Topical Chat, April 25, 2007

Didn’t we just have snow a few weeks ago in Philly? Now, it’s 80+ degrees. Good times.

1. On ABC News doing a story called “Is Your Husband Gay?”:
“It’s possible … if your husband is Rosie O’Donnell.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3072451&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

2. On Cincinnati outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. being sidelined with a colon problem:
“Is this guy now the Fred Taylor of baseball?”
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/04/23/bc.bbn.reds.griffey.ap/index.html?section=si_latest

3. On Spider Man 3 being available on DVD in China:
“What a ‘tangled web’ they weave…”
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2007-04-24T131121Z_01_PEK111321_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-PIRACY-SPIDERMAN.xml&rpc=92

4. On Kim Basinger denying she leaked Alec Baldwin’s phone message to his daughter (the one where he calls her a little pig):
“I believe this one about as much as I believe OJ isn’t a murderer.”
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/04/24/entertainment/e031610D80.DTL&type=printable

5. On long-term research into obesity suggesting that being breastfed as a child does not help prevent obesity later in life:
“I’m guessing Michael Jackson wasn’t breast-fed … I’ll leave it up to you to decide what that means.”

6. On Chicago police arresting a man suspected of robbing a pair of fast food restaurants:
“After all these years, Ronald McDonald and Mayor McCheese can finally breathe easier. The Hamburglar has finally been caught.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5238962

7. On sales of existing homes plunging last month by the largest amount in 18 years:
“Some are claiming that the weather was to blame … I’m guessing the inflated housing prices had nothing to do with this.”
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070424/home_sales.html?.v=2

8. On Toyota overtaking GM as the world’s largest car maker:
“I’m blaming the John Mellancamp song for this!”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6586679.stm