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I don't usually post this kind of vanity, but this short video is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, so I thought I would share it with freepers who may not have seen it. I hope this is not an inapproriate vanity. Click on the link and enjoy! Brokeback to the Future

Country singer Willie Nelson chose Valentine's Day to release the gay-themed song "On the Rod Again." The Texas country icon sings about love among men on the range. The song aims to show Mr. Nelson's support for gays, particularly to conservative country-music fans. The song was unveiled on Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite Radio show. Stern provided accompanying grunts and squeals in the studio as the record was played. The timing of the song's release coincides with a time when the idea of gay cowboys is being discussed throughout the media in response to the success of the Academy Award-nominated film...

12/26/2005 Ralph Edwards, who has died aged 92, brought the treacly, intrusive nature of American television to Britain when he introduced the first BBC edition of This is Your Life with a then-novel trick in 1956.

(10-27) 10:55 PDT Frederica, Del. (AP) -- The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said. The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said. The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles. State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank....

Have you seen JibJabs "BIG BOX MART" ?

Firefox 1.0.7 (free) updates the popular open-source alternative to Internet Explorer with the latest security and stability fixes. Firefox incorporates tabbed browsing, and supports various themes to change the look and feel of the browser. Numerous extensions can be installed that provide additional features or change functionality/behavior.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) An Indiana man with a troubled past went on a two-day crime spree that left three people dead and five hospitalized before he killed himself inside a Wal-Mart store, police said. Authorities are still trying to determine what set off 38-year-old Toby Whelchel but connections between at least one of the victims and Whelchel began to emerge Wednesday as family members tried to make sense of their loss. Attorney Steve Mazin, 52, was granted a restraining order against Whelchel three years ago after telling a judge the former Air Force captain was dating his estranged wife...

A British woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail Thursday for ripping off one of her ex-lover's testicles with her bare hands during a drunken brawl after he refused her sex. ADVERTISEMENT Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage in May last year after Geoffrey Jones, 37, who had ended their long-term relationship, rejected her advances. She grabbed him by the genitals, tearing off his left testicle, then hid it in her mouth before a friend of Jones handed it back to him saying "that's yours." Monti, of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding...