2010 Bbc One-liners

 I’ve been watching Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show almost religiously lately, and a little free time this afternoon inspired me to start of my year of Triond posts with a few one liners based on the front page of the BBC’s website.  If you like them let ol’ Conan know and maybe I can live my dream of befriending Andy Richter.

Terrorism has started the decade off on the wrong foot, and after it was revealed that the bomber on the Detroit flight was trained in Yemen, the Obama administration has decided that Yemen is a nation whose instability is a regional and international threat.    The previous administration, on the other hand, determined its policy towards Yemen  by treating it as a difficult word scramble whose only solution was “enemy.”

A research team from King’s College in London has unveiled a study that concluded that the G-spot so popularized by sex therapists and frat party themes may in fact be a myth.  The study involved 1800 women and is hotly contested, with many claiming that its outcome would have been more fruitful if the researchers hadn’t referred to themselves as “the G-Men.”

A similar study taken among twins finds that female orgasms come down to genes.  The Olson sisters wholeheartedly agree, saying that they frequently argue over a particular pair of apple bottom jeans.

Despite the last year’s economic downturn, Lebanon has reported lucrative growth in the area of high fashion.  Apparently most of this resurgence has been driven with the arrival of MASH on Lebanese TV and instant idolization of Cpl. Max Klinger.

In Dubai the world’s new tallest building has been opened after a costly construction that required the assistance of numerous international banks.  It’s 2,716 feet high, is called a “superscraper,” and rotates with the wind.  It’s so tall, in fact, that it’s visible from neighboring Iran, where President  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saw it and commented, “that’s the largest spinning erection I’ve seen since all of the gays left Iran.”

A New Year’s day raid by Malaysia’s Muslim morality police arrested 150 unmarried couples in cheap hotels for engaging in immoral acts.  Many of the couples fought the police’s action, claiming that they were simply accepting a sign-on bonus for the 70 virgins they had on the way later.

And finally, BeautifulPeople.com has recently come under fire for terminating 5,000 profiles featuring pictures that appeared to have gained weight over the holidays.  The website has always prided itself on being “the largest network of attractive people in the world,” but has now proven itself as “the largest network of adults whose brains never left middle school.”

Happy New Decade everyone!