China's economic expansion appears to be slowing down slightly. How do we know this, you might wonder. Well, now when we get behind on our loan payments, two guys named Kung and Pao threaten to make Ben Bernake a new set of kneecaps.
After months of delicate negotiations, NBC has agreed to pay $4 billion for the rights to televise the Olympic Games. To justify their investment, record Nielsen ratings are imperative. To woo the typical couch potato, they're renaming the Games "American Idle."
Delta Airlines squandered what little positive brand identification they had by charging a group of soldiers returning from Afghanistan $2800 for extra baggage. In response, the Pentagon has instituted a new policy called "Don't Ask, Don't Fly Delta."
Newt Gingrich returned home from a two-week cruise to the Greek Isles to find almost his entire campaign staff had resigned. The only top level staffers he could get to return his calls work at Tiffany's.
Asked by reporters to describe the hardest part of being sent to prison on a gun charge, former NY Giant NFL standout Plaxico Burress said, “You don’t want a cellmate named ‘Crowbar’ when your first name is ‘Plaxico’.”
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