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Have you seen the movie Full Monty?

G-strings raise cash for GIs at VFW fund raiser

Post finds new site for male dancer event after indecency complaints

O’FALLON, Ill. - Fran Harris thought it was a creative fundraising idea: male dancers stripping down to G-strings to raise cash for GIs.

The 49-year-old federal worker gladly plunked down $18 for a seat to the all-ladies “Hot August Night.” Tickets to see the “Men of the USA” beefcakes sold quickly, raising what three months worth of fish fries would have for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 805.

But when city officials in this St. Louis suburb questioned the event’s decency, the VFW post canceled the show to head off a potentially costly legal fight or the prospect of the post being fined or losing its liquor license.

The event already has sold more than half of the 300 available tickets, he said. The best seats fetched $20, with each woman promised champagne and a rose.

Good to see the old guys can still get the women excited enough to plunk 20 bucks to see the almost full Monty!!! Old guys in the buff can bring in more than three months worth of fish fries. There is still hope!!








Speaking of in the buff:

Teenagers Go Nude in Vermont Town

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Some have appeared naked in a downtown parking lot. Others rode their bicycles or simply strolled the streets in the nude.

Teenagers in the quaint Vermont town of Brattleboro are raising eyebrows this summer with brazen displays of nudity. So far they haven't been arrested or ticketed: public nudity isn't illegal in the town of 13,000 people, unless it's done to arouse sexual gratification.

Vermont has a live-and-let-live tradition, allowing skinny-dipping and nude sunbathing. Brattleboro, the first permanent English settlement in the state in 1724, is home to a community of writers, artists and musicians as well as transplanted entrepreneurs from Boston and New York.

When the weather grew hot this year, a couple of dozen teens took to holding hula hoop contests, riding bikes and parading past the shops wearing only their birthday suits.

Nobody, including the police, seemed to take offense until one local, Theresa Toney, went before the town government in August to complain about a group of youngsters naked in a parking lot. "The parking lot is not a strip club," she said. "What about children seeing this?"

Town officials asked their attorney to draft an ordinance to ban such displays for the Select Board to vote on in September. When the teens heard about it, some staged a nude sit-in. "I don't see why it's such a big deal," said Alec McPherson, a recent high school graduate as he sat at a coffee shop table, browsing a thick volume of artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Everyone's naked in this book."

Isn't it always just one person that spoils it for everyone else? I bet this small town has a lot of tourists in the summer!! Plus, did you notice the recent graduate is reading a thick volume of artwork, you know, just like everyone just reads the articles in Playboy!!!









Good thing his fertilizing skills didn't come up

Hammer used to break up weed trimmer-bat brawl over criticism of mowing

FRUIT COVE, Fla. - The supervisor went for a bat. The employee whipped out a weed trimmer. Another worker used a hammer to break up the fight.

That's the scene St. Johns County authorities described Tuesday after a lawn service supervisor criticized one of his worker's grass-cutting skills.

Lance Tywan Wamley, 26, of Hollywood, Fla., is charged with threatening several men with a 34-inch baseball bat and then hitting one man in the chest. The worker, Eric J. Torres, 23, defended himself with a weed trimmer. Another worker, armed with a hammer, broke up the scuffle, authorities said.

Grass cutting skills? Don't you pull the rope, start the mower, and push it over the high grass until the lawn is the same height. Do they have a grass cutting school, like say a barber school where you get a diploma? If only this had been caught on film for America's Funniest Home Videos!!!!








British Farmers Believe Cows Moo With an Accent

LONDON - Cows have regional accents, a group of British farmers claims, and phonetics experts say the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds.

Lloyd Green, from southwest England, was one of a group of farmers who first noticed the phenomenon.

"I spend a lot of time with my Friesians and they definitely 'moo' with a Somerset drawl," he said, referring to the breed of dairy cow he owns. "I think it works the same as with dogs - the closer a farmer's bond is with his animals, the easier it is for them to pick up his accent."

He spends a lot of time talking to his cows! My staff contacted some sheep herders and they said their sheep talk to them with accents as well.

I have seen and heard the California cows talking on TV and also the ones from Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin cows do have different accents.

I thought that might just have been for TV, but now I know better!!







On Monday's blog I forgot to post a special thanx to my editor, Pat, for posting the update regarding geriatric1927 and the birthday wish for me while I was out of town. Thanx Pat!

Terrible Tuesday with the days flying by! Join me again Wednesday for all the news you can use!!!!