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Crass competition, after the statuettes at the 82nd Academy Awards were handed out with the phrase “And the winner is …” rather than “And the Oscar goes to … .” In 1988, the academy eliminated the word “winner” to make the awards seem less competitive, but producers had a change of heart this year.

Blessed silence, after 13 DMV offices in Oregon canceled their $160-a-month subscriptions to a Muzak service due to complaints from customers about the insipid background music.

Cecilia Juarez, who was named “Miss Captive Beauty 2010” in a beauty pageant at a Mexican prison. Juarez is awaiting sentencing on a drug-trafficking charge.

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Lox and bagels, after one group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis claimed that salmon isn’t kosher, because it often contains tiny parasitic worms. “What is a bagel and cream cheese without the lox? It’s nothing,” complained Josh Loberfeld, 29, of the Bronx.

Oversharing, after the Israeli army had to call off a planned raid because a soldier posted the details of the operation on Facebook. “On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, God willing, we come home,” the soldier wrote.

Creative expression, after police, acting on an anonymous complaint, ordered a family in Rahway, N.J., to cover up a naked snow woman they had sculpted in their front yard. The family complied by clothing the snow woman in a green bikini top and a blue sarong.