Saturday, May 2

Quick Takes


20 down, more to go News Item: The Betty Ford
Center celebrated its 20th anniversary last weekend. The Center
hopes to continue to be the sobriety haven for crackhead Hollywood
actors for many more years to come.

Finger of truth News Item: A new Greek study
claims that the length of a man’s index finger can accurately
predict the length of his penis. Women everywhere will no longer
have to crane their necks to eye the size of their dates’
feet.

Birthdays this week Jeff Goldblum turns
50; Michael Crichton turns 60. No more Jurassic Parks. Please.

One giant leap for (woman)kind This day in
history: In 1901 Annie Taylor became the first person to go
over Niagara Falls in a barrel. (Yes, there have been others
since.) In Delaware in 1939, Nylon stockings went on sale for the
first time. Quick Takes’ conspiracy theory
It seems the students at UCLA have become the subjects of a little
known study observing the behavioral patterns of people subjected
to insane detour routes due to construction, construction going on
for no apparent reason. Supermarket tabloid headlines =
quality
“Two Headed German Politician Debates
Himself and Loses”

Bushspeak as a second language “All of us
here in America should believe, and I think we do, that we should
be, as I mentioned, a nation of owners. Owning something is
freedom, as far as I’m concerned. It’s part of a free
society. … It’s a part of — it’s of being a —
it’s a part of — an important part of America.” Who
writes his speeches, Porky Pig?


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