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Archive for June 22nd, 2009

Teen girl balks at paying for inch-long, pumpkin-orange fake fingernails in salon dispute

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I don’t know what this story is really about.  I mean really who would ever want to have pumpkin orange fingernails.  Sorry little pumpkin dudes!

We're the rage, long live Halloweeny Fingers

We're the rage, long live Halloweeny Fingers

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A teenage girl who balked at paying for a set of inch-long, pumpkin-orange fake fingernails in a dispute at a Mount Vernon nail salon said a nail technician grabbed her and tried to pry the nails off. The 48-year-old technician told the Skagit Valley Herald that the dispute was strictly verbal.

The technician said she and the customer argued over the design on the girl’s nails and the girl tried to leave without paying.

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Georgia man wins big lottery prizes twice in a week, including $777,777 prize

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Okay I have been playing the lottery since I was old enough.  I have scratched at least a bazillion tickets and I have never won over $50.00 and here this guy gets $1,000 and then follows it up with $777,777.  Where’d the love man give me my chance!

ga-777superluckyweb1AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A 62-year-old man struck it big twice in the Georgia Lottery. Earl Fritz won the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7’s. That dwarfed the $1,000 he won a week earlier in a different game. The carpenter said he felt lucky a week ago and now feels a little bit luckier.

Fritz said he didn’t realize he had won the big prize at first because he wasn’t wearing his glasses.

The first win came in the instant game Extreme Green.

Fritz and his wife have not decided what to do with the money.

Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com

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The easter bunny giveth, the landlord taketh away

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

She was only 2 weeks late taking these down?  Give me a break I have seen people up with Christmas lites for months.  I think this landlord is just anti-bunny!  Peeps of the world UNITE!

 

Take it to the Supeep Court!

Take it to the Supeep Court!

Colorado court fight by woman who says Easter decorations got her evicted from apartment

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A woman is going to court claiming she was wrongly evicted from her apartment because she kept her Easter decorations on her door for two weeks after the holiday.

Carol Burdick claims her landlord unjustly told her to remove a display of Easter stickers, plastic grass, and Peeps marshmallow candies from her door a few days after the April 12 holiday this year.

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‘i’ before ‘e’ except after… well nothing

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Here I am 40 years down the road of life and I have mastered a few things, one of them being ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’.  Now that’s going away in the UK?   What’s next A squared + B squared = C squared?

ieLONDON (AP) — It’s a spelling mantra that generations of schoolchildren have learned – “i before e, except after c.”

But new British government guidance tells teachers not to pass on the rule to students, because there are too many exceptions.

The “Support For Spelling” document, which is being sent to thousands of primary schools, says the rule “is not worth teaching” because it doesn’t account for words like ’sufficient,’ ‘veil’ and ‘their.’

Jack Bovill of the Spelling Society, which advocates simplified spelling, said Saturday he agreed with the decision.

But supporters say the ditty has value because it is one of the few language rules that most people remember.

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