July 11th 2008

Friday leftovers! Hey everybody send me a line with comments, ideas, suggestions
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You all have a nice weekend...

Chrysler Building
The government of Abu Dhabi has purchased the Chrysler Building in Manhattan. Now we all know where the safest tallest offices in the world are located.

Larry King
Larry King was honored in Hollywood Thursday with a portion of an LA street named after him. Unfortunately for Larry King, they picked up a street with no shoulders for the suspenders...

Seating
An Anaheim man set a Guinness World Record on Wednesday for "Most Seats Sat in 48 Hours" by sitting in 39,250 seats. The record was broken immediately by someone that ate jalapeños with salmonella.

Celebrity babies
OK magazine paid Jamie Lynn Spears $1 million, Jessica Alba $1.5 million and Mathew McConaughey $3 million for the picture of their recently born babies. Isn’t that traumatizing for the kids? How would those babies feel when they grow up and find out one is worth more than the other is? Shouldn’t the government have a fixed fee for celebrity babies?

Lighting
According to the National Weather Service, there's a one in 500,000 chance that you'll be struck by lightning in any given year. Still more chances than Nader has of being elected.

Gas
A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham has found that when gas prices go up the number of traffic deaths drops. Unfortunately, the number of heart attacks at the pumps triples.

Old
An elderly woman who reportedly had the power to lengthen men's penises has died. A-Rod got shocked for a second, but a call to Madonna put him at ease.

Study
A new study from Florida State University found that when people are in love, not only are they less likely to check out attractive people of the opposite sex, they're actually repulsed by them. As evidence they cited that both Ryan Seacrest and Anderson Cooper are repulsed by someone like Angelina Jolie.

Jail
A correctional officer found $55,000 at the St. Louis County Jail. They were all in coins scattered on the floor of the showers, but none of the inmates dared pick them up.

Iran
Iran apparently doctored photos of missile test-firings to look like they launched four instead of three missiles. When he heard the news, Bush immediately asked to hire the photographer to take the picture of his next fundraising.

Life
The "value of a statistical American life" is $6.9 million. The Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago. So much so, last time I went to fill up my car I had to leave my two kids to pay for it.

The "value of a statistical American life" is $6.9 million. The Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago. So much so, terrorists now have to kidnap 20 Americans to exchange them for a German.