Showing posts with label Slice of Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slice of Life. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Police Bust Ends ‘Free Sex After Nine Car Washes’ Promotion!!

 

Ah, me...free enterprise takes it on the chin again...

It's a classic business tactic to increase sales. You offer something special to increase customer loyalty and leep 'em coming back.

In this case, you had a car wash that teamed up with a massage parlor to offer a unique proposition - free sex with the tenth wash. Th ecar wash promoted the massage parlor and told its customers abiout the promotion. At the massage parlor end, customers who visited the girls for a massage and and other extra services  received loyalty cards and a referral to the car wash. You have to admit, it's a step up from  "free car wash with oil change'.

For three months, it worked like a charm. But then the police  got suspicious after they found some of the loyalty cards. And then they noticed the some of the same cars repeatedly re-entering the car wash....

So  the cops moved in, raided the massage parlor, arrested nine women  and closed the massage parlor part of the partnership down.  I guess you could say they were a victim of too much success. Or something.

Unfortunately, I have to predict that this particular car wash will now see a decrease in sales.To say the least.

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Mitt Romney Stops Off In NJ When Jewish Wedding Party Requests A Photo-Op With Him!!



As Mitt Romney and his staff were speeding towards a fundraiser in Lake Terrace, NJ, they ran into an interesting obstacle...an Orthodox Jewish wedding party posing for pictures outside a synagogue. The wedding party promptly grabbed their cameras and ran after the governor's motorcade, according to a pool report filed by Yahoo’s Holly Bailey:

Immediately, the family abandoned the bride and groom and began chasing Romney's car in the parking lot, waving cameras. The candidate's SUV drove around a corner to a back entrance, followed by at least 10 members of the wedding party who tried to run up to Romney's car by were halted first, by a wood fence, which one man tried to scale, and then by Secret Service agents, who did not look pleased. "Oh you're Secret Service," one woman said, as she was asked by an agent to move back. "We just want to see Romney."

Your pool is now holding in a room ahead of Romney's remarks at the private fundraiser, set to begin in about one hour. Per spokesman Rick Gorka, Romney is going to pose for photos with the wedding party, but the campaign will not allow the pool to witness this event.




( both photos by by Charles Dharapak / AP)


It looks like they like him...and it was typically menschy of the governor to be willing to stop and take a few photos.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

A Must Read- George Will's Birthday Column For His Down's Syndrome Son

This column, entitled 'Jon Will's Gift' is in a class by itself. Here's a slice:

When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understandable.

The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon’s parents that the first question for them was whether they intended to take Jon home from the hospital. Nonplussed, they said they thought that is what parents do with newborns. Not doing so was, however, still considered an acceptable choice for parents who might prefer to institutionalize or put up for adoption children thought to have necessarily bleak futures. Whether warehoused or just allowed to languish from lack of stimulation and attention, people with Down syndrome, not given early and continuing interventions, were generally thought to be incapable of living well, and hence usually did not live as long as they could have. [...]

Jon was born just 19 years after James Watson and Francis Crick published their discoveries concerning the structure of DNA, discoveries that would enhance understanding of the structure of Jon, whose every cell is imprinted with Down syndrome. Jon was born just as prenatal genetic testing, which can detect Down syndrome, was becoming common. And Jon was born eight months before Roe v. Wade inaugurated this era of the casual destruction of pre-born babies.

This era has coincided, not just coincidentally, with the full, garish flowering of the baby boomers’ vast sense of entitlement, which encompasses an entitlement to exemption from nature’s mishaps, and to a perfect baby. So today science enables what the ethos ratifies, the choice of killing children with Down syndrome before birth. That is what happens to 90 percent of those whose parents receive a Down syndrome diagnosis through prenatal testing.

Which is unfortunate, and not just for them. Judging by Jon, the world would be improved by more people with Down syndrome, who are quite nice, as humans go. It is said we are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and remain greedy. People with Down syndrome must remain brave in order to navigate society’s complexities. They have no choice but to be trusting because, with limited understanding, and limited abilities to communicate misunderstanding, they, like Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” always depend on the kindness of strangers. Judging by Jon’s experience, they almost always receive it.


Read the whole thing. You'll be happy you did. I especially love the last paragraph.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Secret Service Prostitute To Pose Nude

Dania Suarez, the 24-year-old Colombian prostitute at the heart of the Secret Service scandal is still negotiating a deal to pose nude for either Playboy or Hustler, and the piece will also feature an article along with the pictures.

The rumor is that she was offered her asking price of $80,000 but problems arose after she took the pictures and was only offered $300....I may have made that last part up.

Friday, April 06, 2012

Something Wonderful - Dolphin Rescue



In this video, some Brazilian beach goers see a group of dolphins stranded on the shore and matter-of-factly work together to rescue them and get them back into the ocean safely. Worth your 4 minutes, guaranteed.

(H/T, Bookworm)

Monday, March 26, 2012

Beauty Queen Kicked Out Of Miss Universe Contest - Because She Was Born A Boy!

Jenna Talackova



Ah the travails and tribulations of the modern age!

Jenna Talackova, the young 23-year-old blonde pictured above was competing in the Miss Universe Canada contest and had actually reached the finals in Vancouver when the contest's organizers found out that "she" was actually a "he' whom had undergone gender transformation surgery.

According to Denis Davila, the national director of Miss Universe Canada, Talackova claimed on her registration form she was born a female.

When Davila became suspicious,(and I'd love to know what gave the game away) he confronted Ms. Talackova and the contestant admitted she was actually born a male. She was booted out of the competition the same day.

"She feels like a real girl and she is a real girl. She didn’t expect people to question it," Davila said in an interview.

"She was hoping we could put her back in the competition, but the rules are very clear and there’s no way we can go back on it."

Talackova says she knew she was a female at the age of four and began hormone therapy ten years later. She surgically changed her gender at age 19, which must have been an interesting change of one's point of view if nothing else.

She just narrowly missed out on winning the International Queen contest in 2010.

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Tell the truth, guys...would you date her?

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Dog Dies In Fire After Saving His Master

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Scott Dunn fell asleep on his sofa yesterday at his home in Marietta, Georgia with his devoted friend Duncan, a 3 1/2-year-old boxer by his side.

“Duncan was covered up with me, and I fell asleep, and the next thing I knew, he was poking at me and barking,” Dunn said. “Normally, that means he needs to go out, but when I woke up, I couldn’t see because there was smoke.”

Dunn quickly put on his pants and boots, found his truck keys and cell phone and grabbed Duncan by the collar, then ran out of the burning house.

Somehow Duncan slipped out of his collar and was trapped in the burning house, where he died after saving the life of his owner.

"Anyone that knows me and has ever met Duncan knew he was the best dog in the world, and he didn’t deserve that,” Duncan said. “I should be there, he shouldn’t, but he saved my life.”

Firefighters later found the dog's remains and buried them in the yard.

“They weren’t going to let me watch, but I refused that. I said, ‘that’s my dog and I want to say the final goodbye.’”

Dunn said Duncan had been badly burned in the fire.“You wouldn’t recognize him, but I still leaned down, gave him a hug and gave him a kiss, and four or five of the fire department guys started crying, but I wasn’t going to let my boy go out like that,” Dunn said. “That’s my boy.”

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Stockholm: Muslims Get Special McDonald's Ramadan deal

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"Now its Ramadan also at McDonald's in Rissne (Stockholm suburb)! When the sun goes down, you can buy a ramadan-menu for only 90 kronor”

Via Vlad Tepes


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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Arnold Schwarzenegger Embroiled in Scandal Over Love Child With Employee


Ah, well.

For those of you wondering what happened to the Schwartzenegger's 25-year marriage, it's apparently surfaced that the Gubernator had a child with a longtime member of his household staff.

Apparently his wife, Maria Shriver Schwartzenegger, moved out of their Brentwood mansion earlier this year after she found out about it, confronted Ah-nold and he admitted that the child was his.

Apparently Governor Schwartzenegger spilled the sauerkraut himself:

"After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago," Schwarzenegger said Monday night in a statement issued to The Times in response to questions. "I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.

Apparently the Gubernator did the proper thing, acknowledged paternity and contributed financial support for the child right from the start. I can't imagine how he kept this quiet for so long.

Hopefully they'll patch things up, but it looks dicey.

Ann Coulter, of course, has the last word: "It's official. Arnold's a Kennedy."

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Employee Died In Cubicle, Co-Workers Didn’t Notice

 


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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Just A Slice Of Life

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Just sitting here listening to Skip Sempé play François Couperin's Passacaile on the harpsichord while watching the sun set..so stately and brilliant.

A beautiful moment to be alive. I wish you were here.

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