On a lighter note...

As a compulsive news reader, I sometimes stumble across little gems of news which elict one sole reaction: huh? Ladies and gentlemen, I present: Taste Test for Underwater Cheese. (You know that some BBC editor spent about nine hours trying to find a headline like that.)

Apparently, a Canadian (funny news story marker 1) cheese-maker (FNSM 2) had the wacky belief (FNSM 3) that if he threw his cheese into a lake (FNSM 4), it would taste better. The Canadian food authorities say that he can't sell any cheese without testing it first, and in order to test this cheese, they have to go SCUBA diving (FNSM 5) to the bottom of a 130-foot deep lake to find some of the 1700 pounds of cheese.

Items like this, which provide quotes such as, "They insisted that cheese production must take place in licensed, fully-hygienic facilities, which rules out the bottom of a lake."

Where oh where would we be without you, Canada? You wacky cheese-sinkers, you.