Dickie Lugner, who obviously has more money than dates, paid nearly $1 million for a night out with Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell. They went to the Vienna Opera Ball where they were to meet the president of Austria. And no, it’s not Arnold. All was going swimmingly until Ginger got lost while finding the bathroom and didn’t make it back on time for her live TV interview with the president. Hey, it’s not easy staying in the limelight when your former Poshy bandmate was the Virgin Mary in Madame Tussaud’s wax museum nativity scene this year, not to mention the model for grilled cheese sandwiches everywhere [see below].

First there was the grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary burned into it that sold for $28,000 on eBay. Now a man in Prairie Lea, TX has a frying pan with Jesus’ face staring up from the bottom. He hasn’t decided what to do with it yet, but if GoldenPalace.com, the online casino that bought the grilled Mary sandwich, has any sense at all they’ll buy the frying pan and cook up one hell–I mean, heck–of a last supper.

It’s been quite a week for alcohol. First there was the announcement of the new fish wine [see below]. Now a company in Switzerland, forgetting the ill-fated Q beer from the Queer Brewing Company in San Francisco, is coming out with Queer Beer, hoping to corner the gay market. And why not, yuppies have Anchor Steam, middle America has PBR, and Jews have had He’brew for eight years now. Since drinking too much alcohol has been known to foster promiscuity and multiple partners, hopefully they won’t adopt the advertising slogan: “Queer Beer. When you’re having more than one.”