But apparently taking more permanent items, including towels and cutlery and logoed pillowcases, is becoming more commonplace. The White House Correspondents association told its members that the theft reflected badly on the press pool and they should stop. One Washington correspondent told the BBC that, disappointingly, those M and Ms are just regular M and MS in a nice box, not the nice old ones that used to have the presidential seal on each one of the individual M and Ms. For urban legends and stranger truths, I'm Bob Dennis