Show Prep 107

Greetings and Salutations, people!  Happy National Hand Shake Day!

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You can tell a lot about a person by the way you judge them.

Today on VSR –

A controversial EDition of the week in Wankery. Lawsuits gone wild. Planning my funeral, and the long awaited 2^nd edition of “Would you rather.”

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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

MARBLEHEAD, Mass. – After months of enduring a leaking pipe that buckled its floors and sagged its ceilings, an empty Massachusetts house somehow called police for help.

The Salem News reports the 911 call went out to police from a house in Marblehead on Wednesday after water short-circuited the phone system, apparently sparking the emergency call.

Officers were sent to the address after the call was recorded as a hang up and a return call got static.

Inside, they found the wreckage, including potentially toxic mold, from a pipe that apparently burst during the winter.

Town officials say the interior may have to be gutted.

Police couldn't immediately locate owner James Cowen. His cousin, William Cowen, said he's not worried. He says James was left financially secure by his father and often travels.

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – Police in Ohio say a woman insisted on picking up some fast food before she allowed an officer to charge her with drunken driving.

The Plain Dealer newspaper of Cleveland reports police in suburban North Royalton got a call about a

car weaving and going off a road at a little after 1 a.m. earlier this month. A patrolman tracked the vehicle to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell restaurant and pulled up alongside.

The police report says the driver had sunglasses on and her speech was slurred. She was ordered to get out of the line, but first she proceeded to the second window to grab her order.

Police say the woman's blood-alcohol level tested at nearly twice the legal limit.

UPPER DARBY, Pa. – Police say an elderly Pennsylvania couple was the unintended recipient of a very seedy delivery: a five-pound brick of marijuana.

Police in Upper Darby, just outside Philadelphia, say the couple paid little attention to the package when

it was delivered last week. Not recognizing the name, they left it on their porch, expecting it to be picked up.

When nobody claimed the package, the couple opened it to find what police say was $10,000 in high-grade marijuana.

Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood tells the Delaware County Daily Times the couple gave the package to police, who determined the return address in Tollison, Ariz., was fake.

Chitwood says the department sees about a half-dozen similar deliveries a year and can sometimes track down the sender.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on Face and The Whale:

May 21^st, 2011 – The End of the World.

Would you Rather??? (Theme music – Clip 6)

-Go about your normal day naked or fall asleep for a year

-Be 3 feet tall or 8 feet tall?

-Give up your computer or your television forever.

-Always lose or never play?

-Would you rather live forever or live a normal life and die?

-Rich and ugly or poor and good looking?

-Be the most popular person alive or the smartest person alive?

-Forget who you are but remember who everyone else is or Forget who everyone else is and remember who you are?

-Only be able to whisper or only be able to shout

-Would you rather have to spend the next year repeating the fourth grade (at your current age), or spend a month in jail for a crime you did not commit?

-Would you rather date a girl who is a perfect 10, but 7’6 tall, or a 6 or a 7, but who was two inches shorter than you?

Planning your own funeral:

Call Bruce:

Talk about this week, and my grandmother’s passing

Saddened, but not devastated

Enjoyed 3 days off paid

Not a huge fan of the typical funeral

MY funeral:

No ties allowed – Cut them off Traildust steakhouse style

Better music – Always look on the bright side of life

Opening comedian to warm up the crowd.

Party atmosphere, if we’re going to celebrate my life, let’s make it feel like a celebration already.

Balloons and cake are a must.

Race Car Coffin

Whoopie Cushions scattered throughout the auditorium.

Perhaps release a bag of poisonous snakes – Snakes on a Plane meets a funeral?

Week in Wankery:

1.    Lakers – Recaps always have what stars were in attendance

2.    Texas Road House – Chef who can’t cook a steak

3.    People who upload videos to YouTube that are just them videotaping their own TV

4.    8 year olds at the zoo.

5.    My Co-workers – Inviting me to a “Royal Wedding” party.

Mark Tarbell – Dude who opened Tarbell’s – Formerly on Iron Chef America – Best Cheeseburger of my life.

The Ed – The Colorado Sports Attraction

-Dave Logan – Not the Browns play-by-play guy…he’s been doing the Broncos games since the days of Elway.

-Denver – The sixth cleanest city in America per Reader’s Digest study

-Brady Quinn should start for the Broncos– Yeech.

-Ed said it was cold in Denver on Wednesday night – It had been in the 80’s that day – Quite hot

-Everyone wearing Orange? Well, he’s not COMPLETELY wrong

-Carmelo in the intro?!?

-It’s disorienting and disturbing to hear Ed call the Broncos “We”.

-Denver vs. Salt Lake City – If that WAS a war, Denver would definitely win.

-Said the Rockies were terrible while their record at the time was 16-7

-That Bald Man Jimenez and Tulo is on Steroids.

-Doesn’t think the Avs won 2 Stanley Cups

-Claims that Patrick Roy eats Quiznos

-They’re going to be voting on Abortion at the Rockies game

-Abortion Fetus Bobbleheads

-Ed whines that Norm McDonald stole his bit, and then he rips apart Cleveland Sports…EXACTLY like how VSR did it on Episode 65 – July 24, 2010.

Dumb Lawsuit Roundup:

A Manhattan mom is suing a pricey preschool for dumping her "very smart" 4-year-old with tykes half her age and boring her with lessons about shapes and colors.

In court papers, Nicole Imprescia suggests York Avenue Preschool jeopardized little Lucia's chances of getting into an elite private school or, one day, the Ivy League.

She's demanding a refund of the $19,000 tuition and class-action status for other toddlers who weren't properly prepped for the standardized test that can mean the difference between Dalton and - gasp! - public school.

A Wheeling, Illinois woman claiming her new Adidas shoes were made of materials that stuck together, causing her to fall, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the shoe company.

Anna Bourtseva claims she was injured during a June 12, 2010, fall because her new Adidas Midiru shoes stuck together, according to a suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

Bourtseva claims she purchased the shoes June 6, 2010, from an Adidas Outlet Store not knowing the shoe’s materials would cause them to stick together. The suit claims she fell forward and suffered serious internal and external injuries, including bruises, contusions and lacerations.

Bourtseva claims Adidas North America Inc. manufactured, assembled, constructed and designed shoes made of materials that had a tendency to stick together when they came into contact with each other. She also claims the shoes posed a tripping hazard that Adidas failed to warn her about.

The two-count suit seeks more than $50,000 plus the cost of the suit.

An Indiana woman is suing Carnival Cruise Lines after alleging a ship she was on was “going too fast.”  Doris Beard says the immense speed of the vessel caused her to become sick.

According to the court document, Beard said, quote, “due to the speed of the ship I became very sick, my body swayed terrible on the ship I had bleeding, which I had not has in three years. The ship was moving so fast everyone on board became sick, even the workers.”

She filed her claim in August 2009, but the amount she’s seeking was not specified.  It also wasn’t specified which ship she was on, but most of Carnival’s fleet max out at 25 to 28 miles per hour.

Carnival hasn’t commented on the case, except to request that the suit be filed in the state of Florida, where the company is based, instead of Indiana.  They also say the woman’s claim wasn’t filed within the one-year statute of limitations specified in the cruise contract.

This woman thinks she suffered?  Maybe she needs to watch Speed 2: Cruise Control.  THOSE people suffered.  Not the cruise passengers.  The people who went to see the movie.

Crestwood, MISSOURI - The Starbucks coffee shop here should have known it was inviting trouble by placing a tip jar on an open counter, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the estate of a customer who died defending it.

The suit, filed Monday in St. Louis County Circuit Court, seeks unspecified damages from the Starbucks Corp. on behalf of the estate of Roger Kreutz and his father, Edward Kreutz Sr.

Roger Kreutz, 54, of Crestwood, was a customer at the Starbucks, 9590 Watson Road, on March 3, 2008, when he saw a teenager snatch the jar. Kreutz gave chase on foot.

Rushing to escape, Aaron Poisson, then 19, struggled with his pursuer over a car door and backed his Ford out of a parking space, knocking Kreutz to the pavement. He died two days later of head injuries.

Poisson, of Cumming, Ga., drove off and was captured later in St. Louis. He eventually pleaded guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to one year in jail.

The tip jar contained less than $5.

Poisson was a reluctant attendee at an unusual reunion at the store last year, in which two of Kreutz's brothers and other relatives rewarded Poisson with forgiveness, saying they knew he intended no harm. They hugged and cried together and planted a memorial tree.

Poisson was not named in the suit.

It alleges that Starbucks "did not employ security to prevent the perpetration of such crimes" and that it "invited the act of perpetration of said crime" by having a tip jar.

As a "direct and proximate" result of this, Kreutz was killed after he was hit by the car, the filing claims.

It says Starbucks had a duty to "exercise reasonable care" to protect Kreutz or give him adequate warning against harm.

An NBA referee has called a technical foul against an Associated Press writer.

Referee Bill Spooner has filed a lawsuit against AP writer Jon Krawczynski for posting a message on Twitter over an alleged conversation Spooner had with Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Kurt Rambis, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.

The incident took place during a Jan. 24 game between the Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets.

The suit claims Rambis became upset over a called foul on one of his players. Spooner says he would look at the call at half time, while Rambis asked him how his team would get the points back.

The lawsuit claims the 22-year NBA referee didn't answer Rambis' question, but that's when the AP writer's Tweet happened.

"Ref Bill Spooner told Rambis he'd 'get it back' after a bad call. Then he made an even worse call on Rockets. That's NBA officiating folks," Krawczynski's Tweet said.

Spooner is seeking more than $75,000 in damages, saying the Tweet was a defamatory accusation of game fixing. He also wants the message to be unpublished and a retraction, according to the paper.

The Associated Press is standing by its writer.

"We believe all of the facts we reported from the game in question were accurate," Dave Tomlin, AP associate general counsel, said in a statement to the paper.

The organization has yet to receive the lawsuit that was filed Monday in Minneapolis' U.S. District Court.

The Rockets won the game 129-125.

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

Hang On – Dr. Dog

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

Show Prep 106

Greetings and Salutations, people!  This is a radio show that is a powerhouse on the level of the 84-85 Winnipeg Jets! This is Vertically Striped Radio.

VSR and Fake Radio are brought to you by Amazon.com.

Tweet of the Week:

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Here's to a lovely weekend with friends and family. Barring that, don't kill anyone. Ya know what? Don't get caught.

Today on VSR – Crazy politics galore, I’ll make the case for my new political party with the Magnificent 7 list, we’ll play “Would you rather?”, a new episode of something to think about and a new Week in Wankery.

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To contact VSR via email:
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Twitter: @socnorb777

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

BUCHAREST, Romania – A moonwalking politician might not be the best reason to pay attention to Romanian politics, but the antics seem to be working.

Edmond Talmacean, a 40-year-old Bucharest politician, has inspired national headlines with his Michael Jackson-inspired moonwalk on a television show and his impersonations of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. His impersonation of a well-known sports commentator during a serious political debate also stunned other lawmakers into silence.

"Dancing is another kind of political message to appeal to the younger generation, that it is good to have fun ... that you can go to a disco and dance," Talmacean told The Associated Press on Monday.

Party bosses, however, say enough is enough and have ordered him to tone down.

Prime Minister Emil Boc declared the routine was more suited to "showbiz" than politics, while Vasile Blaga of the Democratic Liberal Party said the fringe lawmaker should head over to "Dancing with the Stars."

Despite the official disapproval, Talmacean is trending big time, gossiped about in coffee bars and hairdressing shops. Traffic to his political blog has soared, boosting it from 49th most viewed to the seventh in just two weeks.

"I think he expressed the way he felt which is good," said Valentina Tudor, 25, a sandwich vendor in Bucharest, the capital. "It's not as if he stole or did something bad. He is talented. I can't imagine (President) Basescu doing the moonwalk."

In Romania, the home of Dracula and other occult traditions, politics are renowned for being occasionally off-the-wall. President Traian Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days to ward off evil.

Politician Mircea Geoana claimed that he lost the 2009 presidential race because Basescu hired a parapsychologist to launch a "negative energy attack" on him during a key debate.

Basescu has also appeared dancing with his wife or jiving with Gypsies — but his moves are far from Internet gold.

Talmacean promised Monday to keep a low profile until party elections next month but says he has no regrets.

"I danced, I sang. These are the qualities of the Romanian people," he told the AP.

BISHKEK (Reuters) – Members of Kyrgyzstan's divided parliament slaughtered seven rams before their morning session on Thursday, in a sacrifice they hope will banish "evil spirits" disrupting their work.

Kyrgyzstan elected a new legislature in October in a bid to build the first parliamentary democracy in former Soviet Central Asia, a region otherwise run by authoritarian presidents.

But the fragile governing coalition has come under threat after weeks of bitter recriminations and disputes in parliament, leading a senior government member to resign temporarily.

Kyrgyzstan, which lies on a drug trafficking route out of Afghanistan and hosts both Russian and U.S. military air bases, saw its president toppled by a violent revolt last April. More than 400 people were killed in ethnic riots in June.

"We decided to resort to popular customs, in order for this building not to see bloodshed anymore," member of parliament Myktybek Abdyldayev told Reuters after the rams were sacrificed on a green lawn in front of the government headquarters.

The ritual of making a sacrifice is widespread in the impoverished, predominantly Muslim nation of 5.4 million. It is practiced mainly during funerals and at solemn ceremonies of reconciliation.

"This is a popular ancient tradition, carried out in order to avoid a repeat of last year's tragic events and for peace and harmony to triumph," said parliamentarian Kurmanbek Osmonov.

But Ondorush Toktonasyrov, one of those who led last year's protests that toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, scoffed at the ritual as "a sign of backward mentality."

"Deputies have no idea about parliamentary culture," he told Reuters. "This is an official building where the president works, and the parliament slaughters rams!"

VILNIUS (AFP) – A city in northern Lithuania has installed dozens of blue and violet balloons in its park's treetops in an attempt to fight crows which have plagued local residents, officials said Thursday.

Municipal authorities in Panevezys said they reacted after repeated complaints about the birds' raucous cawing, mess and even aggression in the city park.

"I heard from scientists that crows don't like the colour blue, and they also don't like any movement in the trees, so we installed around 25 balloons," city official Antanas Karalevicius told AFP.

Earlier measures -- including destroying nests and installing a bird-scaring acoustic system -- failed to do the try.

"We had to try something new," Karalevicius said.

Locals said battling the crows was a must.

"Their cawing is just terrible and they pollute so much. I think balloons are better than shooting," Andrius Zimaitis, who hails from the city, told AFP in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

While the effect of the new weapon remains to be seen, Karalevicius insisted he had already noticed some "confusion" among crows on the first day of the experiment.

The helium-filled balloons should stay floating in the trees for at least 10 days, he said.

AMMON, Idaho – Stop me if you've heard this one: A goat walks into a music store.

It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that's exactly what happened at the Piano Gallery in the southeastern Idaho town of Ammon.

KIFI-TV reports

the goat followed a woman and her child into the store on Monday. Maybe it was looking for some sheeeet music.

Clerk Lorri Bridges says the goat was just adorable. The staff corralled it in a bathroom until animal control arrived.

The goat, whom staff dubbed Beethoven for its apparent love of music, is being held at the Idaho Falls Animal Shelter.

If it isn't claimed, apparently the store staff is already prepared to adopt it.

(That goat is lucky it didn’t walk into the Kyrgyzstan parliament.)

BERLIN (Reuters) – A shootout between two German circus families competing over tent space has left six people injured, police said on Tuesday.

The disagreement came to a head on Monday evening as the families fired guns, used knives and attacked each other with batons, police in the Bavarian city of Regensburg said.

Three people from each family were injured, including a 48-year-old man who was shot in the leg. None were seriously injured, police said.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on Face and The Whale:

Have you heard about the movie “Rubber”? It’s a certain soon to be cult classic film about a tire that kills people.

Something to Think About! (Clip 12)

1. Has anyone ever gotten a bloody nose or a cough in a movie and not died within three scenes?

2. Top Bun is thick, bottom bun is thin – It should be reversed.

3. Why aren’t comic books funny?

4. Toilet Paper: Crumple or Fold?

5. Best thing a waiter can do is fawn over your choice of meal when you order. I don’t even care if it’s shtick…I always love it.

6. Jedi Mortician – Even more useless than the Maytag Repair Man

7. The Whig party – The Ryan is starting the Beaver Party

The Top 7 Planks of the Whig Platform:

1.    Sales tax will be included.

2.    No Self Titled Albums – Musicians are creative people, they must name their stuff.

3.    No more Changing back and forth on Daylight Savings

4.    The United States will be represented in all foreign relations with dignitaries who speak like Pirates.

5.    No more Tyler Perry movies

6.    Marijuana will be legal, but in order to smoke it, you will have to wear a clown nose.

7.    Focus science on working on memory loss technology to help retrieve great ideas, because as I was driving home from the mall today, I had the GREATEST IDEA OF ALL TIME, it would revitalize the world, feed the hungry, stimulate the economy, increase our technological ability, and create world peace. Unfortunately, I forgot it before I got home. So by focusing our technology on retrieving lost memories, we can retrieve this idea and save the world.

Shalom Sesame – Clip

Most know that the Hebrew word shalom is understood around the world to mean "peace." However, "peace" is only one small part of the meaning of shalom. "Shalom" is used to both greet people and to bid them farewell, and it means much more than "peace, hello or goodbye"....

According to Strong's Concordance 7965 Shalom also means completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord. Shalom comes from the root verb shalom meaning to be complete, perfect and full.

The Penis Museum:

ICELAND – In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander's pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country's most bizarre museums.

Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason's organ will help round out the unusual institution's extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals.

Several people had pledged their penises over the years including an American, a Briton, and a German but Arason's was the first to be successfully donated, Hjartarson said.

"I have just been waiting for this guy for 15 years," he told The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview.

Hjartarson's museum started in Reykjavik but has since moved to Husavik, a small community better known for its whale watching. The Phallological Museum is an important part of the region's tourist industry, bringing in thousands of visitors every summer.

Highlights of the museum's collection include a 170-centimeter (67-inch) sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an "unusually big" penis bone from a Canadian walrus.

Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls "phallology" began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull's penis to help him herd cattle. Later, when he worked at a school near a whaling station, colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts.

"That was how it started. I opened this museum 15 years ago with 62 specimens," he said. Now, with the addition of Arason's organ, he has 276, many suspended in formaldehyde or dried and mounted on the walls.

Photos posted to the museum's website show small army of ghostly, whitish penises stuffed into jars, tall glass cylinders and large aquariums. There are sculptures, molds and other penis-related craft items. Outside, the museum has a large tree trunk carved into the shape of an erect phallus.

Most items are donations from friends and well-wishers, people listed on the museum's website as "honorary members."

Arason was described by Hjartarson as a former tourism worker who died Jan. 5 in the nearby town of Akureyri. Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, the medical director of Akureyri's hospital, didn't give a cause of death but said the specimen was removed from the body under the supervision of a doctor.

The phallus was officially installed in a ceremony last week, Hjartarson said, adding that he saw nothing wrong with the idea of having someone donate their penis to be shown off to the public.

"People are always donating some organ after they died," he said. "It's no more remarkable to donate a penis than it is to donate an organ like a kidney."

Hjartarson said the donation fit with Arason's personality.

"He liked to be in the limelight, you know? He was a funny guy," he said. "He was a boaster, a braggart ... he liked to be provocative."

But the museum director was coy when asked about the size of his newest acquisition.

"I can't tell you that," Hjartarson said. "You will just have to come and see it."

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

The Head and the Heart – “Down in the Valley” (Album – self-titled)

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

Show Prep 105

Greetings and Salutations, people!  I’d just like to take this moment right at the top of the show to say GADIOGASGA!!!!…THIS is Vertically Striped Radio. I am your host Craig Dodge, and we’re ready to roll with another edition of the big show. Before we get started today, I’ve got a message for Liberty Tax Service…ENOUGH WITH THE STATUES OF LIBERTY ALREADY!!!!

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Motorcycles are a good idea if you need to get somewhere but also want to be a second away from death.

Today on VSR – Face and I will be going head to head on the Magnificent Seven with the Top 7 Athletes we despise. I will prove once and for all why I have no business EVER running a fantasy baseball team while simultaneously embarrassing myself, We have a new edition of “Would you rather?"

Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1

To contact VSR via email:
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Twitter: @socnorb777

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

LONDON – Sarah Kemp and George Bentley were looking for love online, but not exactly in this way.

A person never knows who they might be meeting on an online dating site, so it pays to be careful. Such was the case for Sarah Kemp and George Bentley.

Sarah Kemp was living in Edinburgh, Scotland, working as a cleaner, when she met George Bentley, a builder from London. The two met on ForgetDinner.co.uk in November, and began emailing each other. From the beginning, they enjoyed their growing relationship, and found that they had so much in common. Eventually, like many online couples, they decided to meet.

"I would never have agreed to go to London on a blind date, but we hit it off from the beginning, and our relationship blossomed as we emailed each other more and more often," Kemp told Scotland's Daily Record, AOL News reported.

Kemp traveled to London, where the two had agreed to meet at Bentley’s favorite pub. After talking it up for about an hour, a wrench was thrown into the potential romance: They found that they had tons in common, they liked the same kinds of foods, they had musical taste in common, and..they had the same parents…Yep, The would-be “couple” realized they were actually brother and sister.

"To meet your long-lost brother, in a bar, after over 30 years would be something by itself," Kemp said, reported AOL. "But to meet him in those circumstances -- on a date, for crying out loud -- really is something else. We obviously had far more in common than first thought."

The brother and sister, 47 and 42, respectively, were separated in 1975, when their parents divorced. Kemp went with their mother to Edinburgh, and Bentley remained with their father.

In 1989, Kemp married and, while she divorced her husband after only a year, she decided to keep her husband’s name, no longer “Sarah Bentley” but “Sarah Kemp.” Bentley said he searched for his sister but, having absolutely no idea where she was or that her name had changed, his search was unfruitful.

“After a while, I think both Sarah and I gave up looking," Bentley said.

Now, of course, the two are pursuing a relationship of a different sort—happily getting to know each other as siblings once again, so many years later. And, at this time, there is no word on whether or not either plans to try online dating once again.

NEW YORK (AFP) – The US Postal Service's Statue of Liberty forever stamp is a wannabe. The US post office has egg on its face this week after it came to light that it’s new forever stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty in close up is not a picture of the venerable statue in New York's harbor, but rather it was a photo taken of the replica Statue of Liberty at Las Vegas casino New York, New York

Postal officials say they weren't aware of that until a stamp expert pointed it out.

They say the stamp was designed from a photo provided by an agency that licensed it only as "Statue of Liberty."

However, USPS officials say they like the design and have no plans to pull it out of circulation.

PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia college newspaper has gone topless to publish a story alleging a professor used exotic dancers in a business seminar.

La Salle University students wanted to print a story about the professor, but the school administration was preventing them from breaking the story. The administrators finally gave the okay to print the story after the Philadelphia City Paper broke the story on April 8 but they issued a caveat that the story could not be front page news, but rather it must be printed below the fold.

So the creative students came up with a gloriously creative way to bring attention to the story and still obey the edict that it couldn’t be on the front page. The top half of Thursday's Collegian is blank, except for the words "See below the fold."

Therefore, the college paper went topless to break a story about topless dancers…That’s good irony!

The university's dean declined to comment.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on Face and The Whale:

WNBA Fantasy League? WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?!?!

Mia Water Enhancement and Tarbells Southglenn

Face’s fantasy baseball team: Commence with embarrassing myself

Storm-Troopers 9-11 (Clip 32)

Magnificent 7: Seven Athletes I despise

Dennis Rodman

Wayne Rooney

Sean Avery

Jay Cutler

Eddie Kenneson

Kobe Bryant

Michael Irvin

7. Bill Romanowski – Snap a Finger

6. Roger Clemens – Confession Audio

5. Randy Moss – Straight Cash Homie

4. Kenyon Martin – Know what I’m sayin?

3. Phil Rivers – Yapping with Cutler

2. Brett Favre – Jenn Sterger Voicemails

1. Todd Bertuzzi – It is what it is

Great Moments in the History of Blogtalk Radio:

Ed as Cookie Monster – Clip 31

New NCAA Football rule: Taunting can take touchdowns off the board.

Dad of the year – Clip 30 – Red Sox fan who’s son wants to be a Yankee fan, only he won’t allow it.

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

The Mountain Goats – “Damn These Vampires” from “All Eternals Deck”

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!