…a very public divorce plea.
An as yet unidentified individual in Reading, England has chosen a very public medium for her one-item Christmas list. Says the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper:
With just 12 days to go until Christmas ‘Jude’ decided to spread her own festive message by stringing up a banner alongside the M4 motorway proclaiming: ‘For Xmas Dan,
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In the market for an expensive bauble to commemorate your recent legal decoupling? You’re in luck. For the low price of $3,200.00, you can be the proud bearer of an 18k gold “divorce ring.” The ring features four diamonds, subtly arranged to resemble a stake, and set in the middle of a broken, 14k gold heart.
Shine on, you…
It’s summer, the season of weddings. Ah, weddings, those meticulously organized displays of love and commitment with all of their conventional trappings: the white satin dress! The champagne toasts! The flowers! The cover bands belting out “We Are Family”! The buffet lines!
Many weddings today are the result of months – if not years – of stressful planning, and lots…
The St. Petersburg Times reports:
A woman has been arrested after accosting her live-in boyfriend with a pink sex toy.
Yes, it’s true. Intoxicated Kimberly Lynn Calvert of Treasure Island, Florida was charged with battery for poking her boyfriend John Anthony Gonzales several times in the groin.
Naturally, he called 911.
You might think this is…
We’ve previously reported on two repercussions of extra-curricular activities - twins with different fathers and getting assaulted by the angry spouse 30 years later. Now we learn of another – yard signage.
Poor Linnie apparently went on a business trip, only to come back to find this in his front yard.
Oh, to be a fly on…
My wife stayed at home with our two kids for about 4 years, before going back to work last year. Upon getting a 9-5 office job, she was struck by how easy it was, by comparison.
“I get a lunch break! All to myself!” she exclaimed. “When I was at home with the kids I felt lucky if I could…
This may well be apocryphal, but yeah, I don’t really think this is the technique recommended by those self-help mavens on how to tell your kids about your divorce….
Maybe the best takeaway is from a comment on digg.com:
thebasshacker
8 hr 50 min ago
First rule of social networking:
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Andy Mizsak of Bedford, Ohio is 28, already a member of his local school board, and an “independent political consultant.”
Sounds like he has a bright future ahead of him.
If only he’d clean up his room. In the basement. Of his parents’ house.
Don't worry, parents, he'll grow out of it….
Cleveland.com reports that Andy had a fight…
“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.” – Mao Zedong
1.7 million Chinese folk have downloaded an online video of a woman who basically goes nuts after her husband (or boyfriend; it’s unclear) refuses to buy her the car she wants at a Shanghai dealership. Shanghai…
In America, there are freedoms that we just come to take for granted, because, you know, we’re so great and all. Like the inalienable right to name your kid the most idiotic name you can possibly think of (pretty much guaranteeing that he’ll be forcibly stuffed into a locker by 3rd grade, by some guys named Chet and Todd, then…
