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DEAR ABBY: I'm almost 20, in my second year of college, and I have never been in a relationship. Usually I shrug it off, but lately it has been really bothering me. I know I'm not alone because a lot of my friends are in a similar situation. I'm just afraid that I'll end up alone, or if I do ever find someone, I won't know how to act. Please help. — FRUSTRATED IN CLOVIS, CALIF. DEAR FRUSTRATED: I'll try, so bear with me. Please quit flogging yourself. Unless you're into that sort of thing; in that case, hire a dominatrix. You're in college and on a path to success. Great, Abby... now if he's flunking out he'll be suicidal! To obsess about ending up alone is a distraction and a waste of time. Just give in and accept it already. Stop being afraid of what "might" happen. Enjoy your college experience. Meet as many people as you can and make friends let them know you'll do anything with/to anyone who so much as smiles at you. The more friends you have, the greater your chances of finding what you're looking for. And possibly something you're not looking for... always wear a condom! As to not knowing how to act when you finally meet someone special, I guarantee that you will know how to act because you WON'T BE ACTING. You will just be yourself, and that will be all you need. Plus a roll of $50s and/or a pocket full of GHB.

DEAR ABBY: I'm almost 20, in my second year of college, and I have never been in a relationship. Usually I shrug it off, but lately it has been really bothering me. I know I'm not alone because a lot of my friends are in a similar situation. I'm just afraid that I'll end up alone, or if I do ever find someone, I won't know how to act. Please help. — FRUSTRATED IN CLOVIS, CALIF. DEAR FRUSTRATED: I'll try, so bear with me. Please quit flogging yourself. Unless you're into that sort of thing; in that case, hire a dominatrix. You're in college and on a path to success. Great, Abby... now if he's flunking out he'll be suicidal! To obsess about ending up alone is a distraction and a waste of time. Just give in and accept it already. Stop being afraid of what "might" happen. Enjoy your college experience. Meet as many people as you can and make friends let them know you'll do anything with/to anyone who so much as smiles at you. The more friends you have, the greater your chances of finding what you're looking for. And possibly something you're not looking for... always wear a condom! As to not knowing how to act when you finally meet someone special, I guarantee that you will know how to act because you WON'T BE ACTING. You will just be yourself, and that will be all you need. Plus a roll of $50s and/or a pocket full of GHB.

I've seen a few storefronts.

Drew Butera is a man of his word. And because of that, he's got a new 'do. And it's pink. Butera said he made a promise to 7-year-old Dagan Lingenfelter when the boy was in the hospital getting chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2016. His promise: When Lingenfelter beat cancer, he could dye Butera's hair any color that he wanted. "So, he comes in and says that when I kick cancer's butt, I can dye his hair any color he wanted, and we made a deal and we did that today," Dagan told reporters before Friday night's game.

That wasn't a made for TV movie.

(sorry, not gay themes) THE MAKING OF A MALE MODEL... starring some guy I vaguely remember. The Girl Most Likely to... is a black comedy with slight psychological thriller elements written by Joan Rivers and Agnes Gallin, and starring Stockyard Channing and Ed Asner. The film was released on November 6, 1973 as a made-for-television film broadcast on the ABC Movie of the Week. "Stoned" is a 1980 ABC Afterschool Special starring Scott Baio which is built around peer pressure and its resultant drug abuse. It was featured as the fourth episode in the program's ninth season. Jack Melon (Baio) is a gangling and awkward teenage freshman who doesn't fit in at his local high school. He winds up becoming a pothead after first resisting offers from friends. I watched this alone in my apt at college my junior year. I had some pot that I'd gotten when a friend came up to visit at the start of the semester, but I'd never smoked alone. Baio was having so much fun as a stoner that I said "hey, why not?" & lit up. Then I listened to music while high for the first time. The rest is history. I blame Scott Baio for my pot habit. He owes me a lot of money (as well as a new set of lungs). Here's a gay-themed one: Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (the sequel to Dawn: Portrait of A Teenage Runaway) (not to be confused with Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic) (Or Donny T: Portrait of A Whiny Bitch Orangutan) Cast Leigh McCloskey as Alexander Duncan Eve Plumb as Dawn Wetherby Juliet Mills as Myra Jean Hagen as Landlady Lonny Chapman as Eddie Duncan Earl Holliman as Ray Church Alan Feinstein as Charles Selby Alexander Duncan (McCloskey), a country-boy-turned-Hollywood-hustler, tries to find legitimate work in order to marry a teenaged prostitute (Plumb) he had hoped to rehabilitate, but he gets involved with a gay football pro (Feinstein).

A Utah boy died over the weekend after he and his friends were playing the “fainting game,” which led to significant oxygen being cut off to his brain, his mother said. Tua Muai and his friends had been playing the game Friday afternoon in hopes of cutting off oxygen to the brain to obtain a high or rush. His mother found the 12-year-old unconscious shortly after and called 911. “He was just playing a game and he didn’t think things through,” Celestia Muai told FOX13 Salt Lake City. Tua died at the hospital. Muai said it was a somber Mother’s Day. “I spent Mother’s Day planning my son’s funeral, writing his obituary, instead of having breakfast or flowers or ‘I love you, Mom,’” Muai said. “Try to imagine what it would be like and multiply that by infinity and that’s kind of what it’s like … there’s no words.” Tua, who was in sixth grade, was described as a child who loved football and had a “zeal for adventure.” His father had passed away a year and a half ago. He had six siblings. Also known as the “choking game,” the dangerous stunt was generally spread through word of mouth and involved groups of two or three people participating. In the last few years, videos have been posted on the internet to show how children can choke themselves enough to get the “rush of euphoria” as they regain consciousness. Muai said she wants to warn other parents about the dangers of the “fainting game.” “There’s nothing that can take the pain away, but if it can save one child, one parent, one family … then it will make more sense,” Muai said. SEE ALSO Police can't even say how many lives 'choking game' has claimed

Boy, talk about doggy breath! :cool::eek:

On the evening of March 15, 1999, during an incident at his Hollywood home, Pastorelli's 25-year-old girlfriend, Charemon Jonovich, was killed by a gunshot to the head. During the authorities' investigation that followed, Pastorelli testified that in the midst of an argument between the two of them, she suddenly produced a handgun and killed herself. The incident was investigated as an accident or suicide, and the Los Angeles Coroner's Office declared the cause of death undetermined. Pastorelli was exonerated of responsibility for Charemon Jonovich's death and received public expressions of sympathy within Hollywood and from the Los Angeles media, but his career went into noticeable decline afterwards. Pastorelli was found dead at his home in Hollywood Hills on March 8, 2004, from a narcotics overdose. A review of the original evidence of the March 1999 shooting of his girlfriend Charemon Jonovich resulted in her cause of death being reclassified a homicide, and Pastorelli was identified as a prime suspect.

A Queens mailman was caught making special deliveries — of marijuana by the pound, police said Thursday. U.S. Postal Service worker Christopher Aiken, 57, was arrested Thursday taking a 10-pound parcel of pot to a pair of buyers in Rosedale, cops said. The postal service got an anonymous tip about a "drug issue" at the Rosedale Post Office, where Aiken works, and authorities soon identified a package they believe had drugs inside. Cops and federal officers tracked the bundle and Aiken, who took it on his route Thursday morning, police said. A BMW pulled up behind Aiken's mail truck at 148th Ave. and 249th St. at 11 a.m., and the postman placed the cannabis container into the luxury car's trunk, cops said. After two men in the BMW handed Aiken cash, and a team of NYPD officers and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the USPS inspector general's office swooped in and arrested all three, cops said. Aiken, the BMW's driver, Keron Mavour, 30, of Brooklyn, and his passenger, Lennon Gray, 30, of Queens face felony marijuana possession charges.

A Brooklyn barbershop customer's face was sliced open after his stylist shoved him through a plate glass window Thursday afternoon, police said. The bloody 3 p.m. scene at the Levels Barbershop on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights unfolded because the victim, 33, was unhappy about his haircut, witnesses said. http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/GyrpKxXQtSI1OlW10eXqvlvf1qQ=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/SA2PSQE2VR6RDGVY7375F4Z6SY.jpg Cops investigate the bloody scene that occurred at the Levels Barbershop on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights when a stylist pushed an unhappy customer through a glass window. (Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News) He threatened to withhold payment, enraging his barber, who allegedly shoved him through one of the store's front windows. "He didn't see the push coming," said Free Small, 39, another barber at the shop. "All his body weight went through the window." http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/iyuVCcR6fV57zXqqLaCqOsCHfsI=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CSJWAGRJXL5ZQQEW3S5DJI4RLM.jpg The man angered the stylist after threatening to withhold payment. Small didn't believe the barber meant to hurt the man. "You don't know how bad a situation is going to get before you even react," he said "And even though you ain't mean to do it, it's done." http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/nnQTXyY_AjWEYlZhEfCC49FdRS0=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/QPM3IFTNPUAWTCOB3S264BHFNE.jpg Medics took the victim to Kings County Hospital. The shove launched the customer forward through the window. He stayed upright, but the glass ripped his face open. "I said 'Get over here, this guy's bleeding!" said Donald Romelus, 40, also a barber. Small and Romelus rushed to get towels to stop the blood flow. The stylist who gave the man the heave-ho ran off. Small and Romelus both insisted they didn't know his name or how to reach him. "I would have fixed the dude's hair for him for free. Especially if I knew it was going to be a problem." Small said. "I think it's a learning experience for everybody. Communication is key."

‘Roseanne’ co-showrunner Whitney Cummings is leaving Bruce Helford will be the only showrunner for the ABC series next season.

An 18-year-old woman from Indiana is accused of brutally killing her dad who teased her for being fat. Ameera Stokes reportedly called 911 early Sunday to confess that she murdered her father, Donald Stokes, while visiting his home in Mt. Morris Township, Michigan, according to news station WJRT. Police said the pair was fighting over “life issues” when the teen attacked her dad with a hammer then stabbed him, MLive.com reported. Authorities arrived at the home to find the father’s body in the stairwell. He appeared to have suffered blunt force trauma, according to police. The teen was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the Mother’s Day slaying. She is being held without bail. Her mother, Gretchen Brasher, said she sent the teen to live with her dad as a child. However, the 18-year-old’s relationship with her father was fraught. “He was very verbally abusive,” Brasher told news station WJRT. “She had a belly, so he would tease her about being fat.”

I wonder how they'll deal with Elden's not being there. I doubt they'd kill him off. Maybe he'll be a successful artist painting some other celeb's townhouse for years.

Dear Abby: I have really nice neighbors, and we are always pleasant to each other. We put up a large above-ground pool in our backyard, and they put up a trampoline. I would like to enjoy our pool (how to put this delicately?) without tan lines. I do not want to offend them or expose myself to their teenage son when he’s jumping on their trampoline. Is there a tactful way to ask them to move the trampoline since there is no other way to stay discreet in my own backyard? — No Tan Lines Dear No Tan Lines: Have you not heard about “tan through” fabrics? They were invented years ago to help women achieve a “summertime glow” without the risk of being reported for indecent exposure. You can find more information about this type of swimwear online by searching “no tan line swimsuit.” One caveat: Dermatologists recommend avoiding the sun to prevent skin cancers. When using these garments, make sure to use sunscreen underneath the swimsuit so you will achieve an all-over tan instead of a nasty all-over sunburn.

I can't stand Lowes' "The moment you realize..." ad campaign, and the latest one really drives me up the wall. A woman is seen (talking to Alexa?) ordering the lights on, and her playlist to be played, then orders her washing machine to turn on before realizing it doesn't do that. So she buys a new washer & dryer. My reaction is always "The moment you realize... you need intensive therapy... to figure out why you're so lazy you'd spend over $1000 for smart appliances instead of just turning them on manually." I've also found that just about every time a company updates its website or technology, the 'improvement' is annoying, not necessary, and endlessly frustrating.

http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/cl/2018/cl180517.gif Most nights teenager Kieran Bewick wakes up terrified, screaming and drenched in sweat — believing he is being stabbed by someone he loves. This nightmare is not sparked by some gory horror movie, but a shocking real-life attack. The 18-year-old is lucky to be alive after a sex game with ex-girlfriend Zoe Adams took a sadistic turn. Days after Bewick had moved into her apartment, Adams walked into the bedroom, her face painted like a clown. She put a pillow over his head, whispered “trust me” then stabbed him five times with a 10-inch knife she had hidden at the side of the bed. In May, 19-year-old Adams — who is obsessed with serial killers and male sacrifice — was jailed for 11 and a half years after admitting to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The judge called her “cruel and sadistic” after the court heard how she had thousands of gruesome images on her iPhone. One was of a woman drenched in blood with the caption: “Murder is like a bag of chips, you can’t stop after one.” Another read: “I don’t think about males unless said male is strapped up and being used as a human sacrifice — you should be grateful you are not part of it.” Adams may now be behind bars, but the ordeal still haunts Bewick — especially in his dreams. In an exclusive interview with The Sun, he says: “I will never explore kinky sex again.” “There is absolutely no way in the future I’d ever consent to being tied up or anything like that. From now on it is just normal sex. “I’m pleased with the sentence, it reflects the severity of what happened. I am not only physically scarred, I am emotionally scarred too. I’ve not slept properly since that day and I’m plagued with bad dreams.” Bewick was 17 when he met teen mom Adams through mutual friends in May 2017. They hit it off and over the next two months would talk every day and spend the weekends together. He says: “She seemed nice, kind and funny, I liked her. “But she was a bit odd and had a dark sense of humor. She’d joke about hurting her exes. “I just thought she was messing around but now I know she meant every word.”” Bewick recalls how the petite redhead fancied herself a dominatrix and was obsessed with kinky sex — in particular, tying up men. She would beg him to be her guinea pig. He says: “I used to tell her no. It wasn’t really my cup of tea and I didn’t feel comfortable doing it.” As he got to know her better, he could see how Adams reveled in violence and gore, but never suspected what a danger she posed. He says: “One time she told me about a dream she’d had about a friend’s ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. “In the dream his throat was slit and she was naked on top of him. His new girlfriend was nude and hanging from the rafters above them. It seemed to excite her, she got a kick out of men being in pain. “Another time she showed me a video on her phone of a man in the woods getting his head smashed in by three guys with a baseball bat. I could barely look but she was laughing and said it was cool. “She had a pet snake and loved feeding it live mice. It used to make me recoil watching the animal devour its dinner but she enjoyed killings.” Last June, she sent Bewick the message saying she did not think about men unless they were “being used as a human sacrifice.” He says: “I just thought it was Zoe being Zoe.” “She often said weird things and, although she was into kinky stuff, I didn’t think she actually meant it.” Just three days before the attack on July 29, 2017, Bewick moved into Adams’ apartment. On the fateful day, the pair spent their time shopping before going home to drink vodka and hang out. Adams smoked weed too. He recalls how she asked him: “What will you let me do with you tonight? Will you let me tie you up?” Bewick says: “I told her no.” “I had felt ill all day and the booze wasn’t helping so I went upstairs to bed after being sick.” He woke to find Adams standing in the doorway, barefoot, her face painted in creepy clown makeup. She asked him: “Does this scare you?” He says: “Zoe had painted large diamond shapes around her eyes and a red, Joker smile. “I told her she was freaking me out and to wash it off but she just stared at me, smiling excitedly. She stayed like this for a few minutes before she slowly backed out of the doorway.” The day before, Bewick had told Adams how seeing a barefoot clown was his worst nightmare. She had replied: “A barefoot clown, the ultimate Kieran killer.” He dismissed her clown makeup as a sick joke. He could not have been more wrong. Adams later returned armed with duct tape and a condom. She took off her top and, wearing nothing but boxers, climbed into bed and cuddled him. Again, she begged Bewick to let her tie him up with the tape and became “moody” when he refused. So he agreed to have his face covered with a pillow to spice up the sex. He says: “She was stroking my chest and asking questions like, ‘Do you really love me? Do you really want me?’ My phone went off so she took it and put it down the side of the bed. I thought she was trying to read my messages, as she still had her hand down there. Now I know she was holding the knife. “I took the pillow off to see what was happening and she said ‘trust me’ and put it back over my face. “Seconds later, she stabbed me.” Blood poured out of Bewick’s wounds as Adams plunged the 10-inch blade into his chest, arm and leg. His fingers still bear the scars of defensive wounds from when he battled to save his life. He recalls: “I didn’t feel any pain, I just heard my lung pop and felt blood gush out of me. My adrenaline was pumping. I was in shock.” Despite his terrible injuries, Bewick managed to get away from his attacker. At the front door he turned and saw Adams standing in the kitchen — naked — staring at him. In one hand she held the knife dripping with his blood. He recalls: “I asked her why. She said, ‘I don’t know.’” Bewick ran to her aunt’s house nearby and said: “Zoe’s stabbed me.” He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he had emergency surgery. He spent the next 10 days in the hospital, fighting for his life. He had a collapsed lung and got pneumonia. He also had deep wounds to his arm, leg and fingers. He says: “When I woke up I asked the nurse if I was going to be OK. It was a huge shock, I had wires and tubes coming out of me.” Adams claimed she had blacked out after all the alcohol and cannabis and had no recollection of the attack. But the court did not believe her version of events. The judge told her: “You had decided to cause serious harm to Mr. Bewick during sex.” Bewick is now trying to rebuild his life. He is studying law, psychology and history and is dating a 17-year-old he met at college. Not wanting to name his new girlfriend, he says: “She’s kind and sweet — nothing like Zoe. She comforts me when I have nightmares and wake up dreaming she’s stabbing me. “Even though I know she’d never hurt me, I still dream it. “I cared about Zoe and couldn’t understand how she could do this to me. I believe she intended to kill me that day, but I’ll never know why. “This has had a huge impact on my life but I refuse to let her win. She nearly took my life, but she won’t take my future.”

It may be “the ultimate driving machine,” but BMWs are proving to be hell on drivers’ thumbs. In yet another lawsuit filed against the German automaker over its luxury cars’ automatically closing doors, a Long Island woman claims her BMW 750Li nearly cut her thumb off — crushing it to the point that she needed reconstructive surgery and two pins. Alexis Fields, a stay-at-home mom from Smithtown, was on her way to her daughter’s Halloween parade in 2016 when her right hand got crushed in the automatic door as she was getting out of her car. The BMW has SCAD (Soft-Close Automatic Door) technology which detects attempts to close the door and kicks in an auto-close mechanism. Fields, 40, says she was reaching in to grab her purse with her right hand leaning on the door frame when the wind nudged the door slightly and triggered the motor. “It happened so fast. It pulled shut on my finger and clamped down like a vice. My thumb was completely flat within seconds,” Fields said. “Then it exploded. It blew up two, three or four times its size. It was awful. Initially I felt no pain but then I started to panic and the pain came in,” Fields added. Within two hours Fields, whose thumb was “mauled and mutilated,” went to a specialist who performed surgery. But “sadly, by that time, it was too late to restore Mrs. Fields’ thumb to its former pre-injury condition,” the suit states. Fields has numbness, limited mobility and pain in her right hand to this day resulting from the Oct. 31, 2016, incident. In March, Godwin Boateng sued the carmaker after his right thumb was chopped off by the SCAD technology in his $70,000 BMW X5. Boateng, a 61-year-old who also lives on Long Island, is also repped by Fields' attorney. Unlike Fields, doctors were unable to save his thumb and he now wears a fake digit from a $3 magician’s kit. The lawyer said since The Post earlier reported on Boateng he has been flooded with dozens of calls from people from around the country who say they have similar injuries. “BMW, like a petulant child, has been unwilling to take responsibility for its modern-day guillotine doors,” he said. A rep for BMW said, “We can’t comment on any pending litigation.”