Free Republic

The El Paso Zoo teased the return of Quit Bugging Me this Valentines Day! Last year, the El Paso Zoo let you submit the names of your former significant other. The zoo then named cockroaches after people’s exes and fed them to its meerkats! The zoo teased the return of the popular event on Twitter Wednesday.

Drunken dialing: Cellphone co. keeps users from making regrettable calls By Brian Caruso Sunday, December 5, 2004 A new cellphone service can help callers who've had a few too many cocktails avoid making humiliating ``drunk dials'' to significant others, exes and even the boss by blocking their numbers ahead of time. Virgin Mobile Australia recently began offering the service, called Dialing Under the Influence. Subscribers who intend to imbibe can dial 333 followed by the phone number to temporarily block the number (until 6 a.m. the next morning) for 25 cents. Not surprisingly, the idea for the service was hatched...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls. A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls. Of those calls, 30 percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to other people, including their bosses. The company also found that 55 percent of those polled would grab for their phone first the next...