Kelly Rued is a soft-spoken Minnesota mom who attended Catholic school and invents games – but not the kind the nuns and priests who taught her would approve of.
They’re erotic video games that put players in “a parallel universe where people meet and love” and have sex. And they’re a lot healthier than the violent games a lot of folks are hooked on, Kelly, 26, insists.
“I don’t think people sit around and fantasize about killing someone – but I think they do sit around fantasizing about sex,” she said.
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The Chamber of Commerce of Burton, Ohio, will salute the town’s reputation for making the nation’s best pancakes by painting its 150,000-gallon water tower to resemble a stack of flapjacks, complete with dripping maple syrup and melting butter.
But some folks are concerned it’s too tacky, and even Mayor Nick Fischbach beefed, “On a 90-degree day, that’s just unappetizing.”
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Want proof that love is blind? Then head to the Los Angeles Zoo, where Willy, a 10-year-old, 187-pound hog has fallen head over heels for a 16-year-old antelope named Nicole.
The couple shares a muddy exhibit area where they nap and cuddle together – even nuzzling snout to nose. Willy’s previous mate, Ruby, died last summer of cancer, and within a week, the hog turned to Nicole for companionship.
And with the sizes involved here, we’d say anybody who gets between them is toast.
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Hold your nose when visiting the Bavarian village of Elsa this week.
A fertilizer tank burst open, flooding the streets with 240,000 gallons of liquid pig manure.
“The village was swamped with green-brown liquid . . . pig manure – the mother-of-all muck,” said police spokesman Rainer Prediger.
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A 7-year-old girl married a stray dog in India as part of a ritual to ward off the “evil eye.”
Shivam Munda’s upper teeth appeared before her lower teeth – considered a bad omen by members of the Santhal ethnic group in Dhanbad.
Her dad, Kundan Munda, insists Shivam will be free to marry a man when she grows up.