A car believed to have previously been owned by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI, is up for auction on eBay in Germany. Benjamin Halbe, 21, put the gray 1999 Volkswagon Golf up for auction on the German Website, www. ebay. de , Wednesday. Halbe claims to have records for the vehicle liscensing office proving the name of the original owner was Ratzinger.

A college student makes $232. 50 selling a chicken breast resembling the last Pope John Paul II on eBay. E. J. Rouzin-Moy, a 19-year-old Eastern Illinois University freshman, sold the chicken breast on Thursday to goldenpalace. com. He discovered the holy look-a-like chicken moneymaker on April 6th, when he almost ate it at his dorm's dining hall. This isn't the first purchase for goldenpalace. com, who paid $28,000 for a Virgin Mary grilled-cheese sandwich last year. Rouzin-Moy was more than surprised when the bidding on eBay exceeded $200. The "holy" poultry was cooked, and although the college student thought enough to save it and sell it in the Pope's likeness, he's skeptical of where the "message" came from.

Devoted fans of elusive soft drink Surge have started a letter-writing campaign to Walmart Inc. and Coca-Cola bottling executives in hopes to get the beverage back on the market. The "fully loaded citrus soda" is no longer sold in bottles or cans and on rare occasions is spotted in soda fountains across the U. S. Fan site- www. savesurge. org offers Surge lovers' 500 pages of testimonials, photos of Surge memorabilia, even a recipe for making a surge-like drink at home. Two Arizona women have said they plan to head a petition signing at a country music festival this month. While a Norwegian man offers shipments or Urge, a Surge-equivalent sold in his country. Coca-Cola debuted the drink in 1997 to compete with the ever-popular Mountain Dew, offering a flavor that bordered between lemon-lime and orange and containing more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi. Sales of the drink began to dwindle around 2002. That's when web designer and surge devotee, Eric Karkovack started the website, which averages 500 hits a day. "I never expected when I started the Web site that it would still be going three years later," said Karkovack, 27, who hasn't had a swig of the bright green liquid since 2003. "I just figured that, like most of these sites that want to save something, that it would be a fad. " Twelve-packs of the drink have been know to sell on eBay for as much as $152. Coke spokesman Scott Williamson said Coke has no plans to raise Surge's profile. "If there were to be increased demand for Surge, we would consider making it more widely available," he said. In 2004, Surge sold 200,000 cases, a major drop from 69 million in '97. It's rival, Mountain Dew, sold 650 million cases in '04. If savesurge. org ultimately fails, Karkovack said the effort would not have gone to waste: The cause brought together a disparate group of people who, at least for a while, had a good time. v "It's more like a community than a Web site," he said.

Idol fan auctions off American Idol, Kelly Clarkson's, water bottle after recovering it at a recent concert. Kelly Clarkson fans have two more days to bid on a one and only item being auctioned off on e-bay. The anonymous seller from Ames, Iowa is hoping to cash in on a used water bottle from Clarkson's concert in Omaha. "I am auctioning off (1) 16. 9 fluid ounce bottle of Dasani bottled water that Kelly Clarkson drank out of during her concert on April 2. . . . Do you want to own some Kelly Clarkson DNA, then this is your chance," says the seller. The prized water bottle was obtained by the unknown fan thanks to a seat in row 1 at Clarkson's show, giving him, or her, the perfect opportunity to snag the bottle. The best part - there's still water in it, so fans can share a drink with their favorite Idol star. Unfortunately, Idol-goers don't seem to see the value - with just two days left there's been only three bids, reaching a total of $20. 50.

Some people take suggestions for baby names, why not your own? 31-year old Matthew Jean Rouse's middle name came from his late grandfather, a man he didn't really get along with. So he is auctioning off his naming rights on E-bay! Rouse is taking bids on the right to choose his new middle name, whatever it might be. The top offer as of early Monday is $2,175, with the "Buy It Now" price at $8,000. Of course, there is the distinct possibility he could get a pretty usual and possibly distasteful name. His wife Corinna says, "If he wants to walk around with 'Fool' as his middle name, that's his problem. If someone changes his name to 'Poophead,' he may decide it's a little more important than he thought. " Rouse's older brother, Bill, put in a bid of $1,500 in an effort to make Matthew keep the family name of his grandfather, but the bid kept rising. Whatever the final choice is, Rouse promises to use the moniker "whenever plausible and not hide it. "