Thursday, March 06, 2008

Topical Chat, March 7, 2008

Brett Favre’s retiring? I don’t think so …

1. On a Benedictine monk being caught with around 230 pornographic films in his room in a monastery in western Germany:
“You know, I’d rather read about this, than about all those priests who are sexually molesting kids … just my two cents.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306/od_afp/germanyreligionpornographyoffbeat_080306193109

2. On the Pentagon banning Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases:
“Especially in that Area 51 place that doesn’t exist …”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8V84RL00&show_article=1

3. On a California city declaring itself a cuss-free zone:
“Is Kirk Cameron their mayor?”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-06-cuss-free-zone_N.htm

4. On a suspected meth lab that was actually the man's own personal perfume making equipment:
“60 percent of the time, it works all the time …”
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7974101

5. On Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., avoiding paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in the Cayman Islands:
“This would be shocking except for the fact that Dick Cheney is vice president …”
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2008/03/06/top_iraq_contractor_skirts_us_taxes_offshore/?page=full

6. On a leading bookmaker who has stopped taking bets on the Crufts dog show amid fears that a mystery "superdog" could scoop the top prize:
“Why does this sound like a partnership between Roger Clemens and Michael Vick?”
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/europe/crufts-betting-suspended-amid-superdog-fears-1308311.html

7. On Birmingham's City Council approving a $3.5 million plan to provide schoolchildren with 15,000 computers produced by the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child Foundation, which aims to spread laptops to poor children in developing countries.”
“Um …. Does Alabama even have electricity?”http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_hi_te/city_cheap_laptops_4

3 Comments:

At 6:31 PM, Blogger Jay said...

google earth is real freaky

i mean, now you can see the sky too! google is seriously taking over the world

 
At 9:34 PM, Blogger Jeff said...

1. I thought Las Vegas was Sin City.

2. Can Google Earth make detailed maps of Iran's nuclear facilities?

3. Hasn't yet discovered the German monk's porn collection.

4. Karl sits on his personal perfume making equipment.

5. If politicians didn't want that to happen, they'd write laws differently.

6. I wouldn't want to "scoop the top prize" at a dog show.

7. So Birmingham children can more easily access the German monk's porn.

 
At 11:43 AM, Blogger FOUR DINNERS said...

1. On a Benedictine monk being caught with around 230 pornographic films in his room in a monastery in western Germany:

Just a bad habit....ouch, I'll get me coat

2. On the Pentagon banning Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases:

How does the Pentagon find em then?

3. On a California city declaring itself a cuss-free zone:

bollocks

4. On a suspected meth lab that was actually the man's own personal perfume making equipment:

Barney Gumble smells nice?

5. On Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., avoiding paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in the Cayman Islands:

Kellog? The Corn Flake Kellog? They're dropping Corn Flakes on Iraqi's? I'm bewildered

6. On a leading bookmaker who has stopped taking bets on the Crufts dog show amid fears that a mystery "superdog" could scoop the top prize:

A dog in tights and outside underpants? Now that would be interesting

7. On Birmingham's City Council approving a $3.5 million plan to provide schoolchildren with 15,000 computers produced by the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child Foundation, which aims to spread laptops to poor children in developing countries.”

Our Birmingham (UK) hasn't even got to candles yet....

 

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