marmalade dropper
(n.) - A news story so bizarre it makes you drop the marmalade when you are reading the newspaper or news on your iPad tablet at breakfast.
"Wow, the story about that guy embezzling all the money right in front of his co-workers' eyes is an amazing marmalade dropper. How come nobody noticed?"
-- overheard at a water cooler in a Manhattan office building, January 25, 2011
-- overheard at a water cooler in a Manhattan office building, January 25, 2011