Just when you think there’s almost nothing to write about, you find out that Chuang Chuang, the male panda at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand has to go on a diet. Why, you ask?

If he doesn’t lose weight, he cannot have sex with Lin Hui, the female panda, because he will crush her. She’s a svelte 253 pounds; he tips the scale at 331. No more bamboo shoots for him.

This news in the same blurb as Britney’s friends reporting that she might be pregnant because she has that “gleam” in her eye again. Maybe Britney and Lin Hui need to have a girl chat. I guess Angelina could talk to Lin about going on vacation and adopting something equally furry, but she and the Bradster are busy with their new $3.5 million mansion in the French Quarter. If they really wanted to help the city, they could have bought several city blocks in the Ninth Ward for that amount.

Maybe instead of watching panda porn, which is in the plans after Chuang gets buff, the panda twosome can watch Britney’s new video.

WORD GAME
Words are sometimes composed of other words. The word dustbin consists of dust plus bin, while together may appear to include three separate words: to, get and her. To reverse the process, which word can be made out of the letters in the three words moor, root, and tow? The answer (or at least, one answer) is tomorrow. In the puzzles below, try to find the eight-letter words which can be made from the letters of the sets of three words.

Example: Soon, sun, toil.
Answer: Solution.

1. Riot, rite, tone.

2. Agent, gnat, stage.

3. Filth, hot, tool.

4. Gone, nuts, rote.

5. Lids, new, rind.

6. Rim, sty, tins.

7. Lies, stone, tonsil.

8. Quit, tone, unit.

9. Emit, lime, stern.

10. Ale, lake, link.