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September 2007 Archives


What's wrong with the Fonz in Bronze?

5:58 PM Fri, Sep 28, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

AP Photo The Happy Days crew. You know who is in the middle. Not everybody in Milwaukee likes the idea of the Fonz in Bronz. A Milwaukee tourism group is proposing a statue of the sitcom character in downtown......

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Grandpa gets a time-out if he eats another doughnut

2:33 PM Tue, Sep 25, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

If you're an old woman or an old man, you might be able to wear purple, but you won't be able to eat doughnuts at the senior centers of Putnam County, N.Y. The people who run those senior centers say......

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Spooked by the sinkside stalker?

8:09 AM Thu, Sep 20, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Last month's restroom controversy starring Sen. Larry Craig revealed that some men do things they shouldn't do in public bathrooms. Now we receive news that that many men don't do something they should do in the men's room. A study......

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Time to stand up for the air-travel rights of women in short skirts

12:52 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

I was initially amused by reports that two airline passengers had been told to cover up by Southwest Airlines employees who considered their outfits too skimpy. (See stories and photographs of the women and their 'offending outfits: 'Southwest fashion police......

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Is bin Laden's dye job an attempt to woo Whitney?

6:32 PM Fri, Sep 07, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

Wire photos Bin Laden before and after the dye job? Word must have finally reached Osama bin Laden that Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown have split up. It was reported last year that bin Laden had a big crush......

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