WELL, HE WASN'T USING THEM ANYWAY...

A retired British mountaineer has presented the National Army Museum with an unusual donation: the five fingers and ten toes he lost to frostbite while climbing Mount Everest in 1976. Major Michael Lane, who was part of the second British team to scale Everest, and one other member of the team lost all their toes and several fingers when they were close to the peak. When the Museum approached Major Lane for some items to commemorate his climb, he decided to give them the amputated digits, preserved in formaldehyde. "I thought I would give them something really good, like my fingers and toes. I don't think it was quite what they were expecting (Daily Telegraph)

LAW FIRM GOES POSTAL

The Quinn Emmanuel law firm of Los Angeles, 'in a drive to secure new customers, sent out a special mailing to 600 California businesses with the theme "Business is War" - driving the point home by enclosing a fake hand grenade. At least two of the businesses called for police bomb squads when they got their packages. The U.S. Postal Service says sending fake bombs through the mail can be a crime, but declined to press charges since the firm was not acting maliciously. "The lesson here is, don't believe everything the marketing consultants tell you," one of the firm's senior partners said. (AP)