The youths infatuation with tattoos shows that they don't recognize the concept of permanence, and they reject the idea of skin growing old on them. Tattoos are such a turn off. They scream "skank" or "trailer trash." Another fashion that needs to go: Wearing pants at half mast. Ugh -- Dang.

4. I'm watching a women's volleyball game on TV right now, and if the 2-piece suits they're wearing get ANY SMALLER, they MIGHT AS WELL be wearing thongs! (Soft-porn meets network sports events?) (Volleyball cheesecake?) I don't know about you, but I'd get paranoid if I had to parade around, 75% nude, chasing volleyballs, not only in front of the crowd, but on network TV! -- CDADave.

Olivia Newton-John's fire escape

Celebrities who live in the area include Jennifer Aniston, Pierce Brosnan, Sting, Mel Gisbon, Bill Murray, Robert Redford, Courteney Cox and her husband David Arquette, Tom Hanks, Richard Gere, Goldie Hawn, Sean Penn and David Duchovny.

Futurepedia: The tragic nature of Nick Saban

November 2007: After a three-game losing streak against LSU, Mississippi State and Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama's $4 million-per-year coach Nick Saban challenged his players to unify and reverse their fortunes. "Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event. It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, and that was a catastrophic event." A school spokesman later clarified that Saban was not directly comparing the outcomes of football games to those invasions of the homeland. The thousands of innocent people killed in those events could not be reached for comment.

December 2007: Following an Iron Bowl loss to Auburn and an Independence Bowl loss to Colorado that ended the Crimson Tide's year with a five-game losing streak, Saban summed up the disappointment of his first year at the helm of the storied program by saying it felt like "riding off the top of the Empire State Building on a bicycle that had no seat, and I landed on the pole that held the seat when I hit the ground." A school spokesman later clarified that Saban was not directly comparing the inept first season to fantasy dares that third-graders make in their elementary school cafeterias.

Ronnie Thomson Touched Many Lives

MACON, GA (BRAIN)Ronnie Thomson didn't live to see 69 this Thursday, but he did live long enough to touch everyone in the bicycle industry including most of all his employees. "Ronnie always said the best marketing was to have the best product," said The L.H. Thomson Company marketing manager David Parrett. "He expected the very best out of all of us and anyone who did business with us." Thomson passed away in the middle of the night at his home over the weekend. Parrett said that Thomson was recovering from bladder cancer, but said his "sudden" death had nothing to do with that, and more likely was a "stroke or heart attack." "Ronnie was always like a father figure," said Karen Glass, accounts coordinator for the company, who had known Thomson for almost 10 years. "I know this will be a rough road for the entire Thomson family.

Student deaths prompt UF officials to stress safety

Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks are around the corner, leaving UF officials worried that some students might not make it back to school after the holidays.An average of about 20 UF students die each calendar year, said Gene Zdziarski, UF dean of students.Most of those deaths occur in traffic accidents when students commute to or from school for holiday breaks, Zdziarski said. .