SNIPPETS

DECEMBER 15,  2009

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A restoration team said they discovered two blocks of well-preserved New Zealand butter dating back nearly 100 years in an Antarctic hut.

Wow, that was close.  In another year global warming would have spoiled both blocks.  Al Gore told me.

DECEMBER 14,  2009

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- An Illinois man who found what appeared to be a $1 million bill said he waited more than four months for the government to tell him it was a fake.  Rodney Dukes, an unemployed 51-year-old who lives in East St. Louis, found the crisp bill in a phone booth and researched it by taking it to a bank, a public library and finally sending it to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday.

You mean the bank couldn't tell him that we don't print million-dollar bills?