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  • Elton Brand is looking like yet another big money bust for the Sixers. The $80 million forward is going to have season-ending shoulder surgery on Monday.
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  • A Pennsylvania dog groomer thought she had come up with the perfect sideline for her business: Piercing kittens' ears and necks and marketing them as "gothic" over the Internet. Holly Crawford, 34, said she didn't think she was doing anything wrong when she decided to pierce her black kittens and attempt to sell them for hundreds of dollars apiece. Humane officers disagreed, charging her this week with cruelty and conspiracy in a case that has sparked outrage among animal lovers.
  • Daniel Rubin's column today features the unfortunate plight of one Dr. Herman I. Libshitz, a retired radiologist and Philadelphia native. The doctor and his wife recently sought to upgrade their dial-up AT&T service to high-speed DSL via Verizon. The reason? Contained in his name is the first of George Carlin's seven dirty words. Because Verizon seems to think that everyone applying for an account with them is a twelve-year-old schoolboy who titters at every obscenity he hears, the sixty-nine-year-old doctor, to whose name Verizon doesn't seem to object when they send him his bills, is currently relying on a dial-up connection, 1999 style. Libshitz's plight got us to thinking, though: what other names might Verizon flag and forbid from service? Do your best in the comments!

    If only the folks at My Home 2.0 could use this technology to teach people how to play ball...

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