TUESDAY, November 16, 2010

Officials in the UK hired Ronald McDonald and the Colonel to help formulate a program that will alert Brits to the health dangers of obesity.  Isn’t that a little like asking the pope to help screen Cub Scout camp counselors?   

Chili’s new “Southern Smokehouse Burger” with 2090 calories, 127 fat grams and 6310 mgs of sodium has been crowned fast food’s unhealthiest menu item.   The state of Texas has already used it on three death row inmates.

Boeing has sold thirty 787 jumbo passenger jetliners to Air India.  They’ll be the first to offer international passengers a special, low-cost “Gandhi Class.”  You get a pillow, a sheet and no food.

The new film “127 Hours” is about a rock climber who gets lodged between two boulders and cuts off his arm to survive.  The sequel, due out next year, covers the lawsuit he files against himself for amputating the wrong one.

Francis Ford Coppola has been given a Lifetime Oscar from the Motion Picture Academy.  Looks like Hollywood has finally forgiven him for casting his daughter Sophia in Godfather III.