Married Couple Turned Out To Be Twins!

March 28, 2008

They were twins, brother and sister, separated at birth. Several years later they became acquainted with each other as adults, neither knowing that they had a twin sibling at birth, yet nonetheless feeling "an inevitable attraction" toward one another. The story of the unfortunate couple first broke in England a couple of months ago when a former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, Lord Alton, lobbying for children to have the right to know the identities of their biological parents, unleashed the shocking details about the couple’s relationship to the English press.

Prior to the news being made public that the married couple was brother and sister, they realized that something about their feelings for each other were not quite right. When the couple began investigating their backgrounds, each knowing that they had been adopted at birth, they eventually learned the shocking truth and immediately took steps to have their marriage ruled invalid by a high court—the proceedings of which were held in secrecy. The court, of course, agreed that, under the law, their blood relationship was prohibited.

"It was appalling for this couple to discover they were married to a close relative," said a person knowledgeable about the case. "And I believe the government will leave itself open to class actions in the future if it collaborates in keeping information of this kind from children…."

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What? Mary Jane, Uh, I Mean, Mary Ann, a Pothead?

March 26, 2008

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…

While it has long been rumored that the actor who portrayed Gilligan on Gilligan’s Island, Bob Denver, was a pothead who died of throat cancer at the age of 70, and who may have used the drug as far back or even before his days as Maynard G. Krebs, the beat-nick on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis show that predated the aforementioned 1960s television hit comedy series about a shipwrecked group of people from various walks of life stranded on a deserted island, who could have guessed that the sweet and innocent Mary Ann, portrayed by actress Dawn Wells, now 69, liked to partake of the illegal weed?

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An Almost Perfect Murder

March 21, 2008

Aside from her family and closest friends, Kathy Marie Augustine, 50, was not well-liked, politically or otherwise. She was known to have an abrasive personality, was fond of yelling at people, especially her employees, and, politically at least, she knew how to play the game of dirty tricks almost as well as Richard Nixon. A lot of people, including her husband, Chaz Higgs, 42, frequently referred to her as a "b****." Confident and positive despite the many obstacles that she had faced, Kathy recognized that she was tough and was damned proud of it. Her story is one of power, ambition, and enemies, and ultimately, her own death. Kathy’s murder could have been the perfect crime had it not been for a single slip of the tongue...

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