Topical Chat, April 18, 2008

Let’s go Flyers … clap-clap clap-clap-clap!!!!!!

1. On Martha Stewart’s dog, Paw-Paw, passing away:
“Somehow, I’m not sure if Martha would say, ‘it’s a good thing …’”
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6084734

2. On a British teacher’s claim that baldness is a disability:
“Well, if that’s the case, this guy might want to try stupidity as well …”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7350523.stm

3. On a discharged patient being accused of stealing an ambulance, then speeding away at up to 100 mph:
“He was immediately offered a position with the hospital …”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/15/ap/strange/main4018806.shtml

4. On American surgeons claiming that they have removed a man's appendix by operating through his mouth:
“Are these the same surgeons from the movie ‘Spies Like Us?’”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91251-1312960,00.html?f=rss

5. On London police believing that putting clergymen on buses will prevent unruly behavior from teenagers:
“However, sexual harassment cases on said busses will probably rise …”
http://thisislocallondon.co.uk/display.var.2196542.0.croydon_pastors_patrol_bus_routes.php

6. On a teenage girl having to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a baby's swing:
“From the ‘what could possibly go wrong whilst playing truth-or-dare’ department.”
http://www.lep.co.uk/weirdnews/Stranded-teenager-rescued-from-baby.3985108.jp

7. On a baby girl being struck in the head with an empty glass after an argument over a spitball fight:
“From the ‘Failed Three Stooges Scripts’ department …”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-bk-fight-041508,0,5420074.story