"Company relies on sales parties for men"

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"Company relies on sales parties for men"

(UPI) -- A Minneapolis company is taking the female tradition of sales parties in a new, male-oriented direction with back yard barbecue events.

Man Cave Worldwide is a start-up outfit specializing in barbecue equipment sales through representatives at parties -- just like Tupperware or Mary Kay cosmetics only with male-targeted products, including a $25 spatula large enough to flip four burgers at once, a $55 branding iron for putting the chef's initials into steak and a $30 set of rollers for cooking bratwurst.

John Schaffran, a San Jose, Calif., sales representative for Man Cave, said there are a few tricks to a successful sales party with men, including premiums for large purchases and the ever-important free beer, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

"Free beer is something that will always get a crowd of guys together," Schaffran said.

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GRAVEYARD BBQ - THE CLOTHES THAT MAKES THE MAN



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"Man banished as part of sentence"

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"Man banished as part of sentence"

(UPI) -- A Missouri man who paid a youngster to destroy a World War II monument has agreed to banishment from town as part of his punishment.

Rex Barstow Sr., 57, who was convicted in December of paying a 14-year-old ne'er-do-well to knock over a monument to Clark native Gen. Omar Bradley and spray paint a city fire department shed, was sentenced Jan. 20 by Howard County Circuit Judge Scott Hayes to serve 60 days in the Randolph County Jail, The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune reported.

Barstow is to serve four years of probation "and by agreement, stay out of Clark." He was also ordered to pay $7,563 restitution.

"From those in town that I've talked to, they seem to be well pleased" with the sentence, said Clark Mayor Homer Colley, who was a witness at the trial.


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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More


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"Boulder crashes into woman's bedroom"

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"Boulder crashes into woman's bedroom"

(UPI) -- Firefighters in Tennessee said a 75-year-old woman was shocked when she was awakened by a boulder the size of a small car crashing through her bedroom wall.

Authorities said Elizabeth Allred was sleeping in a hospital bed in her Rogersville home while recovering from a broken hip when the boulder crashed through the wall, sending her wheeled bed rolling across the room, the Kingsport (Tenn.) Times reported.

"This wasn't a gravel. This was a very large rock, and it broke loose from a bank above the apartment," Rogersville Fire Chief David Jackson said. "It was dark and pouring down rain, and I don't know if it rolled or slid, but it came off of the embankment beside the building. It rolled or slid into the end of the apartment."

Jackson said Allred, who was taken to Hawkins County Memorial Hospital, was startled by her ordeal but not seriously injured.

"I asked her what she thought was happening, and she said she thought it was a train," Jackson said.


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Queen - We Will Rock You

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"Undertaker opens coffin, finds pulse"

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"Undertaker opens coffin, finds pulse"

(UPI) -- A Polish funeral director said he opened the coffin of a 76-year-old man to retrieve items for the bereaved family only to discover the man was still alive.

Jerzy Wisniewski, a spokesman for the Regional Ambulance Service in Katowice, said beekeeper Josef Guzy collapsed near his barn and was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor, The Times of London reported Tuesday.

"There were no signs of life when his wife called the ambulance. An experienced doctor with a specialist qualification in resuscitation found that the patient was not breathing, there was no heartbeat and the body had cooled -- all the characteristics of death," Wisniewski said.

However, funeral director Darius Wysluchato said he opened Guzy's coffin later that day to retrieve a necklace for the man's wife and discovered a pulse.

"I happened to touch the artery in the neck and was totally shocked. I checked it again and shouted, 'There is a pulse.' My assistant checked as well. I leaned in close and I could tell that he was still breathing. My God, it was a miracle," Wysluchato said.

Guzy was rushed to intensive care and was released from the hospital after a few weeks of treatment. He said he is grateful to Wysluchato for finding his signs of life.

"The undertaker saved my life. I am so grateful. The first thing I did when I got out of hospital was take him a pot of honey," he said.


Song of the Day:
Spamalot - Not Dead Yet


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"Obama won't be seated in a jury box"

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"Obama won't be seated in a jury box"

(UPI) -- A jury of one's peers in Illinois' Cook County doesn't include President Barack Obama, who won't be honoring his jury summons, officials said.

The Cook County Circuit Court sent a jury summons to Obama's South Side Chicago home, requesting his presence at the courthouse beginning Monday, WLS-AM, Chicago, reported.

A White House official said the president has alerted the court he won't be able to make it, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

"The president won't be expected to show up, but I'm sure he has already received his summons and responded," a court official said. "The jury summons contains his Kenwood address and is for a jury trial on Monday."

Obama's schedule for Monday was, well, busy. It included a meeting with a task force on the middle class, welcoming the Los Angeles Lakers, the reigning NBA champions, and discussing issues of mutual interest with Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani. On Wednesday, Obama is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union speech.


Song of the Day:
Lene Nystrøm - It's Your Duty (To shake that booty)



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"Teens guzzle hot sauce, end up in ER"

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"Teens guzzle hot sauce, end up in ER"

BERLIN - Officials in Germany say eight teenagers were hospitalized after a test of courage in which they drank chili sauce more than 200 times hotter than typical Tabasco sauce.

The Red Cross in the southern city of Augsburg says that 10 boys, aged 13 and 14, drank the sauce Wednesday morning, apparently in school.

The German news agency DAPD quoted the Red Cross as saying the boys complained of feeling sick, and eight were taken to a hospital. They were to be kept in overnight for observation.

The Red Cross said that on the Scoville scale, which measures the hotness of sauce, the sauce measured 535,000 — compared to 2,500 for normal Tabasco sauce.


Song of the Day:
Buster Poindexter - Hot Hot Hot


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"Bag with Kermit the Frog causes school closure"

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"Bag with Kermit the Frog causes school closure"

(ap) – Boulder authorities locked down a Lafayette charter school while they examined a duffel bag left at the campus parking lot that ended up containing a Kermit the Frog doll. Boulder County's bomb squad responded to the Peak to Peak Charter School after an employee there called at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday to report the unattended bag. Authorities used a robot with movable arms and a camera to investigate the bag and then an officer inspected it to make sure it was safe.


Song of the Day:
Kermit the frog - "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"


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