By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/27/2025 11:34 AM
A fireball that streaked across the sky over Georgia was identified as a large meteor, and a piece of the space debris crashed through the roof of a home. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/26/2025 1:53 PM
California Highway Patrol officers "quickly hoofed it to the scene" when more than 300 sheep wandered away from their field in Santa Barbara. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/26/2025 12:07 PM
A YouTuber who specializes in domino feats broke a Guinness World Record when she and her team assembled the world's tallest domino structure, measuring 33 feet and 2.74 inches tall. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/25/2025 1:33 PM
A pair of European brown bears escaped from their enclosure at a British wildlife park and made their way to a food storage area, where they feasted on snacksincluding a week's worth of honey. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/25/2025 12:22 PM
A hotel in China was ordered to halt its offered red panda wake-up call service, which brought red pandas into guests' rooms and allowed them to climb onto the beds. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/25/2025 10:20 AM
Animal control officers in California responded to an OfficeMax parking lot to rescue a kitten hiding in the engine compartment of a car. ... Read full Story
“A strong showing at the Senior Bowl was followed by a boffo performance at the NFL combine, where the 6-foot-4, 214-pound [Isaac] TeSlaa zoomed through the 40-yard dash in 4.43 seconds …” — Rainer Sabin, The Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2025
Did you know?
Boffo made its print debut as a noun referring to something great: a solid joke or a good punch line. It did so right around the same time—the 1930s, at the dawn of Hollywood’s golden age—as boff, a noun with an identical meaning thought to perhaps come from “box office.” Within a few years, boffo began to be applied adjectivally to things that, like a good joke, were a big hit: performances, all-star casts, movies. To this day it is used mostly in the context of performing arts, spectator sports, and other entertainments.