If late-night television commercials are to be believed, America’s soft-bodied sofa dwellers dream primarily of three things: owning a knife that can cut through a penny; obtaining cash for gold; and ...

Jerry Lee Wilson thought he had figured out the perfect way to motivate employees: He brought a shotgun to work. It was the late 1970s, and Wilson was overseeing a factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, that ...

If doing an addition or building a new house using traditional wood-stud walls seems a little too wimpy in this bold new millennium, there’s a muscular new option from a surprising source.

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2004--The makers of the Soloflex Muscle Machine, the world's first home weightlifting system, made statements today to distance themselves publicly from ...

To his fans, former Soloflex model Scott Madsen is an Adonis whose muscular frame remains popular viewing on and Web sites such as But in the eyes of the law, he's an embezzler. U.S. District Judge ...

Mitch Gaylord is a perfect 10… literally! Exactly 40 years ago (on July 31,1984), the American icon became the first gymnast in U.S. history to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics, leading the U.S. men ...

Jerry Wilson, who made millions of dollars starting the Soloflex exercise machine business, sent out a press release Monday morning saying he intended to run for Oregon governor as a Republican. But ...

"It was so [expletive] surreal," the A-Team star says "I was like, ‘This cannot be me – that’s the way I look? It was so f—–g surreal, ’cause as a kid I only fantasized about looking that way.

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Humor writer Barry has been churning out comedy for more than 25 years, authoring hundreds of columns and more than 30 books. He won a Pulitzer prize in 1988 (which, for us, is what finally ...