She got so technophobic that [when] I gave her a digital
alarm clock for Christmas, she gave it back to me. 
          -- President Clinton, from his speech on Y2K in 
December 1998 in which he describes Hillary's request for a
wind-up clock that won't fail on Jan. 1, 2000.

An economist is back in his old college town many years after
graduation and decides to drop in on one of his old professors.
He happens to see a copy of an exam sitting on the desk so he
picks it up to look at it. Upon deciding that it looks familiar he
comments to the professor that it is the same exam that he had
taken 10 years ago. The professor assures him that this is
correct but adds that this time the answers are different. 

Thrash-happy judges in Saudi Arabia have sentenced a
Filipino man to 75 lashes for possession of alcohol
- after he was caught with two chocolate liqueurs at
an airport.