Two Jewish congregants who work in advertising and marketing came out with an idea to auction on EBay two lifetime front-row seats to services at a synagogue in time for the Jewish high holidays. The initial bidding starts at $1. 8 million. The winning bidder will have the privilege of getting up front with the rabbi. Their family name will be engraved on Seats 1 and 2 of Row 1, Section DD, at Temple Emanu-El. In addition to that, the winning bidder will get two free parking slots, two custom-made prayer shawls and yarmulkes and a big tax write-off. Also, the lucky winner can pass the seats on to his or her children and grandchildren.

For the past six years, the owners of a 40-year-old ocean-view home in the upscale Monarch Beach area in California are inundated by bundles of letters, crates of wine, cheese platters, and other raw food materials. The crazy stuff began arriving at their residence address six years ago when the five-star hotel opened at 1 Monarch Beach Resort. While the home of Harold and Martha Smith is nearly 40-years-old and located at 1 Monarch Bay, it is often confused by the postal department for newly opened St. Regis Resort about 1 1/2 miles away.

The first of some 29,000 rubber ducks that have been circling the world's oceans for 15 years are expected to wash up on a beach in England sometime soon. The toys fell overboard from a cargo ship bound for Seattle from China in 1992, according to the BBC.

Zoologists in Australia are busy studying one of the largest ever giant squid that was found washed up on a beach on Thursday in southern Australia. The giant creature weighs some 550 pounds and stretched 26 feet from head to tentacle. The length is about as long as a school bus but zoologists say that it might have been even longer when it was alive, since the tentacles appeared to be badly damaged.

When Michael Moylan of St. Lucie County, Florida, awoke Monday night with a severe headache, he thought perhaps his wife had elbowed him in his sleep. Worse, he thought, he could be suffering from an aneurysm. He asked his wife to drive him to the emergency room, where the nurse informed him that, in fact, there was a bullet lodged in his head.