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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Random thoughts for Monday

Barbara Walters, famed for celebrity interviews, says she's tired of Britney, Paris and the tabloid trend and she wants to move on to more serious topics. You know, like Lindsey Lohan.

The Today Show's Ann Curry promises to bungee-jump, live, off the Transporter Bridge in Manchester, England, on December 17th if enough people pay her. She wants to raise $10,000 for two charities.

Ray Liotta plead no contest to a reckless driving charge, after smashing into two cars. He's now on 3 years probation.

Last month, Miss Los Angeles was crowned Miss California but after recounting the ballots, it turns out Miss Barstow should have actually won and so now she wears the crown.

Starting in January, Dell is going to sell PCs at Best Buy.

The Super Bowl has sold 61 of it's 63 commercial slots at $2.7 million a commercial. We're a lot cheaper, for the record, and have a fabulous sales team that are usually pretty sober when the phone rings. And I'll never expose one of Craig's nipples at halftime, I promise.

The "Dancing with the Stars" tour kicks off December 18th in Seattle with Sabrina Bryan, Marie Osmond, Joey Lawrence, Wayne Newton and Monique Coleman, and Marie’s smelling salts.

Britney Spears is mad at Paris Hilton for stealing the spotlight at her birthday party last week. The way she’s handled the spotlight recently, I’d think Britney would appreciate someone taking it from her.

The Whopper turned 50 last week and was immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York City. Experts say the taste was unaffected bu the waxing process.

The Associated Press asked major presidential candidates to name the worst job they ever had. Among their replies: John Edwards said working at a textile mill; and Barack Obama said scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins and eating too much of it. Republican Fred Thompson listed a string of menial jobs but said he was thankful for them at the time; Mike Huckabee said washing windows at JC Penny; and Mitt Romney said sawing through a sewer pipe on an Idaho ranch. Hillary Clinton answered, "Sliming fish in a fish cannery in Valdez, Alaska." Now we know why Hillary has fishy campaign funds, slimy donors and canned answers.

Self.com found 60% of online participates would rather go to the dentist than go on a blind date. Imagine the horror if their friends had set them up on a blind date with a dentist!

The worst soda for your teeth is RC Cola, followed by Cherry Coke and Coke. That's the word from a new study by the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine that concludes that exposing teeth to soft drinks, even for a short period of time, causes dental erosion.