Topical Chat, October 1, 2007

Oh my God, Phillies baseball in October?????? I like it!

1. On the Mets collapsing and the Phils taking advantage to win the N.L. East:
“So, when do the ‘Reverse the Curse’ shirts go on sale?”
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/scoreboard;_ylt=ArPZtbPaH0fa7DqxdtGi4eY5nYcB

2. On a seven-year-old who was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework:
“I had no idea Michael Jackson was a certified teacher …”
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-09-30T142131Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-297852-1.xml&rpc=92

3. Animal rights activists who are campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person and are vowing to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal:
“That’s why I love PETA so much – the stories that I read on them are so entertaining …”
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/28/chimp_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20070928143000

4. On the first weekend of pumpkin flinging season ending abruptly when one of the operators of a catapault-like device was knocked out in a freak accident:
“You know, the term pumpkin flinging sounds more like some forbidden or dirty sexual activity … like the Blumkin or Dirty Sanchez.”
http://wjz.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_268092540.html

5. On a woman who managed to run over both of her legs in the drive-through lane at McDonald’s:
“This directly supports my rant about creating some sort of certification test in order for people to use the drive-throughs at fast-food restaurants:
http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=/PVN/News&r21.content=/PVN/News/ContentTab_Feature_715762

6. On a couple being charged nearly $200,000 for a 7-minute phone call:
“I thought 1-900 lines only charged $1.99 a minute … this must’ve been one helluva call!”
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=iol1191073710495P500

7. On a Houston-area middle school student being arrested Friday after allegedly bringing a handgun to school and pointing it at teachers and a maintenance worker:
“So, wait – this happened in Texas??? Shouldn’t she have become class president for this?”
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14234428/detail.html

8. On a man who drowned as he tried to swim across the River Lune from one pub to another:
“This might be another good ‘Redneck Joke’ for Jeff Foxworthy …”
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Man-drowned-swimming-to-the.3244449.jp