argh roar raw err awwwwwwwww…… I just said “pass the milk” in wookie Everyone wants to speak wookie… from the pope to your grandmother!!!

#8 “Just to be on the safe side, let’s also lose the jack, the fuel pump, and the four-stroke engine.”
In Canada, General Motors is forced to come up with a new name for its Buick LaCrosse sedan after discovering that crosse is a slang term for masturbation in Quebec.

#16 “Don’t forget tall, charming, modest, and irrationally litigious.”
“Albie Hecht, TNN’s president, told the media that the name referred to a guy’s name with specific personality traits … irreverent, aggressive, unapologetically male, smart, and contemporary.”—Filmmaker Spike Lee, explaining why he filed suit against Viacom over The National Network’s name change to Spike TV. Hecht did indeed cite Lee at a press conference announcing the name, along with director Spike Jonze, a character from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and volleyball. Viacom and Lee reach a settlement a month later; Spike TV claims losses of $17 million due to launch delays caused by the suit.

#36 “Think they’ll buy the April Fool’s joke thing again? Nah, better go with the bit about the top-secret location. “
Michael Hanscom, a temp worker at Microsoft’s in-house print shop, is fired after posting to his blog a photo that showed workers at the facility taking delivery of several Apple G5 computers. His supervisor insists that Hanscom was fired not for showing the company relying on the product of its chief rival, but for revealing the location of one of its shipping and receiving departments.

#40 “That’s OK. We hear the computer science department sucks anyway.”
In February, Cornell University sends out an e-mail to incoming freshmen that begins, “Greetings from Cornell, your future alma mater!” The message is sent to all 1,700 students who applied for early decision, including the 550 who’ve been rejected.

#46 “Didn’t we already see this on HBO?”
Taking advantage of a local ordinance that gives hearses priority service at gas stations during a shortage, two mortuary workers in Zimbabwe go into business renting out corpses and falsified burial orders. They are arrested in July.

#100 “UR fired :(”
“Its official, you no longer work for JNI Traffic Control and u have forfided any arrangements made.”—Text message sent in February from JNI Traffic Control in Sydney, Australia, to employee John Eid, who later files a claim for unfair dismissal. JNI says that the message was simply to confirm Eid’s resignation from the day before. In May, Eid and JNI reach an undisclosed settlement.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen, in recognition of his services to global enterprise.

The Foreign Office announced early on Monday that Gates — the software superstar who puts the Bill into billionaire — will become a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. This is one of the highest honours that Britain can bestow upon those born outside the UK.