We’ll call them all Seabiscuit

Published 11:20 pm Thursday, August 14, 2008

And they’re off! In a spectacular development for the world of horse racing, seahorses have been taught to swim on command. This is great news for avid fans of racing, but bad news for jockeys. Riders will now be eating a single lettuce leaf per week in order to make weight.

A British man was banned from his girlfriend’s flat after neighbors got fed up with their noisy, um, “relations.” The woman was also fined for breaking a “noise abatement order.” Well, we’ve heard a lot of euphemisms for gettin’ busy, but that’s a new one to us.

Do you hear a noise? That’s the sound of the world’s Harry Potter obsessed fans screaming. The release of the next movie has been pushed from November to July. Warner Bros. executives are explaining to disappointed fans that the change is all about magic. As in, “We’ll push back the opening and magically we’ll make more money!”