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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check
December 8, 2009
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Grinch report:
Tired of pranksters making off with your baby Jesus? Every Christmas we hear stories of people stealing the baby Jesus from nativity scenes at churches and even in front of people's homes.
Problem solved: More and more people are putting GPS transmitters inside the baby Jesus to lead police to the stolen statue.Festivus is coming!:
The Dec 23rd celebration was started by "Seinfeld" writer DAN O'KEEFE, as an "anti-holiday" to compete with Christmas, Hannukah, Kwaanza --you name it. On the original show, which aired 12 years ago (in 1997), George Costanza's father, Frank, told Kramer he invented the holiday when he found himself battling for a doll with another Christmas shopper and coined the slogan "A Festivus for the rest of us."
The three ingredients for Festivus are (1) putting up an aluminum Festivus pole, (2) the airing of grievances and (3) competing in feats of strength instead of exchanging gifts. The holiday ends when the head of the household is wrestled to the floor and pinned.
The holiday is becoming more commercialized, however ...the Wagner Company of Milwaukee sells six-foot Festivus poles for $39 plus shipping (a two-foot, 8-inch table top model is $31 at www.festivuspoles.com). And the Grape Ranch vineyard in Oklahoma makes Festivus wine (www.graperanch.com).Sucking the life out of the wire services:
Warning: note sexual content:
There's always more developments in the TIGER WOODS' sex scandal and the latest piece of information comes from Us Weekly and Tiger's former mistress, JAIMEE GRUBBS, who claims the golf stud didn't like to keep his (ahem) package wrapped. Ms. Grubbs pulled out all the stops and blabbed that during the course of their two-and-a-half-year-long affair they never used condoms despite the fact that she wasn't on the pill.
What about his bride and mother of their two children? Neighbors of ELIN NORDEGREN tell RadarOnline she's had enough and has moved out of their $2.6 million Windermere mansion and is living nearby in another house.
What about Elin's friends? They're finally stepping up to the plate to defend her, and tennis star LINDSAY DAVENPORT dished to "Entertainment Tonight" that the blonde beauty is "incredibly hurt," handles herself with class, is very loyal and loving and doing her best to protect her babies. (Lee)Meanwhile:
today's list of women is now at 10 and counting... and here they are, according to Fox News:
1. Manhattan club hostess Rachel Uchitel (although she denies the affair so far).
2. Jamie Grubbs, reality show contestant and cocktail waitress --the girl Tiger left voicemail for.
3. Kalika Moquin, Las Vegas club manager.
4. Swimsuit model Cori Rist, who Tiger allegedly flew to several tour stops.
5. Former Trashy Girls Lingerie employee Jamie Jungers. (News of the World)
6. Orlando pancake house waitress Mindy Lawton. (NY Post)
7. Former porn star Holly Sampson. (London Sun)
8. A former cocktail waitress from Orlando, FL (as yet unidentified, but already has an attorney, Michael O'Quinn).
9. A "sexy" (but so far unidentified) British TV host.
10. A "sex-addicted cougar." (Brit tabloids)Tiger's new endorsement possibilities:
The Vancouver Sun lists some new endorsement possibilites just in case Tiger loses some of his big deals:
1. AshleyMadison.com: The online personals and dating destination for married people. Tagline: "Life is short. Have an affair."
2. Trashygirls.com: Jamie Jungers, worked as a lingerie model for Trashy Girls, a service that provides scantily-clad women to parties.
3. Ambien: Rachel Uchitel reportedly told friends that she and Woods used Ambien --a sleep aid-- before their sexual encounters for pleasure enhancement.
4. Spy World's Phone Encryption System: If Woods's crumbling public image came crashing down when Jaimee Grubbs released one of Tiger's alleged voicemails asking her to remove her name from her phone message in case his wife called. With this encryption device, it would have allowed what happened in Vegas to stay in Vegas.
5. Cadillac: Woods's black Cadillac Escalade achieved instant infamy after he crashed it into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home. But unlike Woods, it took a licking and kept on ticking.
While we're on the subject, USA Today says Tiger's black Cadillac Escalade which was damaged in the recent crash will most likely be auctioned off. Cadillac spokesman DAVID CALDWELL says the Escalade will be repaired because it's a promotional vehicle that is used for advertising and photo ops. After that, it could go back to being a promotional vehicle, it could stay with GM for internal use or it could be sold (the most likely choice).
FYI: The MSRP on a 2010 Escalade ESV Platinum Edition currently tops out at $86,680. -
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