A coffin 25 years in the making, and more

A coffin 25 years in the making

A Florida man has spent the past 25 years building an ornate, Egyptian-style sarcophagus to be buried in. Fred Guentert, 89, has long been fascinated with ancient Egypt, and says he taught himself carpentry to properly build and decorate the elaborate cedar-wood coffin, adorned with images of Egyptian gods. “I am almost finished,” Guentert says. “I do have one last wish before I am placed into the box—that everyone makes sure I am dead before they close it.”

Will Kathryn leave Rush?

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Rush Limbaugh’s wife threatened to leave him after he called a birth-control advocate a “slut” and a “prostitute,” says the National Enquirer. The 61-year-old radio host recently apologized for his angry attacks on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, which cost him more than 150 advertisers. Sources say Limbaugh is also in danger of losing his fourth wife, Kathryn, 35, who is “fit to be tied” over the incident, and has “warned him in no uncertain terms that he better stop using words like ‘slut’ for any woman.” Limbaugh is heeding the warning, said the source, since “he couldn’t face life without her.”

Convar Deutschland's bad marketing campaign

In a marketing campaign that backfired, the German data-recovery firm Convar Deutschland last week mailed 40 packages to major German companies, each containing an alarm clock glued to a hard drive, with a note reading, “Your time is running out.” This resulted in panic and bomb scares in dozens of offices in Bonn, Berlin, and Frankfurt. The firm said in a statement that it had merely intended to “symbolize the fact that time is running out on data safety.”