You know what’s fun? Having legs. No really, it is. And you might realize that if you didn’t have any.

Or if you didn’t have any and you wanted to be a wrestler.

Dustin Carter, a freshman at College of Mount St. Joseph, can understand the sentiment, since he had his legs amputated at age 5 after a bout with meningitis and has since bec...

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I may be a little too old to believe in Santa Claus, but I definitely believe that all those sweet ole’ Santas we find in our malls during Christmas time are all truly unique and different. Though some children get the pleasure of sitting on a nice old man’s lap as they spit out gift wishes for under the tree, some also get the pleasure of recei...

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In case you haven’t noticed, the holidays are upon us and we at OTR want to wish you the very best.
 

While we won’t be posting anything on the site for the next two days, know that we will be hard at work… eating, sleeping and surviving enjoying family time. We hope you are doing the same, no matter what holiday you celebrate.
 

So take this ...

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With only two days to go before Christmas, a credible, yet wholly disheartening rumor has begun to swirl around the blogosphere that suggests the holiday may be canceled—if the United States Congress doesn’t act quickly.

Thanks to the economic downturn, Santa Claus can’t afford to pay his high-priced, unionized elves and fly his environment-fr...

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I am currently mired in that epic conundrum plaguing modernity: the Wii supply and demand holiday hellhole. And no matter how many times I remind myself that I did indeed procrastinate on purchasing my brother a Christmas present, I am inordinately pissed. How could Nintendo do this to me? Why are there not more Wiis for sale? Are the manufactur...

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Here we've got A Very Gansta Christmas, so that as bad as your family may be, you can be thankful that you don't have to spend the holidays with these mega d-bags. Not only are their voices like migraine incubators, their Christmas carol about food stamps and shanks isn't even funny so much as pathetic.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has a pretty important job: It protects all of North American from a surprise missile or an air attack. If anything suspicious makes an appearance in U.S. airspace, NORAD knows it.
 

And if that something suspicious just happens to be Santa’s sleigh, NORAD knows that too.
 

For five decades, N...

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Penn’s finals ended today, which means that now everybody is home with not much to do. Sure, you can shop a bit with your mom, and see all your high school friends, and drive around your town in your old car…but that all gets boring in about three hours.

So what can you do when you’re lounging around your house in ripped sweatpants and your ret...

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There are things we know are dangerous like drunk driving and loading squirt guns with gasoline by a fire. Then there are other things which are dangerous that we never consider, like acting in nativity plays. Last night, an Ohio woman named Keri Shryock was killed after falling twenty-five feet during a Christmas play.

MSNBC reports:

A female...

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‘Tis the season for giving and receiving… kisses under the mistletoe.

Our gift to you, however, is a compendium of collegiate women taking advantage of this tried-and-true holiday tradition.

While we wanted to stick to photos with lips-on-lips action, some of these near misses were just too good to pass up.

Enjoy!
 

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