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For over ten years Dudleydil E. Gent has been the purchasing manager for Effervescent Electronics, at one time supervising as many as ten purchasing agents. Due to the failing economy and lagging sales and in a desperate attempt to save his company, the Effervescent owner Julius C. Dithers directed four forced layoffs in the last…

Corrie O. Graff and Dan Saul Knight are ice dancers competing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.  Graff and Knight have lived together for eight years in a North Dallas apartment adjacent to the Galleria, where they sneak onto the ice each night after the mall closes.   Besides competing together, the two have also…

Daneka Dodgy blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for her veering her sponsor’s million-dollar sports car into on-coming traffic near Galveston, crashing into Wilma Woondednee’s car and overturning it so that Wilma’s driver’s side hit and then slid along the roadway. The luxury French-built Bugatti Veyron provided to Daneka by her sponsor…

New Year’s Resolutions. Like the rest of the country did you personally resolve to get fit, lose weight, drink less, manage your debt better or get organized? What about your business life? In a slight departure from our usual monthly banter, Tilting the Scales offers 6 business resolutions (we resolved to come up with 10…

Gurglin’ Guideon Cavatelli is upset with his boss Shank Brisket. Cavatelli and his fellow believers at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster celebrate the third Wednesday in December by taking a pilgrimage to the Great Pasta Patch to try to catch the Flying Spaghetti Monster rising up to spread carbohydrate girth and mirth to…

Johnny Tightlips, a local mobster, is facing time behind bars for various racketeering offenses. During the trial, the New York Daily Planet reported that Tightlips was a “key lieutenant” of Jimmy “The Squid” Calamari, an organized crime figure, and that Tightlips planned to reduce his jail time by cooperating with prosecutors to testify against The…

Hogeye County Sheriff Zukie Bonnett helped upright a Slyme-Yu Haulers sludge truck yesterday. It overturned in front of the local elementary school and several tons of waste solids from the Yellow River wastewater treatment plant spilled onto the children’s playground. The spill was caught on video and is now on TheyTube, an internet video site.…

Sal Minella is president and registered agent of Mother Clucking Tasty Chicken, a large poultry processor in East Texas. One afternoon, while flying the coop for a much needed vacation to the Canary Islands, Sal is met by a process server who presents him with a lawsuit. Sal quickly skims the allegations of the lawsuit…

The newspapers recently reported the story of woman who filed suit seeking a $100,000+ recovery from her landlord and former neighbor for damages allegedly caused by cigarette smoke drifting through the adjoining walls of their upscale townhome.  Sue Yu alleges that construction defects at the Tiffany Townhomes allowed Marilyn Marlboro’s (her neighbor) cigarette smoke to…