Santa’s giving IOUs this year
Published 11:04 pm Friday, December 14, 2007
All I want for Christmas is an IOU. Nintendo is starting a rain-check program for people who can’t find a Wii in time for Christmas.
You can picture it now. The tears of joy in little Timmy’s eyes as he awakens to find that Santa brought him a piece of paper that says he owes him a Wii. It’ll even give Grandpa a chance to reminisce about the fun he had when he was a boy, making an airplane out of the piece of paper he got for Christmas.
Score one for the First Amendment. After being charged with disorderly conduct, a woman went to court and won the right to shout obscenities at her toilet.
The woman wanted to gloat, but her lawyer advised her not to talk to reporters, on account of her potty mouth.
In another banner day for researchers, they’ve concluded that college students get worse grades after they stay up all night. The study appears in this month’s Lame Excuses magazine.
Scientists also know how to clone cats that glow under ultraviolet light. Next up, something really useful: Cats that glow when they are plotting against you.
