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Bad Baby Names

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The New York Times hosted a “Worst Bad Name” contest and today named the winner: Iona Knipl. She was one of more than 1,000 entries in the contest, beating contenders such as Chastity Beltz and Justin Credible.

Read the full articlehere.

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This Happened to Me Once

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

caught in the act

Well, kinda. No one broke into my home, and my dog didn’t eat mushrooms and die. Just the baitin. Oh, and I was on a lawnchair in my driveway.

via www.yesbutnobutyes.com

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Woman sits on boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years…

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

And her ass grew around the seat like a tree around a street sign.

If you have not heard about this, well, you have now. It has been all over the news so instead of repeating exactly what’s out there, I’ll post links to as many deatails as I can find.

The story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23595533

Some updated info, including potential charges against the boyfriend, and some more comments on the timeline (she may have been on the toilet continuously for a month).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_re_us/woman_in_bathroom;_ylt=AlA3sSDv1S16u0Y8V29DkMus0NUE

A pic of the mobile home, which had 2 bathrooms. The second bathroom revalation destroys a lot theories about where the boyfriend was doing his thing.
stuck to toilet

I’ll post more info as I find it.

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Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island Arrested for Pot

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Mary Ann
A surprise birthday party for Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” ended with a nearly three-hour tour of the Teton County Sheriff’s Office and jail when the 69-year-old was caught with marijuana in her vehicle while driving home.

Wells is now serving six months’ unsupervised probation for the crime. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.

The guilty plea came as part of an agreement with prosecutors in which three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped.

The case began the night of Oct. 18, when Teton County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party. She posted $4,000 bond and was arraigned on the charges the following day, pleading not guilty. A trial on the matter was scheduled for March 13, but was canceled because of the plea agreement.

According to the sheriff’s office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve across the fog lines and center lines of State Highway 33 and repeatedly speed up and slow down.

“I exited my patrol vehicle and immediately was able to smell a strong odor of burning marijuana,” Gutierrez wrote in his report. “As I approached the vehicle I noticed all four window (sic) of the vehicle were lowered and the female driver was not wearing a jacket.”

When Gutierrez asked why he could smell marijuana, Wells reportedly told him that she’d just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. When Gutierrez searched the car, he found three half-smoked joints in the ashtray and console, according to the report. A second search after Wells’ arrest netted a fourth half-smoked joint and two small cases used to store marijuana, Gutierrez said.

After Wells failed a field sobriety test, she was handcuffed and taken to the sheriff’s office.

Wells’ attorney, Ron Swafford, of Idaho Falls, told the Post Register that a friend of Wells’ voluntarily testified that he’d left a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle after having used the vehicle that day, and that Wells was unaware of it.

Swafford said several witnesses were prepared to testify that Wells had very little to drink at the party and was not intoxicated when she left. He said she was swerving on the road because she was trying to find the heater controls in her new car.

Wells is the founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute in Driggs and the organizer of the region’s annual family movie festival called the Spud Fest.

via ktvb.com

dawn wells

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Matt Roloff D.U.I. Followup

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Tonight was the start of a new season of my favorite show, “Littl People, Big World”. The first few episodes will follow Matt’s DUI trial. He contents he had one drink, was swerving because he was driving his wife’s car, and the peddles were the wrong length, causing him to have to reach for the wheel.

I’m inclined to belive him..any feedback from you guys out there on the cyberweb?

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Yup, Definately Too Pretty

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Tampa, Florida – Prejudice against pretty?08221183333_southwest-girls.jpg

That’s the claim from a pair of 18-year-old best friends from Oldsmar who were escorted off a Southwest Airlines plane.

USF student Nisreen Swedberg and friend Sarah Williams claim the flight crew was rude to them from the moment they stepped onto the plane at Tampa International Airport on February 14.

Swedberg said she asked a flight attendant for a bottle of water and was told she could wait until the rest of the flight was served.

“And I patiently waited and then when they came around with water, they skipped me,” Swedberg said.

At one point, Williams had to use the plane’s bathroom. She saw another passenger in it, and when he hadn’t come out 15 minutes later, she knocked on the door.

When he came out, Williams says the man came over to her seat and yelled a profanity at her. Williams admits she yelled a profanity back at him but was puzzled when she says the flight crew only questioned her.

“I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us,” she said. “[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.”

Southwest defends the incident, saying the women caused a disruption on the flight.

When the plane landed in Los Angeles, the women were escorted off by four uniformed police officers and later questioned by the FBI.

Nearly two hours later, the women were released. No charges were filed.

Still, Williams and Swedberg say they were banned from all future Southwest Airlines flights, including their scheduled flight home to Tampa.

Swedberg spent $419.50 on a one-way return ticket and arrived at TIA on Monday. Williams is still in Los Angeles trying to find a cheaper flight home. She hopes to be back to Tampa by Saturday.

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=74549

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A Great Take on the Roger Clemens Testimony

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

or rather, Jose Canseco’s contributions to this mess:

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/02/12/jose-can-you-see/

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Michael Jackson is turning into Skeletor

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Step 1: Turn skin white
Step 2: Shed said skin, exposing bleached bone
Step 3: Bandaids, lots of them.
Step 4: Reunite with brothers and tour the world as the “International Interracial Brothers in Arm All Stars”

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Dentist Figures it all Out

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

WOODLAND, Calif. — A dentist accused of fondling the breasts of 27 female patients is trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an appropriate procedure in certain cases. Mark Anderson’s lawyer says dental journals discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem.

Police say Anderson said during recorded phone calls that he routinely massaged patients’ chests to treat temporo-mandibular joint disorder, or TMJ, which causes neck and head pain.

Attorney Robert Zaro told administrative law judge Jonathan Lew at a hearing Thursday that he should let Anderson keep his dental license while disciplinary appeals proceed. Anderson would be supervised by two assistants and would no longer do the chest rubs, Zaro said.

Zaro said Anderson, 48, of Woodland, needs to keep seeing patients so he can feed his seven children and pay for his defense.

The judge made no immediate decision.

Lew suspended Anderson’s dental license last month. He was charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery and sexual battery. Yolo County prosecutors are investigating complaints from more than two dozen women who say they also were groped in the examining chair in the last five years.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Phillips gave Lew three new complaints, including one from a 31-year-old woman who said Anderson fondled her at least six times over two years.

She took to wearing tight shirts with high necklines, “and Anderson would still get in under her shirt and bra,” according to a police report.

via the Houston Chronicle

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Barry Bonds’ 756th HR Ball

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Mark Ecko, the person behind eckō unlimited clothing, has purchased Barry Bonds’ infamous HR ball, and he’s letting the public vote to determine what to do with the ball. The coices are:

1) Donate the ball to the Hall of Fame
2) Brand the ball with an asterisk, then donate it to the Hall of Fame
3) Send the ball into outer space

I vote to brand it. You can do the same here:

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