Are you telling me that those glasses I bought from the comic book ad WON’T allow me to see through her blouse? Rats…

Ah, the mysteries of those nefarious comic book advertisements.ย  Send away and you can receive the Charles Atlas “Dynamic Tension” muscle-building guide.ย  You can receive 100 toy soldiers in a small foot locker.ย  You can receive magic hypnosis discs, sneezing and itching powder, and – best of all – X-Ray Specs. No, no – not…

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Swing to the Music this Friday in Troy

What a great way for couples to meet, for people to get together, for everybody to exercise and dance and have a fantastic time. And it’s starting this Friday night in downtown Troy. I’m talking about the Swing Syndicate. The Swing Syndicate is a new dance studio at 212 River Street, where studio founders Orian…

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Probably the worst day to join the Mile High Club

It’s the kind of erotic fantasy that can really drive a person wild.ย  As an airplane flies toward its destination, a couple of passengers look at each other… knowingly wink and smile… then, one by one, they make their way to the airplane’s lavatory.ย  In they go.ย  The door gets locked.ย  A few minutes later,…

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“Sorry sir, we can’t accept your cash to park at the Hedley Park Place Parking Lot.”

Last week I arranged a dinner meet-up with Michele Poole, so that I could give her a CD with the photographs I took of her as she completed her 20th consecutive run at the Freihofer’s Run for Women.ย  We agreed to meet at my favorite Troy restaurant, Brown’s Brewing, on Wednesday night. That evening, as…

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UAlbany could lose “Great Danes” nickname, Kegs and Eggs riot to blame

This is bad.ย  Very very bad. If the rumors I received are to be believed, the University at Albany will be holding a press conference today at 2:30 p.m. regarding more fallout from the Kegs and Eggs riot a couple of weeks ago, as well as the negative publicity regarding the recent Fountain Day protest…

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OMG, LOL, where’s โ™ฅ in my bag of Scrabble tiles?

The Oxford English Dictionary has just announced the addition of several new words and phrases, as well as the update of over 40,000 definitions, in its most recent update. In addition to such words as “Ego-surfing” (to search on the Internet for one’s own name or business), “muffin top” (and I don’t mean the upper…

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March 26, 2011, 8:30 p.m. Turn out the lights for Earth Hour.

Five years ago, a partnership project between the World Wildlife Fund and Australia’s largest newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, culminated in “Earth Hour,” in which over two million Australians turned off their lights and electricity for one hour. Today, “Earth Hour” is a worldwide campaign, as businesses and residents turn off their non-essential electricity for…

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