Tippy Tom Died

Keith the Cop, who was responsible for finding many of the bums for the 2001 Homeless Shopping Spree, came across a rare find – a 45 year-old guy named Tippy Tom, who had been on the streets of New York for over 2 decades. Tom is gay and has AIDS.

Once during an appearance on the XM Radio show he fell asleep and could not be woken up; Master Po poured water in his ear and ended up reviving him.

Allegedly before his homelessness, Tippy Tom was a health conscious person and a successful businessman (he had a window washing business), and even had a wife and kid. He also had a gambling problem, which may have led to his being on the streets. At one time, Tom was cleaned up and called into the show sober (and sounded really gay), but his sobriety didn’t take.

Nowadays, Tom still roams the streets with his legs all black; it’s possible he may lose them. Tom’s brother had also been trying to get in touch with him to tell him that his mother had died. Opie revealed the news of her death to him at the end of the April 10, 2008 show, by passing a note to him to read. O&A also had fun with Tom when they found out he gets sad at the movie Sophie’s Choice, and played the clip where Sophie has to choose which of her children must die, to which Tom got very emotional.

Tippy Tom’s shitty underpants were also used by Pat Duffy to make an underpants mustache, similar to Opie’s Baby Diaper Mustache Day.

It was reported on June 26, 2009 that Tippy Tom died May 6. RIP.

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Michael Jackson death still unsolved after autopsy

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Doctors completed an autopsy on the body of Michael Jackson on Friday but said they could not immediately establish a cause of death for the "King of Pop" as speculation centered on his use of prescription painkillers.

"The cause of death has been deferred, which means that the medical examiner has ordered additional testing such as toxicology and other studies," Los Angeles County Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said.

"Those tests we anticipate will take an additional four to six weeks."

Speaking to a throng of reporters outside the coroner's office, Harvey said, "There was no indication of any external trauma or indication of foul play to the body of Mr. Jackson."

He said his office expected to determine what killed Jackson, 50, when the tests were complete.

The body would be released to family members after they chose a mortuary to handle the funeral arrangements, Harvey added.

Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing an interview with an unidentified "close member" of the Jackson family, reported the superstar singer was injected with Demerol about half an hour before he went into cardiac arrest.

'HE'S NOT RESPONDING'

Police searched Jackson's rented mansion in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and planned to interview his personal physician, who was with the entertainer at the time of his death.

TMZ, citing family members, said Jackson received a daily injection of Demerol, a narcotic painkiller. The family believes his death was caused by an overdose of the drug, TMZ reported.

An unidentified man called a 911 emergency phone line from the mansion at 12:21 p.m. local time, saying Jackson was unconscious and not breathing.

In excerpts from the call played on television, the man said the doctor was the only other person present and was performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the unconscious Jackson without results.

"He's pumping, he's pumping his chest but he's not responding to anything, sir, please," the caller said.

A senior law enforcement official told ABC News that Jackson was "heavily addicted" to the painkiller Oxycontin and was injected daily with that medication, along with Demerol.

Lawyer Brian Oxman, a Jackson family spokesman, told CBS' "The Early Show" he had been concerned about the prescription drugs Jackson took due to injuries suffered while performing.

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D-Day 65th Anniversary

D-Day 65th anniversary for 2009 celebrations is held at Omaha Beach, France. President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to the war veterans of D-Day 65th anniversary.
D-Day 65th anniversary of this astonishing feat and the last of the official celebrations. Prepped for the assault were 160,000 allied troops, 195,000 allied navy personnel and 5,000 allied ships covering 50 miles of French coastline.

Obama visited an American battlefield museum with his wife, Michelle,to honor fallen greeted U.S. military members and mingled with uniformed World War II veterans in conjunction of D-Day 65th anniversary.

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Okcupid

OkCupid is a free-of-charge social networking and dating website which features member-created quizzes and supports various modes of communication: blogs, instant messages, emails, and “winks”.

OkCupid users are presented with questions (most of which are authored, submitted, and vetted by members) about various topics such as politics and tastes page by page, and given a list of up to four answers per question to choose from. They are also asked “How would your Ideal Match answer this question?”, and then “How important is their answer to you?”, with degrees of importance for the latter listed as “irrelevant”, “a little important”, “somewhat important”, “very important”, and “mandatory”, each respectively assigned a greater numerical value.
Source: Wikipedia

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French Open Tennis 2009

Now that the Roland Garros women’s field has reached the third round, fans are starting to see several thrilling match-ups in the draw.

One welcome surprise has been the fact that all Top 10 seeds are still alive and competing for berths in the round of sixteen.

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National Spelling Bee 2009 Winner

Kavya Shivashankar, an eighth grader from Olathe, Kansas, correctly spelled L-a-o-d-i-c-e-a-n to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. Kavya won at the end of a championship round in which runner-up Tim Ruiter was eliminated on "maecenas" and third-place finisher Aishwarya Pastapur was eliminated on "menhir."

Making her fourth appearance in the national bee, Kavya looked calm and collected throughout, never wavering as she spelled words like "phoresy" in the championship round. (The other championship round words that were spelled correctly were antonomasia, bouquiniste, oriflamme, guayabera, isagoge and sophrosyne.)

In earlier rounds, Kavya effortlessly rattled off seemingly challenging words like "hydrargyrum," "blancmange" and "baignoire."

Having finished in the Top 10 each of the last three years, Kavya was considered one of the favorites entering the bee. A student at California Trail Junior High School, Kavya enjoys playing the violin, bicycling, swimming, and learning Indian classical dance. She plans to become a neurosurgeon.

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Silvio Berlusconi is not my father, said Noemi Letizia ( Pictures )

Noemi Letizia, 18, is accused of being the reason of Silvio Berlusconi’s divorce. Letizia stated that she is not the daughter of the Italian Prime Minister, even if she calls him Papi. Her family said they were in no way related to Silvio Berlusconi, even if now they are close friends, but they didn’t want to say when their relationship began.

“I cannot be with a man who spends time with under-age women,” her wife, Veronica Lario said. The scandal began when Silvio Bersluconi went to Noemi’s birthday last weekend. The Prime Minister offer her a gold and diamond necklace as a gift, but that’s nothing out of the common, considering it was her 18th birthday.

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