An Oregon church planning a mission of mercy to Costa Rica has become the butt of jokes – for raising money for the trip by selling toilet paper.
The Rev. Rick Oliver of the First Church of God in Pendleton decided to skip traditional car washes and bake sales after hearing about a baseball coach who’d successfully sold the good old TP for his team. As for the brand – it’s Angel Soft.
“We’ve heard all the jokes . . . but what else would a church sell?” Oliver quipped.
A Florida soccer team of 11- to 13-year-old-girls got an eyeful on New Year’s Eve at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Orlando when they checked in next to an X-rated swingers party.
“My daughter asked me, ‘Dad, why is that one woman with another man going upstairs?”‘ said Paul Camporini, a chaperone for the Clearwater Chargers.
“And, ‘Why is she again with another man going upstairs?’ And I had to tell her.”
Things heated up in a South Korean courtroom after a man was fined $171 for disturbing the peace.
He strolled outside, doused himself with heating oil, then walked back before the judge in Uijongbu and set himself on fire.
No word whether the man, now in critical condition, will be hit with a new charge of disturbing the peace.
Sacre bleu! It looks as if French food is going to the dogs.
The proof is in Paris, where award-winning pastry chef Harriet Sternstein has opened Mon Bon Chien (My Good Dog) – a bakery that caters only to canines.
Among the delicacies are bacon treats in the shape of cats and bone-shaped cookies made of foie gras.
Marriage is going straight to hell in Holland.
That’s the village of Hell, where registry offices are being flooded with requests from couples who want to tie the knot on 6/6/06 – believing it coincides with the biblical reference in Revelations to 666 as the sign of the devil.
Who’s going to officiate – the Rev. Freddy Krueger?