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Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town.
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at 1:59 PM on June 19, 2008
(211 comments)
Dad, do you ever wish you had
diabetes?
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at 1:48 PM on March 6, 2008
(40 comments)
Silly Puppets!
For ministry, therapy, school, or just for fun at home.
posted to MetaFilter by swift
at 3:36 PM on December 19, 2004
(10 comments)
The Shocker
annoys local high school principal; hilarity ensues.
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at 12:14 PM on September 22, 2004
(26 comments)
Writing a story is a felony violation in Oklahoma.
High school student who wrote a story about armed invasion of his school faces jail time. Prosectors admit the law is Orwellian, but need a test-case. The story itself is derived from
sample text included with an Adobe Pagemaker tutorial, describing hurrican evacuation instructions.
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at 7:58 AM on August 22, 2003
(26 comments)
Britney Spears not a virgin.
"Seriously, I haven't had a boy in a really long time, and I'm really craving ... just a kiss, man. Just a kiss would be nice."
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at 5:03 PM on July 8, 2003
(89 comments)
Gross.com
seems like your run-of-the-mill small law firm website, but the
fun pages are oddly fascinating, featuring tidbits like
Personal Injury Drama and the "Year 2001 Compliance" song. A weird look into one office's collective psyche.
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at 5:09 PM on August 13, 2002
(5 comments)
Another discount
funeral store.
Where overpaying is not dignified.
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at 12:59 AM on July 27, 2002
(7 comments)
God,
you our Fadda. You stay in da sky. We like all da peopo know fo shua how you stay, an dat you good an spesho inside, an we like dem give you plenny respeck. We like you come king ova hea now. We like everybody make jalike you like, ova hea inside da world, jalike da angel guys up inside da sky make jalike you like. Give us da food we need fo every day. Let us go, an throw out our shame fo all da kine bad stuff we do to you, jalike us guys let da odda guys go awready, an we no stay huhu wit dem fo all da kine bad stuff dey do to us. No let us get chance fo do bad kine stuff, But take us outa dea, so da Bad Guy no can hurt us. Cuz you our king, you get da real power, an you stay awesome fo eva. Dass it!
Hawaii Creole English, from the
Language Museum, which lists examples of 2000 languges.
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at 9:13 PM on July 18, 2002
(14 comments)
Elmo appears before Congress.
The puppet testifies before the Education Appropriations Subcommittee to urge more spending on musical instruments.
posted to MetaFilter by swift
at 9:17 AM on April 24, 2002
(21 comments)
