I'll admit it's been a long time since I've watched SNL, but watching it tonight I actually laughed at most of it.

Some choice Weekend Update quotes:

"This week, Iraq ironically caused regime change in the US." - Amy Poehler, referring to the Democrats' sweep.

"A man survived a gunshot because two small bibles in his coat pocket stopped the bullet. So I stabbed him." - Seth Myers

"Today's Veterans' Day, so that won't affect anyone in the White House." - Seth Myers

Alec Baldwin made fun of NBC in his opening monologue for their lack of star power versus ABC. In a mockery of Rumsfeld getting fired, he hired only one mover for a job that required many more and had a big "Move Accomplished" banner already hung on the wall as the move was taking place.

Between declining ratings over the last few years and shows like Studio 60 and 30 Rock, it had to be only a matter of time before some kind of change took place.

Yep, they've made the Reno 911! movie, and it looks hilarious:



Yahoo has not just the trailer, but also the trailer with commentary, which is hilarious.

I just recently was using Yahoo movies and saw the picture below linking to a trailer for Jim Carrey's new movie, The Number 23. It's about a guy who becomes obsessed with the number 23. The trailer's pretty good...I like seeing Jim Carrey in serious roles.



Then, today I saw the semi-new Dr. Pepper ad which advertises the fact that there's 23 flavors in the drink. Coincidence?

Incidentally, it looks like one of the reasons Jim Carrey was chosen for the movie is that he is actually somewhat obsessed with the number 23 in real-life and has been for many years. Or maybe that's just a lie to promote the movie.

What's with the creepy-as-hell Sony commercial for the upcoming Playstation 3? It has a plastic baby that is super creepy.

Seriously, no matter how many times I use the word creepy, it's not enough.

If you haven't seen one of the hundreds of YouTube videos of Coca-Cola and Mentos by now, you must be living under a rock. Basically, when you drop a roll of Mentos into a 2-liter bottle of Coke, a reaction causes a buildup of pressure and Coke will shoot out of the top of the bottle to a tall height.

The latest development is using this to create a domino effect:

Ottawa is fighting back against a GOP ad stating that they can handle the North Korea situation because they're not busy.

The swipe at Canada is secondary to the ad's first purpose, which is to blast Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. The 30-second ad features various actors who suggest Ford supports gun control, has lax fiscal policies and is slack on terrorism and nuclear threats against the U.S.

"Canada can take care of North Korea," says one man featured in the ad. "They're not busy." The jab hit home north of the border.

A source within the Canadian government told The Canadian Press that Ambassador Michael Wilson called the White House to remind the Republicans of the heavy load Canada is carrying in Afghanistan.

The republican National Committee now says the ad, which ran in Tennessee, will be phased out. However, it's unclear whether the decision to stop running the ad came as the result of Wilson's phone call. The ad reflects a view in the conservative south that America's closest neighbour isn't doing enough on the world stage, said one American political analyst. However analyst Patrick Basham told CP the ad is more likely an indication of ignorance at the RNC than a specific attempt to insult Canada.

The ad has also been slammed within the U.S. for apparent sexual references. At one point a bare shouldered blonde woman winks at the camera and tells Ford to call her.

First, let me address that last paragraph. Are the people who are "slamming" the ad for sexual references at all aware of the Girls Gone Wild ads on TV? Have they turned on their TV since 1960?

As for the rest of it, I really just found the North Korea quote really funny. Apparently (according to the article) Canada is trying to advertise their involvement to people in the US, but that seems pretty pointless. Why spend the money to advertise that when it's not really going to change how anyone behaves.

If I get one more ninja story, I may have to consider creating a ninja topic! Florida local news reported on an ATM stolen by four men dressed in ninja outfits:

Tampa Police say four men dressed in ninja outfits slammed a white Ford pickup truck into the Sunoco gas station at MacDill and Azeele on Monday morning. The suspects picked up the automatic teller machine and drove off. They then went to Riverfront Park, took the money out and drove the truck with the ATM into the Hillsborough River and fled on foot.

The robbery was reported just after 5 AM. The truck was reported stolen and the gas station was not open to the public at the time because it is undergoing renovation.

There has been no sign of the ninjas.

Of course there has been no sign of them...they're freaking ninjas!! That's what they're all about - being stealthy (minus the part about slamming the truck into the gas station...that's not very stealthy).

A couple of hikers got lost in the woods and found their flashlight was dying. They successfully used a cellphone flash to signal rescuers.

A man and a woman, who authorities did not identify, alerted emergency workers around 8:30 p.m. Sunday that they had lost their way on a hiking trail in the House Mountain State Natural Area in east Knox County.

Knox County Sheriff's Office used a helicopter to search for the pair, but pilot Tony Chamberlain was unable to locate them with an infrared device that detects body heat because of the heavy foliage.

The hikers' flashlight batteries were losing power, so the woman told authorities by cell phone that she would use the camera flash on the phone to alert the helicopter pilot, who saw the flash using night-vision goggles.

"It was great the way everything came together," said Leigh Ann Cate, executive director of the Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad. "It had a really good ending." The helicopter hovered over the hikers' location until Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency workers reached them around 9:20 p.m. Neither hiker required medical attention.

I came across two different stories that were so ridiculous I had to post them. But since neither is that long and they're related, I combined the posts.

In the first story, a vehicle was considered suspicious because it was being driven around with a safe attached to it by a chain.

Police got wind of the incident around 6 a.m. when someone reported a suspicious vehicle. It was deemed suspicious because it had a safe attached to it by a chain and the driver was dragging it through the intersection of 45th and Hamilton. Officers caught up with the mobile incident at 45th and Nicholas where they verified that the tip was accurate.

The suspect, noticing the officers, responded by escaping. The escape began with a drive to 47th and Cuming where the suspect abandoned the car and ran away. Police converged on the area, established a perimeter and found no one.

As for the safe: it's sound. It was apparently pilfered from the Runza restaurant at 1325 Northwest Radial Highway where, according to a police statement, "officers learned that forced entry was made," and they further concluded that, "the suspect stole a safe from the business."

The second story involves two guys that ran over a parking meter and stop sign. That alone wouldn't make an interesting story though. They proceeded to return to the scene and steal the parking meter in front of a cop who was writing up the incident.

Officers arrived at the scene around 2:30 a.m., but by that time the men had left. While officers were filling out a report in the nearby Brant Office Supply parking lot, they noticed the truck return. They watched the two men get out, pick up the broken meter and start carrying it towards the truck.

Stuart Ross, 18, is charged with possession of stolen property, careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. Thomas Yule, 20, is charged with possession of property obtained by a crime.

A man in China who stole some trousers returned to the store and exchanged them for another size.

Department store assistants were surprised to find the trousers that had been stolen on Sunday when they took stock after the business hours on Monday evening - but another pair of trousers of another size were gone. They supposed that the thief stole a pair of trousers from their store but later found that the stolen trousers didn't fit him. The thief had then returned to the department store, secretly replaced them and taken the second pair.

As for the culprit's identity, they suspected a man in his 30s who had tried on many trousers in their store in the past two days, but failed to buy any. Police were notified, and have launched an investigation.

The guy had tried on many trousers and yet managed to steal the wrong size? What an idiot. At least the store appears to have a lax exchange policy.