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Jerricho Cotchery, Guy Whimper, and all the funniest names in the NFL. (Asylum)

Single friends-of-friends might just make a Super Bowl party appearance this weekend: tips for scoring a date! (TresSugar)

In the face of appetizer temptation, will you stay strong? How to make sure Super Bowl weekend doesn't turn into super-size weekend. (CollegeCandy)

Afternoon eye candy, Super Bowl edition. What, you thought we watched for the love of the sport? Kidding. (SheChive)
Who has time to make buffalo wings from scratch? Certainly not us. Here's a cheat sheet for the best frozen ones, straight from the good ol' supermarket. (Slashfood)
OMG, cute: The line-up is out for Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl VI. Grrr. (Guyism)
If you've already pregamed for the weekend to the point where rational thought is out of the question, use this handy flowchart for easy decision-making. (HolyTaco)

Ever wonder what you'd look like as a Jersey Shore girl? No? Ever shuddered at the thought of looking like a Jersey Shore girl?



Either way, you'll get some answers at Jerzify Yourself. Just upload a photo of yourself, do a little adjusting, and voila! Guidette! For the fun of it, we turned one of our grandpas into a Guido. The eyes and the mouth are a little off, we admit ... but the HOT background music more than made up for it.

Come on, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with the concept. How could we help but play along? Bet you can't, either ...

Usually when someone calls me a whore, slut or bitch, they're paying $3 per minute for the privilege. So I can't help but note the irony when people who consider themselves ethically and morally superior use these same words in an attempt to insult me.

In the week since my post on phone sex and acting ran, I've been told via the Internet that I am naïve, smug, disgusting, a disgrace to womanhood, a cocky bitch, a whore ... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

A commenter over on Digg wrote, "She looks like she was molested as a child." Really? He can tell that just by looking at my head shot? Ignorant and ludicrous. For the record, I have never been abused, molested or raped. I understand people want an easy explanation to dismiss why anyone would choose to work in the sex industry, but the assumption that all sex workers are past victims is false. Part of why I choose to be honest about my work is to dispel these misconceptions.

It is no accident that I wrote about two extreme fantasies -- the strongest sexual triggers are often rooted in those things a particular individual finds most taboo. A Journal of Sex Research article analyzed studies conducted over the past 30years and found that anywhere from 31 to 57 percent of women have had rape fantasies. Many female friends have admitted as much, yet no woman I know wants to actually be raped. I'm not going to argue feminist theory or sexual psychology here, I will simply say that people fantasize about things they do not necessarily want to happen to them in real life.

How to wear makeup with eyewear! Now why didn't anyone give us this info, like, 10 years ago? (BellaSugar)

Getting more sleep means that you're "being good to yourself." Whatever. Any excuse to hit the snooze button is gravy in our books. (Glamour)

While Super Bowl ads generally provide just as much entertainment as the game itself, they're not always so chuckle-inducing. Case in point: the 10 worst of all time. (CollegeHumor)
Celebs dish on how they groom their hoo-hah hair. Oddly, it's TMI that we can't stop reading. (YourTango)
You didn't have to give up your daybed in second grade because, as it happens, they are the height in chic apartment decor. (Apartment Therapy)
David Letterman has added a woman to his writing staff: yay! But she's the only: nay! (Jezebel)

All photos from linked blogs.

Usually, we find beer commercials funny -- like the Miller Lite online dating spoof, or those Coors spots with the coaches. And that's good, because this Sunday we're going to be bombarded with them. I'm just hoping that none of the Super Bowl debuts will paint women in a shallow, needy light like this Miller Lite commercial:


This commercial has been airing all football season, and every time it comes on, it makes my blood boil. Watching this whiny, needy chick ask her boyfriend to choose her over his dog and his mom? Well, as fellow Lemondrop editor Julieanne says, this "makes us sound like shrill a-holes." And that little storm-away-from-the-table hissy fit that follows? Drives us up a wall. Pretty much all the girls I know -- and most guys, too -- drink light beer when we're watching the game or with friends. I don't know why they feel like they have to alienate half their audience.

Seeing Miller cast us as childish, attention-seeking brats makes me want to slam down my Miller Lite and become a Bud girl. Amirite, ladies?

Terri Carlson has been proposed to well over 1,000 times this week.

The 45-year-old divorced mother from California has taken her search for a husband worldwide via YouTube, and while she says she is looking for love, there's something she's looking for even more: health insurance.

"I don't care what you look like. But what I do care about is how good your health insurance is. So, you want me to respond to you? Attach your health-care benefit information," she practically purrs into the Web cam.

Below the video, a line of comments continues to grow: "I sent you a message an hour ago on a different video, but let me add, with military insurance, as long as we use a military doctor, it's free and it's for life. I offer this to you. Contact me!"

"I am not a drinker, and I don't smoke or ever hit a woman. I don't argue, I am 55, decent-looking and financially responsible," says one potential husband.

Another reply simply states, "Give Canada a shot."

The attention is flattering, but Carlson also knows that the flirting could save her life.

Tired of waiting for health-care reform that she no longer believes is coming, last week she launched Will Marry for Health Insurance, a Web site on which she lays herself, and her problems, out for all the world to see. Ever since, the media has flocked.

But is she a savvy victim, a poster woman for the uninsured masses? Or maybe even a reality TV star in the making? After the jump, Lemondrop's exclusive interview with the embattled mom.