1. Making mountains out of molehills 500
2. Running around in circles 350
3. Wading through paperwork 300
4. Pushing your luck 250
5. Eating crow 225
6. Flying off the handle 225
7. Jumping on the bandwagon 200
8. Spinning your wheels 175
9. Adding fuel to the fire 150
10. Beating your head against the wall 150
11. Climbing the walls 150
12. Jogging your memory 125
13. Beating your own drum 100
14. Dragging your heels 100
15. Jumping to conclusions 100
16. Beating around the bush 75
17. Bending over backwards 75
18. Grasping at straws 75
19. Pulling out the stoppers 75
20. Turning the other cheek 75
21. Fishing for compliments 50
22. Hitting the nail on the head 50
23. Pouring salt on a wound 50
24. Swallowing your pride 50
25. Throwing your weight around 50-300
(depending on your weight)
26. Passing the buck 25
27. Tooting your own horn 25
28. Balancing the books 23
29. Wrapping it up at day's end 12
SOURCE: Bulletin, Columbus Industrial Association, July 11, 1977
Strange
and Unusual News
Carjacker Crashes, Gets
Lost, Calls Cops
OCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - A carjacker called 911
and turned himself in to police after he crashed a stolen SUV twice
and got lost during his escape from the crime scene. Claude King,
31, called police from a Palm Springs pay phone and confessed to
stealing the GMC Envoy Tuesday night, The Palm Beach Post reported."Um,
I committed a crime," he told the police dispatcher. "I
stole a vehicle."He asked for officers to respond to his location,
but when the dispatcher asked where the vehicle was, King didn't
have an answer."I couldn't even tell you," he said. "I
don't even know where I'm at."Boca Raton police found King
waiting on a curb. He being was held without bail in the Palm Beach
County Jail.
LONDON (Reuters) - Wanted: Young single woman
in need of cut price romantic Caribbean holiday.The vacation for
two is on sale on Internet site eBay for just a fraction of its
2,400 pound ($4,700) value.But here's the catch -- it comes with
a companion.Adam Croot, who had planned the holiday to propose to
his partner, was dumped by her just weeks ago.But rather than lose
the money on the non-refundable flights and hotel deposit, the 39-year-old
decided to go anyway and find another woman to join him, for a payment
of 642 pounds ($1,259)."Many of my friends would say, 'that
is just too high a price to pay' but what the hell, nothing ventured,
nothing gained," Croot said on eBay.The rules of the Couples
Swept Away resort and spa at Negril, Jamaica, state it is for heterosexual
couples only, so he cannot go alone, or with a male friend on the
week-long break in February.He has also laid down some ground rules,
such as not wishing to go with anyone old enough to be his granny,
nor with anyone "who has a jealous husband" because he
likes his arms and legs "where they are."Croot has had
more than 2,500 "hits" from people viewing his eBay page,
which includes reviews of the resort and pictures of himself.
