SLEAZY SATURDAY

Bright and early as I begin to type this. 7 AM on Saturday, rain falling down...again.
Why is it a sleazy Saturday? Well, better question. Why is NOT a sleazy Saturday? Yeah! Ask yourself THAT question! Here's some shtuff...





YOU DON'T KNOW *WHAT*?!
My friend has always told me it's weird, I don't think it is. But I tend to remember specific dates very well. So it's almost painful for me to see something that fulfills such an old, tired stereotype.

According to a new survey, just under HALF of men say they don't know their anniversary date.

And get this, married guys under 25 are the WORST about it! And they are the ones who've been married for the shortest amount of time! 62% can't remember their anniversary date. Men over 55 are the best, only 33% can't remember. Which is still one out of three.

Only 3% of women surveyed said they'd ever forgotten an anniversary, even just once.

The survey also found that about one out of four guys has forgotten to buy flowers for a special occasion, and had to grab them from a gas station.

This one has always amazed me (not in a good way)...one in five women say they've bought flowers for THEMSELVES because they knew their boyfriend or husband wasn't romantic enough to do it.

Guys? Buy your girl flowers every now and then. Plain and simple.








BIKINI SEASON IS FAST APPROACHING...
...and it seems like everyone is headed to the gym to get ready for it! If you want to lose weight, don't waste your time with self-motivation and desire and personal pep talks. That stuff never works anyway. No, a new study found that if you really want to lose weight...just find a rich guy to GAMBLE on your diet. (???)

The study is out of England and it found that THE most effective weight loss plan involved BRIBERY. Basically, if people had good enough financial incentive to lose weight, they'd take it off and keep it off.

In the study, more than HALF of the people earning money for weight loss dropped 5% of their body weight...that's eight pounds for someone who weighs 160. They got an average bribe of $360 to lose that weight.








+1 FOR GUYS IN SKINNY JEANS...
Last week, a 24-year-old man was walking home in Hoboken, New Jersey when two punks tried to rob him at gunpoint.

They were able to steal his cell phone, but couldn't get his wallet...because his pants were SO TIGHT that they couldn't get it out. The police are still looking for the robbers.

Um yeah, even if they fight crime...I'm NOT cramming myself into a pair of those anytime soon.







FIERCE NATURE
According to the National Weather Service, there were 226 tornados recorded in the U.S. from Wednesday morning to Thursday morning...which is a record for a 24-hour period. The previous record was 148 tornados in April of 1974.








TORNADO RELIEF: SHEEN STYLE
CHARLIE SHEEN toured a neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Alabama earlier this week that had been decimated by tornadoes. And he vowed to organize a benefit for the locals.

He said, "I want to bring some money, hope, faith and healing to the area."

Charlie...who was accompanied by "goddess" Natalie Kenly and former Major League baseball player TODD ZEILE...also spent $324 on flashlights for people who are still without electricity.

Charlie posted a picture of the destruction on Twitter, along with the caption, "I'm in Tuscaloosa. It's beyond words. Info coming soon on how you can all help."

Speaking of Charlie's charitable works...his rep says he managed to raise $20,000 for Bryan Stow...the San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten into a coma at Dodger Stadium.

About $13,000 of that came from a combination of Charlie's merchandise sales and donations from the audience at his live show in San Francisco on Saturday night. Charlie kicked in the rest himself.








THE 'STACHE IS BACK!
According to a new survey, beards are back. So are handlebar mustaches, goatees, Fu Manchus, porno 'staches, mutton chops, chin straps, soul patches, Van Dykes, Zappas, and even ZZ Tops.

In the survey, 62% of American men say they've either got some serious facial hair now, or plan to wear facial hair at some point during this calendar year.

And with almost two out of three men going with facial hair, it's reached the point of being a legit trend. Facial hair may be at its most popular point since the '70s.









EMINEM'S NEXT PROJECT...
EMINEM'S next project is an EP that he's putting out with Detroit rapper ROYCE DA 5'9". Together they call themselves BAD MEETS EVIL...with Eminem as "Evil" and Royce as "Bad." The EP, called "Hell: The Sequel", will drop on June 14th.

Eminem and Royce were working together as Bad Meets Evil around the time that Eminem put out his major label debut, "The Slim Shady LP". The disc includes a track with Royce called "Bad Meets Evil".

But as their own musical entity, the only thing they put out was a single in 1999 called "Nuttin' to Do".









THE MAXIM HOT 100 LIST!
"Maxim" magazine released its annual Hot 100 list this week...and they gave the top spot to ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY...the chick who replaced MEGAN FOX in the upcoming "Transformers: Dark of the Moon".

Megan only made it to #17 this year. I'll take heat for saying this, but she's over-rated. There are hotter women for sure! Megan has never topped the Hot 100. In 2009, she made it to #2 behind OLIVIA WILDE. Last year, she dropped to #5. Here's the Top 10...

#1.) Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
#2.) Olivia Munn
#3.) Katy Perry
#4.) Cameron Diaz
#5.) Mila Kunis
#6.) Bar Refaeli
#7.) Anne Hathaway
#8.) Natalie Portman
#9.) Cobie Smulders from "How I Met Your Mother"
#10.) Jennifer Lawrence from "Winter's Bone"

Here are some other highlights from the list...

#15.) Olivia Wilde
#20.) Taylor Swift
#22.) Rihanna
#25.) Britney Spears
#26.) Kate Middleton
#35.) Kim Kardashian
#38.) Lindsay Lohan
#58.) Christina Aguilera
#64.) Miley Cyrus (West Virginia and Tennessee, REPRESENT!)
#75.) Nicki Minaj

One girl from "Jersey Shore" made the cut. It was J-Woww at #78.
Want to see them all? Of course you do!
http://www.maxim.com/amg/GIRLS/Articles/2011+Hot+100







THE BOYBAND REUNION PARTY ROLLS ON...
The '80s R&B group NEW EDITION has announced that they're reuniting to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough single, "Candy Girl".

Everyone is coming back...Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe and Ralph Tresvant.

The reunion will launch with a gig at this year's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans on July 3rd. More details on their future are forthcoming.

Ricky Bell says, "This is just the beginning. We're preparing for a world tour and many other exciting things that we'll be announcing soon.

"The next chapter of New Edition is going to be an incredible celebration to thank our fans for all of their support over the last 30 years."
And to generate some INCOME. He didn't say that, but you know that's what it's all about!

New Edition has been on-again, off-again since shutting things down in 1997 after their last radio hit, "I'm Still In Love With You". They released an album called "One Love" in 2004, but Bobby Brown wasn't a part of that.

Bobby did re-join the group in 2005...but aside from some shows, nothing long-term ever materialized. Over the past few years, members of New Edition have worked together, here and there, on various side projects.








STUPID BABY NAMES
As far as stupid baby names go, it's dangerous territory when you start raggin' on people's precious little miracles. So let's do it.

Laura Wattenberg is the author of a baby name book called "The Baby Name Wizard", and instead of running the usual studies to find out which baby names are most popular, she went the other direction and found out which names are DISLIKED.

For boys, names with an "aiden" sound dominated the list. The top four most disliked are Jayden, Brayden, Aiden, and Kaden...and Hayden came in sixth.

The rest of the top 10 are Hunter coming in fifth, then Bentley seventh, then Tristan, Michael, and Jackson.

For girls, the most disliked name was Nevaeh. That's "heaven" backwards. I've never even heard of such a ridiculous name, but OK.
The rest of the list includes Madison, Mackenzie (HEY!!!), McKenna, Addison, Gertrude, Kaitlyn, Makayla, Bertha, and Hope.

Wattenberg's study also found some trends about disliked names. Usually the names that came out of nowhere to become popular experience a backlash. So do masculine names that suddenly become feminine, and weird spellings.

Some people go the other direction and just hate traditional names, which is how a name like Michael made the top 10.

According to the most recent Social Security Administration data, in 2009, the most popular boys' baby names were Jacob, Ethan, and Michael...and for girls it was Isabella, Emma, and Olivia.








DOMESTIC TOPS IMPORTED...
America's riding a strong wave of patriotism right now, and apparently that applies to getting hammered too: When the vast majority of the country drinks beer, they drink AMERICAN.

A new national survey by Rasmussen Reports found that 69% of Americans choose a domestic beer over an import when they drink. 22% go for the import.

The rest either don't drink beer or don't have any preference.

But it's more divided when it comes to drinking a regular beer or a light one. Light actually gets more votes, 49% to 46%.

BUDWEISER was the most popular beer in the survey...25% of people said that they'd choose a Bud or Bud Light.

Miller came in second, at 19%. Sam Adams was third at 7%.

Coors, Heineken, Corona, Pabst Blue Ribbon, (WOOO!!! PBR!!! TALLBOYS!!! ahem...) and Guinness all followed, getting between 3% and 6% of the vote.

The survey also found that women are more likely to go for a Bud while men are more likely to go for Miller.








TROUBLE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP? IS THIS WHY?
According to a new study, having a good, satisfying relationship is EASY. All you've got to do is pay the bills on time and pay attention to how much your partner WEIGHS. I'm calling BS right now! Ehhh, read on...

Dr. Robert Epstein is a psychologist from Harvard, and he just finished up a study that found there are really only TWO keys to a good relationship: Knowledge and life skills.

Knowledge includes things like your partner's likes and dislikes, their hopes and dreams, and yes, their weight and clothing sizes.

Life skills include things like paying the bills on time and managing stress. (And, I'm assuming, bringing the heat in the bedroom. That never hurts.)

If you both focus on knowledge and life skills, you'll be SHOCKED at how much better your relationship will get and how satisfied you'll both be.

Epstein says the one you have to stay the most updated on is your partner's hopes and dreams. Those change and shift a lot, but if you know what they are, you can be more supportive...and understand your partner's behavior better.








GUYS AND THE 'ILY' BOMB...
I've done stories before about how men say "I love you" first. But those were generally magazine surveys and this one's an actual scientific study, for whatever that's worth.

This study proves what we've always known about men. Deep down, all men have a romantic side...and the easiest way to crack through to that romantic side is to directly tie it to SEX.

In a new study in the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology", two out of three couples reported that the man dropped the "I love you" bomb first.

When a man says "I love you" in a relationship, he does it six weeks earlier than in a relationship where the woman says it first.

BUT...his intentions might not exactly be pure.

Men were FAR more likely to say "I love you" first in relationships where there hadn't been any sex yet. In other words...yeah, he loves you, but he also subconsciously suspects that saying "I love you" will finally get him some action.








THIS IS DISGUSTING AND DISTURBING...
...and I'd usually crack a joke about the city it took place in, but I won't. The residents of that city are no doubt just as disgusted over this story.

On April 9th, a 17-year-old, whose name wasn't released, was near PNC Park in Pittsburgh after a Pittsburgh Pirates game.

He spotted a PNC Park usher having a HEART ATTACK in his car. The usher was 58-year-old Michael Schacht.

And the 17-year-old responded by...are you ready?...pulling Michael out of the car, going through his pockets, ROBBING HIM, stealing his car, and LEAVING HIM TO DIE!!!

And Michael *did die* because no one else saw him, no one else called 911, no one else tried to get him to a hospital.

The idiot, POS kid left his iPod behind when he abandoned the car the next day, and police used it to track him down.

He's been arrested with car theft and robbery as a juvenile. There are no charges for allowing another human being to die while you rob them. But there should be. Personally, I think he needs to be eletricuted and hopefully forced into a heart attack of his own.








ADELE...SAY WHAT!?!?
British pop minx ADELE has a dirty little secret. RIHANNA? Adele would TOTALLY DO HER. (!!!) She says, "If Rihanna wanted me, I'd do it with her. She's hot."

Adele is straight...but something happened when she saw Rihanna on Britain's "X Factor" last year. She explains, "She had pinstripe flares on. She whipped them off and there were her stunning thighs.

"I said to all my girlfriends: 'Are you feeling a bit gay right now?'"

Wowza!








PASS ME MY LOOFAH...
According to a new report, liquid body wash has finally passed bar soap as the most popular soap product in the country.

Body wash accounts for about 40% of the soap and shower market in the U.S.

Between 2009 and 2014, liquid body wash sales are projected to go up 35%.