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You can bet a Jacksonville, Florida man wishes he had just paid the five-bucks for a foot long at Subway.

Instead, he was charged with making a false 911 call.

Reginald Peterson ordered a Spicy Italian Sub with the works.

Sandwich artists put mayo on mustard on it, but no sauce. That put Peterson over the edge and he called 911 to complain.

He called a second time to complain officers weren’t arriving fast enough.

Subway workers told police the 42-year-old became belligerent and yelled when they were fixing his order.

They locked him out of the store when he left to call police.

When officers arrived, they tried to calm Peterson and explain the proper use of 911. Those efforts failed, and he was arrested on a charge of making false 911 calls.

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 Lifehacker reports:

Search engine Facesaerch displays photos of people’s faces related to your search term in a CoverFlow-like interface. Built using Google’s image search—and using its little-known imgtype=face search parameter—Facesaerch is better at finding celebrity photos than your regular Joe or Jane. However, an image search for a gender-ambiguous name you’ve never heard before—like Priti—is great way to figure out if it’s more commonly used for men or women, and Facesaerch is the perfect application for that.

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Let us kick of the month of August and the weekend for that matter with a fun new sports blog. The Spoiler is a football blog with a section entitled Sporno….which they describe as follows:

Sport tries its best to be clean, porno is always dirty. Sport is noble and healthy. Porno is always bad and wrong. Yet for all their efforts to keep a distance, they just can’t help running into each from time to time and making sporno, without meaning to at all.

‘Nough said. Here then a sample on offer:

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The world’s oldest joke has been traced back to 1900BC:

LONDON (Reuters) - The world’s oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

It heads the world’s oldest top 10 joke list published by the University of Wolverhampton Thursday.

A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second — “How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.”

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From Timesonline:

For most brides, their wedding day is of unparalleled importance and their wedding dress hallowed. However, the case of one unfortunate bride in Italy was recently recounted in court. She suffered a disaster when the stitching on her expensive dress came apart as she stood at the altar and the dress slipped open, revealing her bottom to 100 shocked guests. The couple were not able to take any proper photographs of the ceremony, their lawyer said, because of the bride’s semi-naked state. She is now suing the dress shop in Rapallo for €23,000 compensation for financial loss and moral injury.

Wedding dresses have featured in various cases in different jurisdictions. In 2002, Jennifer Lucier Mora sued the Hyatt Tamaya Resort at Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico alleging that it was negligent in failing to take proper steps to avoid disaster. A gust of wind had swept up her dress during the outdoor ceremony; it was then run over by a golf cart that was a part of the proceedings. Her claim was eventually settled out of court.

In 2001, a woman in Scotland spent months searching for the perfect wedding gown, eventually choosing one for £2,000. The dress stayed in tact for her the ceremony but started to split immediately after the vows had been exchanged, so that her husband had to use various desperate manual techniques to prevent the dress disintegrating during the photo sessions. The shop owner defended the woman’s claim for compensation by arguing that she must have treated the dress inappropriately. “You treat a wedding dress as a costume,” the shop owner said, “not like jeans and a sweater.” The sheriff awarded £500 damages, ruling that a wedding dress must “last the course of one day’s wedding activities”.

Wearing a wedding dress, though, is no protection against the law. In September 2006, in Sedgwick County, Kansas, a woman arrived at a courthouse to get married. But when the court clerk entered her name into a computer for her marriage license, two warrants for her arrest came up on the screen. The day ended not with her wearing a gold band on her finger but two bands of silver on her wrists — she was handcuffed and hitched over to the county jail in her wedding dress on a $200,000 bond for probation violations.

Professor Slapper is Director of the Centre for Law at The Open University. His recent book How the Law Works is published by HarperCollins

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