, because her reason wasn't considered legitimate enough. Still, she gets included on our list because she had the cojones to try.
This one is tough, because it does help struggling homeowners to pay off some bills -- and the exterior of your house is a lot less worse than the exterior of your body -- but it still made us say WTF.
Dozens of diehard customers of Pascha, a brothel in Cologne, Germany, lined up to get tattoos with the establishment's name, in exchange for free lifetime entry. At the time the article was written, they saved €5 admission, plus €30 for a lap dance. We feel sorry for the tattoo artist: Each session took 90 minutes, and it wasn't the most interesting tat, either.
Those crazy Germans! Andreas Muller endured perhaps the most painful tattoo a man can get, and he opened himself up to ridicule. The rules were this: The £20,000 Mini Cooper would go to whomever came up with the craziest stunt, so Muller called in with an offer to tat his wang. Yes, he came up with a permanent way to call his junk tiny. Then listeners got to hear the whole painful process. Hope the car was worth it!
...POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold! As part of the campaign, the brand-bedazzled Spurlock selected this Pennsylvania town to buy its naming rights because it is "a shining example of struggling cities all across America."
Altoona gets its new name on April 27, effective for 60 days. The money that the city received will go to its police department. We'll be curious to see if those two months see higher tourism rates due to the city's newly-minted celebrity status.
