I guess the phrase "What is this world coming to?" has been muttered for thousands of years. I know that the Romans used to complain about some of the ways of their children and probably said this. The cavemen must have said something like this when they witnessed the first spear. I bet they considered it a weapon of mass destruction. After all everything is relative, isn't it? I read a story the other day that I must share with you. It seems that the homeless in South Korea were all given designer clothing by their government. They are now dressed better than I am. I will have to stay away from there or be marked as fashion inferior. In Bangkok, a man better not appear in the street in his boxers. The government there is forbidding even billboards from depicting men in underwear saying it corrupts the local residents. Wow I hope they never look at cable, they will really be in for a shocker.

A Russia hotel that has just opened in the far north has a parking lot for reindeer. I didn't know this but in the most northern parts of Russia, reindeer are the most common form of transportation, beating out snow shoes and jogging. Hey is there anywhere that I can park my car. Every day I turn on my computer and almost every day someone tries to slip a computer virus past my defenses. I saw a science fiction movie once where people were able to catch computer viruses. By catch I mean become infected by them. Can you imagine a person being replicated a thousand times and the copies traveling to everyone in his address book? Speaking of computer viruses, how do these sick programmers think up this great names for them like Worm Fatso.A then someone else comes out with Worm Fatso.B.

I wonder how many of us remember when television sets had knobs. My kids saw a photo of an old television once and said, "hey dad, what are those things on the tv?" I couldn't figure out what they were talking about until I realized they were wondering what the knobs were. Going further back, a very few of you may remember those big stand up radios. They were in beautiful wood cabinets that stood about 4 1/2 high. We actually had one of these in the living room as a decoration and had just bought a new tv. We were very friendly with an old man in his 90s and brought him over to see the new television. He walked over to the radio, look at the part with the glass covered the stations and said, "this is a great television".

An armed robber walked into a Dutch cafeteria and demanded money. The owner was making french fries at the time, You know, the kind that are cooked in deep fat and are sizzling hot and wet. Instead of money the culprit got a face full of fries which he didn't care for. He ran screaming out of the shop. I'm surprised he didn't try to sue the shop owner for serving hot food, after all it wouldn't be the first time this type of suit was brought. Never complain too much if you are in prison. This lesson was learned the hard way by prisoner with a very bad cold. The officer gave him a laxative instead of cold medicine and sat back to enjoy the show. It was said the inmate received a severe case of diarrhea. If this wasn't so sad it would be funny. A man taking an avalanche awareness class was in the field and got hit by an avalanche and died after being dug out.

A library in California had decided that too many people coming in stink. They have sponsored a law that was enacted that allows them to kick out anyone that they feel has body odor. I knew someone that purposely didn't wash for about a month because he had to go to an Internal Revenue Service audit. He also made sure he coughed a lot in the face of the auditor. He was let out in record time without any penalties on his returns. Then there is the story about the man in the woods in California. He has a shotgun and is threatening to kill himself, but something goes wrong. He gets bit by a snake, panics and screams for help. Do you think he was really going to commit suicide.

Here is the old man bites dog story with a twist. A blind man in Scotland was charged with biting his guide dog on the head. Of course, since he was on a busy street at the time, people couldn't help but notice. As if biting the animal wasn't enough, he kicked it repeatedly. The man was reported and arrested. Unfortunately for a shoe manufacturer the wrong chemical was delivered for making the gel that creates the shoe soles. Because of this the shoes that were sold made sounds when people who wore them walked. These weren't just any sound but the sound of passing gas. As you can guess, embarrassed customers everywhere complained.