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I just got a notice about a Web site called: www.tbags4me.com.

Oh help me Lord, I hope it’s not what I think it is.

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A Brazilian woman said car thieves left her money instead of stealing her car after they realized it was in poor condition. The woman had left a note on the windshield stating the car was not worth stealing: “Mr Robber, please do not steal this car. It has no batteries, no spare tyre. It is in bad shape. Thank you for your attention.” You know you car is a piece of junk when thieves opt to leave money because they feel bad for you.

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A recent U.K. study is claiming that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the reasons that young women aren’t attending church.

For real?

1.) As much as it pained us, Buffy ended years ago. “Young” women are watching Miley Cyrus. Grown women, who watched Buffy from Day One, are in their 20’s now and are adults responsible enough to make their own decisions.

2.) It’s not the plain, flat-out sexism that keeps women away? Really? Because being told you’re going to hell for not having a penis and the rights and privileges attached to it isn’t really a reason to volunteer to skip Sunday brunch.

Details and more via our friends from across the pond at Holy Moly!:

If you’re a female and avoided going to church last Sunday then it’s likely that you’ve been converted to some type of black magic or Wicca cult because of watching ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘. Don’t blame me, it’s the absolute truth according to a recent British survey called ‘Women And Religion In The West’ (which sounds absolutely vital bedtime reading for those cold winter nights).

So Sarah Michelle Gellar and that ‘Angel’ bloke are responsible for around 50,000 women deciding against being shouted at by a man in a dress every Sunday morning and preferring to go about their Satanic ways. The author of the dreary study, Dr. Kristine Aune, managed to stop declaring that the power of Christ compels you to destroy your ‘Buffy’ box sets just long enough to say…

“Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In short, women are abandoning the church.”

You can blame Sarah Michelle Gellar for a fair bit, but keeping women out of churches? Out of cinemas, fair enough, but not churches.

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Have you heard the one about the nine-year-old who was told he’s too good to pitch against other kids his age?

WTF?

Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player— too good, it turns out.

The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.

Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho’s team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho’s coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.

But Vidro says he didn’t quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league’s field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch.

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What happened to parents who taught their children lessons? If kid’s sports are supposed to be fun for the children, why are loser parents across the country taking the fun away? This little boy should be able to play and if the other kids can’t hit his pitches, maybe they should practice harder.

This is some bull.

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I was just reading an article on CNN.com about bartering sex for service and “stuff.”

Here’s part of it:

While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a tour that would take her past the forest’s edge.

So, when a college-aged busboy at a resort she was visiting began flirting with her, she asked him if he thought a tourist could survive alone in the jungle.

“He laughed and told me I was nuts,” says Gerson, 27, who works part-time in online marketing for a chocolate company in San Francisco.

Then he told her that he’d grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Although she wasn’t attracted to the guy, Gerson flirted right back in the hopes that he would be her jungle tour guide. It worked. The busboy wormed his way out of work, and the two headed into the rain forest.

“It was amazing,” Gerson says of her adventure in 2000. “We built our homes out of palm leaves, I saw animals I’d never seen before, he taught me the medicinal properties of all the plants, we picked fruit off the trees, we swam with and ate piranhas. And, of course, we had sex … for almost two weeks.”

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The comments underneath the story called Gerson everything from a whore to a prostitute. But let’s be honest, if you’re in a relationship–most of what you do is to get sex. Women cook dinner for their significant others because they want to get broke off. That man is painting the room in his mother-in-law’s house because he wants some good-good head. What happened when that man gave his fiancee a three carat diamond engagement ring? I’m willing to bet he was throughly fucked that evening.

Mostly everything we do, we want sex because we did it. So, trading sex for services isn’t such a far-fetched idea. Most of us are doing it anyway.

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In an attempt to resist arrest for shoplifting, a 70-year old man tried biting a police officer to avoid capture. The only problem was, he forgot his dentures at home. He was only able to leave a wet mark from his gums on the officers arm.

hahaha… (more…)

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Best Quote Ever:

“Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized: I’m just slutty. Where’s my parade? What about slut pride?”

– Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho’s new, long overdue venture into television, The Cho Show, aired last night on VH1. The pseudo-reality show is part scripted, part real-life and Ms. Cho’s humor and vulnerability were on full display. The best scenes were obviously unscripted, so hopefully the show won’t rely heavily on the manufactured lines.

If you’re not familiar with Ms. Cho’s work, check her out on YouTube and tune in next week, 11 p.m., channel 42 (or whatever fancy channel VH1 is on for you satellite owners).

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A 37-year old woman celebrated her birthday by helping her teenage son rob two gas stations in Milwaukee. The mom acted as a getaway driver while her 17-year-old son robbed the gas stations at gunpoint. The woman’s 13-month-old daughter and two boys ages 10 and 14, rode along during the robbery. The duo are in custody awaiting charges.

Very creative … I guess this will truly be a birthday to remember.

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Angel Pantoja Medina was granted his last wish: to remain standing up at his funeral wake. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to the corpse of 24-year-old Medina standing up for his 3-day wake. His brother Carlos told a San Juan newspaper that his brother wanted to be “happy, standing at his wake.” Love the outfit he has on!

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You would think a library staff’s worst fear would be the banging of steel drums (or any others in the percussion family) amidst a quiet, book friendly atmosphere. But, it obviously isn’t at Charlotte’s Main Library, which will host Hear Steel Drums Play, tomorrow (Aug. 19) in the Movies and Music room (Don’t worry, no one outside of those doors will be disturbed). The event aims to inform attendees of steel drumming history, genres of music in which steel drums are used, how the drums are made and more. Aug. 19. 12:15 p.m.-1 p.m. Free. PLCMC-Main Library, 310 N. Tryon St. (Movies and Music room). 704-336-2725. www.plcmc.org.

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