V-Day...A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

Valentine's Day. A day that to many different people has many different names....

Valentine's Day. Singles' Awareness Day. Men Get in Trouble for Not Doing Enough Day. Day to focus on what you have, or what you don't have in the relationship department. Pink and Red Day. Love Day. Cliche Day to Propose. "You Better Call the Florist" Day. Day to Hook Up. Day to Get Together. Awkward Day for New Relationship. The Worst Day in the World to Break Up. A Day to Get Back Together.

No matter what you call it...OR what it means to you...it's all centered around love.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY.

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The Only Time We Really Look Forward to Commericals

It's funny because any other time we dread commercials. They always seem to come on at the most inopportune times. Like when you're watching your favorite television show, and just when a big moment happens and you're waiting to see what the next move will be, the commercials come on. UGH!

Except for one day. One day in all the year people turn to their TV to actually SEE the commercials.

Unless you actually watch the Superbowl for the actual game, you know what I'm talking about. The Superbowl Commericals.

Companies spend millions of dollars for less than a moment of your time on this day. And I love it. I love seeing the commercials that make me laugh, and ones that make me emotional. They are all very entertaining.

Superbowl commercials are the ones that are remembered for years. From the Budwesier "Frogs" to the 1979 "Mean Joe Greene" Coke commercial.

Even if they aren't successful in getting viewers to purchase their product, Superbowl commercials still get the respect of producing one of the most memorable commercials that will be the hottest topic at the watercooler. Oh and they serve as a refuge for those who are forced to watch the superbowl against their will.

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I Whip My Kids Back and Forth..

She's the newest child sensation. It seemed like she appeared out of no where...and now she's everywhere. Willow Smith. Well, she certainly has the name of a celebrity's child. And that she is....the 10-year-old daughter of Will and Jada.

Willow has a hit song called "Whip My Hair", has starred in movies, and the Smith family has recently announced that she will be starring in a remake of the play "Annie". She will be playing Annie of course.

Whenever I see a young celebrity, and when I say "young" I mean under the age of 21, I instantly shudder. I shudder because it seems like every child star has the same old story. Think about it: Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears. Even Michael Jackson. You know how it goes.

And when I think about this, I think about Willow Smith's parents, who are also celebrities. They of all people should know how stardom can negatively affect a person. And yet.....here she is ladies and gentleman, Willow Smith.

So what exactly are Will and Jada Smith doing(they have their 12-year-old son in the business as well)? Some say it's all about making that money. They realized that they can make a lot of profit off of their dear, talented daughter. Who could resist? Well I say maybe they are doing it because they know how the industry is and they know how to protect their child. Maybe because they are in the business, they know how it works, and therefore know just how to avoid the negative affects it can have a child's life.

But....I guess we won't truly know until years go by and life runs it's course.

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Charles Barkley Ain't No Fool

At least not as much as he appears to be anyway. Tonight was a BIG night for television watching, and not just because NFL Wildcard Playoff games were being aired. That’s right, it wasn’t just about the Dallas Cowboys playing the Philadelphia Eagles, but about Charles Barkley.

Through the different games and shows, everything seemed to be centered on him and his SNL performance. His appearance on SNL was pubbed by the games’ sports commentators, commercials, an official “Charles Barkeley on SNL” countdown, and of course, by Tony Romo himself (Dallas Cowboy Quarterback Tony Romo, after the Cowboys won a playoff game breaking a 13 year losing streak, somehow remembered to plug Barkley’s appearance on SNL in his straight off the field post game interview.)

And I hate to admit it, but all that ridiculous publicity worked. After the news, my parents and I watched Barkley on SNL. And he was HORRIBLE. As I sat in front of the TV watching this man read his cue cards in a slow monotonous voice for various skits, I realized how on top Charles Barkley really is. He appeared on my television screen in THREE different ways last night.
1- as a sports commentator on an NFL post game show
2- As the host of SNL and
3- On multiple T-mobile commercials throughout the night.
Barkley dominated my television screen arguably more than the Cowboys did. You can’t deny that this big, loud, obnoxious, (bad acting) man is making that MO-NEY. He’s certainly on his hustle.

Just my thoughts for the night. I’m Barkleyed out for now.

A video clip of Barkley on SNL:


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NYE Party Goers Can Get a Great Burial Deal

Looks like there are some benefits for those who decide to party hardy on New Year's Eve in Rome, Georgia.


McGuire, Jennings, and Miller funeral home in Northern Georgia is offering a "Free Burial" Deal to those who are planning to be under the influence on New Year's Eve. The driver has to go to the funeral home and sign a contract saying that they will be drinking and driving on that night. If it were to happen that they die in a crash on that night, then the funeral home will give them a free burial.

Why on Earth would a funeral home do this? Supposedly because they are trying to promote awareness of the perils of drinking and driving. They are hoping that this will save lives on New Year's Eve.
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I hope that everyone has a great AND safe New Year's eve. Please think twice about getting on the roads if you are under ANY type of influence.

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Grades Must Be High, but BMI Must be Low to Graduate

For the students at Lincoln University in Pennysylvania, a new requirement has been added for Graduation.

Students who arrive at Lincoln University their first year with a BMI (Body Mass Index) greater than 30 must either lower their BMI or take a "Fitness for Life" class in order to graduate.

The students are already required to pass a "Dimensions of Wellness" course that covers alcohol, drugs, nutrition, and sexual health.

“We know that obesity and its co-morbidities are going to rob individuals of quality and quantity of life,” James DeBoy, chair of the department of health, physical education and recreation, said in an interview with National Public Radio. “What good is it to go through college, get your bachelor’s degree at Lincoln University, go get your graduate degree, work for five, six, seven years, and all of a sudden, you experience a catastrophic health issue associated with the obesity. That would be a tragedy … It’s our professional educators’s responsibility to alert students to this.”

....But is it? What do you think? Should the University be concerned with how low students' BMIs are? Or how high their GPAs are? Maybe you think their new requirement is appropriate especially concerning the growing problem of obesity in the United States.

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Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Blackface Controversy

Dallas Cowboy fans and Dallasites have been engaged in a controversial debate after facebook photos were discovered of a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader dressed up as the rapper Lil’ Wayne for Halloween.

Not only did Whitney Isleib dress up as the rapper, but she also painted herself to look black.

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The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders organization has not released an official statement, but has said that they are dealing with the situation internally.

Some are saying that as a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader, Isleib has to be more careful and she must hold herself to a higher standard. Others are saying that it's just a Halloween Costume.

I thought I'd bring the debate to Alex's Anecdotes. What do you think readers? Is this offensive?
Let this also be a lesson about facebook... be careful about what you post to the internet!

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20,000 Say "I Do"

South Korea - The Unification Church had the biggest wedding in over a decade, with over 20,000 people getting married at the same time.

Rev Sun Moon conducted the ceremony, and he is the founder of the Unification Church. Moon is a self-proclaimed Messiah who says that Jesus appeared to him when he was 15 years old asking him to finish his work on Earth.

Many of Moon's followers allow him to pick their spouse, believing that he has divine insight. Some of the followers met their future spouses for the first time on their mass wedding day.
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Critics are saying that the Unification Church is nothing but a cult, and this event proves it. What do you think??

Another question: Would you let your reverend, pastor, and/or religious leader pick YOUR future spouse?

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A Sex Surrogate has had over 1500 partners

40 year-old Mare Simone has slept with many boyfriends and husbands of other women - over a thousand of them.

Simone is what she calls a "sex surrogate", and she devotes her life to helping men and women in the bedroom.


Simone has given "sexual therapy" to over 10,000 couples in 23 years.

She says that she has had sex with over 1,500 of them. But she insists that it's not illegal.

Simone is quoted by Newsvine as saying, "I earn my living by sleeping with other women's husbands or boyfriends. But I am in no way a prostitute as sex surrogacy is legal, as long as it is done in a therapeutic and healing atmosphere...I am helping improve and change the sex lives of thousands of men, which means I am also helping improve the sex lives of their wives and girlfriends...."

Does anyone else see what's fishy about this?

If you are/were in a relationship and you were having problems in the bedroom, would YOU go see Mare Simone?

You might get a little more than you bargained for.

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Twitter: A News Source or Strictly Social?

I've always had reservations about Twitter, but the latest blowup involving the very popular social networking site put those reservations at the forefront of my mind.

Thanks to Twitter, America learned today that Obama called Kanye West a "Jackass". (This is a day after the whole Kanye West/Taylor Swift fiasco at the MTV Video Music Awards.)

ABC's Reporter Terry Moran was interviewing the President, and during the interview, he tweeted that President Obama called Kanye West the certainly-inappropriate-for-an-interview name.

The tweet was taken down an hour later, but by that time the damage had been done. What President Obama was quoted as saying was already all over the internet.

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An ABC Spokesperson released this statement:

"In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview. This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again."

This ordeal caused me to analyze twitter and think about how it is used. For some, twitter is a social website to tweet pointless tweets- such as talking about funny moments in the day or about finding a favorite cereal brand at Wal-Mart.

But for others, Twitter is a news source. There are people who actually log on to Twitter in the morning to receive their daily news. Who can blame them? After all, most of the major news outlets have a twitter account.

So what exactly was the ABC reporter thinking when he tweeted an off-the-record comment from an interview on a major website? At the time, was he just attempting to use twitter for social purposes? Maybe he was just trying to let his friends know about an "off the wall" comment the President made.

I think that it needs to be decided once and for all: Is Twitter strictly social, or is it another valid news source?

There needs to be a formal declaration so that everyone who uses Twitter can know how to appropriately use it! Until Twitter's blurry line between the two is defined, we will continue to have mistakes like this.

What do you think Twitter is?

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$500,000 for a Bloody Sculpture

The National Portrait Gallery in London has added a sculpture from one of the UK's most famous living artists, Marc Quinn, to their repertoire.

Quinn is known for his unique sculptures that depict the human body using materials such as ice, marble, glass and/or blood.
The sculpture that will be going to the National Portrait Gallery in London is a sculpture that Quinn does every four years.

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The sculpture is Quinn's self portrait...and it's filled with 10 pints of his own blood.

The unique sculpture is on display in a Perspex box filled with silica chilled to negative 18 degrees Celsius, so that the blood won't liquify.

Below is a picture of the bloody sculpture:


aaahhh, the wonders of modern art.

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99 Cents Only Store Takes Advantage of 9/9/09

In a big promotional hoopla, the 99 Cents Only Store in Hollywood did a promotion that will last a lifetime. They married 9 engaged couples for the cost of $.99 per couple.

The couples were married in aisle 9 of the store. The decor and items for the reception were all made from store inventory. The gowns that the brides wore were even made from 99 Cents Only Store items.

Here are some pictures from the event:
The newlyweds even received receipts for their "purchase"...

(Photos courtesy of LA Weekly)

The sad thing is people might actually try to use the receipt to "return" their spouse. I wonder how many days they get before they no longer receive a full refund. 14 days? 30?

ONLY in LA...

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In Honolulu, Body Odor is a Crime

Smelly public transit riders in Honolulu may get punished for their pungent odor.
The Honolulu City council is proposing a bill that would give a $500 fine and/or up to six months of jail for neglecting personal hygiene.

This would include body odor, offensive smells, or animals.

According to the AP, the bill would make it illegal to have "odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system." The bill is set to be heard in committee on Thursday.

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My question is- WHO gets to determine that a person's smell is bad enough to impose a fine and/or jail time? And how strong of a bad smell on a person or their animal is deserving of that?

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Woman Almost Went Blind Trying to Turn Her Eyes Blue

This woman traveled all the way to Panama City to have a surgical procedure to make her eyes blue...but instead it almost made her blind.

Shenise Farrell paid $7,000 and traveled all the way to Panama City to have a surgical procedure to turn her dark brown eyes to bright blue.

But things ended up taking a turn for the worst, and UK doctors ended up performing surgical procedures to keep her from going blind.

(A picture of Farrell after the operation)

NewColorIris is an eye implant that permanently changes the color of a person's eyes. And it all takes less than 15 minutes.

(A drawing of the implants)

After the surgery, which Farrell claims was very painful, she was taken back to her hotel with some eye drops - and was told to buy her own painkillers.

After four days of continuous pain and no improvement in her eyesight, Farrell called a UK Doctor to have them removed.

Opthalmic surgeon Ali Mearza, the doctor who removed her implants, has been quoted as strongly advising people to NOT undergo this surgery.

NewColorIris' spokesperson says that it has performed over 600 operations since 2002, and has had only a handful of complaints.

It seems that Shenise Farrell is a part of that unfortunate handful. Needless to say, Farrell's eyes are now back to dark brown.
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The things people are willing to do to change themselves now days...

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**For more info on this procedure, go to www.newcoloriris.com
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$4.5 Million Crypt For Sale- Location is Key!

A widow is selling her husband's burial plot on eBay in order to pay off her mortgage. But this is no ordinary plot. It's all about location, location, LOCATION!

The bidding for the plot opened at $500,000 on August 16th and reached $4.5 million by August 19th.

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The Location...

The plot is directly above Marilyn Monroe's final resting place. In fact, the person with the winning bid will find themselves above Marilyn Monroe, looking face down onto her- for all of eternity.

The crypt is currently being occupied by the late Richard Ponter, who bought the crypt from the late baseball player Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio was Marilyn Monroe's ex-husband, but they divorced in 1954.

Richard Poncher's widow, Elsie Poncher, is selling the crypt in order to pay off her 1.6 million dollar mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.

Times really must be hard.

The crypt is in the well known Westwood Village Memorial Park, in Los Angeles. Many celebrities have been buried there- such as Dean Martin, Truman Capote, James Coburn, and, most recently, Farrah Fawcett.

Playboy Hugh Hefner purchased the crypt beside Monroe in 1992.

Would you purchase a crypt beside Marilyn Monroe? Or rather, would you spend $4.5 million to lie next to Marilyn Monroe for all eternity?

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Brazilian Environmentalists are Using Humor to Save Water...But They are Serious

Environmentalists in Brazil have started a campaign to get citizens to save water. And you will never guess what they are asking Brazilians to do...

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They are asking Brazilians to urinate while they are in the shower. Yes, while someone is in the shower washing themselves, environmentalists are telling them to go ahead and let it out. This is to help conserve water and save the rainforest.

Although they are completely serious about this, SOS Mata Atlantica launched a humorous campaign to promote urinating in the shower. In the ad below, you will see people from all walks of life peeing in the shower(my favorite is the Jordan icon relieving himself). At the end of the animated ad it says, "Pee in the shower! Save the Atlantic rainforest!"



The television ads are claiming that if everyone does this, then over 1,000 gallons of water per household can be saved a year.

Ken Livingstone- The former mayor of London, England, proposed a similar campaign in 2006. He said urine should be classified as a "green waste" and that "there is no earthly reason that you need to flush the loo if you have merely urinated. That's a huge saving of water."


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WARNING: Don't Ask Hillary About Her Husband

Hillary Clinton snapped on a Congolese University student yesterday at a town hall meeting after being asked her husband's opinions on an international affair.  Oops, I mean matter.

This happened a week after her husband won back the favor of many Americans by negotiating the release of two detained American journalists in North Korea.

(picture above is not related to the incident)

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The student who asked the question now claims that he meant to say President Obama, and not former President Clinton. (Some are even saying that the translator must have mixed up the translation)

Many are asking what caused the outburst. Insiders are saying that jetlag played a big part. Hillary Clinton was at the half-point in a 12 day trip of touring seven different countries. At the time of this video, she had already done 22 speeches and 5 interviews.

And after all her traveling and speaking, many people just questioned her about her husband and his mission...and not hers.
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Guess that would be a little frustrating. But we certainly got the message, Hillary. Don't EVER ask about your husband and his thoughts. Got it. Maybe she should have just brought him along...that way the people can ask him their questions, and the Clintons could get some seemingly much needed quality time. Just a thought.

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'Dead' Baby Awakens

In Asuncion, Paraguay, a family was devastated to have the baby declared dead after being born 16 weeks prematurely.

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Much to the family's amazement and disbelief, the baby woke up and started crying hours later at the funeral wake!

Thank goodness the family was speedy with burial traditions- but not too speedy.

The head of pediatric care at the hospital where the baby was born, Dr. Ernesto Weber, stated that the baby only weighed 500 grams at birth.(This is about 17 or 18 ounces!)

"Initially, the baby didn't move, he practically didn't have any respiratory reflexes, nor did we hear a heartbeat and, as a result, we declared a premature fetus of 24 weeks dead," Weber told Reuters Television.

The family was even given a death certificate and a cardboard box as a makeshift coffin for the baby.

The baby is now declared alive and is in stable condition in an incubator.
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In a time where suing is just as common as saying "hello", I would advise the family to go ahead and sue the hospital. They made a very grave mistake. Hospitals really shouldn't be able to afford to be declaring people dead when they actually aren't. But, seeing as the baby did not have a heartbeat, I don't think the doctor can be at fault.

So the family should probably just count their blessings because this is a remarkable story.

what do you think?

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The Controversial New Doll for Young Girls - Bebé Glotón

Of course we have dolls that cry, dolls that can wet their diapers, dolls that talk, and dolls that walk. But when the question came up of "What will they think of next?", I don't think anyone was expecting this.

Let me introduce you to the "Bebé Glotón". Made by spanish manufacturers, this name is spanish for "Baby Glutton". Find out why this gluttonous baby is so controversial when you read the rest.

The Baby Glutton is a breast-feeding doll. Yes, you heard me correctly, a breast-feeding doll for young girls.
So how are girls going to be able to breast feed this precious little doll when they more than likely aren't even developed yet? Easy. The girls put on a halter top with two daisies in place for where their breasts should be. They then take the doll into their arms, and the doll immediately starts to suckle. Below you will see a video that demonstrates.



Is it just me, or is this going way too far for little girl toys? The toy manufacturer says that it is trying to foster nurturing in young girls and promote breast feeding.

But, isn't a 6-yr old girl a little too young for all that? They should probably just stick to releasing public service announcements.

And what's up with the name? Don't they know that gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins?(for my religious folks out there) Should we really be naming dolls after deadly sins? Goodness knows what that promotes for young girls.

What do you think? Do you think this is appropriate? Would you let your daughter play with this doll? 

And what on earth do YOU think they will come up with next?

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

In honor of our president's 48th birthday, I have decided to dedicate this post to him. Let's consider it my birthday gift.

Although we don't know for sure yet what all the president has received for his birthday, we do know about the past presidents. 

When you read the rest, you will see what interesting gifts some past presidents received in celebration of another year of life.

George W. Bush - 300 pounds of raw lamb meat from the president of Argentina

Bill Clinton - The president of Azerbaijan gave a carpet that featured a portrait of the first couple

George H.W. Bush - The president of Indonesia gave a Komodo dragon

Jimmy Carter - The president of Mexico commissioned famous Octavio Ocampo to paint a metamorphic portrait of President Carter. This style places various images in a larger image to create an illusion.

Richard Nixon - A Pakistani man presented two grains of rice that held a portrait of Nixon on them

John F. Kennedy - A carved peach pit with his likeness on it

Harry S. Truman - A two-lane bowling alley that was installed in the white house

Frankin D. Roosevelt - 5 ft high and 300 pound birthday cake

Rutherford B Hayes - A carved lemon made to look like a pig

And of course, probably the most known birthday gift of all was given to George Washington - Congress declared Washington's birthday the first federal holiday to honor an American-born citizen.

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