Topical Chat, December 14, 2007

The Cure said it best, “Friday, I’m in Love!”

1. On a man who was taking his 12-year-old son on his first trip to a shooting range accidentally shooting and wounding the owner of the range:
“I guess he was showing his son what not to do on the range?”
http://www.nbc11.com/news/14823715/detail.html

2. On the House of Lords listening with interest to a call for thick slices of bread to be cut down to size:
“Good to see that the UK has solved global warming, terrorism, and the oil dependency issues, so they can tackle real problems …”
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.1874133.0.in_the_thick_of_it.php

3. On three final entries vying to replace “Old Folks at Home” as Florida's official state song:
“I hope one of them is, “You Must Be Old … You Have that Stale Smell Mixed With Moth Balls …”
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=69590&s=f

4. On comedy actor Paul Reuben reprising his most famous character to make two new Pee-Wee Hermann movies:
“I heard one of the movies was called ‘Pee-Wee’s Trouser Snake…’”
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/reuben%20to%20return%20as%20pee-wee%20herman_1053148

5. On Pamela Anderson being voted TV’s Sexiest Woman Ever by AOL users:
“Boy, Gilligan’s Island’s Ginger has really fallen on hard times …”
http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?i=3261837&l=http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp%3Farticle%3D2512

6. On a major ice-storm hitting the nation’s midsection:
“More proof that the Cubs might actually win a World Series soon?”
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/12/11/winter.storm.ap/index.html

7. On motorists who park at McDonalds being fined for outstaying their welcome in some of the burger chain's car parks:
“Others are being fined for not supersizing …”
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/mcfines+for+slow+eaters/1169247

8. On the fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC quietly reimbursing advertisers an average of $500,000 each for failing to reach guaranteed ratings levels:
“The good news is that they didn’t hire Katie Couric …”
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWG,RNWG:2004-31,RNWG:en&q=CBS+Evening+News