Web shavings

The poor little poor girl
1. Indian tennis star Sania Mirza is among the millions in this country living below the poverty line. [Hat tip: Hemant Puthli]
2. An old joke went thus: during a class on global over-population, the professor pointed out that somewhere in China, a woman was giving birth once every two seconds. So what are we going to do about it, he asked.
‘Find her and stop her,’ suggested the class smartass.
What won’t work in reproduction works just fine in crime, though: the arrest of one family has bought crime rates in a British county to a 20-year low.
3. X-ray equipment at Ohio airport discovered something suspicious. The woman who owned the suitcase in question said it was pickles. That made the officials even more suspicious. The bomb squad was summoned. The bomb squad arrived. It detonated — pickles.
4. Man plays audio porn to chase away kids. And the kids ran away? That is not how I remember my childhood.
5. Imagine Manmohan Singh and LK Advani settling their differences this way.
6. Putting the ‘lay’ in Lay’s, a woman accepts a bag of chips in exchange for sex, which incidentally tells you how bad the recession is. [Statutary warning: Don't try this at home]