Al Franken's Extended Ditch Analogy

Obama says that the Republicans drove America into a ditch, so they shouldn't be given back the keys.

Senator Al Franken extends this analogy considerably:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR2GZ25tjQY

Targeted by Aliens

"I have no doubt that I am being targeted by aliens," Radivoje Lajic told reporters outside his house in Gornji Lajjci (Bosnia).  "They are playing games with me.  Since 2007, my house has been hit six times by meteorites, and that defies all statistics.  The chances of being hit once by a meteorite are so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate.  So I am clearly being targeted by extraterrestrials, but I don't know what I have done to annoy them."

"Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks are meteorits from outer space.  The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, never when there are clear skies, and for months I was unable to sleep whenever it rained, for fear of yet another strike.  So I have now had my roof reinforced with steel girders, which I paid for by selling one of the meteorites to a university in the Netherlands.  The scientists are now trying to work out what exactly it is about my house that attracts the meteorites but isn't it obvious?  It's me."

Source:  24 Sata (Croatia) 19/7/2010

Reported in Private Eye's "Funny Old World" column

Do Daughters Cause Divorce?

Another good correlation/causation possibility:

Apparently parents of daughters are more likely to get divorced than parents with sons.  A possible explanation is that fathers of boys are more likely to stick around in an unhappy marriage, in order to be a male presence for their sons.

Read the report in Slate

Alex Ferguson's Strange Analogy

Alex Ferguson on the Wayne Rooney Saga:

"Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it’s a better cow than the one you’ve got in your own field. But it never really works out that way. It’s probably the same cow which is only as good as your own cow. We have to deal with that – some players like to think that it’s a better world somewhere else. It never really works like that."