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Dad who left son in truck to visit strip club probably won't win Father of the Year

3:02 PM Wed, Nov 25, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Are you the kind of father who wonders whether you're doing a good enough job? Maybe you missed your child's kindergarten graduation because you had to, of all things, spend the day at work. Maybe you wonder if you said......

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Proper Brits say it's OK to plant a proper kiss this Christmas

2:22 PM Mon, Nov 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Hip, hip hooray to the British for their effort to spread cheer this Christmas season. In a message that seems more likely to come from the passionate French, the normally stoic Brits are encouraging kissing for Christmas. No, they won't......

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Watch out! The guy in the hybrid has the bad driver gene

2:37 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

If you're a bicyclist, you don't want to share the road with a hybrid car. And you definitely don't want to share the road with the driver of a hybrid car who has the bad driver gene, which is said......

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What's that the bride is wearing? Oh, it's the wedding cake.

weddingcakehat.jpg 11:07 AM Mon, Nov 09, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

First we we got the bighorn sheep look, a hair style that left fashion models looking surprisingly similar to bighorn sheep. Then we got the book hat, a smart look that enables fashion models to look brainy and maybe......

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Drivers, start your worrying: Woman passes license test on 950th try

8:39 AM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

The Associated Press reports that a woman in South Korea has passed the written exam for her driver's license after 950 tries. Cha Sa-soon, 68, succeeded after taking the test almost every day since April 2005. Good for her, but......

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Don't tell me cats are funnier than monkeys

Pets Dogs Are Funny.JPG 3:02 PM Wed, Oct 28, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

AP Photo This screen grab released by ABC and "America's Funniest Home Videos", shows a dog in a tree from "America's Funniest Home Videos." A exhaustive 19-year study has proven what most sensible animal lovers already knew: Dogs are......

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Drinking and driving on bar stools and La-Z-Boys

2Lounge Chair DWI.JPG 3:20 PM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

A comfortable recliner is great, but what guy wouldn't want a recliner he could drive to the local bar? I wonder if the man in this story has met the Ohio man who was charged with drunken driving after crashing......

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