SNIPPETS

TUESDAY,  JUNE 23,  2009

WAIPOPO, New Zealand, June 22 (UPI) -- New Zealand authorities said they freed a man stuck like "Winnie-the-Pooh" in his electric dryer while trying to retrieve a pair of underpants.  Senior Constable Greg Sutherland of the Temuka police said a police officer, an ambulance and two fire crews were sent to the Waipopo home about 6:30 p.m. Sunday after the 42-year-old man's head, arms and shoulders became stuck in the dryer while he was trying to retrieve a pair of underwear from the back of the appliance, The Timaru (New Zealand) Herald reported Monday.

The question before the house is, how did he get his shoulders in, but not get them out?  We will read all theories.

MONDAY,  JUNE 22,  2009

LONDON, June 21 (UPI) -- British elementary schools have been advised to scrap one of the most venerable rules in English spelling: "I before e except after c."  The word was given this week in a National Strategies document, "Support for Spelling." The 124-page document includes a lot of words of wisdom for teachers working with young children, like using puns to teach the distinction between pair and pear.

This is the end of civilization.  Add this to American Idol, and it's all over.

(AP) An Indiana lawyer who was found asleep headfirst in a neighbor's trash can after a night of drinking has apologized and says he's embarrassed. No charges have been filed against Larry Wilder, who is the Jeffersonville City Council's attorney.  Wilder said he had dinner and drinks with friends in nearby Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday night. He said he was driven home in a client's limousine but remembers little that happened after that.

How would you like to be the guy he was defending the next morning?

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