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Ryanair ran this ad in Scotland:

They got censored for it.  The best part is Ryanair’s response:

“The ASA becomes more Monty Pythonesque by the day. It is remarkable that a picture of a fully-clothed model is now claimed to cause ’serious or widespread offence’, when many of the UK’s leading daily newspapers regularly run pictures of topless or partially-dressed females without causing any serious or widespread offence. 

 ….”This isn’t advertising regulation, it is simply censorship. This bunch of unelected self-appointed dimwits are clearly incapable of fairly and impartially ruling on advertising.”

Anyone that cites Monty Python is OK with me.  Besides, I really don’t see one thing offensive about their saucy schoolgirl.

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Been way too long since I’ve done a post on a hot teacher nailing her students story huh?  Well, I try to save room here for the best.  This one’s way up there.
Rebecca Dawn Bogard has been busted in Biloxi, Mississippi for nailing one of her students.  Now, this in itself isn’t that uncommon today, or the history of mankind.  I mean, even the Greek scholars used to bang their students.  However, in our society, it’s illegal.  So, usually, people go about ways of being very discreet about it.  for some reason, members of higher learning seem less likely to do so than your average CEO.  In this particular case, Miss Bogard made several tactical errors that led to her demise:

She seduced the student at work.  She didn’t pick him up and go cruise to some isolated spot, she did it AT WORK.  This led to several witnesses needless to say.

She did it with a very identifiable vehicle.  White Jaguars aren’t all that common in Biloxi.  I used to spend a lot of time in Biloxi, I know this to be true.  Sure there’s money there, but just not that many Jaguars.  That makes a person very easily identified as well.

She used a very easy to remember personalized tag on the very easily identified car.  I mean, look closely at this word real quick, close your eyes, and see if you can remember it after ten seconds.  Ready?  Here goes.  No CHEATING ok?  GRRRR

She sent personalized text messages to said “victim’s” cell phone.  Signed off on with her name.

She referred to said victim in said text messages as her “sex fiend”.  Not a good thing to say to any minor under any circumstances.

Also in said text message, she said she was sensitive, but not sore.  Not a good thing to say to any minor for any reason.

When confronted by the police, waived her rights and confessed.  Not a good thing to do under any circumstances.  MOST ESPECIALLY when you are obviously going to jail.

And, probably the clue here that her plan was a bad one to start with, she chose the Biloxi Alternative School for troubled teens as her beef market. 

Needless to say, when someone asks someone attending an alternative school what they were doing, they are as likely to say “getting head” as anything else.  Usually troubled teens are where they are because, if for no other reason, they haven’t mastered discretion.

I would hope at this point her career in education of youths is over.  Not so much for the battery charge as the unbelievable stupidity.  I prefer to have teachers that have a little more common sense.  Of course, she may not be all that stupid.  At this point, she’s on leave WITH PAY.  Either she’s actually quite smart or the Biloxi Public Schools administrators are on the same level she is.  At this point, I tend to think the latter.

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A word from this minute’s sponsor, Mercedes, where you’re never safe enough:

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Once I saw the teaser for The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie, I knew I had to take Moonlet.  He likes animted movies a lot ( I do too ) and he LOVES pirates.  We were not disappointed.  I pretty much knew he would enjoy it, but I did as well.  It’s a fun spirited upbeat movie with interesting characters and a bad guy that reminds me of Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean on a good day.  It was a fun movie.  And, where I know my money was well spent was as we were leaving, he told me he wanted to see it again.  As a parent, that’s all I want to hear.  As an adult, it’s entertaining.  Maybe not along the lines of a smash-em-up stab-them-in-the-eye-with-a-pick love story, but I enjoyed it.  It moves along nicely, is pleasing to the eye, and has some witty dialogue that’s not deep ( “It’s in the back, out of range…..” ).  For doing what it’s supposed to do, and not boring the adult to comfortable numbness, it’s gets all thumbs up from me.  We saw it four times and it left town.  We will have the DVD as soon as possible.

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Wesley’s knockin at the door.  He’s doin his very best to make Scientologists look sane.  Now, Wesley’s thing is bought into a scam by this guy who claimed US citizens don’t have to pay income taxes on money earned in the US.  I’ve heard that argument that my entire life as well.  It sounds great don’t it?  Being as most US citizens don’t make a lot of money outside of their home town, that appeals to about everyone.  However, most everyone I know can’t afford high flying lawyers and an entire CPA company to defend them when the IRS lets them know that the loonies they’re taking advice from will be happy to hang out with them in prison.  Wesley can afford them tho.  So, to counter the IRS evasion charges, he says the IRS terrorizes, enslaves, rapes or pillages taxpayers.  Kinda sounds like the KKK don’t it?  I guess that’s his pre-amble to the race card.  Dunno.  His lawyer says he’s being “very gentle”.  Bottom line, Wesley’s going to prison for quite a while I imagine.  Not so much I think for evading taxes, which is reason enough for someone with the resources to know better, but I think for his own safety.  He’s got a screw loose to.

Now, this just leads me to wonder, what with Britney, Tom, Wesley, a couple of deaths, and a suicide attempt, what drug they’re passing around in Hollywood these days.  Whatever it is, I don’t want any part of it.

Summary, Wesley gets “idiot of the day” for buying into the cheapest scam going that even the average Joe knows is nothing but a cheap scam.  He gets “jerk of the day” for insinuating he’s going to play the race card when it absolutely does not apply.  And, I’ve gone ahead and done the “Where are they now” because I don’t thinl Wesley’s going to be making a whole lot of blockbuster movies for a while.

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He is just too good at this!

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Been a while since I posted a “creation”:

Models display creations from Neon’s Fall/Winter 2008 collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week January 20, 2008.REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker (BRAZIL)

Reuters says creation, I say bikini with faux rubber gloves.

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The forecast for the game tonight between Green Bay and New York is about three degrees at tip off.  It’s a night game, and it’s just gonna get colder.  Toss in a little wind and this game will most likely be played sub-zero.  A lot of people are comparing this to the Freezer Bowl of 1982.  That game was played in Cincinnati against San Diego and it was unbelievably cold.  I was there.  The game started at nine below with hard winds pushing the wind chill to around fifty below.  Even before the game started, my thermos exploded.  I spent the entire game with frozen hot chocolate on my jacket.  It never melted.  The plumbing in the stalls froze, that made for a very memorable, and foul, trip to the restroom.  I was going to publish a pic or two from the game, but it didn’t really look anything unusual as there was actually clear skies.  It was just unbelievably cold.  There were so few people in the stands they moved most of us into one section that had overhead heaters.  Those helped a little, but not much.  My hot chocolate never melted anyway.  After it was over I’m pretty certain I got some frostbite in a couple of toes.  But, it was  worth it, the Bengals won and went to the Super Bowl for the first time.  However, I was eighteen then.  At forty-five, this is just too dang cold for me.  I’ll pass from now on if it’s below fifty.

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“I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I’d think, no, actually I’m a giraffe.”

I don’t think I’d have to think that long.  I’d just say, “No, you flippin idiot, I am not a snake.  What do you call these things attached to my torso, huh?  Do snakes have legs?  Well, DO THEY?”

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In 1975, I was on the edge of puberty.  As such, certain musicians appealed to me in different ways.  Stevie Nicks was one of my ultimate faves.  As, I’m sure, she was to almost every teen boy in 1975.  She was just plain hot.  Now, we weren’t over-exposed to everything in 1975.  About the only chance you had of catching a moving glimpse of your favorite rocker was The Midnight Special.  So, when Stevie and the gang appeared in April 1976, I was glued to the set.  Now, I had partied to Fleetwood Mac for probably a year.  Their album, Fleetwood Mac was soaring to the top, and the song Rhiannon was soaring up the charts.  Every party had Fleetwood Mac.  That and Aerosmith’s Toys in the Attic and a bunch of beer were all you needed to draw a crowd and keep them there.   Aerosmith was to party to, Fleetwood Mac was purely to score babes. I’m So Afraid was a very cool song, but the rest was pure pop.  But, it beat the hell out of Barry Manilow.  So, at my parties, Fleetwood Mac would play all, night, long.  So, finally, April 1976 roled around and I got to watch Stevie and the gang live.  What I got was not at all what I expected.  They kicked butt big time and completely rocked out.  To this day I think it’s one of the greatest performances from The Midnight Special series.  And, they had all the heavy-weights.  After watching their performance, especially hers, my whole opinion about Stevie changed.  She was still hot, but I actually respected her as a musician and performer.  Check her at her absolute best:

How many babes pour their soul into a song like that these days? I still think that’s the hottest thing a babe can do. Too much today is choreographed. I wanna see the real person.

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