- So now you can sit around nursing all the bruises you suffered on Black Friday, and still get more shopping done!
- Employers don't expect workers to get much done today: They'll spend the first half Cyber Shopping, and the second half on Facebook bragging about the deals they got!
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Cairo University studied the fatwas issued by the Muslim Brotherhood under Mohammed Morsi, and one said that because the Egyptian word for "sea" is masculine, women who swim in the sea are adulterers and should be punished.
- Apparently wearing a full length burka while strolling the beach isn't punishment enough.
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According to a new report, the U.S. launch code for nuclear missiles during the Cold War was nothing more than a series of 8 zeros.
- It's actually because they stored the "Nuclear Football" in a piece of Samsonite luggage and forgot to reset the lock.
- Today "8 Zeros" refers to the group of guys who designed the Obamacare website.
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Within 5 to 10 years scientists say they'll have a chip that can be implanted under the skin that tells a person when to stop eating.
- Apparently until then you can continue eating all the "chips" you want!
- What kind of a dip came up with the chip idea?
- And you thought the government got under your skin now.
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China launched it's first lunar probe to the moon today.
- And then they launched another one an hour later.
- They're hoping to send a man to the moon by 2020 as part of their "Moon Goo Guys" program.
- They call the mission, "One small step for Lo Meinkind".
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ABC's new Thanksgiving special. "Lady Gaga and the Muppet's Holiday Spectacular" bombed in the ratings, drawing only 3.6 million viewers.
- The only exciting moment in the show came when the two old guys in the balcony had heart attacks when Lady Gaga came out in a green frog leg dress made out of Kermit.
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-Dick