Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Charles Futrell, a 90-year-old Floridian who became the oldest man to complete a sanctioned triathlon, when he swam 440 yards, biked 10 miles, and ran three miles in two hours and 18 minutes.

Proceeding with caution, after TweetCongress, a group that monitors Twitter traffic on Capitol Hill, said that the number of tweets sent by members of Congress had suddenly dropped 28 percent.

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Crystal Harris, 25, the latest large-breasted blonde to be courted by Hugh Hefner, after she called off their marriage just five days before she was to wed the Viagra-fueled 85-year-old creator of Playboy. “Crystal has had a change of heart,’’ sighed Hef.

Bad week for:

Macy’s and The Miami Herald, after the newspaper ran an ad from the retailer congratulating the Miami Heat for winning the NBA Finals. The ad, offering commemorative Heat T-shirts and hats, ran on the same sports page as a story detailing the Heat’s crushing defeat by the Dallas Mavericks.

Getting invited to dinner, after 15 percent of people admitted in a British survey to serving guests food that had fallen on the floor.

Fans of lesbian bloggers, after the author of the celebrated “Gay Girl in Damascus” blog acknowledged that in fact he is a married American man who made it all up. A day later, the editor of lesbian news site “Lez Get Real: A Gay Girl’s View of the World” admitted he was a 58-year-old, retired military man.