Topical Chat, April 9, 2008

A good friend of mine drank some red wine at my house this weekend, and then did some shots … he ended up puking some purple stuff … which made it look like he had given a hummer to Grimace.

1. On a new radio station that broadcasts nothing but the sound of birds:
“It makes sense, the owner has to be a ‘bird-brain.’”
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23501357-5012895,00.html

2. On a fast-food stall worker's demand that an irate customer pay her damages for throwing a half-eaten kebab at her:
“Now, are we sure that half-eaten ‘thing’ was really a kebab?”
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=136896&in_page_id=2

3. On the 75th anniversary of beer once again becoming legal in the U.S.:
“Seriously, why isn’t this a national holiday?”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/07/new.beers.eve/index.html

4. On a beach that is banning overweight youngsters from seaside donkey rides:
“However, fat people wearing speedos is still allowed …”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/04/children.health

5. On a teenage student in possession of sexually explicit photos of his Swedish school teacher claiming the woman was trying to seduce him:
“Ummm …. Where the hell were these teachers when I was growing up?”
http://www.thelocal.se/10950.html

6. On a $5-per-customer fee on strip club patrons dubbed the "pole tax" being declared unconstitutional:
“There are so many things that could use the name ‘pole tax.’”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-strip-club-fee,1,3695517.story

7. On elite French troops heading to East Africa to bolster efforts to free captives of a yacht held by pirates off Somalia:
“Ummm … unless the pirates are blind, and have no arms or legs, sending the French in will only guarantee more hostages …”http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5680051.html