Everything else is having a year-end review, so how about a look at the year\’s oddest news stories too?

Religious Cousin Ruins Family\’s Christmas. Heh heh, I have 2 religious aunts. Luckily they\’re not as bad as this. Although one of them gave me a subscription to some weenie Christian magazine for Christmas a few years ago.

(One more from SatireWire) Employee-Slapping Widespread, Effective.

\”It\’s simple math,\” explained Jeffrey Baines, a senior marketing manager at United Parcel Service. \”Right now, in my department, I\’ve got six people under me. That\’s only six people I can slap. My boss, he has 96 people under him. I want his job.\”

Nation Having Hard Time Giving Shit About AOL-Time Warner Merger.

Continually bombarded by news that the AOL-Time Warner merger would create the world\’s first fully integrated media and communications company — a potentially anti-competitive Goliath that could dominate broadband interactive services for decades — the majority of Americans have no idea what I just wrote, and they don\’t care.

Unfortunately, it\’s probably true.

There\’s still hope for our teen-pop dominated society: Trent Reznor was voted Artist of the Year in Alternative Press magazine. And Limp Bizkit was voted one of the worst of the year. All is well now.

On a side note, what\’s with the Se7en DVD? I got a gift certificate for Borders, and I\’ve been to 3 different stores now and they\’re either sold out of Se7en or they never carried it in the first place. It\’s pissing me off. I don\’t believe the movie\’s that popular.

I saw the coolest thing yesterday: A yellow Beetle with a license plate that said YLW SUBB, a Beatles sticker in the rear window, and a license plate frame that said \”We all live in a…\” I really have to admire that guy (or girl)\’s thoroughness.

DVD File has a big 2000 year in review article, including staff picks for best and worst DVDs, best video quality, best special edition, and so on.

I\’m surprised translucent blue wrapping paper wasn\’t big this Xmas.

Microsoft Announces Office 10 Will Cure Cancer.

\”It doesn\’t matter if a user is developing a presentation in Power Point or working on a spreadsheet in Excel. All they have to do is go the Tools menu and select the Cure Cancer option and it will give them a choice of which cancer they would like cured.\”

I\’m not a big anime fan, but I have to admit, these hardsuit costumes are very cool. No one\’s going to pick on me anymore when I wear them to school!
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