The Yanks are coming – and so are armies of prostitutes! Bulgarian pimps have been busing prostitutes hundreds of miles cross-country to be ready for action when U.S. troops arrive to prepare for a possible attack on Iraq.
A half-dozen busloads from northern Bulgaria have already set out for Bourgas, in the southeast, to “give a worthy welcome,” said one pimp.
A mayor in Italy has proposed banning school buses to help a growing number of pudgy youngsters lose weight.
“It will do them good,” said Filippo Vigano, of Albiate, who plans to sign up adult volunteers to accompany the kids to and from school.
Mayor Bloomberg, take note! It could be a way to cut budgets as well as bulges.
A British doctor claims cost-cutting hospital administrators gave him a dessert spoon to use in a hip-replacement operation instead of a curette – a sharp-edged, spoon-shaped instrument used in scraping cartilage and damaged bone.
Dr. Godfrey Charnley said he threw the sterilized metal dessert spoon on the floor in a fit of frustration and spent $405 of his own money to buy a curette.
He has since left Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for another job.
Imagine going to the movies and paying what you think the film is worth – after you’ve seen it! Sounds like a losing business proposition, but a theater manager in Freiburg, Germany, is doing it twice a month.
“I thought it would be a good way to bring in customers for films that otherwise no one would go and see, such as Bruce Paltrow’s ‘Duets’ starring his daughter Gwyneth,” he explained. He claims his “pay later” shows have been a big success – with one satisfied patron forking over $15 – more than the cost of a regular ticket.
Silence may be golden, but it can cost you your job. That’s the lesson a substitute teacher in Lawrence, Mass., learned after she taped the mouths of 21 second-graders shut.
“She wanted to see what would happen if she kept their mouths taped through lunch,” said a spokeswoman for the Massachussets Department of Education.
Teacher Newman Montilla told school officials it was just a game – apparently one she didn’t expect to lose.