Category Archives: ESL Links

It’s so cold today the Dowbrigade saw a Lawyer with his hands in his own pockets! It’s so cold that the words come out of our mouths in chunks of ice and we have to fry them to see what … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the lovely Lisa Williams for finally giving birth to Baby Joe Williams, see here meeting his big brother, 28-month-old Rowan. We wish her and Joe all the best as they explore the wonders of motherhood and babyhood, respectively. … Continue reading →

January 8, 2004 — A brazen bigamist has told a judge why she married 27 times – without ever divorcing – in a lucrative immigration scam: because she was a single mom. " I was a single mother on public … Continue reading →

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A new biography of Kim Jong-il, President of North Korea, by British author Michael Breen, titled "Kim Jong-il: North Korea’s Dear Leader," paints a bizarre and contradictory portrait of the eccentric Communist. Breen is a veteran British journalist with 20 … Continue reading →

A British woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis is raising money to fight the condition by posing topless on the internet. Under the banner "Tits out for multiple sclerosis", Vix, from Glastonbury urges visitors to her VixPix website to donate … Continue reading →

Dr. Doug Farrago, of Auburn, Maine, holds one of the posters made from the cover of his medical humor magazine,the Placebo Journal, at his home on Nov. 19, 2003. The family practise doctor says the medical humor magazine offers chuckles … Continue reading →

Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And he’s suing the cable company for failing to shut his service off when he cancelled. … Continue reading →

The early consensus on Apple’s new mini-iPods seems to be that there is not enough bang for the buck: Why pay $250 for 4 Gigs when $50 more will get you 15 Gigs? Sure, the size is smaller, but in … Continue reading →

RSS continues to open doors into interesting new spaces as people figure out new ways to create, consume, manipulate and share feeds. Dave Winer has come up with a unique and tres cool mechanism for sharing aggregator subscriptions.  After registering … Continue reading →

DENVER (Reuters) – The first case of mad cow disease in the United States may encourage carnivores to consider putting meat from bison, the largest land mammals in North America and beloved symbols of the West, on their dinner tables, … Continue reading →

Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean may have grown up on tony Park Avenue and summered with the swells at East Hampton’s then-whites-only Maidstone Club, but his mother, Andree Maitland Dean, insists her son’s roots are practically working class. “Howard didn’t … Continue reading →