A man nicknamed "Humble Bob" won $2,500 at the inaugural Skyline Chili Spaghetti eat-off by stuffing over 11 pounds of chili into his belly. The feat took Bob around 10 minutes, beating the favored Joey Chestnut, who won this year's July 4 hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. It's estimated that it will take 4-5 days before anyone can safely stand next to Bob without special breathing apparatus.

What do you get the millionaire in your life who has everything? How about the Seabreacher mini-sub. Described as a dolphin-inspired cross between a jet ski and a submarine, the Seabreacher has a top speed of 45mph above the waves and 20mph below them. The two-man £30,000 craft is 15' long and its design makes it self-righting. Strangely, this doesn't come with a laser package.

It's the natural progression of the series.

Robert P. Schwartz has missed his last ten birthday parties. He's missed them because he died on July 25, 1997. The Naples millionaire didn't see why his death should end the party so he put an interesting stipulation in his will. All his relatives 13 or older must attend his parties or they wouldn't get a share of the inheritance. If they miss two consecutive parties, or two within five years, they are out. The Robert P. Schwartz Party Trust is now worth about $7.86 million so relatives can celebrate many more birthdays to come. Every will should have this clause.

Lisandro writes "We all know that Nolans' two takes on the caped avenger were excellent. But ... what if Michael Bay wrote and directed "The Dark Knight"? The guys at Spill.com apparently got hold of a rejected Bay script for the film. This is not something to be missed." Those aren't idea's Michael, they're special effects.

Not even a superhero can defeat time.

Anyone with billions can fight crime. Try doing it on $100.

The good thing about living here is that there is always a place for relatives to sit when they visit.

A Croatian shopping center is getting a lot of complaints over the wider, better lit parking spaces they made for women. The spaces, decorated with pink flowers, were meant to make parking easier for female customers, officials said. The spaces have not gone over well, as female motorists resent the implication that they need the extra wide spaces to park. One male customer said, "Why should women get special spaces? You can understand disabled spaces and parking bays for people with children but women should just learn how to drive properly." This statement ensures that no woman will do anything "properly" for him again.

A new Swiss law spells out in exhaustive detail how all animals domestic and wild are to be treated, whether they be pets, farm animals, zoo animals or destined for scientific experiments. According to the new law, flushing a goldfish down the toilet alive is no longer permitted. Now a fish must be first knocked out and then killed before its body can be disposed of. Catch-and-release fishing is now illegal; if you catch it, you kill it. Hamsters, llamas, alpacas and yaks can no longer be kept by themselves. Goats and sheep must have "a visual contact with their fellows." The list goes on and on. This is obviously a well intentioned law, but it illustrates the difficulty in legislating morality and it has all but killed goldfish-eating contests.

This isn't any more stupid than the egg baby projects they had us do in sex-ed.

If you like stories about maverick billionaires, cliche mercenaries, government sponsored super hero teams, leading edge technology and the ultimate evil of an alien human resources dept. then Special Operations Team Raptor The African Incident, by Daniel A. Dawson, just might be for you. Weighing in at a mere 103 pages, SOTR will only waste a few hours of your life. While it may be as fresh and creative as a crafts class at summer camp, it's not a complete waste of your time. Keep reading below to see if your mom would like it as much as your macaroni art.

A Swiss man has sold his elaborate back tattoo of the Virgin Mary, to a German collector with the understanding that it is to be exhibited in a gallery three times a year. Oh, and the new owner gets to remove it from the bearer's skin upon death. The public will get to see the tattoo for the first time next week in Singapore and Shanghai. No word on the amount of lotion the bearer must put on his skin, or if he'll get the hose if he doesn't do it whenever he's told.

Some schools have to come up with some clever ways to save money on playground equipment.

A tattoo should mean something to the person getting it, let's hope it doesn't in this case.

This is not how I thought the Horsemen of the Apocalypse would look.

An unnamed 78-year-old, Swedish woman thought she was just following instructions on how to check in for her flight, when she climbed onto an unmanned luggage belt with her suitcase. She lay down on the belt and rode it into the baggage handling bay where she was rescued by workers. "Unfortunately, she did not understand when she was given check-in instructions. She took the belt together with her bag. Luckily it wasn't a long ride - only a couple of metres," said Ari Kallonen of baggage handling firm Nordic Aero. She suffered injury only to her pride and made her flight to Germany. I wonder if she tagged herself.

In September Lego will start selling a 5,922-piece Taj Mahal model set. Priced at around $400, the 3ft wide by 2ft tall model will be the biggest in Lego's 74-year history. The Lego Taj Mahal, complete with domes, minarets, arches and stairs, can be completed in a little under 40 hours. I'm holding out for the Lego Colossus of Rhodes.

You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great Office War, you won't have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy sent a fax in the copy room."

Leave it to a lobster to bring a knife to a gun fight.