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Yahoo! It’s a boy!
A Romanian couple named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting
over the Internet, it has been reported.
Daily Libertatea said Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania,
met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month
relationship over the net.
They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name
after one of the worldwide web’s most popular portals. “We named him
Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,”
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Who’s the father?
A Connecticut woman who was artificially inseminated with the wrong sperm
has given birth to a healthy baby boy, her attorney said.
Laura Howard last year sued an infertility clinic in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, after her doctor informed her that she had mistakenly been
injected with sperm from a man who is not her fiance, lawyer Bruce Jacobs
said.
Howard, a 40-year-old nurse, gave birth to a 6-pound, 1-ounce baby boy,
and DNA tests are under way to confirm the child’s paternity, Jacobs said.
“While she’s thrilled to have this baby, this error has made her life much
more complicated in terms of her relationship with her fiance,” he said. |
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Man hunted after handing
out cash
Hong Kong police are searching for a man who handed out 1,000 Hong Kong
dollar (125 US dollar) notes to passersby on a busy street, a spokesman
said.
The man, soberly dressed and in his 40s, is known to have handed out at
least 7,000 dollars in the city’s crowded Mongkok district but officers
believe he gave over more.
“We were alerted by members of the public who came forward and handed in
the money — seven of them spoke to us but we believe the man gave money to
many more people,” the police spokesman said.
The money was not counterfeit and is not believed to have come from the
proceeds of crime, the officer said.
“We just want to make sure he did not hand out the money under duress or
while impaired by drink or drugs,” the spokesman said. |
Keep the noise down!
Noisy lovemaking is no cause for eviction — so long as it’s done in the
daytime, a Swedish landlord said Thursday.
The Tunabyggen housing company in Borlaenge, 137 miles northwest of
Stockholm, made the decision after the neighbors of one amorous couple
complained about their afternoon delights.
But the company said lovemaking is part of normal family life and not
grounds for eviction.
Indeed, it’s the law. Under the Swedish Housing Act, neighbors are not to
be disturbed by loud noises — be it music, television or love making in
the evening. But that law also guarantees the right of tenants to a normal
family life, too.
Tunabyggen’s marketing director Lena Lundberg said the complaint about the
lovemaking was akin to that of a family with noisy children whose crying
could disturb the neighbors.
The complaint, which was filed this week, was thrown out, she added,
because the noise wasn’t at night.
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Politicians to donate sperm
Politicians in one Australian state have been asked to lend a hand and
become sperm donors to help arrest dwindling supplies at an in-vitro
fertilization clinic.
The Monash IVF clinic has written to 25 parliamentarians aged under 45 in
Victoria state asking them to set an example for the rest of the male
population by becoming sperm donors.
“We hope that if some of the leading role models within our community
become donors, others may follow suit,” the Monash letter said.
Monash IVF clinic medical director Gab Kovacs said the clinics’ stocks had
been dwindling since a state law came into force in 1998 requiring that
only men who were prepared to have their identities released could become
donors.
Victoria Police Minister Andre Haermeyer said he hadn’t been asked to
become a donor but wondered if politicians were suitable candidates.
“It could create a rather quarrelsome family, I would have thought,”
Haermeyer was reported saying.
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Tailpiece
Compliment her,
cuddle her,
kiss her,
caress her,
love her,
stroke her,
comfort her,
protect her,
hug her,
spend money on her,
wine & dine her,
buy things for her,
listen to her,
stand by her,
support her,
go to the ends of the earth for her....
HOW TO IMPRESS A MAN:
Show up naked
.... with beer
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