It was recently discovered that the crown prince of Jordan not only
is a huge "Star Trek" fan, but got a brief walk-on part on "Star Trek:
Voyager." The science-fiction-loving future king was thrilled, because it was:
Always eager to provide a public service, we informed our readers that April 9 would
be the best day to have sex if they're determined to have a baby on Jan. 1, 2000:
Orlando, Florida, home of Walt Disney World, found itself with such a mouse
infestation that it went on a massive, if ironic, mouse eradication campaign:
Researchers looked for connections between childhood spanking and
adult problems such as drinking and drug abuse, and found that:
When "Shakespeare in Love" won the Oscar, I worried that nobody would get the
following headline. Luckily even the boss' doorman mentioned it the next
morning so I
guess it wasn't too obscure for the ever-literate New Yorker:
Friends of a woman recently divorced from a convicted mobster rallied to
help her and her children save their home from what they said was a shady
deal by her husband's family:
The city of New York had planned to take a strip of land running
through 13 people's back yards and auction it off, but then they decided
to drop the plan:
A New Jersey man is planning to sue after getting a misspelled tattoo in which the
word "else" was written "elese." Unfortunately, he was a:
A simple new birth-control pill is being developed for men. I thought the headline
was much too juvenile to take credit for, but my sister insists that I put it
on my web page so she can see it on the other side of the country:
A British clothier, having already gained attention for including breast-cancer
information on the tags of its bras, has now started to include prostate-cancer
information in men's trousers. So now you can simply: