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Why lousy daters make good spouses and vice versa

3:13 PM Fri, Feb 29, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Here's good news for bad daters. A new study suggests that men and women who say the wrong thing, spill soup on their laps and build a reputation as dating disasters may be lucky in love. And, no, it's not......

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I thought everyone liked super models

11:36 AM Tue, Feb 26, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Judging from the outfits they make them wear, I wonder if some fashion designers don't like those super models who show off their clothes, grace the covers of magazines and date star quarterbacks. Were the designers at this fall-winter......

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Another guy who won't make the Criminals Hall of Fame

2:29 PM Fri, Feb 22, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

The police on Cape Cod are looking for a man who took a car for a test drive yesterday and never returned. What's remarkable about this story isn't that he drove away, but that he drove away in a 2004......

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Don't they cover this stuff in Crime 101?

2:37 PM Thu, Feb 21, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

We have news this week of two men who probably won't make it into the Criminal Masterminds Hall of Fame. First, there's Charles Chambers, 36, who was arrested in Anderson County, S.C., after, the police say, he drove a stolen......

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Is Wayne Gretzky morphing into Donald Trump?

10:40 AM Tue, Feb 19, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Maybe it's just me, but while scanning through sports photos this morning, I couldn't help thinking that The Great One is looking a little Trump-like. In these photos, both men are wearing pink ties and yelling at guys in......

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Updating an Offbeat world

2:47 PM Mon, Feb 18, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

It's time to bring you up to date on some topics previously discussed in this blog, including fitness fanatic Debbie Clemens, obscenely wealthy Arabian license plate lovers and a rogue satellite ready to crash into Earth. For context, and in......

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Who would you buzz off?

9:24 AM Thu, Feb 14, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Jack Perry    Email

The buzz in England is all about a buzzer storekeepers use to keep kids from hanging around their stores. Some stuffy English store owners are using an electronic device called the "Mosquito" that emits a high-pitched sound, audible only to......

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I had a little lust in my heart for this Clemens

10:11 AM Mon, Feb 11, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Say it ain't so, Deb. I respected, admired and even had a little lust in my heart for this Clemens. And that's why it was so difficult to hear the news. I remember the photograph well. In Sports Illustrated's 2003......

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Sure, that iPhone is cool, but have you seen the latest in banana holders?

2:25 PM Thu, Feb 07, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

AP Photo Some Germans fret that the country trails the United States and others in developing new and better products such as computers and cell phones, but maybe the Germans are making a comeback with this banana holder, displayed......

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In tough financial times, take a bath to avoid taking a bath

1:52 PM Wed, Feb 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Do you want to know a simple way to get through these tough times as the mortgage company breathes down your neck, your credit-card balance swells and your 401k account shrivels? Take a bath. That's right. Newspapers, magazines and Web......

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At least Tom Petty didn't have a wardrobe malfunction

9:14 AM Mon, Feb 04, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

It would have been a lot easier to get up early this Monday morning if the Patriots had won. But don't fret, folks, Tom still has Giselle, and we still have the Red Sox. Now that Eli Manning has won......

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And you thought low-number plates were big in Rhode Island

2:30 PM Fri, Feb 01, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Is Rhode Island overlooking a surefire cure for its budget woes? Rhode Islanders have a legendary affection for low-number license plates. (You must be somebody if you've got a low-number plate, right?) But has the state considered that some people......

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