Topical Chat, January 29, 2007

Unfortunately, the Sixers started winning again … so much for that number 1 pick …

1. On Roger Federer winning his 10th grand slam title this weekend:
“I had no idea baseball season already started …”
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2829646

2. On health officials in Michigan condemning a feces-filled and urine-soaked mobile home inhabited by a 68-year-old woman, her 22-year-old daughter and their 66 cats and dogs:
“It’s about time they closed down that University …”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2829275

3. On a Pensacola, Florida, teenager who sued the city after claiming a police officer forced her to do jumping jacks while topless, reaching a $35,000 settlement:
“Should help her when she tries out for a cheerleading gig with the Tampa Bay Bucs.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2828150

4. On an event billed as "Porn and Pancakes" being hosted by a church in rural upstate New York:
“The Priest, ‘Father Inya” was not available for comment.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2829276

5. On a man who used a stun gun on his wife's 79-year-old grandmother after an argument on how to discipline a toddler:
“I hate to be prejudiced on this one, but I really think I’m gonna side with the grandmother in the dispute.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2829278

6. On a former city firefighter who was fined $200 after he and a girlfriend had sex in an unfinished house and somehow set fire to the structure:
“Talkin’ about being involved in a heated situation …”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2828084

7. On a teacher who has been barred from classes after having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class:
“Everybody knows those kinds of drawings are reserved for art class … and maybe ‘wood’ shop.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2829279

8. On a stolen wood-carved Bigfoot statue being recovered minus its big feet:
“They’ve decided to rename him ‘Big Stump.’”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2829281