Category: Interesting

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The dishes, garbage and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard’s teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards went on strike, moving out of their house and into a domed tent set up in their front driveway. The parents refuse to cook, clean or drive for their children – Benjamin, 17, and Kit, 12 – until they shape up.

“We’ve tried reverse psychology, upside down psychology, spiral psychology and nothing has motivated them for any length of time,” said Cat Barnard, 45, as she sat in a lawn chair at an umbrella-covered table.

Personally, I would’ve made the bratty kids move to the front yard, but then the parents would’ve been arrested for child abuse or something. Thanks Cheryl for the link.

Don’t cheat. Go here and guess which one is the real penny.

I’ve always had my problems with the BCS, ever since Oregon got screwed out of playing for the national championship years ago and had to settle for beating the tar out of Colorado instead. The NCAA claims that a football playoff system isn’t feasible, but here are six ideas that not only make sense than the BCS, but would make more money, too.

All I hope is that Boise State and Utah both get in the top six this year to really screw with things, as the Big East, who gets an automatic BCS bowl berth last I checked, sucks this year.

If you’re driving too fast, stop lights in one California town sense when a speeder is approaching and turn the light red. Full Story.

A group of former London state school children who sang on Pink Floyd’s 1979 classic “Another Brick In The Wall” have lodged a claim for unpaid royalties. Twenty-three teenage pupils from Islington Green School secretly recorded vocals for the track, which became an anthem for children with the chorus “We don’t need no education.” Full Story.

After all the stupid male sexual enhancement ads I get via e-mail, I’m sure this is going to hit my inbox soon enough.

He’s mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it any more. Or something like that.

Apparently Internet porn is worse than crack when it comes to addictions. Now excuse me while I go…uh…download some…uh…software.

Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.

So if I want my wife to get a boob job, she just needs to check out some porn? Like that’ll happen. Thanks Barney for the link.

Only in Oregon. Last week, the tiny ranching community of Prairie City, Oregon (population 1,100) had a dead-locked race for mayor. After numerous recounts, it was still a 125-to-125 tie. So they decided to settle it like men and brawl to the death toss a coin to decide the winner. A high-noon showdown was set.

Yesterday was the showdown. With 150 or so townsfolk looking on, head’s was called, and the town had its new mayor.

Thirty-nine patents from the early days of the Internet are up for auction.