Just 9 days until Christmas. Right about now Santa is working on his naughty and nice lists – and I think we all know which list Tiger Woods is on.
This week in Copenhagen they’re holding the U.N. Climate Change Conference, and even Santa Claus is trying be green. This year for the first time, all the bad little kids will get clean burning coal in their stockings.
On this date in 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C. The only glitch with that first flight was that Orville’s luggage landed up in Cincinnati.
An Irish company is marketing the first environmentally friendly vibrator that’s operated by a hand crank. I’m thinking, doesn’t that go against the whole point of a vibrator – to not have to do any work?
Organizers of a proposed charter school in New York named after Barack Obama will need a new name – because of a White House policy that bans the use of the president’s name while he is in office. They say they’ll pick a new name for now and then change the name back to the Barack Obama School in January 2013.
Police in Wisconsin arrested a man dressed as Santa Claus for drunk driving after he stumbled out of his car and asked for help finding his reindeer. He was also charged with attempted bribery after he offered to put the police and their kids on his “nice” list.
A couple in South Dakota was arrested when they faked the husband’s death after eating oysters – to collect on life insurance. Wow, that’s weird – somebody actually lives in South Dakota?
A new study found that women who wait more than 11 months between pregnancies have healthier babies. The study also found that they had happier husbands.
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