The Lost Realm

Bush wants to put more Americans on the moon and then head off to Mars.

Welcome to new space race, although you may find China's plans to go to the moon (and possibly Mars) conveniently missing from the press reports.

Ever wondered what that magical chemical in the list of ingredients is for? Wonder no more; a list of common ingredients and what each does for the products we use. Now I just need to find a site that will help me pronounce most of them.

When you leave your home in the hands of a friend, you might expect a few things to be moved about or left out of place. You usually don't expect to return from your holiday to find your entire home and every item in it wrapped in aluminium foil.

Trerice and his friends unrolled the toilet paper in the bathroom, enveloped the bath tissue in aluminum foil and rolled it back up again. They covered Kirk's book and compact disc collections but made sure each CD case could open and shut normally.

They even used foil to encircle Kirk's spare change — each individual quarter he had left atop a living room bookshelf.

It's the attention to detail, people; that's what makes a good practical joke. That, and being completely insane.

For those of us that abstain from drugs (other than coffee), the only glimpse we've had at what drugs must do to perception have been these little webs, made by spiders on drugs. Now we get to see an alternate view of what LSD does to a person's artistic perception.

I think I'll stick with my drug of choice: sugar.

By now, you may have heard about the poor woman who lost her US$162 million winning lotto ticket. After making the announcement that she had lost the ticket, the streets were covered with people, shovelling snow in a desperate attempt to find it. People will do anything for money.

Of course, the only way to make this funnier would be if the real winner came forward and it turned out that the ticket was hers in the first place. This is exactly what happened; she has been using the same numbers for years, and has the old tickets to prove it. The original claimant is now being investigated for filing a false police report. Once again, people will do anything for money.

A 7 year old got stuck in a skill tester machine while his father made a telephone call. He climbed up through an 8 by 10 inch opening and then got stuck when toys blocked his escape (they get mean when they're in a gang). His eventual rescue required firefighters to call a locksmith.

Lesson learned? The only way to get anything out of one of those darned machines is to cheat.