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Some blithering idiots at Nationwide Insurance, with way too much advertising money to waste and far too few brain cells, chose Britney Spears’ ex Kevin Federline to star in their TV commercial. It’s scheduled to run during halftime at the Super Bowl. Let’s everyone hope it doesn’t involve baring his breast. Or anything else.

Britney Spears Ex May Make You Wish For Head-On Commercials

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Another CEO bites the dust. Actually GOLD dust. Paul Pressler of Gap resigned after the retailer’s 2006 sales fell far short of his predictions. Did poor Paul get kicked out the door with only his hat in hand. Of course not in these days of CEO fiscally fattened farewells.

However, he may feel a bit of a salary ... er ... gap ... because he’s getting a measly $14 million severance package, nothing near the $210 million take-out parachute ex-CEO Bob Nardelli got when we was fired from Home Depot a couple of weeks ago. Oh, the humanity!

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Last week Donald Trump was honored with a name plaque on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Now all the angry hookers who used to be beauty pageant contestants, until Donald took their crowns away, can stomp on The Donald as they sashay along the Boulevard.

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An Aussie zoo has come up with a unique idea for future studies of anthropoid (ape) behavior and ways to improve their lives in captivity. To begin the research, the zoo has opened an exhibit of humans who go about their daily lives in an enclosed compound while visitors and researchers watch from behind glass walls. There’s something similar in the US ... Hollywood night life.

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Europe is all agog because British sports star David Beckham is crossing the pond to play soccer on an American team. Oh, wow! There hasn’t been this much excitement in the US since Podunk University’s junior varsity tiddlywinks team won the regional championship.

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Ted Sherman is a retired corporate PR manager and executive speech writer. Today he's a humor and travel writer, and occasional contributor of jokes to a major TV comedy show. He's a graduate of the University of the Arts and the University of Penn Grad. School of Communications, and a US Navy veteran of WWII and the Korean War.