Topical Chat, February 13, 2008

Make sure you wear your seatbelts on a lucky day such as this!

1. On a Dutch company developing the 'Tankpitstop' robot to fill up gas tanks while drivers relax:
“One might have to tip a little more in order to get some ‘herb.’”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142141-c,artificialintelligence/article.html

2. On a 24-year- man pointing what turned out to be a machine gun-shaped liquor bottle at an officer conducting a traffic stop:
“This will turn out about as well as Lindsay Lohan in a night club …”
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080209/bottle_arrest_080209/20080209?hub=Canada/

3. On a 108-year-old woman who was quoted as saying that Coors Light kept her alive this long:
“Could you imagine how long she would’ve lived if she drank good beer?”
http://www.citizensvoice.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19279336&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=571464&rfi=6


4. On Yahoo Inc's board believing that Microsoft Corp's unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo "massively undervalues" the company, with directors set to reject the offer:
“I smell hostile takeover!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080209/tc_nm/yahoo_microsoft_rejection_dc_2

5. On a report that homework is of little benefit to students from junior kindergarten to Grade 6:
“Where was this study when I was a kid????”
http://www.thestar.com/GTA/Education/article/302001

6. On a restaurant in Taiwan welcoming in the Chinese New Year with a menu full of rat dishes:
“Let’s hope there is never a ‘Year of the Human’ on the Chinese calendar …”http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/chinese+chefs+inspired+by+year+of+the+rat/1522647

7. On the popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox being linked to dangerous botulism symptoms:
“Hmmph … next thing you’ll tell me is that Liberace was gay …”http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/02/08/botox.warning.ap/index.html