brianne and i devised a fun new game on the drive home from my parents today. we were talking about how the combination of bennifer really discounts how we feel about each of them, while standalone they are both ok. so we devised a game where we break up celebrity couples and match them with better people
jennifer lopez + derek jeter
ben affleck + heather graham
nicole kidman + jude law
lenny kravitz + halle berry
tom cruise + jules asner
penelope cruz + olivier martinez
ashton kutcher + tara reid (duh)
demi moore + hugh jackman
from snopes.com, your leading source for urban legend
"Nothing in the various "sex bracelet" news stories we've pawed through indicates girls are actually using these fashion items to declare willingness to engage in various acts, or that boys are breaking the bracelets off of girls in the belief that so doing grants them a right to claim what they think has been advertised. Rather, the bannings are an attempt to unring a bell — to return children to a time when they weren't so focused on sex."
another article in the Chicago Tribune points out the blatant heresy in the whole sex bracelets steaming pile of crap.
"However, recent attempts to find even one teen in the Chicago area who could verify the trend turned up only hoots of derision and more than a few "yucks." And if you check out the reliable Urban Legends Reference Pages (www.snopes.com), the consensus is that the fad is an inside joke ... on adults.
Dr. Cynthia Mears, head of adolescent medicine at Children's Memorial Hospital, sees these bracelets on the arms of many of her young patients, and says the young people do call them "sex bracelets."
Yet when she asks them if that's really what happens, "they giggle and say, `Of course not.' They'd never do that! But some in the media must assume kids are that stupid," she said. "A bracelet is not going to make a child have sex. Sometimes kids do dumb things to keep up their image, but most kids would not think of wearing sex on their sleeves, you know?"
so, for all you nervous wreck parents who have been flooding this site with search requests for more information on these dirty dirty little plastic rings, i hope this will help you sleep better at night. susie will not sleep with bobby just because he pulled off her bracelet in "snaps". she is not the blow job queen of her elementary school because her arm is filled with blue bracelets. blue just happens to be her favorite color. remember? her room is blue? her comforter? her coat? her nails? her favorite doll's dress? yeah.