Finding time to find a wife, and more

Finding time to find a wife

An elderly Nebraska car enthusiast is selling his huge fleet of antique cars so he can free up enough time to find a wife. Former drywall worker Jerry Andreasen, 74, says he spent so much time and energy acquiring and restoring his 90 classic cars that he “never had time for anything else” and has “never been on a date.” Andreasen’s plan now is to sell the cars and “look for a wife, and I don’t care if she has half a dozen kids.’’

How Marilyn Monroe stayed so svelte

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Marilyn Monroe maintained her beguiling figure through a diet of raw eggs, steak, carrots, and ice cream, says the Daily Mail (U.K.). The voluptuous Hollywood sex goddess, who entranced politicians, playwrights, and great athletes, laid out her fitness regime in an article published 50 years ago. She said she began her day with a “slimming” breakfast of two raw eggs in warm milk, and had broiled steak, liver, or lamb chops for dinner with a handful of raw carrots. “It’s a good thing I eat simply during the day,” she noted, because she had taken to having a hot-fudge sundae every evening. To stay toned, she said, she worked out for 10 minutes a day. “I couldn’t stand exercise if I had to feel regimented about it,” said Marilyn.

A new kind of traffic cop

A Chinese woman frustrated about speeding cars roaring past her house is using a sex doll to slow them down. Lin Chen, 67, purchased the inflatable female, dressed it in sexy red lingerie, and positioned it in her garden in view of passing motorists. Most of them now hit the brakes in order to get a better look. “It isn’t a method we would use,” said a local police spokesman, “but we can’t say it isn’t working.”