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It's Saturday January the 3 around 6:19PM and

Quotes of the Day: Car Burning & Prediction Edition

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"More than 280 people were detained and more than 1,000 cars torched during New Year celebrations across France, mostly in its troubled suburbs, the interior ministry said Thursday. Four police officials were slightly injured, according to the interior ministry, which said its security forces 'were of the unanimous view' that New Year's Eve was 'rather calm and without major incident.' The interior ministry had earlier said 445 vehicles were set on fire overnight, but later revised that figure to 1,147." - AFP.

"Rupert Murdoch. He dies in a freak yacht accident. Sumner Redstone, Padma Lakshmi, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Rachel Sklar, Hoobastank, and Shaquille O'Neill are also on board, but all survive. Foul play is suspected, and an investigation reminiscent of the board game Clue ensues. A rumor spreads that Murdoch's cryogenically frozen brain is in an Anaheim basement next to Walt Disney's frontal lobe and the Arc of the Covenant. Michael Wolff sells his next book, The Brain Eaters, for $10 million. 17 people buy it; 4 read it." Fimoculous's 36 predictions for 2009.

"In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny. There are nearly 30 per cent of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left." Karl Lagerfeld.

"God damn you, Marley & Me. God damn you straight to hell." Food Court Lunch.

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