It’s a lot to ask of President Obama, but he may eat “paste’’ to please an ally.

He arrives tomorrow in Australia, the home of kangaroos, dingos — and Vegemite.

Aussies were crushed last March by his description of their favorite spread as “horrible’’ and “a quasivegetable by-product paste.’’

But he’s getting a second chance.

He’ll be presented with a jar of the stuff while Down Under.

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The world’s dopiest druggie left a half-million dollars’ worth of coke jammed in the door panels of a minivan that was sold by a used-car dealer to an unsuspecting buyer in San Jose, Calif.

Psychologist Charles Preston, who paid $14,000 for the vehicle, promptly reported the find.

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Talk about shaving your price.

Gregory Burnett, a barber in Canton, Ohio, has put up signs reading, “Times are hard’’ and “Pay what you can afford for a cut.’’

He’s charged as little as $5 for haircuts that normally go for $12.

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He really earned the title “nutty professor.’’

George Parrot, who teaches psychology at Sacramento State University, has, for the last 39 years, told students that they must bring a snack to each of his classes.

Last week, one of them didn’t — and the professor walked out.

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An honest man has paid off his mother’s parking ticket — 57 years late — and it cost him only 10 cents.

The summons was issued in York, Neb., in 1954 to a car with Oklahoma plates.

Police Chief Don Klug said the son walked into his office the other day with an unusual gift — the ticket and a dime, mounted and framed.

Klug plans to hang it on his wall.

The son told Klug his mom probably forgot about the ticket, which he found among her possessions.