“There’s a certain segment of the population that’s just going to be automatically suspicious of anything that starts with ‘Al’, like Al Qaeda – or Al Gore, for that matter.”
– Advertising Age columnist Simon Dumenco, on the launch of Al Jazeera’s English channel.

“My name is Santa and my chimney is on fire.”
– novelist Santa Montefiore unwittingly confused the fire brigade when she made a genuine emergency call.

“So far best thing about 2013 is you can pull the tail around of the last 2 in 2012 to make it a 3 when you write the date wrong.”
– Comedian Kristen Schaal – Mel from Flight of the Conchords – on Twitter.