Topical Chat, August 15, 2007

Hmmph … another wrestler has been found dead … maybe Barry Bonds can join the WWE?

1. On a teenage girl who was rushed to hospital after overdosing on coffee:
“She apparently mistook cocaine for sugar … or not.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/dietfitness.html?in_article_id=475021

2. On a newspaper columnist who got fired for writing that nobody reads the paper anymore:
“Um … enough said?”
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9758842-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

3. On a report that nine-in-ten Americans continue to see voting as a duty, and most say they feel guilty when they do not get a chance to vote:
“That’s saying a lot, considering that less than 50% of Americans actually vote …”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20070813/ts_pew/90feelanobligationtovote

4. On the sale of bullet proof back-packs:
“A sign that you might want to move to a different school district …”
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_13653.aspx

5. On a well-built man being forced to take a drugs test in Stockholm recently after a police officer assumed that muscles like his could only have been developed with the help of illegal substances:
“I think we need this guy to run major league baseball …”
http://www.thelocal.se/8168/20070813/

6. On a man who is attempting to set a world record for the number of live Elvis Presley tribute performances achieved by one person in a single day:
“The phrase, ‘get a life,’ probably never got through to this guy …”
http://www.lep.co.uk/showbiz?articleid=3104658

7. On Karl Rove resigning at the end of the month:
“I guess he’s going back to his seat in hell, then?”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118698747711695773.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

8. On 10 sheriff’s deputies being stranded overnight in the wildness after they get lost and disoriented while seizing a large pot growing operation:
“In an unrelated note, a Twinkee truck went missing in the same area.”
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_081207ORN_stranded_deputies_SW.29182259.html