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…
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…
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
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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…
“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.…
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…
In a story that even Ripley might not believe, a woman in Sondershausen, Germany has apparently divorced her husband for cleaning too much.
Reuters reports that the guy not only did chores, but tidied up and even – gasp! – rearranged the furniture. He did get a little carried away, however, by actually knocking down and rebuilding…
C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.
Photo courtesy Balakov, via creative commons license.
Divorce is so prevalent nowadays that getting married at all sometimes seems like successfully navigating an asteroid field. So how do you know if your…
