You meet the most interesting characters...

...on Yahoo Pool. The following is not the middle of a "conversation". It is posted in its entirety. (Lines that start with "***" are made by Yahoo. The first one was right after I won the game.)

johnbradleywallace: weak
vinnythehack: What do you mean?
johnbradleywallace: i run your shit bitch
vinnythehack: You should get more roughage in your diet.
johnbradleywallace: you should actually play
johnbradleywallace: instead of cheat
johnbradleywallace: fuckin mark
vinnythehack: You have me confused with someone else. I'm Vinny.
*** vinnythehack's old rating: 1593, new rating: 1602
*** johnbradleywallace's old rating: 1419, new rating: 1410
*** vinnythehack has booted johnbradleywallace from the table.

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What does it mean if a hotel sales manager position is asking for S.M.E.R.F. sales experience?

They want to know if you have ever sold anything to tiny, little blue people.

Who writes this stuff?

Australian school may backflip on cartwheel ban

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – An Australian school which recently banned its students from doing cartwheels, somersaults and other gymnastics during recess is reviewing the decision after parents and students got all bent out of shape.

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It's official

After scouring the headlines looking for either an interesting story to comment on or a spark that might trigger me to write something original, it appears that nothing the least bit exciting has happened in the entire world, today. I thought about making a joke about the rumour that Cher, at age 61 or 62 depending on which rag you read, is touted to play the next Catwoman in the upcoming Batman movie, but how many "old" jokes can one make without being totally boring? Besides, because of the large number of ageing baby boomers, being old is getting to be--dare I say it?...cool. Madonna is/has just started another world tour and those Rolling Stones just keep er, um, rolling along.

I know. I just made a column out of nothing.

Q & A's from around the web

how can I get to work with Microsoft Outlook??

I know the price of gas is high, but I'm not sure you can e-mail yourself to work.