Friday, February 22, 2019

News for Week Ending Friday, Feb 22, 2019


1.   Major League Baseball has renamed the “Disabled List” and it is now the “Injured List.”   ***   They also added several sub-categories, including the “Tummy Ache List,” the “Ouchie List” and the “Hurts-Like-Hell” list. 

2.   Actor Jussie Smollett, who had claimed to be a victim of a racist attack, has been arrested and charged with filing a false police report, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in jail.  ***  Authorities who reviewed Mr. Smollett’s report said he could also face several additional months of incarceration for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation.

3.   According to a recent ranking based on environment, health and other factors, the worst place to grow old is in the state of West Virginia.  ***   Actually, the worst place to grow old is in your state of mind (but West Virginia is a close second).

4.   In an interview with TMZ, O.J. Simpson said Roger Stone should “man up and quit crying.”  ***  He also said Mr. Stone should make his hands swell up so the gloves don’t fit.

5.   A Delta flight made an emergency landing in Reno after the plane hit turbulence which was so severe that the drink cart overturned and five passengers were seriously injured.  ***  They got hurt fighting over all the spilled little liquor bottles.

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