Topical Chat, April 9, 2007

I hope your Easters were all “egg-shell-ent.”


1. On the West Virgina N.I.T. championships shirts having a misspelling:
“Unfortunately, none of the players noticed …”
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/03/30/bc.bkc.nit.t.shirtgoof.ap/index.html

2. On an internationally known fighter for freedom of West Papua being arrested for masturbating on a train:
“So, is ‘freedom fighting’ the new term for masturbation?”
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/freedom-fighter-exposed/2007/04/07/1175366530644.html

3. On a London family waiting for life-saving heart surgery for their 16-year-old daughter finding out the operation was cancelled because of a lack of hospital beds:
“I think we might have a new sketch for that wacky Monty Python comedy troupe.”
http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=20632&news_channel_id=41&channel_id=41

4. On Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation when he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week:
“What’s great about this story is that it shows that ANYBODY, and I mean ANYBODY can become president.”
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148

5. On Italian men now letting their mothers choose their future wives live on television:
“How soon before Simon Cowell and Fox jump on this one?”
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21517489-38200,00.html

6. On moviegoers who were expecting to see the PG rated movie "The Last Mimzy," seeing a naked woman giving birth to what appears to be a mutant creature instead:
“Sadly, this was probably better than the movie they were going to see in the first place.”
http://www.wftv.com/entertainment/11564552/detail.html

7. On a Canadian woman who went through six months of chemotherapy after falsely being told she had cancer:
“Good thing she didn’t get a second opinion …”
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-04-05T194513Z_01_N05213242_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-CANCER-COL.XML&rpc=92

8. On Michigan democrats voting to give every kid in Michigan an iPod for educational purposes:
“From the Ted Kennedy‘What could possibly go wrong’ department.”
http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-6174170.html