It's the end of April 2009 and the world is in turmoil. However, there are some news stories that one might ponder to get one's mind off of the turmoil. Here are a few:
01. Russian doctors found a fir tree growing in a man's lungs! (Wouldn't that make a great cartoon?)
02. An 89 year old man in Australia was mauled by a pack of wild mice.
03. Prince Charles met with the Pope to discuss the environment. (Papal warming?)
04. Scientists have announced that if a pulsar the size of a silver dollar landed on Earth, it would weigh 100 million tons.
05. A baby girl in New Zealand was named Zealand-New.
06. Many aeons ago, one of the Popes was named Hilarious. (look it up)
07. Years ago, Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore delivered lots of babies to indigent mothers. Usually, they would give the child a name. One of the names given to a newborn by a doctor was: Positive Wasserman Johnson. (look it up in Mencken's great book, The American Language.)
08. A man named Justin Brady changed his name to "Ynot Bubba." (Why not?)
09. A man shot his wife through the head and then killed himself. When the police arrived, she was busy making tea.
10. A cat in China adopted two puppies that she is teaching to catch mice. (needed in Australia.. see # 02 above.)
11. A woman dying of lung cancer in Massachusetts says: "Some people, like me, are just born to smoke."
12. United Airlines began demanding that people with fat butts buy a second seat.
13. There is a new scam to watch out for.. guys who enter restaurants and look for people (at table) who are ready to pay their bills, and tell them they will take the money (or credit card!) for them, and then disappear.
14. A nude man drove his pickup truck through the wall of an emergency room in North Dakota.
15. The magazine This Week reports that "Le Whif".. a lipstick sized mini inhaler shoots a calorie-free chocolate mist into your mouth for $2 for 4 puffs.
16. The @ sign for Internet use means "love him" in Chinese.
17. A New York worker is demanding pay for the lunch hour he lost when he was "locked down" during a shoot-out.
18. An overdue book returned to a Canadian library was taken out in 1899. The $9,000 fine was waived. (I have a book that I borrowed from the New Bedford, Massachusetts Public Library 50 years ago. I've been told to wait for "amnesty day" to return it... I know, I know... no excuse for my action.)
If you want to know more about these subjects, you might want to "google" them.
Auf wiedersehen.
4 comments:
I think the guy should be reimbursed for the lunch hour, as he would not have lost it had he not been at work for the benefit of the employer.
I see you still have ACLU tendencies. Dad
The ACLU is too damn right wing these days.
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