A man in England asked his wife for a divorce by hanging a banner on a highway overpass. A week later she replied with her own banner. Go here to see pics.
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And You Thought You Had it Rough
According to this article a man in Italy has been sent to jail for 9 months for violating immigration regulations. Here’s the kicker: he originally had been sentenced to house arrest, but after a week he went back to court to beg the judge to put him jail because he couldn’t take his wife’s nagging anymore.
I’m not saying a thing.
One More Sign That the Apocalypse is Upon Us
In the realm of business ideas this one is just plain, well, nutty. According to this article it seems that a couple of enterprising folks out in Arizona have launched a line of jewelry that is testicular in design. Of course their website is ballsies.com.
I was going to put a picture of one of their products here, but if I was gonna do something like that I’d reserve it for a product modeled on the fairer sex. Sorry gals.
I Need a Potty Break!
Here’s a picture of a note that President Bush wrote to Condoleeza Rice during a meeting at the UN on September 14, 2005 (Photo is sourced from Reuters via Yahoo News; click on the picture to see an enlarged version):
Reading List August 22, 2005
- The Best Way to Save Gas (Moore’s Lore) – If localized web services got better we’d all save money.
- Dating the Next Recession (Moore’s Lore) – Dana Blankenhorn thinks the next recession will begin October 17, 2005 when the new bankruptcy law goes into effect. He makes an interesting and compelling argument.
- Writer’s Perspective on Amazon’s Pay-to-Download Short Stories (Boing Boing) – Amazon has a new service that allows you download short stories one at a time (I-Stories?), and at least one writer thinks it’s a good thing.
- Online Bettors Find a New Love: Real Estate (New York Times) – Online exchanges are correctly predicting many new developments (election results, American Idol winners, the capture of Saddam Hussein, etc.) and now they are telling us that real estate "bubbles" in the cities that it is tracking are NOT ready to burst.
- The Vagina…It Writes Letters (Pandagon via Blog on the Run) – This is a hilarious play on the Vagina Monologues, which I’ve never read but am assuming weren’t that funny. Kind of reminds me of that ‘detachable penis’ song.
- "Peak Oil:" Welcome to the Media’s New Version of Shark Attacks (Freakonomics) – Steven Levitt pokes holes in a NYT magazine article that predicts calamitous results from the rising imbalance of oil production and consumption.
- What Do the Kansas City Royals and My iPod Have in Common? (Freakonomics) – On randomness or the lack thereof.
- Anatomy of a New York Times Article (Blog Maverick) – Times really are different for reporters. Mark Cuban publishes the email chain for an interview he did with a New York Times reporter and then links to the resulting article. Let’s just say he didn’t like the results, and he’s making the process transparent for everyone to make their own judgement. Why do I think the reporter might not come out on top?
- Steal this Book (Reveries) – Warren Adler, author of "War of the Roses", thinks the printed book has had a great 500-year run, but it’s about to be replaced by "screen" books.
- Foxification of Local News (BuzzMachine) – Roger Ailes is going to do to local news what he did to national news at Fox.
Pretty in Pink
The picture to the left is the University of Iowa’s locker room for visiting football teams. Pretty ain’t it?
The reporter who wrote about it described it as "Barbie’s Dream House on acid, a pastel nightmare. You feel naked without a little dog in one arm and a handbag in the other." Even the urinals are pink, or rather "Dusty Rose."
Photo courtesy of DesMoinesRegister.com where you can also read all about this ultimate shrine to manliness, or Pepto-Bismol.
Oh Crap! Uh, Happy Birthday to Us, Happy Birthday…
If my home state keeps this kind of stuff up it’s going to be hard to make fun of Florida:
ROXBORO, N.C. — There’s no "Sorry I missed your birthday" card big enough to make up for this one.
Just
about nobody remembered that the town of Roxboro reached an important
milestone this year _ its 150th anniversary of incorporation.
"I can’t come up with any legitimate reason other than it just slipped our minds," Mayor Steve Joyner said.
Joyner
noticed the oversight in July, when he realized a letter from the N.C.
League of Municipalities was commemorating the city’s long-elapsed
birthday.
"It would have been a great marketing slogan or
something to recognize this is the 150th anniversary," Joyner said.
"I’m hoping we’ll remember this (coming) year."
Source: WRAL.com
Great Orbs of Fire!
I found this through Blog on the Run…a woman who has had a certain kind of surgical enhancement that used bags of saline can do some cool things with a flashlight. Check it out here.
Politicians With a Sense of Humor
A couple of Guilford County, NC commissioners (both Democrats) are catching heat for going to the National Association of Counties’ annual conference in Hawaii. As you’d expect some of those applying the heat are leaders of the Guilford County Republicans.
Which makes the "Aloha, wish you were here" postcard that Paul Gibson (Democrat) sent to Billy Yow (Republican) kind of funny. Read about it and see a scan of the card here at the Inside Scoop.
Who knew, politicians with a sense of humor.
Knowing Your Market
If you’re going to open a coffee shop that doesn’t serve coffee, then doing so right outside the campus of Brigham Young University is probably the best place possible.
This story is getting a lot of notice for the obvious irony, but you have to be impressed with the owner. Christin Johnson is a 22-year old English major at BYU and she opened Vermillion Skies De-cafe and Lounge six months ago.
Read the article and I think you’ll agree that she’s pretty creative about her business, and definitely worthy of the "Smart People" tag.
My buddy Rob should definitely stop by and have himself a non-caffeinated Coconut Ice Mochas during Cranky Hour (5-6 p.m.).
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