Topical Chat, February 19, 2007

Hope you are all enjoying work, while I’m enjoying my day off!

1. On nearly 9,000 People in North Dakota diving into the snow to set the record for most snow angels:
“This is the most exciting thing to happen in North Dakota since … um … the traffic light was installed?”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2884196

2. On a group of businessmen in the northern Mexican City of Chihuahua breaking a tasty record Friday, making a hunk of meat on a skewer big enough to serve 24,000 tacos:
“I didn’t know Chihuahuas got that big.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2883554

3. On an asteroid named Apophis, having a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036:
“Hopefully, it will strike Michael Jackson’s house … provided he’s still alive.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070218/ts_nm/asteroid_deflector_dc

4. On Brittany Spears checking into rehab and then checking out 24 hours later, THEN shaving her head bald:
“Mike Tyson thinks she’s unstable.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Health/story?id=2885048&page=1

5. On a van driven by an elderly man crashing into a cell phone store:
“Hopefully, the old man hit that annoying guy with the glasses that ‘stars’ in those awful Verizon commercials.”
http://www.wwltv.com/local/northshore/stories/wwl021707khstorecrashed.d2f133b.html

6. On John Street’s older, and more corrupt, brother Milton, saying that he is going to run for Mayor of Philadelphia in 2008:
“I guess once you get to a certain level of corruption, you have to go into public office in order to achieve ‘greater success.’”
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/columnists/16722847.htm

7. On the new fad of women having fat removed from their backsides, then injected into their feet:
“This really doesn’t sound like such a ‘toe-riffic’ idea to me.”
http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=48525&Section=Columns

8. On Hooters launching a new energy drink:
“The obvious question here is, will it be wing-flavored?”
http://www.slashfood.com/2007/02/17/hooters-launching-energy-drink/