Just wondering ... Does this toy include a no-fly list?

Be happy that your boss has different motivational tools: A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo [Utah] is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe. In a lawsuit, the salesmen alleges a supervisor drew mustaches on employees' faces, took away their chairs and beat on their desks with a wooden paddle. Why? "Because it resulted in increased revenues for the company."

Time for another Friday '80s Flashback. This week's flashback is brought to you by Fun Dip, the candy that is still around now but was especially popular in the '80s. It was recommended by four out of five dentists who wanted to make more money by filling cavities in kids' teeth. OK ... Can you remember the '80s movie that featured a fictional university called "Adams" with the fictional mascot of "Atoms"? Also included these lines: First guy: "Where are they?" Second guy: "I think they're talking about us." Ah yes, they were talking about nerds. Revenge of the Nerds -- I know it well. I also know that it was filmed on the University of Arizona campus, where I would later attend college. In the clip below, the freshman dorm shown is Cochise Dorm, where I lived for two years. Which makes sense, because I was a nerd. But I at least dressed a little better than Louis and Gilbert. Last week's '80s Flashback: '80s ...

One of my new favorite products on the market is G2, from the makers of Gatorade. It's a "low-calorie electrolyte beverage designed for athletes off the field." It's one of the dumbest things out there, and yet bound to make tons of money. According to the Web site , "results indicate that athletes often do a poor job at hydrating off the field." It goes on to say: "One of the challenges with off the field hydration is calories. Many athletes prefer fewer calories in an everyday beverage." Well, maybe their everyday beverage should be water. You'll save 25 calories against every eight ounces of G2, which despite all its hype about electrolytes, is actually this: Kool-Aid for adults. (Adults who are embarrassed that their favorite Kool-Aid flavor is "Purplesaurus Rex.") I think one of the flavors for G2 should be GiveItUp-Berry, perfect for the 40-year-old who can jump three inches off the ground but spends $60 bucks for an UnderArmour...

An armed man burst into a classroom recently at Elizabeth City State University. "I was prepared to die at that moment," the professor in the class said afterward. So what happened? Uh ... it was only a drill. Way to go administrators! Next time, maybe a little heads up beforehand? At least university officials apologized and offered counseling to the faculty and students . Perhaps some of the counseling will be in regards to finding a different university with an administration that has common sense.

Who says fashion doesn't make sense? I bet the Michelin Man thinks this creation by Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela is fantastic.

In Philadelphia, tour guides will soon have regulations about what they can say because they've been telling some tall tales. According to a historian there, these are among the 84 lies he's heard from the tour guides: *Ben Franklin had 80 illegitimate children all in Sweden. *City Tavern is where the First Continental Congress met. *The large house at 3rd and Walnut is where Kevin Bacon lives. *Dolly Madison invented ice cream at Ben Franklin’s Library. *Betsy Ross had three cats she named Red, White and Blue.

Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol — the entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fiber shoes . Watch out for these dogs, criminals, because they are going to be mad. I know how my dog reacted when we tried to put shoes on him. He didn't like anyone touching his paws at all. Of course, he never experienced the comfort of "blue plastic fiber shoes." How soon until those have a Nike swoosh on them?

Have you ever watched closed captioning on your TV and noticed all the mistakes? I'm sure it's hard to do the captioning live, but sometimes the results are pretty confusing. That's what happened during a recent screening of The Queen for the hearing impaired . Some examples: When a character spoke about Mr. Blair being "educated at Fettes," it appeared on screen as "educated the fattest." "Did you vote?" flashed up as "Dead in a boat?" The observation that "every newspaper proprietor has blood on his hands today" became "every newspaper proprietor has blown in his hands today." That last one is particularly awkward.

We can only hope so, making them the friendly type we know well . According to the India Daily : Signs of type IV extraterrestrial influence in Abell 1835 IR1916, a galaxy 13,230 million light-years away, merely 470 million years young from the time of big bang, have been discovered. You can read the article here . If you think it will be too confusing, don't worry. It seems pretty straightforward to me, including this paragraph: The Universe was a cold and opaque place. Something went wrong, according to some scientists. Intervention was needed by the Type IV civilization that created the big bang in their massive inter-universe particle colliders.