August 24, 2011
The legal battle over truck nuts, big fake plastic testicles that some folks hang from the back of their pickups, will climax on September 21. That’s when the jury trial begins for Virginia Tice, a 65-year-old resident of Bonneau, South Carolina, who got a $445 ticket for violating the state’s obscene bumper sticker law. The [...]
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August 24, 2011
The Lonely Planet took up a question dear to my heart recently: What is the world’s sexiest accent? There’s even a neat little graph ranking the top eight vote-getters, which include seven western European countries plus Australian. Among specialized tastes getting one vote apiece: Newfoundland (oh yeah), North Korean and Scottish-Jamaican (never heard it, but [...]
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