Olympic officials say that costs for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City are way over budget.


(Must be all those last-minute bribes...)




Playboy magazine is coming out with Barbie-style dolls of its Playmates. (In a related story, I hear there's going to be a plastic shortage in the U.S. very soon...)




New Zealand's government banned holiday fruitcakes from their prisons. They say they had to stop the fruitcake delivery because:


a. weapons were being smuggled inside


b. guards don't have time to scan the packages


c. prisoners were choosing the death penalty instead of having to eat one...




Postal patrons in Northampton, England are upset after their local post office hired a couple of temporary letter carriers from Malaysia who couldn't read English. (They have since been fired, but have found stable jobs and New York City taxi drivers...)




Personal -


My kids lost the remote last week; the withdrawal symptoms are so bad even the ads for the Clapper look good!