Weird but true
Warning: Don’t buy your wife flowers, jewelry or candy this Valentine’s Day.
A new survey shows that men who are “too nice” on the holiday make women suspect they’re cheating.
The researchers found two thirds of women surveyed worry when their hubbies suddenly try “new tricks” in bed or make grand romantic gestures.
Even serving your wife breakfast in bed can make her suspect something’s up, they said.
The poll was commissioned by Kellogg’s, which should know something about cereal philanderers.
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Valentine’s Day, Part II:
A British chef has come up with an aphrodisiac meal for the holiday.
It’s a pastry made with bulls’ testicles.
He calls it “cock and bull pie.”
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Valentine’s Day, Part III:
It’s never too late for a woman to go on a diet for her admirers.
Even if she’s been dead for 600 years.
An Italian artist is using a computer to digitally slim down women appearing in Renaissance portraits.
Back then, it seems, bigger was better.
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There were a lot of lines in this textbook.
A co-ed from Olathe, Kan., found nearly $400 worth of cocaine in a used book she ordered online.
Sophia Stockton, fearing the white powder was anthrax, took it to the cops.
An officer “came back and said, ‘You didn’t happen to order some cocaine with your textbook?’ ” she recalled.
She suspects the drug was left in the book by a previous owner.
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Just what every 4-year-old wants.
A kid in New Berlin, Wis., somehow became totally fascinated with toilets.
His mom wrote to the bathroom-fixture manufacturer Kohler, which presented him with a dream birthday gift — its top-of-the-line double-flusher.

