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7-7-7 The Mark of the Wedding Chapel
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Even though it's nine months away, plan now to stay off the roads next year on the first Saturday of July. Unless you want to be bumper-to-bumper with limos, that is.
Why? Because the date will be 07-07-07.
That has the wedding industry spinning like a Vegas slot machine as scores of engaged couples scramble to wed on that triple-lucky day.
I know what you're thinking, I'm going to tag this for stupid people, but I actually think it's kind of clever. It would be a lot harder for the men to forget their anniversary when their wedding date involved such a profoundly boneheaded decision. One less reason to not spend the night in the barn is always a good thing. |
In some cases, bookings are preceding engagements: The Strathallan on East Avenue had its evening reception reserved in April by a young woman who didn't yet have a ring — or, technically, a proposal — from her boyfriend, then a soldier in Iraq.
"July 7 is their first-date anniversary, so she booked it for that," explains Marie Wendover, the Strathallan's weddings co-coordinator. "Now he's home, he knows it's their wedding reception site, and yes, he does know there's a step yet to be taken."
This didn't strike her as odd, she says; she has a cousin in Buffalo so determined to have an 07-07-07 wedding she booked her reception hall two years ago. |
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Fahrenheit 451 Banned during Banned Books Week
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 Really, there's no better way to celebrate Banned Books Week than by banning a book about banning and burning books. Say that three times fast.
Yes, a caring parent in Texas (how surprising) found out from his darling little girl that her class's reading assignment, Ray Bradbury classic Fahrenheit 451, actually contained "bad language" and "smoking," plus a whole host of other bad influences on young people who've been raised in hermetically sealed Skinner boxes and have therefore never been exposed to such things before.
Well, naturally he was upset that these things were in a book assigned to second-graders. Oh, wait, you say the offended girl was a high school sophomore, just like I was when we read the same book in a city of 75,000 in the free-thinking state of Louisiana decades ago? |
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Naturally, the parent in question hasn't actually READ the book in question--he just skimmed through it, looking for objectionable, unspeakable depravity, like use of the words "hell" and "damn." Thank goodness his daughter will never be exposed to such words, unless she goes to church.
To be fair, this concerned parent doesn't want to burn the book, as all books are sought out and burned in the plot of this evil book itself. He just wants it to be removed from the school's curriculum, so that other children won't learn the book's twisted message of allowing people to access the books they want to. In the book, a few wicked people even squirrel away a few dastardly books, and to keep the world's words alive, commit whole books to memory, like that bawdy Shakespeare, and the ribald Holy Bible, with its violence and sex and multiple wives and incest (hello, Lot!) and wanton eating of shellfish.
The parent and child claim that it's just a coincidence that their request to remove the offending book from the curriculum, where it's been taught for at least the past 19 years (and probably even longer), came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week, a week that "celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them." |
Do you DARE to click here and exercise your right to read something that could possibly offend you? Do you? |
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You can't make this stuff up, folks...it seems that the Foley story just keeps getting more and more icky. Now the investigative reporters at ABC News have discovered that Congressman Foley (R-Florida) was engaging in a little online sexual banter...including description of the extected payoff of such banter...while on the floor of the House of Representatives, awaiting a vote to increase funding for the Iraq war.
This one has been around for a couple of days, but I had not heard about it so I'm submitting it here. Anthony Ray Stockelman of the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility who was convicted to life for the abduction, molestation, and killing of Katlyn "Katie" Collman, was recently the reluctant recipient of a forehead tattoo saying "Katie's Revenge."