Topical Chat, March 30, 2007

So, any good April Fools jokes?

1. On a man being charged with theft and burglary after police said they found 93 pounds of women's panties, brassieres and other underwear at his home:
“In a seemingly unrelated story, Rosie O’Donnell is missing some lingerie.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/27/underwear.theft.ap/index.html

2. On Michael Jackson being hospitalized in Las Vegas with pneumonia:
“Um … wouldn’t that mean that Michael Jackson is human?”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262526,00.html

3. On a man being caught videotaping women’s feet at a science library:
“Man, that story is just ‘toe-riffic.’ That camera guy is such a ‘heel.’”
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5162638

4. On a state rep. introducing a bill designating the Tilt-A-Whirl the official amusement ride in Minnesota:
“The makers of the Gravitron are none too happy with this.”
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=249332

5. On ABC reporting that caffeine is in soda and that it is potentially addictive:
“Next thing they’ll tell us is that the world isn’t flat.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=2990014&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

6. On ailing leader Fidel Castro publishing an article in state media Thursday criticizing U.S. environmental policies:
“Seriously, why isn’t this guy dead yet?”
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/29/cuba.castro.ap/index.html

7. On an Australian judge who tried to avoid $77 speeding ticket by claiming a friend had borrowed his car now facing 13 charges of perjury because the supposed driver died three years ago:
“These are some of the things one needs to check into prior to blurting out lies.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_speeding;_ylt=AsEOqtGldcCTpwzi4g4BoOLMWM0F

8. On a report from the U.K. that dentistry reforms have failed:
“So, what would these reforms include, actually having dentists?”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/28/ndentists128.xml