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Poll Reveals that Americans prefer wine to beer

"In 2005 a Gallup poll revealed that, for the first time ever, Americans preferred wine to beer. This was an astonishing development, akin to Americans jilting baseball for bocce.

Soon after, Lew Bryson, a columnist for a beer-industry trade magazine called Cheers, lamented that beer had "lost its way." Bryson summed up beer's predicament: "Wine overcame beer's lead in the hearts and minds of American drinkers," he wrote. "Forty years ago, wine was mired in a swamp of low-margin jug sales. Drunks were called 'winos.' Now wine has cleaned itself up, with a freshly shaved face and a fashionable suit of casual clothes, and is headed uptown."


(note: i'm not exactly a fan of the way this article is written. wine had a bad reputation? pift! but, it is interesting nonetheless.)

i wonder if she will still be grounded for sneaking out of the house

Officer Shoots Daughter Mistaken for Intruder

"STRATFORD, Conn. -- An off-duty police officer shot and wounded his 18-year-old daughter after he mistook her for an intruder in their Connecticut home.

Stratford police said Tasha Scott had apparently sneaked out to visit her boyfriend late Monday night and came back into the home through the basement."

i hear the secrets that you keep, when you're talking in your sleep

i was sleepwalking again last night. i woke up this morning with my retainers out and my toothbrush on the dresser. apparently i needed a late night tooth cleaning.

i've been known to be a pretty consistent sleepwalker. i've changed outfits in the middle of the night, made sandwiches and even answered my cell phone and had fairly incomprehensible conversations. also, if i have a few drinks, the chances of sleepwalking greatly increase.

i was just reading about sleepwalking on wikipedia, which eventually led to this guy, Dion McGregor. McGregor is famous for talking in his sleep. He would narrate his dreams in a loud voice, and his roommate recorded his night soliloquies. The recordings were eventually turned into an album. Awesome. I am now on a mission to find that album.

check out the fergie ferg!

yoooooo, i had no idea she was on kids incorporated

milk carton!

Laugh Now -- You'll Be Paying Me $300 an Hour to Fight Your DWI Case

Drunk guy, about textbook-toting passersby: Look, baby -- law students!
Drunk girl: What? Where?
Drunk guy: Look at them! Haha, look! They even have books! NYU law students!

--Sullivan & Bleecker

via Overheard in New York, May 28, 2007

leopard wants to spoon... is rejected

Man Wrestles Leopard That Jumped in Bed

"JERUSALEM (AP) - A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family."