Topical Chat, February 21, 2008

Great, the last holiday until Memorial Day has passed ….

1. On a drunk man suffering serious burns to his feet after attempting to firewalk over a bonfire:
“Ah, liquid courage …. And stupidity!”
http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Man-burns-his-feet-on.3787215.jp

2. On a man who got his “manhood” stuck in a mannequin:
“Finally, some new work for Andrew McCarthy!”
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article695249.ece

3. On a man attacking a friend with a machete in a dispute over a case of beer:
“With friends like that, who needs enemies?”
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_8286050

4. On Jim Bakker starting a new religious talk show in Missouri:
“Jimmy Swaggert thinks this is a bad move …”http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument?aa

5. On a new book that claims that in order to have an obedient husband, you should train him like a dog:
“However, you know exactly what we mean by ‘Scooby Snacks!’”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/109614?g=1

6. On how a 13 year-old’s search for a lost pet hamster became a hot internet topic:
“Michael Jackson, line 1 …”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=515464&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow

7. On an ex-homecoming queen who beat her sister with a fake leg in a trailer:
“Animal House 2, anyone?”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23172332/