@Ken:

Would, uh, *ahem*, the testimony of "much happier and more satified wives" of those male riders who used those noseless bicycle seats be enough of a "peer review" for you?


Chess Fan

No, that's all personal anecdotes. If you were going to do it properly, you'd have to have all the wives sleep with all the riders before (several times) and then after (several times) and do the comparison. Plus you'd have to do a blind study so the wives wouldn't know which of the males they were sleeping with had been on noseless bicycle seats or which ones hadn't. I'm sure you'd get lots of volunteers if you were to advertise the experiment.

Yeah, but you'd have to get married first. I bet that would cut down on the volunteers.

Ed Yetman, III
YetmanBrothers.com

Not a chance, Ed. Do a google search for swinging couples or wife-swapping.

Bad science, Ken. That's just the number of people looking--not actually swapping. I bet that number is very low.

Ed Yetman, III
YetmanBrothers.com

Could be right, Ed, least in my old neck of the woods back east. A year ago my friend went to a swinging couples party...without his significant other...and came back very disappointed. He said the choices were overweight smokers with raspy voices and little intelligence. One of the other guys who'd been doing this for a long time said, "this is about what you can expect for this area".

And if you're wondering, my friend no longer has his significant other as of this past weekend (she went home to her folks with the kids and as much as I like my friend, I can't blame her).

Wife-swapping is the ultimate expression of the idea that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Just don't look at the gardener too closely.

Wife-swapping: the acquiring of another man's problems in addition to your own.

Ed Yetman, III
YetmanBrothers.com

Joyce McKinney, International fugitive:

Thursday, August 14, 2008
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said.

Joyce Bernann McKinney was charged in Carter County with criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and failure to appear in court, said attorney David Crockett, who represented her in the Tennessee case. Authorities there said she instructed a 15-year-old boy to break into a house, and Crockett said she needed the money to buy a false leg for a beloved horse.

Crockett said Thursday he hasn't heard from her since she skipped a court date, but after seeing television coverage of the cloning case, he's certain she's the same person known to the world as dog lover Bernann McKinney.

Prosecutors are reviewing charges against the 58-year-old McKinney to decide whether to pursue the case, said Melanie Widener, an assistant district attorney for the county in the northeast part of the state near the North Carolina state line.

"It'll depend on where she is now, how important the case is, how much it would cost the taxpayers and whether witnesses are still around," she said.

McKinney declined comment when reached by phone Thursday.

McKinney was arrested in November 2004 in Tennessee in a van with the 15-year-old, according to a Carter County Sheriff's Department arrest report.

McKinney, then living across the state line in Avery County, N.C., needed money to help her three-legged horse, Crockett said.

"She loved it dearly," Crockett said. "She was a rather bizarre character, and seems to have a strange circumstance now."

He recalled that McKinney had two or three dogs in her car when she conferred with him about her case.

"There was a strong aroma about her, and I told her this needed to be taken care of before I went to court with her," Crockett said.

McKinney made news around the world this summer when she had five pups cloned in South Korea from her beloved pit bull Booger.

She later confirmed she was Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 became a British tabloid sensation over the kidnapping case. She faced charges of unlawful imprisonment after she was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice.

"She is bold to put herself on worldwide television," Crockett said. "She must know she's a fugitive in at least one state."

Ed Yetman, III
YetmanBrothers.com

Oh, NOW I get it, Ed!

It's a joke!!


Chess Fan

No, more like life is so absurd invented humor can't keep up.

Ed Yetman, III
YetmanBrothers.com