Let's face it: the news and weather can be pretty boring. If we're going to tune it, we need a little eye candy to make it more enjoyable. Here are the top 20 news and weather girls who do exactly that.
No. 20 - Robin Meade
HLN's "Morning Express With Robin Meade"
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Kids can be cruel. We're sure everyone had at least one person come up with a mean way to use their name. As bad as that may have been, we guarantee it the people shown in this gallery had it 100 times worse. Here are some people with very unfortunate names.
"My parents don't read much."
This is the only scenario in which a crowd chanting your name is not helpful.
"I call the defendant-- What? No way! That is not your name? Oh! That is HIL-AR-I-OUS!"
"What do you say, doc? Does it look infected to you?"
God, we love British people.
"My mother's maiden name was Azz. Why do you ask?"
She wanted to be a teacher, but society would not allow it.
"Be really careful when you type in his website's URL. One typo and you'll get some nasty stuff."
"Um, honey? I think I found our realtor."
"Dude, I got a letter from some college, but guess what the recruiter's name was?"
If she had red hair, we would have to be hospitalized.
"Are you just going to sit there and bury your ass in the sand, Coward? You're a coward, Coward."
Stanley was always apprehensive about opening his own practice. However, after a month with his partner, he decided it was best if he worked alone.
"I hate Halloween."
"Is it going to be hard living with these stiff restrictions, Mr. Weiner? Have you thought about protecting yourself?"
The fact that this man made it through grade school and was able to create a Facebook profile at his age is nothing shy of a miracle.
"I think an exciting name like Flavour will take away from our last name being Balls. I just don't want her to be made fun of."
"Where's big Pusey? I need me some Pusey! Get in there kid!"
His online gambling profiles were all flagged for profanity until they realized that was his actual name.
We bet they regret buying a home phone every minute of their lives.
"Don't take any shit from Takeshita. I know she's good, but this is what we've trained for!"
The kids are saying "hashtag" now.
This dude looks like a Grossweiner.
We wouldn't smile either.
Oh, we bet she's "experienced".
Judge Stroker never made it to the Supreme Court because he could not get through a hearing without at least five people laughing.
"And this is my partner, Dr. LMFAO."
We really hope she chose to hyphenate her name.
"It's like a compliment. He's not really calling you a fat ho."
The other photo is of her child running away from bullies.
"He died sprinting into a sliding glass door."
"I had to demote him back to the minors because fans with kids were starting to complain."
"It was an omen, dude."
Aren't they all?
No matter what degree you receive, no matter what type of medicine you practice, we will always laugh at you if your last name is Weiner.
When did Chris Tucker die?
"We need to switch churches."
"My physical was ... Well, it was weird. I don't really want to talk about it."
For once, when Bart Simpson prank called Moe's Tavern, someone was there to answer.
We'd vote for that guy.
"She should really put her name at the bottom of the page. I can't focus. My eyes keep going back to 'Mangina.'"
"Can we, though?"
"Our son will either be the biggest badass on the planet or a total dork."
"If only she would've lived to accept the royalty checks."
"I had a rough childhood, so I just thought I'd start embracing it."
Space travel is so played out. Sorry to rain on your parade, NASA, but we need to start pushing into the fourth dimension. Time travel has been a dream of many for centuries, but as of yet we have no idea how to punch through the stranglehold of chronology. That hasn't stopped some enterprising frauds from saying they did it, though. Time-travel hoaxes have a rich and hilarious history. Here are 10 people who want the world to believe that they actually managed to travel through time.
Andrew Basiago
One of the most common time travel theories is that the United States government has been trying to pull it off for a long time under a number of black ops programs. The most famous was "Project Pegasus," where 140 schoolchildren were subjected to a mind-bending array of time-space experiments. We "know" about all this thanks to the tireless efforts of lawyer Andrew Basiago, who claims to have been one of those children. His evidence? A blurry photograph of the Gettysburg Address, which he says he was at. He also claims that Washington, D.C. will be underwater by the end of the year, so grab your snorkels.
Von Helton
This one's a real enigma. Born Eugene Helton Jr., the man now known as Von Helton has had a pretty interesting life. By his own account, he invented the stealth fighter at the age of 7 and grew up to become a vampire vigilante who walked the Earth fighting evil. Oh, and he also traveled in time repeatedly. His proof of this is a series of photographs of himself from the year 1857 to today, photographs that don't look all too much like the same person, really. But who are we to mock the dude who also claims to be the real-life inspiration for comic-book character the Punisher?
John Titor
Nobody really knows who "John Titor" was, as most of his communications were made over the Internet. In 2000 and 2001, a series of cryptic messages appeared on Art Bell message boards from Titor, who said he was a soldier from the year 2036 sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM computer that the future needed to debug a variety of legacy programs on. So we can assume that eBay doesn't exist then? Titor provided a number of goofy predictions from the future, including a new Civil War in the United States that would begin in 2004. After being debunked, Titor disappeared into the ether. Or did he just go back to the future?
Sir Victor Goddard
British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard has one of the weirdest and most believable stories on this list. In 1935, Goddard was piloting a plane over an abandoned airfield in Edinburgh when he got caught in an unusual storm. He almost lost control in the turbulence, but when he righted himself he looked down and was shocked to find the airfield totally refurbished, with strange-looking planes with Royal Air Force markings being worked on by mechanics in blue uniforms. He told some of his compatriots about his weird trip, but since he had no physical proof, nothing really came of it. That is, until four years later when the RAF changed their mechanics' coverall colors from brown to blue. Did Goddard have a brief timeslip over England?
Hakan Nordkvist
Time travel can occur by a variety of methods, but a leaky kitchen cabinet? For Norwegian man Hakan Nordkvist, his path to the future was underneath a sink. When he discovered the leak, he grabbed his plumber's tools and crawled under the sink, only to find himself in a long tunnel that deposited him in the year 2042. While there, he met his 70-year-old self and quizzed him on a variety of topics, and the aged doppelganger not only knew information that only Nordkvist would know, but he also had the same tattoo -- faded by time, of course. Nordkvist even captured video using his cell phone. Unfortunately, Nordkvist's journey turned out to be a viral stunt by a Norwegian pension company, but lots of people bought it.
Andrew Carlssin
One of the most attractive elements of time travel is the ability to make a killing on the stock market. After all, just a basic knowledge of financial history could let you make investments in stocks like Apple that would pay huge dividends. Hence the story of Andrew Carlssin, allegedly a Wall Street trader who jaunted back from the year 2256 to make a killing on the market. The story claims that, starting with just $800, Carlssin was able to build a $350 million fortune in just two weeks. After he got busted in 2003, the time traveler offered "historical information" such as the location of Osama Bin Laden and the AIDS vaccine. Unfortunately, this was a serious hoax, and Carlssin never actually existed, but some time-travel believers still insist that he did and this is just a giant cover-up.
Billy Meier
While some of these time-travel fakers go to extreme ends to fabricate their journeys, UFO cult leader Billy Meier just let it rock in a truly low-grade way. When he was challenged to provide pictures of aliens, Meier just took a picture of his TV screen and tried to pass off a woman from "The Dean Martin Show" as an extraterrestrial visitor. His time-travel claims were no less specious. Meier said he went back to the age of the dinosaurs and came back with photographs of a pterodactyl trying to eat him. That photograph, blurry as hell, was quickly traced back to an illustration from a science textbook. Despite all this, Meier still has suckers buying his stories.
Pasko Kuzman
Time travel would be an incredible tool for an archaeologist, but surprisingly, only one of them is using it. Oh, and he's a little nutty. Macedonian treasure hunter Pasko Kuzman wears a trio of watches on his arm, and claims that one of them can transport him back to the Bronze Age, where he has conversations with Alexander the Great. Needless to say, this kind of talk hasn't really endeared Kuzman to his fellow scientists, and many of his claims have been pretty intensely debunked.
William Stillings
Another veteran of Project Pegasus, William Stillings alleges that he was the subject of a huge variety of experiments as a child that had him traveling tremendous distances through space and time. Not only was Stillings sent back to various awesome moments in history, but he also served as part of the secret program to establish a base on Mars. Oh, and do you know who else was in that program with him? A young man named Barry Soetoro, better known as President Barack Obama.
Robert Todino
The Internet has provided a great medium for time travelers to get together and swap stories, but one of the strangest came from Robert Todino. In 2001, the Massachusetts man started sending out spam emails asking for a selection of mechanical devices required to build a time machine, because he was stranded here from 2003 and needed to get back. The emails were signed "Bob White" or "Tim Jones," and Todino sent out nearly a million of them. Some people actually took the bait, with one man selling Todino an old hard-drive motor that he called a "Dimensional Warp Generator." After an investigation traced the emails back to him, it was revealed that it wasn't a hoax or a scam. Todino really believed that he was a time traveler and was willing to do anything to resume his place in the timestream. We hope the poor guy makes it back to the future some day.
This Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, Travis Pastrana and the rest of the Nitro Circus crew will be bringing their adrenaline-filled antics to the big screen in "Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D."
The Nitro Circus team has been blowing minds with their stunts on DVD, their MTV series and a live tour that allowed fans to witness the insane action -- like that pictured here -- in person. The Nitro Circus crew is constantly raising the bar for adrenaline junkies all around the world.
They aren't the only ones to partake in reckless danger, however. Other adventurers and daredevils around the world have pushed the limits of the human body in some totally maniacal ways. Come with us on a spectacular journey through the seven continents as we spotlight 10 insane stunts that you won't believe happened.
Gary Connery, United Kingdom, 2012
Yves Rossy, Switzerland, 2010
Alain Robert, Taiwan, 2004
Hezi Din, Israel, 2010
Keith Malcolm, United Kingdom, 2009
Falko Traber, Germany, 2002
David Smith, Italy, 2011
Darren Taylor, Norway, 2011
Jackie Chan, Netherlands, 1997
Joaquin Ortega, Spain, 2006
There are a lot of awesome photos on the Internet. Here is the fifth installment of our collection of the funniest and craziest photos the World Wide Web has to offer.
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Sometimes graffiti just tells it like it is.
Who wants a big slice of Bieberloaf?
Thanks a lot, Siri.
Gillette is doing great things with razors these days.
YouTube comments win.
I thought texting was supposed to make our lives easier.
Mindbender: There is no woman in this drawing.
You do what you have to do.
I'm pretty sure this is how this photo was taken.
Whoa, hardware store. My family shops here.
Shame punishment can be very effective.
I'd wear those.
This is a photo of a baby gorilla from the Melbourne Zoo reacting to a cold stethoscope. It might be the greatest photo ever.
Oh, shit.
I don't know who's going to come in first, but I have a good idea who's not going to come in first.
Oh, cool, you're here!
Seems like you're just making the problem worse.
Go ahead. Borrow my pen.
This joke is always funny.
I'm not sure this is actually "legal."
I would like a recording of this.
Hey newspaper, thanks for reporting every single weird detail of this story.
And it was totally worth it.
Next up: Ironing Man.
Screw you, elevator.
This is why we're fat. (Well, one of the reasons.)
This is what true love looks like.
In case you weren't sure.
So close.
The party starts in 3 ... 2 ... 1
Note to self: I am too big for the dog door.
How every man feels during the Olympics.
The call we all hate making.
This kid totally rules.
Laziness level: Expert.
Before and after.
I don't know why these bags are thousands of dollars.
A little family reading.
Knowing is half the battle. (Punching someone in the neck is the other half.)
Soon.
You go, girl!
This almost makes me want to buy an Impala. (Well, not really.)
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Rock stars are people too, and even they grow old. For proof, we gathered a bunch of pictures of our rock-and-roll heroes as we want to remember them, and compared those pictures to what they look like now. With the added damage inflicted by years of alcohol and drug abuse, the results were not pretty.
Let's start with iconic Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose. Click to the next slide to see how he's doing these days.
Oh, dear. At least he's not wearing a kilt with a catcher's chest protector.
Eddie Van Halen, Van Halen
This picture should be the warning label on all packs of cigarettes.
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith
Each one of his moobs weighs more than he did back in the '70s.
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones
No, this is not a pic from the set of "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Billy Idol
This looks like the exact moment Billy realized just how old he's gotten.
Johnny Rotten, The Sex Pistols
At least he's kept his fake hair color.
Alice Cooper
It doesn't get any less rock-and-roll than golf.
Bob Dylan
Lucky for Bob he still has that soothing, beautiful voice.
James Hetfield, Metallica
This does not look like the man who wrote songs with titles like "Creeping Death."
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath
What percentage of his life do you think Ozzy's thought to himself, "Where am I?"
Neil Young
Neil Old.
Marilyn Manson
Actually, this guy has never really been all that easy on the eyes.
Volleyball is a tough sport. It takes eye-hand coordination, jumping ability and arm strength. Fortunately for us, no one in this gallery has any of those skills.
Almost! (Well, not quite.)
That's going to leave a mark.
Wrong way.
Face fail.
Four more years till the Olympics!
Not the face, again. (Yes, the face again.)
Keep playin', playa.
Just FYI: Volleyball is even harder when played in quicksand.
There are a lot of hilarious photos on the Internet. Here are the cream from today's web crop.
Jenny...I love you.
Getting the "London Look" is pretty easy.
This is really gross.
I don't like the look of that storm front.
A perfect place for a ceiling fan.
I would probably re-word that headline.
So does tomorrow morning.
She'll grow into it.
OK, real funny, guys.
These are actual lyrics to an actual song. Christina Aguilera is a real poet.
Even Amish guys need to rock out.
I always misspell "ocean," too.
Who doesn't miss Garbage Pail Kids?
Good luck.
Sweet boots.
Meanwhile, in China...
There's a lot of "interesting" packed into this Facebook update.
I don't think I'd like that flavor.
In America you can get those for free.
"Our ears didn't evolve to be able to tolerate massively loud sounds," says Brian Fligor, Sc.D., professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard University Medical School. "In my review of the scientific literature, as many as 18 percent of people aged 20 to 40 years in the U.S. have some degree of noise-induced hearing loss. And more men in this age range have noise-induced hearing loss than women," says Fligor.
Remember Lauren, the perky redhead who prowled for an affordable laptop computer in a 2009 Microsoft commercial designed to rebut Apple's juggernaut "Get a Mac" ad campaign? 
