Topical Chat, January 11, 2006

Great – mid January, and it is around 60 degrees in Philly. At this rate, we will have to move up Memorial Day to March.

1. On a number of libraries in the United States that still have books bound in human skin:
“And I always thought that libraries weren’t very strict with their late return policies.”

2. On a woman who stabbed her boyfriend with a pair of scissors because he repeatedly played the Elvis Presley hit "Burning Love" on the King's birthday:
“I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that there probably were other issues that led to this stabbing, and Elvis was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

3. On the mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried being found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death:
“She must’ve been watching Lifetime.”

4. On a town in Washington that is planning its 23rd annual Outhouse Races this weekend in which replica outhouses of all shapes and sizes will be pushed down Main Street and judged by spectators:
“That sounds like a crock of sh*t to me … wait, that’s exactly what it is.”

5. On a man who recited the first 4,400 digits of pi a mathematical value that has an infinite number of decimal places without a single error at the 2006 Mindsports Australia Festival on Monday:
“I wonder if this guy will come to the realization on his death bed that he wasted a good chunk of his life on this.”

6. On a man in Sydney, Australia that had to be rescued after becoming wedged in a washing machine while playing a game with his children:
“I’m not even going to wager a guess on the game he was playing.”

7. On a couple who bought a bag of nuts and got a surprise when they opened one and found a condom inside.
“I can see the slogan for this company now – ‘Our Nuts Are So Good, You Better Wear Protection.”

8. On a company in northern China that says it will hire only candidates born in the Asian zodiac's Year of the Dog:
“And to think that a country like this is one of our bigger trading partners.”