22) SNAKES ON A PLANE forced some stoners to buy into all the Web hype.
23) A CRAZY WOMAN ON A PLANE peed on a cabin floor, forcing an emergency touch-down at Logan.
24) LIQUID ON A PLANE was nixed thanks to 21 douchebags who wanted to detonate liquid explosives in 10 airplanes over the Atlantic.
25) STANK ON A PLANE caused a US Airways flight from New Hampshire to North Carolina to be diverted to Boston after passengers smelled a sulfur-like odor.
26) Brazil failed to win the WORLD CUP, depriving Allston/Brighton residents of a major party.
27) But the NORTH END party was amazing.
28) 21 people were MURDERED in June and July, putting the city well ahead of the pace of last year’s 10-year high in homicides. Then, suddenly, we entered a homicide-free span that lasted three-and-a-half weeks.
29) After giving his final commencement address as president of Harvard University in June, LAWRENCE SUMMERS quietly stepped down to assume the position of university professor.
30) BRANGELINA baby photos were leaked by a Massachusetts couple.
31) A GUN BUY-BACK program launched by Mayor Menino handed out $200 Target vouchers in exchange for handguns; they collected roughly 1000 guns.
32) The YEAH YEAH YEAHS drew 20,000 people to a free concert on City Hall Plaza (Okay, we sponsored it, but it still rocked heavily).
33) WBUR slashed arts coverage on its Web site, WBUR Online Arts.
34) PROPERTY VALUES plummeted. But rents seem to have stayed put.
35) There were lots of fake, corporate-logo-spangled COWS everywhere.
