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 Matthew Love  Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 
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The Associated Press MILWAUKEE -- A 50-year gap in his higher education didn't stop Clarence Garrett. After returning to college in spring of 2006 as a full-time student, Garrett completed course work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was awarded his bachelor's degree at commencement ceremonies Sunday - at the age of 87. "We are not sure if Clarence Garrett is the oldest to ever graduate from UWM, but we do know that there had not been a graduate for some time who was born when the president was Woodrow Wilson," Chancellor Carlos Santiago said. On hand were Garrett's wife, Mary, his children and grandchildren. He was chosen to lead the graduates from the College of Letters and Science into the U.S. Cellular Arena, and he earned a standing ovation when awarded his degree. The Baltimore native served as a civilian at a U.S. Navy facility in Virginia before World War II. Once the war began, Garrett, who is black, served with the segregated Army in Europe. He later settled in Milwaukee and took courses at the college that later became UWM, but he gave up college to raise a family. "After all my children went to college ... I said, 'Why shouldn't I?'" Garrett said. "And I have loved it ever since."   LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 692338 ·  |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Fla. woman has 10 husbands, charges say The Associated Press MIAMI -- The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands. Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional marriages under the bride's name and birth date. Lopez arrived in South Florida from Cuba in 2002 and was a legal U.S. resident. "I can tell you that none of the individuals she married had any type of residency," said Terry Chavez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade office of the state attorney. Prosecutors say she charged her husbands an unspecified amount to help them secure immigration status and continued asking the men for money long after the wedding, threatening to expose them if they didn't pay. Chavez said the state attorney's office began investigating after being tipped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lopez was released on $18,000 bond. Her last known address was in Hialeah, just north of Miami. A telephone listing for her could not be located, and it was not known whether she had an attorney. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 692339 · |
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Mr Mistoffelees Send message Joined: 26 Jun 01 Posts: 353 Credit: 9,230 RAC: 0
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Guess what way that 'artist' chooses to view existence. What is it about post modern nihilistic (pro-socialist, mind you...pro statist, anti-individual rights) philosphy he endorses. I dunno...the smell? Maybe he needs to flush a little more often. Guess by his standards, we are all artists. We spend a good deal of our lives creating our own 'masterpieces'. *shudder* ID: 692408 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Fight over heat makes wife hot The Associated Press WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A woman who was angry because her husband wanted her to turn up the heat pulled out a gun and shot their flat-screen TV while he cowered behind a pillow, Macomb County authorities say. The 65-year-old man called 911 Sunday night from the basement of their Washington Township home, about 25 miles north of Detroit. "My wife's got a gun. She's shooting at me," Joseph Grucz said in the recorded call. He told the operator that Cheryl Grucz, 61, was angry because he wanted the heat turned up. She fired a round while he hid his head in a pillow, striking the plasma TV, then went upstairs, the Detroit Free Press said. "She's all excited about it because she's so cheap," the husband said. His wife, who had picked up another extension, told the operator she wanted to tell her side. "I'm not going to hurt him. He has pushed me over the edge, that was all," Cheryl Grucz said, according to a recording obtained by WXYZ-TV. "He has had a stroke, and he's taking it all out on me." "No I'm not," her husband said. "Yes, he is," she told the dispatcher. Cheryl Grucz was arraigned Monday in Romeo District Court on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, a charge with a top penalty of 10 years in prison. She also faces a felony firearms charge. Grucz was freed on $50,000 bond until a preliminary examination Jan. 15. The judge also ordered her to enroll in a domestic violence program, WDIV-TV said. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 692789 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Christmas card arrives 93 years late The Associated Press OBERLIN, Kan. - A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas. The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb. It's a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It's surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don't know." Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative. That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois. "That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there." The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin - the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said. "We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape." LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 692790 · |
Knightmare  Send message Joined: 16 Aug 04 Posts: 7472 Credit: 94,252 RAC: 0
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Fight over heat makes wife hot Cabin Fever strikes again....lmao Air Cold, the blade stops; from silent stone, Death is preordained  Calm Chaos Forums : Everyone Welcome ID: 692994 · |
Scary Capitalist  Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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I want to get old enough where I can earn the right to be beaten by my wife. I've got to keep arguing ! :-P Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! 
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Jeffrey  Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
I want to get old enough where I can earn the right to be beaten by my wife. Most old folks seem quite content with their right to be a public nuisance... ;)  It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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Knightmare Send message Joined: 16 Aug 04 Posts: 7472 Credit: 94,252 RAC: 0
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HAH!!!!! Air Cold, the blade stops; from silent stone, Death is preordained Calm Chaos Forums : Everyone Welcome ID: 694724 · |
kittyman     Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51527 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Kitty news of the weird..... Cat escapes holiday fire by squeezing behind wall The Associated Press MANITOWOC  Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures. A full-grown cat crawled into a 1.5 inch opening in the wall to escape a Christmas Eve fire in Manitowoc and was found in good health Christmas Day. “It’s amazing that an animal can shrink down and do what it has to do to get into a small opening,†Battalion Chief Ken Cayemberg said. The cat squeezed into the opening for a door that slid into the wall between the living room and foyer, he said. The door had been removed earlier. The blaze started around 7:40 p.m. near a wood-burning fireplace Christmas Eve. Firefighters and the homeowner, Steven Lorenz, unsuccessfully looked for the cat that evening. They went back the next day and found him around 2:30 p.m. Lorenz saw the cat’s eye sparkle, Cayemberg said. The cat wasn’t making any noises. “They were surprised,†Cayemberg said. A firefighter used a pole with a loop at the end to pull the cat out of the crevice, Cayemberg said. The cat was in an undamaged wall that was about 15 feet from most of the damage, Cayemberg said. God watches out for kitties and fools........ "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." 
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John McCallum  Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 879 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 
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Car crash driver blames pterodactyl Washington man in audacious dino-defence By Lester Haines Published Monday 31st December 2007 14:11 GMT A 29-year-old Washington driver who last Thursday night drifted into the oncoming lane before crashing into a light pole failed to convince police officers that flying dinosaurs were to blame, HeraldNet reports. The 29-year-old Wenatchee man apparently wandered off course "for less than a block" while oncoming traffic obligingly stopped to let him pass en route to said pole. Wenatchee police Sgt. Cherie Smith said that a breathalyzer test showed "a minimal amount of alcohol", although officers' queries as to what had caused the prang were met with the single-word answer "pterodactyl". The man was treated in hospital and later released. He has been charged with first-degree negligent driving. ® Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care ID: 696337 · |
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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Car crash driver blames pterodactyl Washington man in audacious dino-defence That silly pterodactyl defense again. Oh please! When will people think up something new? Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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Red Atomic  Send message Joined: 22 Jun 99 Posts: 2624 Credit: 840,335 RAC: 0 
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Car crash driver blames pterodactyl Washington man in audacious dino-defence lol, right up there with pink elephants  Join Calm Chaos ID: 696410 · |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Car crash driver blames pterodactyl Washington man in audacious dino-defence I'm well familiar with one of those... :-( "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me 
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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Not you, Fuzzy! Not you! Say it ain't so! Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Not you, Fuzzy! Not you! Say it ain't so! Oh yes, a huge pink elephant! Not funny at all. :-( "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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From NY Post ========================== By NEIL GRAVES, Wire Services January 8, 2008 -- Happy New Year, my eye! That's what one in five British married couples say on the first workday of the year, when they contemplate getting a divorce lawyer to call it quits. InsideDivorce.com, an advice Web site, says the stress and strain of the holiday season can spell the end for an estimated 1.8 million Brits. "Christmas in isolation doesn't cause divorce but strains the relationship, it brings out things that have been festering for a while," said InsideDivorce editor Derek Bedlow. **** Bettors in Malaysia, hoping to play 1301 - the number of the hotel room where a steamy sex scandal involving a politician took place - were told to forget about it. "The last time we accepted bets after a particular set of numbers was published on the front page of a Chinese daily, we were badly hit and lost several million," said a bookie. That was in 2006, when the death toll at an Egyptian resort was published - and gamblers cleaned up big time. **** Brazilian men waiting on their Viagra pills were left hanging. French customs officials yesterday said they intercepted a shipment of 224,000 fake Viagra and Cialis pills, worth $3.5 million, that was en route to Brazil from India. The boxes were branded Powergra and Erectalis. **** Shades of Jet fans? Australian cops yesterday said they were helpless when up to 400 drunken men went on a rampage at a hot-rod festival in Canberra Saturday, surrounding women and demanding that they flash their breasts. "Anybody that brought their family in here would have to be dysfunctional," one security guard said. **** A former British cop took on the role of a real life Jim Carrey - pet detective. Tom Watkins, of Hereford, said he left his crimebuster job after he became disillusioned with the justice system and decided to use his detective skill to track down lost cats and pooches. "There was so much red tape involved in the police," he said. "But being a pet detective is something I love." Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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Labbie  Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 4083 Credit: 5,930,102 RAC: 0
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Moron Arrested After Driving Truck Into House Note to Mr. Moron: Don't act like one. Bryan Scott Moron, 20, of Burleson, Texas, was arrested Friday after he lost control of his truck and struck a mailbox, then a house, MyFOXDFW.com reports. Living up to his surname, Moron failed sobriety tests, the station said. The arrest report showed his blood alcohol level to be more than twice the legal limit. Click here for more from MyFOXDFW.com. Moron, a restaurant server, was also driving at an excessive speed, according to the report.  Calm Chaos Forum...Join Calm Chaos Now ID: 698683 · |
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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Moron Arrested After Driving Truck Into House Look....I thought it was bad form to report police incidents of actual posters here in the seti cafe. Let's have some form of manners and decorum please.. Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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Mr Mistoffelees Send message Joined: 26 Jun 01 Posts: 353 Credit: 9,230 RAC: 0
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Moron, a restaurant server, was also driving at an excessive speed, according to the report. They let servers drive? Geez, what's next, Workstation DUI's? ID: 698728 · |
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