Hard to Believe

Believe it or not for a Monday:

I don't know how many of you caught the picture floating around the news and Internet of a Martian the last couple of weeks.

The Internet has been abuzz about a photo that appears to show a human figure on Mars. Some people say it resembles a woman; others speculate that it's Sasquatch. Scientists say the explanation is much, much simpler -- it's a rock.


A lot of people are making a big deal out of it, but for myself this picture looks like it was taken in Nevada. I wonder if that might be Jimmy Hoffa?




Double-dog dared

Boys Stick Tongues on Frozen Flagpole

CHESTERTON, Ind. - Two fourth-grade boys mimicking a scene from the movie "A Christmas Story" wound up with their tongues stuck to a frozen flagpole.

Gavin Dempsey and James Alexander were serving on flag duty at Jackson Elementary School Friday morning, with the job of raising and lowering the school's flags. They decided to see if their tongues really would stick to the cold metal.

"I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong," Gavin said.

Karen Alexander, James' mother , said her son told her he got the idea from the movie, which is based on stories about a boy growing up in the northwest Indiana community of Hammond in the 1940s.

"I can't believe he did it, but they learned their lesson," she said.

James said he plans to eat a lot of ice cream to help nurse his wound.

"When you're young, you're just messing around," he said.

Billie Dempsey, Gavin's mom, said a nurse called them to tell them the boys' tongues were bleeding.

"The nurse asked them, 'OK, who double-dog dared who?"' Billie Dempsey said, a reference to a phrase that a character in the movie used to dare another child to stick his tongue to the pole.

My favorite Christmas movie of all times inspired not one, but two kids to be double-dog dared into trying something.



Agent 99 has matured

Barbara Feldon became famous for playing Agent 99 on the '60s TV series "Get Smart."

Would you believe?


The 75-year-old actress resurfaced at a theater event in NYC, looking very good for 75.