Every few months or so I try to give you a bit of humor from Criggo.com, a Web site that aggregates all the goofy things you can find in newspapers.

I don't know where all of this comes from, but they are always actual images from the newspapers, so they are real. Fortunately, at least at this point, none of them have come from The Marshall News Messenger.

What is funny to us is very, very sad to someone else and I don't want that someone to be me.

The selections this time, any comments I might have are in italics:

\• Headline: Animal-rights group to hold meeting at steakhouse.

\• Police beat item: Suspicious person: officer made contact with a man walking backwards down a street. When asked, the man told the officer he did not want anyone to sneak up on him.

\• Headline: Why have do we public schools?

\• Police beat item: Six men, their faces covered with red bandanas, got out of the Cherokee carrying a knife, baseball bad, billy club and rolling pin, said Davis, 20. "I knew when I saw the rolling pin that something bad was going to go down," Davis said. The knife, baseball bat and billy club didn't bother him?

\• Recipe: Spaghetti with garlic and oil, 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 1 small dried child, crumbled....

\• Police beat item: Suspicious people were reported doing something with flashlights by the side of North 5th Street in Custer.

A deputy checked and found the people were not suspicious, but merely Canadian.

\• Police beat item: Someone reported a suspicious individual. The caller reported an elderly man with a limp and a smile.

\• Police beat item: Police checked the area and found an open door in the back of the building.

An officer went inside and called out, "Marco." The man's name was not Marco, detective Tim Dohr said. Instead, "the officer was trying to inject some humor into the situation." Police found the suspect after he responded, "Polo." Another stupid criminal.

\• Police beat item: A man drinking liquor in front of an adopted bird at an Essex Avenue home was the source of a domestic dispute.

The man's live-in, ex-wife called police because he was drinking liquor in front of their bird \— which she said he is forbidden to do because it makes their dog mad.

\• Classified ad: Free women's clothing, fat, medium fat, fat fat. One article per person.

\• Headline: Anxiety an issue to worry about.

\• Classified ad: Lawn mower, works but does not start.

\• Ad: 8 pound bag, frozen ice cubes, 79 cents. OK, just so long as they are frozen ice cubes.

\• Correction: A Thursday story incorrectly quoted Councilman Stewart Clifton as calling Mayor Bill Boner a "squeeze-bag." Clifton called Boner a "sleaze-bag."

\• Classified ad: Rattlesnake, four months old, good plaything for kids 10yrs to 80yrs. Will hold till X-mas. Wait until your kids see this under the tree!

\• Headline: Protesters protest protest-signs protest.

\• Police beat item: A man from Durham, N.C. driving 74 mph in a 55 zone with an open liquor bottle and marijuana was getting to Camden to get his nephew out of trouble.

\• Headline: There are gays living in Iran, say gays living in Iran.

\• An ad: People needed immediately to mold manure figurines. Spare time or full-time. Molds provided. Good pay.

The pay would have to be better than "good" for me.

\• Headline: Whale-watching inspires new thoughts about diets.

\• Crime story: Cody Neal told a three-judge panel Monday that he doesn't want to be executed for bludgeoning three women to death last summer, but he's prepared to take responsibility for what he did. "I want the responsibility for the whole thing," Neal said in a packed Jefferson County courtroom. "If I lose my life, I can live with that."

\• Headline: School board member suspected of honesty.

\• Classified ad: Two bedroom sublease, nice area, BARGAIN Rent. Drawback: Big hairy spiders drop off bedroom ceiling at night.

\• Classified ad: SEE WAL-MART! from your private deck, high in the hills of Wyomissing!

\• Police beat item: Suspicious circumstances - A woman called police Friday morning when she heard banging on her door.

She said when she screamed, the person left.

Police checked the area and were unable to locate any suspects. They did, however, locate a UPS package on the front porch.

I hope you got a laugh on "fall-back" day.