It all began 30 years ago today. The mother lode of all spam - the bane of everyone's online existence - was first sent out via the U. S. Defense Department's Arpanet by a salesman named Gary Thuerk. The first junk mail or "Spam" as we know it today, was an invitation for a demo of the new system-20 mini computers being marketed by the Digital Equipment Corp.

A 92-year old man's recent marriage was quickly annulled after a judge deemed him unable to manage his responsibilities as a husband. The annulment was on the first ever marriage of Alfred Kreisler, a South Florida lawyer who married 43-year old divorcee Yvette Penichet October of last year.

A Tokyo High Court has overturned a Japanese pin up model's conviction after her breast size casted doubt on the testimony against her. Serena Kozakura, 38, had her conviction for willful destruction of property overturned after her lawyers successfully argued she couldn't have committed the crime with breasts so large. The model allegedly kicked in a wooden door to a man's room and crawled inside, to reportedly catch him with another woman. In her appeal, her attorneys held up a plate showing the size of the hole in the door and said Kozakura could not possibly squeeze her 44-inch chest through the opening.

xtramarital affairs and mid-life crisis were the most common cause of marriage breakdown, according to the results of the survey of 100 leading divorce lawyers in England and Wales conducted by chartered accountants Grant Thornton. The survey revealed that 29 percent of divorces last year were due to extramarital affairs (from 32 percent previously) and 14 percent were because of mid-life crisis. In majority or 93 percent of mid-life crises, the man was the one who was undergoing the crisis.

A local judge threatened prosecutors of contempt, due to the constant objections raised as witnesses were being questioned on the stand. Describing them as "obnoxious, ridiculous, abundant and useless objections", Judge Sean R. Delahanty warned County Attorney Irv Maze and his prosecutors against the panel's multiple objections.