Geekdom Marital Bliss and A Pig Named Napolean

What happens when you spend too much time on the computer or gaming on line? They say your personal relationships suffer. Or, do they?

Gamers' Happily Ever After(video)

Top 25 Strangest Laws

22. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon [ed..but can you call it Mohammed?].
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19. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk. [ed...obviously someone has tried this or we wouldn't call it "drinking like a fish"]
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17. In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants – even, if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet.[ed...nothing..I have...wait...is that why they call a bobby's helmet a "pot"? Considering that a "piss pot" is a chamber pot and a general insult...who can figure out these bloody British anyway?]
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8. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.[ed...and you would conceal that...where?]
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4. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.[ed...I can only speculate in a way reminiscent of Genghis Ace and Rita-matic fueled Castle Parties why such permission would be necessary.]
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3. In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague.

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Another If you Believe This...

China toy boss kills himself amid recall

BEIJING - The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the center of a huge U.S. recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said Monday.
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Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd., killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China announced it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.

Liu said Zhang hung himself on Saturday, according to the report. It is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China.

Mmmm...we are talking about the country that sentenced their equivalent to the head of the FDA to death for taking bribes along with several other officials. Something that caused some angst among their western partners. We are talking about a country with really horrible human rights abuses that they frequently try to cover up.

My bet is ol' Lee Der had some help.

This is another one that I can't believe the AFP printed without blinking.

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If You Believe This...

Man dies of fright in Saudi vice police custody: report

RIYADH (AFP) - A Bangladeshi man died of fright after being arrested by Saudi Arabia's controversial religious police for washing a car instead of praying, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
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The unnamed man died last week in the holy city of Medina after being detained by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Al-Jazirah reported.

The Arabic daily said the man "convulsed in fear after he was arrested, leading to a drop in his blood pressure and causing his death."

...I have some ocean front property in Arizona I can sell to you cheap.

What is even more unbelievable is that the AFP (Associated French Press) reports this without even blinking.

Merde

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Life After Death: Fallen Soldier is Father Two Years After Death

I couldn't help but comment on this one since I don't know how I feel about it. It seems odd, yet normal for our current society. Apparently, wars no longer have to take the best of our young man and decimate society:

AUSTIN — Seven-month-old Benton Drew Smith is the spitting image of his father, with the same blue eyes, fair hair and infectious grin.
Bouncing on his mother's lap in olive-green overalls and slippers festooned with lizards, he also holds a special place in history: He is one of the first children to have been conceived from sperm left behind by a soldier who was killed in battle. Benton's dad, Army 2nd Lt. Brian Smith, was shot by a sniper in Iraq on July 2, 2004. [snip]

Benton was born July 14, 2006, a little more than two years after his father, 30, was cut down by a single shot while checking the treads of his Abrams tank in Habaniyah, Iraq, west of Baghdad. The bullet sliced Smith's liver, causing internal bleeding. His wife says she was told that her husband collapsed, muttered that he could no longer feel his legs, lost consciousness and died.

Death did not erase him, Carroll-Smith says. "I have a piece of Brian with me every day now."

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