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Want to explore one of the four cities nominated for the 2016 Olympics? Enter for a chance to win a round-trip coach-class airfare for travel to Chicago, Madrid, Rio, or Tokyo in the Where I’ve Been Olympic Giveaway. All you need to do is: 1) Follow Where I’ve Been on Twitter. 2) Retweet this message as stated: “Chicago, Madrid, Rio, Tokyo. Fly me to 1 of these Olympic 2016 nominees! Follow @ whereivebeen & RT this message 2 win http://bit.ly/a3K6a” The winner will be announced on the @ whereivebeen Twitter page. If you are selected as the winner, make sure you Direct Message [ ... Read Full Story

At home auctions, no longer do bargain hunters need to bid on charming Tudors where “Barry the Butcher” had a walk-in freezer. Yep, foreclosures are the order of the day and everywhere people are waking up from their American Dream to find that, like lookers at a brothel, they’re all gonna get screwed. During these difficult economic times, with people ousted from their homes and cracking open nest eggs to make omelets, it seems the only people doing booming business these days are movers. Movers have been kept very busy of late, as have their maligned cousins, repo men, the key distinction between them ... Read Full Story

T hose of us who use computers are fortunate—in that we have a spell checker to make sure everything comes out right… One push of a button—and misspellings are a gone as quickly as the money you had in the stock market last week… And if you want to make yourself a fortune—perhaps you could do it by coming up with a spell-checking device that could be used in the real world… Such as in these examples: THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW… Eye think someone needs to spend time in the department of corrections— —spelling corrections that is… THAT’S MY KIND OF ORGINEZASHUN…. IT’S ... Read Full Story

Shark attacks are down ( click here for story ). This revelation comes to us from the University of Florida. (Note: If you are a citizen of Florida and your high school aged child displays a talent for the sciences, may we suggest somewhere out of state?) The Florida researchers blame this trend on the economic downturn. Now they’re not saying the sharks themselves are depressed about how much further they could stretch a dollar back before the bubble burst and now are stuck in such a funk they no longer see the fun in feasting on the fleshy, speedo-wearing tourists who ignore clearly ... Read Full Story

S ometimes there are things that just don’t work—no matter how hard you try. Just ask those involved in these little enterprises… IT’S A CRIME… Remember the days when mobsters were feared—and had scary nick-names like “The Undertaker,” or “Johnny One-Shot?..” But these days—it seems even the mob has fallen on hard times–and those Cosa Nostra guys are not like the gangsters we watched on The Sopranos .. The cops report some members of the Boston-area mob are so hard up for cash they’ve taken to shoplifting— or in the case of one mafioso— seen peddling electric toothbrushes on street corners. Yes, even mob’s ... Read Full Story