Crazy Money
Here Is Why Writing A Hundred Thousand Dollar Check To Your Girlfiend Is A Bad, Bad Idea
In recently filed court papers, Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a pledge he had made to not "use drugs, stay out late, frequent strippers or prosti tutes." The 30-something Kwon insists Calvino had vowed that if he ever did any of those things again, she could cash a $100,000 check he had made out to her.
Three Sweepstakes That Give Away Laptops
1. Shopzu
You have a choice of four laptop PCs to choose from. If you win, that is.
2. SuperBRewards
Former US Missile Base Put On eBay For $1.5 Million
A former US intercontinental ballistic missile base - with a network of underground tunnels and silos, but no nuclear warheads - is on sale on eBay for $1.5m (£750,000, 1.06m euros).
Company Pays Surfers Twenty Five Bucks To Come Up With Unusual Domain Names
http://www.pickydomains.com
Did cybersquatters take all the good names? Or perhaps webmasters lost their creativity? Whatever the answer is, it’s all good for PickyDomains.Com. The idea for the service is brainlessly simple to say the least.
World's Most Expensive Dessert ($14,500)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - This dessert may be a little too rich for you, but you're probably not rich enough for it. A Sri Lankan resort is charging $14,500 for what it calls the world's most expensive dessert, a fruit infused confection complete with a chocolate sculpture and a gigantic gemstone.
"The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence" was created to give visitors at The Fortress resort in the coastal city of Galle a one-of-a-kind experience, said the hotel's public relations manager, Shalini Perera.
Company Wants To Trademark Letter Q
A CLASSIC Sesame Street animated short instructs that the letter Q “looks like a funny looking thing.”
QVC, the leading home shopping channel, is making a bid to rebrand the often-overlooked letter, betting that it can make the sight of the letter Q elicit not a laugh nor an immediate search for a U, but a feeling of delicious anticipation.
Four Cool Things You Can Get Free From Online Sweepstakes
1. Free Motorola Razr
Here you can get a free purple MOTORAZR phone. What's the significans of purple is beyond me.
2. Free Vegas Trip
Outsourcing Alibi - French Company Offers Alibis For Adulterers
(AP) PARIS Looking to get away for a weekend fling without getting caught? A new French company provides would-be adulterers with custom-made excuses that help take the danger of discovery out of cheating.
Founded six months ago by former private eye Regine Mourizard, Web-based Ibila can cook up invites to phony weekend seminars, fake emergency phone calls from work, invitations to nonexistent weddings - anything to justify cheating spouses' absence.
Man Claims New Age Book Store Helped Him Win $330 Million Lottery Jackpot
He and his wife, Denise, were on their way to the shop where he occasionally teaches Wicca and Reiki (RAY’kee) healing when they stopped at a liquor store and bought two $5 Mega Millions tickets for Friday night’s estimated $330 million jackpot. On Sunday, he said one ticket was a winner.
Billionaire Abandons His $160,000 Maserati On Car Pound Lot For Three Months
Parisian multi-millionaire Bertrand Des Pallieres, 39, owes thousands in congestion charge penalties and parking fines and also drove without road tax.
His Maserati Cambiocorsa has been at a DVLA pound in White City, west London, since May. It had been spotted without tax and was towed by Transport for London from a square in Knightsbridge.
Each day the car is left in the pound adds another £25 to his bill.
