WEDNESDAY, December 29, 2010

The US Department of Justice has uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to poison restaurant salad bars.  Some chains are responding.  Marie Callender’s installed bullet-proof sneeze guards and runs the dried banana chips through an arsenic-detector.   

Airport authorities in Berlin hired circus clowns to entertain the thousands of passengers whose flights had been canceled.  They made quite an entrance.  Who knew you could stuff 836 clowns into a 747?

After two losing seasons, Forty-Niners coach Mike Singletary was fired following a loss to the Rams.  The owners had class, though.  They hired Tony Bennett to sing “I Left My Job in San Francisco” over the PA system.

A new study shows that college students are, on average, 15 pounds heavier at graduation.  A majority of high school girls do, too, but return to normal once the baby is born. 

Faced with expenses they can’t meet, many small cities in England are leaving their street lights off at night.  Bad news on two fronts.  Auto accidents are up 30% and hookers are staying home because they have nothing to stand under.