Greatest Mysteries: The Conspiracy Against Gas For Pennies?

In 1917, the same year that the United States was involved in WWI, an American inventor approached a cabinet member of President Woodrow Wilson's government and offered a revolutionary new 2 cent energy tablet that could 10 gallons of common tap water into a gasoline substitute fuel. The United States government want to buy this invention because it could help to win the war by giving the American, British and French forces an advantage over Germany.

The U.S. government arranged for a closed laboratory test of the revolutionary new invention, where a tiny amount of water was able to power a brand new gasoline engine for about one minute. The government was very impressed, and asked the inventor Charles Elton to wait in a room for a few minutes while they were going to sign a contract to buy the new invention for a reported $10 million dollars. Elton prevented the government from running lab analysis of the product by dumping all of the extra water fuel down the drain before the lab test.

But mysteriously, Charles Elton, disappeared from the waiting room at the government offices and was never heard from again. Federal agents from the FBI, which was formed in 1908 questioned every American by the name of Charles Elton in the country, but could never find any trace of the man.

To this day, the secret behind the little pills that could turn common tap water into fuel remain a mystery. Was Charles Elton kidnapped? During the war, you might expect the Germans to kidnap someone that could turn the tide against them, however since the Germans never came out with this invention, then it appears they were not involved. What about the oil industry? Did some agents of big oil kidnap Charles Elton to keep his invention off the market? Or was Charles Elton involved in an elaborate hoax, despite a carefully government controlled test, to defraud the government and then disappeared out of fear.

Some websites such as the one run by the Amazing Randi, which attempts to debunk scams and tricks, questioned whether the pill was actually some sort of acetylene derived product. Why the inventor mysteriously vanished has never been explained. It's a very strange true story and one of the greatest mysteries of all time. The true answer will never be known.

AMERICAN PIE Back For Another Slice

The AMERICAN PIE series will be back for another slice on April 6, 2012 with AMERICAN REUNION, which follows the modern day saga of the kids from the series all grown up and married. This time Jonathan Biggs is helping to produce the latest film, in which he is now married to the Alyson Hannigan's character Michelle Flaherty. The couple has a two year old son in the new movie's script as well.

What will make this new slice of the AMERICAN PIE saga so great is that all of the main actors agreed to return for this new film including Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott, and even Shannon Elizabeth makes a return.

You can expect the new movie to be both warm and romantic at moments, and laughable and raunchy at other moments. Otherwise, you can expect another AMERICA PIE classic here. Look forward to this one.

Lindsay Lohan Heading To Jail Again

Another day, another problem for troubled actress bad girl Lindsay Lohan. Now, Judge Stephanie Sautner has revoked Lindsay Lohan's probation after she missed 9 dates at a Women's Center doing community service work. Lohan claimed that she didn't find that community service work very "fulfilling". The actress could now face a year and a half in jail, however jail overcrowding makes quite that long of a sentence seem highly unlikely.

The judge was very dismissive of the arguments from Lohan's lawyer about her obligation that she had to do work overseas, missing her community service dates for that reason, as the actress was photographed partying on a number of celebrity websites over in Europe.

Before being hauled off from the courtroom in handcuffs, the actress was told to complete 16 hours of community service in the county morgue. She is now awaiting a November 2 hearing to sentence her to jail time. All of this is probably about to be expected. Lindsay Lohan can only behave herself just so long it seems like.

Major League WTF?: Mattel's New Tattoo Barbie

Unbelievably, Mattel has now released an outrageous new bad girl Barbie doll with plenty of body ink and a pink bobbed haircut and a nice skull and crossbones styled off the shoulder t-shirt. The new Barbie is just fine for adult collectors, but likely not what many parents would want to give their six year old daughters. Not every parent would want their daughter grow up to be this girl. In fact, she looks like she might even be serious competition for Kat Von D, with all her body ink. The new Barbie looks like a real trouble, bad girl type.

Mattel struck a limited exclusive partnership with the Japanese company Tokidoki, to bring out this edgy holiday special edition Barbie. It sells for $50 on the Tokidoki website, and the new Barbie even includes one of the signature Tokidoki pets with the new doll as well. The new tramp stamped Barbie is certainly unique to say the least.

While not everyone is happy about the new Barbie, Ken is no doubt all smiles. How can he not score with a girl that looks like this on his next date?

CBS Really Really Cancels HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN

Okay, now CBS is serious. The new failed comedy, HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN, is really really canceled now. No deposit. No return. First CBS decided to pull the show after it drew horrid ratings following the wildly successful BIG BANG THEORY on Thursdays after the audience steeply fell in it's second week. The show got stuck over on Trash Can Saturday, where networks air new episodes they already bought of programs that failed. But, guess what, audiences hated this show so much this past Saturday, that now it got pulled from that horrid spot. Now, the show gets sent to Canceled TV Show Hell, where bad TV shows don't get aired at all and the shows just spend all eternity gnashing their teeth in this Gehenna of nothingness.

Getting stuffed into this eternal darkness seems like one heck of a fate. But, then again some shows are so bad that they deserve this fate. I was just one of a handful of unlucky persons to watch this horrible show last week. And let me say this about that. HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN was so bad that it took 30 minutes from life that I'll never ever get back. That's not right. This show deserves this fate. What was CBS ever thinking to air this crap in the first place.

Shia LeBeouf Beaten Up In Canada

Maybe he wasn't a fan of the last TRANSFORMERS movie or something, but a shirtless man who looked straight from the central casting of every episode of COPS ever made, beat the holy living tar out of actor Shia LeBeouf outside a Vancouver, B.C. bar recently. TMZ is even running a video that someone shot of the assault with a cellphone. After Shia LeBeouf clearly was the loser in the altercation, he apparently wanted a rematch with his opponent, but the actor was wisely held back by someone. Thank God for someone with a cooler head here.

Shia had been a regular at the bar the last few days while filming THE COMPANY YOU KEEP in Vancouver. But rumor has it the actor is prone to running off his mouth at the wrong time and getting himself into some trouble. When you that, then Shia happens.

BTW, Robert Redford is directing this new film, so expect it to be good. However, actors with a black eye or broken nose aren't generally good for business, so Shia LeBeouf needs to cool it and watch himself, at least until this film is in the can.

Major League WTF?: This Politician Paid $140 For Sex, But All He Got Was This Lousy Scandal

What do you get when you mix a politician and Craigslist......well a brand new sex scandal it seems. In Indiana's state legislature, Rep. Phillip Hinkle,64, has made a real career out of soapboxing his Christian faith, helping to write and promote legislation to put "In God We Trust" on the state's license plates as well as sponsoring antiGay legislation. But it all turns out to be clever window dressing to hide a sexual interest in young African American boys. It seems that Hinkle hired young, 18 year old. Kameryn Gibson aka DuJuan Diamond from a Craigslist ad for a sexual encounter in a hotel room, but Gibson got creeped out when Hinkle told Gibson he was a politician and then dropped his towel and exposed himself and grabbed Gibson's rear end in a desperate gesture. It had to be a lovely scene.

Gibson was so creeped out by Hinkle's pervo behavior that he ran in the hotel room's bathroom and called his sister for help to leave. It was eerily similar to that creepy moment in Charlie Sheen's hotel room when a porn star had to call for help to leave. That must be normal prodigals for persons hired for sex. You run to the bathroom and call for help from the weirdo pervs.

So far Hinkle refuses to resign his office. Maybe there's a lot of registered sex offenders and pervs in his district who support him or something. None of this is good news to Indiana state Republican leadership who just hate the embarrassment that Hinkle is causing them. He's their equivalent of Democrats Anthony Weiner or David Wu, both of which finally resigned their offices after intense party pressure. Hinkle is a problem that just won't go away without being forced to do so. For his part, Hinkle continues to lie about the whole incident, claiming that the whole event is some sort of "shakedown". Yeah, I guess that some folks wanted Hinkle out so bad that they called up a gay escort, put Hinkle in a hotel room naked and forced him to do some gay grab ass stuff.

But things couldn't be much better for Gibson who is now a celebrity and has signed a new lucrative contract with a gay modeling website thanks to the publicity surrounding the scandal.