Because sometimes we just need to look at the lighter side of life ...excerpts
NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News:
"Palm Beach County, Fla., created the controversial 'butterfly ballot' in the 2000 presidential election that reportedly confused more than a thousand Gore-Lieberman voters such that they wound up marking their ballots for a minor-party candidate. In February 2006, local education officials told the Palm Beach Post that too many of the county's high school students apparently knew answers on the statewide comprehensive test but were incorrectly marking the answer sheets. The multiple choice questions require only one circle to be darkened on the sheet, but other questions require darkening digits of an actual numerical answer, apparently bewildering students into darkening too many or too few circles. [Palm Beach Post, 2-6-06]"
then ...
"A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist, quoting a spokesman for the telecommunications company Lucent in January, reported that "nearly a million people" in the United States still lease their house phones for around $60 a year (about 20 years after they were no longer required to), rather than buy them for as little as $20 each. [Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), 1-11-06] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1-28-06]"
Maybe they all live in PALM BEACH ! (editorial comment)
And for our CIA ... we do so miss Don Adams as Maxwell Smart :
"... one clandestine operative left a clear trail of her whereabouts because, even though she booked herself at foreign hotels under aliases, she insisted that frequent-flier miles earned at the hotels be credited to her personal, non-secret frequent-flier account. [Chicago Tribune, 12-25-05]"
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