Kinda Funny

The other day I was creating the W2 forms for the folks employed by our church last year. One lady worked several weeks filling in as church secretary. I noticed that her wages for the year were exactly $666. I thought that was kinda funny.

From the current issue of The Week magazine:

Volos, Greece
An entire convent of Greek Orthodox nuns has fled to another convent to avoid paying close to $1 million in debt from their failed knitting business. The 55 nuns splurged on purchases of industrial knitting machines and by attending foreign fashion shows to get ideas for patterns. The wool clothes they made were popular in Greece, but the business went under when a bank called in the loan. The nuns are now holed up in a convent in Volos, as the Holy Synod negotiates with the bank on their behalf.

From an article of the same title in the LA Times by John Johnson Jr. and Alan Zarembo:

A NASA astronaut was arrested in Florida early Monday and accused of attacking a woman she considered her rival for the love of another astronaut, Orlando police said. Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, who flew last summer on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station, drove nearly 1,000 miles from her home in Houston to intercept the woman, who was just arriving at Orlando International Airport, police said. Nowak, 43, accosted 30-year-old Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman in a parking lot and sprayed her with pepper spray in an attempt to kidnap her, according to a police affidavit.

That's not funny, of course, but the wacky part is this:

Police said Nowak drove from Houston wearing diapers so she would not have to stop to relieve herself, the Associated Press reported. Shuttle astronauts wear diapers during launch and reentry.

I'm always skeptical of slippery slope arguments, but here is some supporting evidence. I guess once you start wearing diapers, the convenience makes it tempting to do so under a variety of circumstances. ;-)

From The Washington Post's Reliable Source (photo from Yahoo! News photo):

The fashion police came to the rescue of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who made worldwide headlines by revealing his holey socks at a mosque in Turkey last weekend. A Gold Toe rep delivered 21 pairs of dress socks to his office yesterday (labeled "rush delivery"), Turkish sock manufacturers mailed a dozen pairs, and employees also presented him with a pair.

Topping the list of most e-mailed articles of 2006 from the NY Times is this one: "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage" by Amy Sutherland. It's about how a woman found success applying animal training techniques to modify her husband's behavior. Wonder why it was so popular. ;-)