Today is Wednesday, the 191st day of 2008. There are 175 days left in the year.
Late night chuckles
"Hey, big scare today for Barack Obama. His airplane had to make an unscheduled landing because of mechanical problems. While the pilot was steering to the left, the plane was apparently drifting to the right. Nobody could really quite figure out what was happening."
- Jay Leno
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"Barack Obama is now denying that he is e-mail pals with the beautiful actress Scarlett Johansson. ... They were saying that Scarlett Johansson and Barack Obama were e-mailing each other. He says no, it's not true. In fact his exact words were 'I did not have textual relations with that woman.' "
- Jay Leno
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"China has announced that they're shutting down several of their largest factories for the rest of the summer - so that there will be less pollution for the Olympics. Chinese officials say: Sorry, but for the next few months, you're going to have to buy your lead-coated toys somewhere else."
- Conan O'Brien
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"Here's a comment many people are calling racist. This is a stupid thing to say. It seems a Republican party operative, a man named Grover Norquist, told the L.A. Times that Barack Obama was just John Kerry with a tan. ... Using that logic, if Barack Obama is John Kerry with a tan, then John McCain is George Bush with an enlarged prostate."
- Jay Leno
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"Only in America could a woman who married a man from Hope go to a town called Unity and fake something called Sincerity."
- Jay Leno
Thanks a lot
An 80-year-old woman was arrested for shoplifting.
She went before the judge, who asked her, "What did you steal?"
"A can of peaches."
"Why?"
She replied that she was hungry.
The judge then asked her how many peaches were in the can. "Six," came the answer.
The judge then said, "OK. I sentence you to six days in jail."
Just before the gavel came down, the woman's husband spoke up and asked the judge if he could say something.
The judge said, "What is it?"
"She also stole a can of peas."
Scrambler
Thwa's oodg orf teh esoog si dogo ofr teh negrad. Noetufynrltau, siht yoln wkros ni hte inava drlwo.
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