Burger King SpongeBob Balloons Vanishing
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Dozens of 9-foot-tall SpongeBob Squarepants balloons have been stolen from the roofs of Burger Kings from Florida to Utah since the release of the famous cartoon character's hit movie, authorities said.
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SpongeBob Squarepants is the new attraction in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It's the 78th annual parade stepping off from Central Park heading downtown.
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Chicken Little was in the lineup of new balloons, but a giant inflatable robin would have fit in just as well as the 78th annual Macy&#39;s Thanksgiving Day Parade drifted through a balmy, cloud-covered New York.
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Pop culture phenomenon SpongeBob SquarePants, which began life as a humble 11-minute cartoon and went on to become a television sensation and ubiquitous merchandising image, is expanding his universe.
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  State inspectors have discovered electrical hazards and serious safety problems at the RV campground near Balloon Fiesta Park.   They launched the investigation last year after a city worker died at the park -- perhaps of asphyxiation.
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AMERICAâS Thanksgiving Day brought good news for the child who has everything. Almost a year after it went bankrupt and closed down, FAO Schwarz, the worldâs most renowned toy shop, yesterday reopened its store on New Yorkâs Fifth Avenue.
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By Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe  Feb. 10--The general manager of the Cartoon Network, under fire for  approving a marketing campaign that sparked a bomb scare in the Boston area  last week, abruptly resigned yesterday, surprising local officials.
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Boethin goes awol NASA has cancelled a scheduled liaison between its Deep Impact spacecraft and Comet 85P/Boethin because the latter has disappeared without trace, New Scientist reports.â¦
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Yesterday a funny thing happened with a package on its way from Amazon to me. Today they found it and it went on the truck "out for delivery." I waited and waited, but alas, it never arrived.  And the other package took a similar trip. Dallas to Rockford to Oakland to San Pablo to Lost by Carrier. Oy oy oy.   0 for 2, Amazon. :-(
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THE family of a Brisbane woman missing in Thailand said yesterday they had not given up hope of finding her alive. Dina Fryer went missing from Phuket when the Boxing Day tsunami struck the island resort.
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A guerrilla marketing campaign for a cartoon show about a box of french fries and his milkshake pal set off a scare that nearly shut down Boston's commercial district yesterday, as bomb squads closed highways and two bridges in search of what turned out to be magnetic-light versions of the cartoon...
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Switching things off at sea Ionian Blog I honestly thought the cook had lost a toe.â¦
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By Tom LochnerLegend is full of unsolved mysteries of ships that vanish without a trace. Port Costa offers a variation on the theme: the ship that appeared, apparently out of nowhere.
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Someone seems pretty desperate to reinflate this hissing balloon.
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Years ago, Super Bowl spots disappeared after the one or two times they were shown during the broadcast. Today, they have afterlives because of Web sites, blogs, and video clips.
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Tycho:  Today's comic is based on a story we saw at Kotaku, but when I went over there to verify the link the story had been removed altogether.  For those of you playing along at home, what that means is that Kotaku
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The unthinkable happens: Kobayashi loses the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. The belt is back in America!