Topical Chat, March 21, 2007

Happy … er … Spring, everyone.

1. On a thirteen-year-old seventh grader winning the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest:
“This DEFINITELY won’t haunt her for the rest of her life … or her friends … that is, of course if she has friends.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_fe_st/rotten_sneakers;_ylt=AqL7U__iNrvB2MFKSI.9JWjtiBIF

2. On flamboyant Wall Street trader turned “Mad Money” TV host Jim Cramersaying too much in a video interview he did for a financial Web site - he bragged about manipulating stock prices during his days as a trader”
“A-Rod thinks that this guy might want to dodge some interviews at this point.”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03202007/business/cramer_reveals_a_bit_too_much_business_roddy_boyd.htm

3. On an eighth-grader who has been suspended from school and faces expulsion after admitting that he put urine in a teacher's coffee pot:
“If I was that teacher, I’d be pissed …”
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6252170&nav=menu35_1

4. On Pennsylvania lawmakers tackling the controversial issue of whether beer should be sold in grocery stores:
“Nothing like having our “Quaker roots” showing for everyone to see …”
http://www.wgal.com/news/11306080/detail.html

5. On a computer tech who accidentally erased info on Alaska's $38 billion oil fund:
“This guys sounds like the Orville Redenbocker of computer techs.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259842,00.html

6. On Amway distributors being ordered to pay $19 million after spreading rumors that Procter & Gamble profits were going to satanic cults:
“Not to side with Amway on this, but I’m sure some of P&G’s profits did go to politicians …”
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=343132&Category=5&fromSearch=yes&subCategoryID=0

7. On Marc Horowitz, the guy who lived out of his Nissan Sentra for seven days, enjoying his celebrity to the fullest, not because people know him from the Nissan ads but because they think he’s actually Jon Heder – at Ron Jeremy’s birthday party Penthouse girls were fawning all over him while smacking each other’s bottoms:
“Thank goodness he didn’t tell anybody he was Rob Schneider.”
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2007/03/7_days_in_a_nis.html

8. On Animal activists calling for a zoo’s baby Polar bear to be killed — because it relies on humans:
“You know, I just can’t understand why some animal activists have a tough time gaining any respect from people …”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007130133,00.html