I heard on the radio recently that for Twinkie’s 75th anniversary, Hostess had people submit recipes using Twinkies and they created a cookbook.  The items included a Twinkie burrito and, get this, Twinkie lasagna.  I’m hoping the “lasagna” is only made with sweet stuff or that’s just gross…

I’m all for innovation, but they should invent more stuff like cookies and nachos.  There’s no need to combine things together that don’t go together.

There’s a tourist attraction in England called Wookey Hole Caves that had a display of 1,000 teddy bears, including one named Mabel which used to be owned by Elvis Presley.  This one particular bear was worth $75,000.  There were other valuable ones, too.  In fact, the collection was so valuable that the insurance company insisted that guard dogs be used to watch it at night, along with a security guard.  So they brought in Barney the guard dog.  (Do you see where this is headed?)  So guess what the dog did… It mauled dozens of teddy bears, including Mabel.  And the insurance company really can’t say much, because it was their idea.

At the news article, you can see a picture of Barney and his handler (who doesn’t look very happy), surrounded by stuffing from teddy bears.

In the news today, I read that the sun kills 60,000 people a year.  That’s more than the fighting in Iraq!  Something must be done!  Why aren’t people concerned about this?

Now there is something you can do.  Someone has started up a petition : Blow Up the Sun Petition.  (Really, I know nothing about this site whatsoever.  It doesn’t seem to do anything, even if you submit your name.)

Now, while blowing up the sun may save a few lives, it could have a potentially destructive effect on the rest of us… so we should consider this carefully before blowing up the sun…

The following random story is true.  I don’t think I could even make up something like this.  I saw this in the news today…

A Chinese schoolmaster sold some trees around the school, then when some colleagues found out, he decided to cook dog meat for them to persuade them to not tell anyone.  (What a bribe, huh?)  So he got some friends to bring him two dogs, which he killed at the school; then he started cooking them and the meal caught on fire and burned down ten classrooms.  And then this tidbit at the end is funny, based on what an understatement it is :

The local education bureau fined the headmaster 10,000 yuan ($1,252) and suggested he be fired.

Yeah, I think it’s pretty safe to say he’s gonna lose his job over this.