This is 33-year-old Tangelia Brown.
Tangelia Brown lived in a two-story apartment with her five kids and her 24-year-old boyfriend, Antonio Swanson.
Antonio Swanson, apparently wise beyond his years, seemed to have recognized the benefits of having an older girlfriend and stuck around for a while.
After a few rocky patches during their relationship - which mostly consisted of Antonio finding younger, more attractive women to sleep with - Tangelia Brown and Antonio Swanson seemed determined to take a stab at making things work.
Until about 7 in the evening on the 13th of September, 2008, that is.
After an argument with Tangelia about certain extracurricular activities he had been engaging in with another woman, Antonio Swanson packed up his stuff, threw it in his car and moved to Alaska, where he changed his name to Telly McSweeney and got work as a deckhand on a fishing boat.
Ha! Just kidding! No, in reality Tangelia Brown stabbed Antonio Swanson in the chest with a knife, puncturing his lung, which led to a rapid and fatal case of death.
Tangelia Brown’s 13-year-old daughter was listening to the argument while she was in another room. Hearing the argument stop, she wandered into the room her mom and Antonio were in and found her mom’s boyfriend on the floor, bleeding but still alive and breathing. As the two Browns watched Mr. Swanson expire - which took less than three minutes - Tangelia told her daughter that she had stabbed Antonio Swanson and killed him.
Tangelia Brown knew that she had to do something about the dead guy in her apartment, but she knew that she’d have a really hard time moving the body out by herself. Antonio Swanson wasn’t a small man, weighing in somewhere between 250 and 300 pounds, depending on how many whole chickens he’d eaten that day, and moving his dead weight to a place of concealment would be problematic.
Faced with a tough problem, Tangelia Brown decided to think about it for a while. Thinking’s hard to do when your ex-boyfriend is lying on the floor and staining your carpet with his blood, however, so Tangelia enlisted the help of her 13-year-old daughter to push and roll Antonio’s body down the stairs to the first floor of the apartment.
They left him there for a few hours while Tangelia Brown mulled over her options for disposing of the body. Tangelia wasn’t particularly creative, so some of the more interesting methods that some PYSIH.com readers might be aware of didn’t occur to her. Instead, she just called up her good friend, Tatilla Phipps, and told her they needed to dump a body somewhere that it wouldn’t be found.
Tatilla Phipps didn’t bat an eye at the phone call, which says a good deal about her. She even had the foresight to grab a few plastic trash bags from work, knowing that they would come in useful.
So, early on a Sunday morning, Tatilla Phills, Tangelia Brown and her 13-year-old daughter wrapped up Antonio Swanson’s corpse in plastic garbage bags and pulled it outside. Once the body was outside, the girls pulled together - just like in Road Rules - and managed to maneuver it into a conveniently-located shopping cart.
Once the corpse was in the cart, the testosterone-challenged trio pushed that cart to a nearby wooded area close to the apartment complex and dumped the body next to an abandoned house. Covering Antonio Swanson’s remains with sticks, branches, leaves and an old tire, the ladies called it a day and headed back to the apartment where they spent some time cleaning up blood.
On Wednesday morning, the 17th of September, 2008, a jogger running through the area quickly, so as to avoid a mugging, came across Antonio Swanson’s body. While it hasn’t been detailed in reports, you can imagine that after 3 days and nights in the open air, exposed to the elements and the animals that like to chew on dead things, Antonio’s body was less than fresh.
It didn’t take long for police to identify the body and to ask Tangelia Brown a few questions. It also didn’t take long for Tatilla Phipps to roll over on her friend and give all the details. And it didn’t take much longer for Tangelia to confess to stabbing her boyfriend once in the chest because he was sleeping with another woman and she “just snapped.”
Tangelia Brown was charged with murder. Her daughter will not be charged with anything. Prosecutors are still debating on whether or not Tatilla Phipps will face charges.
All five of Tangelia’s children are now in a single foster home that will hopefully not expose them to any more murders anytime soon. All the children, but especially the 13-year-old, will be given counseling.
If you don’t go out and buy three years of NetDetective for $29 bucks, you and your entire family could possibly die.
It’s that serious.
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And I get to be first!!! Yes!!!
Maybe Miss Brown could consider investing in some power tools, like a band saw or maybe even a wood chipper. Never know when one will come in handy.
I guess she should of read PYSIH.COM for some creative disposal techniques.
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Kim reply on October 17th, 2008:
Wow, the wood chipper idea actually entered my mind a few times while I was going through my divorce. hahahahha. I never did anything like that of course, but hey, who says one can’t dream? hahhahahaha. Stupid people crack me up.
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I HATE my ex. He is a lazy, cheating, dope smoking, lying scum bag. Plenty of times i could easliy have stabbed him with the kitchen knife or smacked him in the head with the big skillet. Would have felt really satisfying i think.
Instead i packed his bags and threw his pleading, begging for another chance,” i swear it will be different this time”, ass out the door. I figured it would be less traumatic for the children this way and i wouldnt have to clean up his blood…
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Mulch reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Damn Amy I’m sarting to like you.
Did about the same with my wife this year. Got tired of the bitching and the moaning and the sleeping around…..No drugs thank God.
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AmericanPsycko reply on September 23rd, 2008:
plus you like it when he comes around for “comfort” when things go wrong with his girlfriend…but that’s just my imagination…murder is a lot more fun, weeee. and mulch, drugs are not wrong if you know a good hook up, grow up, ha ha ha ha, losers
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letterfacts reply on September 23rd, 2008:
wow, and i’ve always seen the drug users as the losers b/c, well, their pretty stupid…. but anyway, i guess that just comes from a sane, intelligent person…. *sigh* lol
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whiteiris reply on September 27th, 2008:
Ok, this is a perfect example of why it’s a crime for pot to be a crime. AmericanPsycko obviously not a “drug” supporter just making light of the “No drugs, thank god” comment. And letterfacts automatically calling himself “intelligent” for thinking drugs are bad. Why is “pot’ considered a drug. When we go get a six pack or a pack of smokes we do not say “Oh, I am going to get some drugs! Back in a few.” In other words the real loosers are actually drinking and smoking cigarettes legally and killing people with their cars. When mellow adults who actually work hard all week and choose not to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes or do anything wrong for that matter get called loosers for smoking pot. Loosers are looser with or without pot. Statically it is harmless. And not responsible for any accidents on the road. AmericanPsycko I think I just saw a side of you I actually enjoy. As far as letterfacts, stick to the facts. And stop maing your comments so general. If you are so intelligent you would be alot more specific.
GloryBug reply on September 29th, 2008:
Yeah, whiteiris— like the gentle pot-smoking guy who ran a red light 2 weeks ago while under the influence and hit my fiance and totalled our car.
If you want to sound like an intelligent advocate of pot legalization, please stop promoting it as driver-safe. Driving under the influence of anything is dangerous and selfish.
I’d like pot to be legal. I have permanent chronic pain due to being hit by a car by someone under the influence of being elderly. I’d like to be able to smoke pot for pain, and for cancer patients to have the same option. I’m even ok with it being used recreationally, as booze is.
But you have to draw the line at driving under the influence. That SHOULD be illegal. If my children had been in the car when my fiance was hit by Mr Mellow pot-smoker, they would have been injured, and I’d hardly call that ‘Statistically harmless’.
Yes, losers are losers with or without pot. But anyone who drives under the influence of anything is by default a loser anyway. And it’s stupidity to claim that pot use does not result in accidents. Anything that leaves you less than alert is going to affect your driving skills. My fiance’s recent accident is concrete proof of that.
I am pro-legalization, and won’t use it now because I have children to set an example of abiding by laws for, and avoid doing illegal things now, but it would really help my pain. But being pro-legalization shouldn’t mean you are pro-driving under the influence of anything, legal or not. People who suggest otherwise undermine the legitimate efforts of those who are responsibly pro-legalization.
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Amy reply on September 24th, 2008:
No comfort from me when things go wrong with the girlfriend…although i do get a sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that i am now financially secure, have a great job, the kids are settled, ive lost weight, feel and look great, am married to a great fella…and he is still the same pitiful, lying, cheating, dope smoking, go nowhere, do nothing, looks like shit scumbag who has since been dumped by at least three girlfriend. Sucsess is truely the best revenge.
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The Danger Zone reply on September 24th, 2008:
Vengance, ahhh… That oh so sweet dish that is best served extremely cold over an infinitely long period of time….
Mostly this was dumb with a healthy helping of evil.
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admin reply on September 22nd, 2008:
I don’t think it was that badly written. Give a guy a break.
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You know, I’m gonna “come out” here as an undergrad social work student. That’s right, I’m (hopefully) going to be a social worker someday. So I try to look on the bright side of things.
But even I don’t know if there’s enough counseling in the world to give a 13 year old who had to help her mom get rid of her boyfriend’s body. Good luck, social workers, I’m pulling for you.
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Poor, poor Antonio Swanson! If only he knew the rules about sleeping with Cougars! Everyone knows that there are two types of Cougars:
Cougar Type 1- This type of cougar that hooks up with young, hot, athletic-types. This Cougar thinks like a man in that she’s looking for the hottest-looking guy she can get. It’s all about sex, no strings, no commitment.
Cougar Type 2- This Cougar is confused, she looks for easy sex, but really seeks a committed relationship with a man. She’ll tart herself up and come on strong, but right around the time things start to get intimate, either shortly before or after you boink her, she reveals her true intentions to keep you only to herself.
Ms. Brown was definitely Cougar Type 2, however poor Antonio inadvertently dealt with her as if she was Cougar Type 1 and was slain by the ferocious feline.
Boys, let this be a lesson to you! Know which Cougar type she is before boinking!
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
While i agree with your lesson on the bahaviour patterns of cougar types 1 and 2, im still trying to figure out where Ms Brown fits in. I have this image in my head of a cougar as being sexy, goodlooking and confidant. Im looking at Ms Browns photo and she is definately NOT any of those things.
What she is though, is a good example of why brunette women should not go blonde with a home colouring kit. The orange look is not doing her any favours and takes her from looking 33 to 43. Although i must say that it does blend in nicely with her orange jacket. She will be a colour coded fashion icon in prison when she dons the orange jumpsuit.
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Mulch reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Holy shit that was good.
the woman is honestly vietnamese ugly. Means the only way I’de do her is with a vietnamese flag over her face and fuck her for revenge.
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
LMFAO…
TurtleMania reply on September 25th, 2008:
Sick
MBA-Ms.BadAss reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Attention class!
The basic definition of a cougar:
An older, single women who hunts younger men; cougars want what men want: sex with no strings attached.
No level of beauty or hotness is necessary for the man-eating feline.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Antonio Swanson was obviously legally blind.
Class dismissed.
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I knew as soon as I saw her picture that she looked familiar…took me a few minutes to place her, but anyone who’s seen the movie will know her, too…
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v111/drucifer67/?action=view¤t=goodhuman_deadhuman.flv
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He deserves hell too. He’s the one that cheated on her. He should have left her first.
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
I really dont think that cheating on someone and stabbing someone and causing their death is anywhere near the same thing…but he does deserve hell for the Sideshow Bob hairdo. Im thinking that they share a hairdresser.
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you guys know the saying right?
friends help you move
good friends help you move the body.
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At first, I was going to vote “nope.” I guess I have a soft spot in my heart for people who snap after finding out their worthless boy/girlfriend has been sleeping around. You could say I take deep issue with cheaters.
Still, I ended up voting “Yuppers” (too funny!) because 1) while cheating is deplorable and most people have considered killing an unfaithful partner, death is not warranted. Punishments should always fit offenses and in this case, it doesn’t. Besides, death is an easy way out. A cheater should have to live with the consequences of his/her misdeeds.
2) She was stupid when it came to disposing of the body. Duh, of course it was going to be found! Even bodies that are hidden very well have still been found–and this body wasn’t hidden well at all. It’s like she didn’t even try to not get caught.
3) She traumatised an innocent child. That’s the most hell-worthy thing in this whole incident. It’s bad enough to murder someone, even a no-good, piece-of-shit cheater, but to involve her child in the whole sordid affair was unconscionable.
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Yeah, that poor girl must have been running on adreneline and fear that night.
The days, after she would have been feeling parinoid. The woman should not have put her daughter in that position. We are put here to protect and safeguard our children, not the other way around.
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btw, is it me, or does Tangelia look like a really ugly guy?
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
I dont think ive even seen aguy as ugly as her…she resembles something i saw at the zoo once. Her nose resembles a huge strawberry!!!
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The Danger Zone reply on September 23rd, 2008:
I’m gettin confused here, not bein as bright as Tangy and all, which one is here again? The orange Satan hair or the dreadfulocks?
They both need a shave anyways.
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
LOL…the orange satan hair…the dreadlocked one is the man that got murdured.
“If you don’t go out and buy three years of NetDetective for $29 bucks, you and your entire family could possibly die.”
A little desperate are we? lol
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AmericanPsycko reply on September 23rd, 2008:
i didn’t appreciate that ad one bit myself…it should have read, “eventually your entire family will die” because that actually lends itself to the truth
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The Danger Zone reply on September 23rd, 2008:
So all we have to do to achieve immortality is purchase NetDetective for 29 bucks? Wow! That is so much easier and cheaper than going to church and dropping it in the offerin.
Signin up for ND now!! Whoo Hoo I am now immortal!!!
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Thought this article was the best-written yet. Also I’ll add my name to the list of girls who could’ve, would’ve, and possibly should’ve knifed their ex-boyfriends but instead opted for a boring old breakup.
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eternal reply on September 23rd, 2008:
me, too. that last assbag i dated really took the cake too. but he’s still alive.
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Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Yeah, assholes come and go, but your kids are with you forever. Stuffed if i would give up a lifetime with my kids over some penis skulled fella.
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The Danger Zone reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Feel the same way about a vagina Amy. They come and go but my kids are with me for life, or at least until they graduate college and get married.
Well then, they’ll still have me. I’ll just be their responsibility instead. :))
Amy reply on September 23rd, 2008:
LOL, yeah,I tell my kids all the time that as i wiped their asses and spoon fed them for the first five years of their lives, its their turn to do the same for me in the last five of mine.:)
eternal reply on September 23rd, 2008:
you sound like my husband danger. everytime he has to drive the kids somewhere, he’s like, “i can’t wait for the when i’m old as hell and you guys have to drive me! i’ll gladly hand over my keys cuz you guys will take me everywhere i wanna go and i’m gonna move slow, too!” he also thinks our 3 yr old daughter will put off marriage til she’s 85 to take care of him/keep him company.
i need to inform him of the meaning of patricide. lol
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The Danger Zone reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Patricide? What? No, please do not teach them about Patricide!!! LOL
I can’t even get my 12 year old to clean hair out of the bathtub drain because “it’s gross”.
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ok, so he wasn’t the greatest catch. i wouldn’t give her hell if she only thought about it, but i will give her hell for doing it and enlisting her daughter’s help.
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I though for sure she’d eaten him.
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Amy reply on September 24th, 2008:
Eaten him??? She does look kind of hungry doesnt she…
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MrBastard reply on September 24th, 2008:
She might look hungry but he doesn’t resemble chicken.
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The Danger Zone reply on September 24th, 2008:
They say you are what you eat!! He most definitely looks like he would of tasted like chicken.
eternal reply on September 24th, 2008:
looks more like fish to me.
The Danger Zone reply on September 24th, 2008:
Probably is… At least by time they found him he definitely smelled like fish… Holy Mackeral…
Welcome Back Eternal… Missed ya…
eternal reply on September 24th, 2008:
missed you too, oh dangerous one. but my kids spent the night with grandma so i had to get my “risky business” style dance number out of the way before i could log on.
Parenting at its finest. What in sams hell is wrong with those people??
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Cougar?
Bitch looks more a rhinoceros to me!
Antonio Swanson has that CEO look - NOT!
This looks like trash with trash then trash trashing trash.
While I do feel bad for the child involved, having something as trashy as that and calling it “Mom” kinda tells me that the kid was not going to have much of a chance to begin with. Given that Mommy’s choice for a boyfriend, it did not look like Mommy was concerned about climbing out of the lower class any time soon.
I can understand that Antonio would cheat, but damn, his choice in women wasn’t that great to begin with!
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The Danger Zone reply on September 24th, 2008:
Really, he had nowhere to go but up looking at her picture and biography.
I guess she was just meant to be a starter bitch. Sorta like a starter home.
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Questionable Poon reply on September 24th, 2008:
Heh.
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Fred reply on September 25th, 2008:
I am basing what I said in the fact that she’d let such a POS stick his dick between her legs.
They both lowered themselves for each other - he’s looking for a hot piece of meat, but took her so he’d have soomeone and she could have done better for herself as well.
I’ve made the mistake of getting involved with trash and the reality of it is that trash usually brings people down, rarely dos trash really leave the garbage can.
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The Danger Zone reply on September 25th, 2008:
Your wrong Fred, it does to leave the garbage can. How do you think it makes it to the dump.
Of course, their is that little ride on the garbage compressing truck first.
Amy reply on September 25th, 2008:
I have a mate who labels women like Tangelia, ” Tripple F women.”
A fuck, a Feed and a Fool who’ll put up with his shit.
Yeah he is a pig, but he’s got it about right.
TurtleMania reply on September 29th, 2008:
Fred, I bet she got some big golden brown tits for ya. Don’t deny it Fred - you know you want it.
CLM reply on September 26th, 2008:
LOL
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Dumb-ass should have called the cops the moment that guy fell down. She probably could have got less jail time with a “crime of passion” charge. But now she has to face charges trying to hide the body etc. Plus her dumb friend will get jail time too. One simple call could have saved them $300 on their car insurance.
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The Danger Zone reply on September 25th, 2008:
Wow Turtle… That is very insightful there. I will remember, next time I kill a POS to call the cops and GEICO!!
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Amdin - we need new faces.
As I am recovering from my heart attack, I am becoming well enough for sex again, but every time I see the picture of Tangelia the mighty oak becomes a wet noodle!
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Amy reply on September 26th, 2008:
PMSL…
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Max The Cat reply on September 27th, 2008:
Really Fred, sorry to hear about the ticker buddy. I’ve had three myself. The first in 1993 when I was 33, and the last in 1996. I’ve had a double bypass, a couple of angioplasties, and a defibrillator installed in my chest. I’, almost 50 now and show no signs of of new trouble, so they can and do work miracles nowadays. Considering I didn’t stop doing drugs until about 6 years ago, I’d say you have a outstanding chance than I do of living a long, happy life. Anyways, goodluck….
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Fred reply on September 30th, 2008:
Glad to hear that you were able to clean up.
I hope that sobriety/clean life has been good to you. I know of a girl who is tryingto clean up and the past still comes back to haunt her every so often as so many are quite unforgiving or should I say more like vengeful.
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Max The Cat reply on September 30th, 2008:
Yeah man, some people have long memories, and they can be pretty vicious…I’ve learned there’s nothing I can do about them except remember that the way they feel was bought and paid for by me. I get plenty of satisfaction out of knowing I’m not adding people to that ‘hate my guts’ list, and that’s good enough for now.
Amy reply on September 27th, 2008:
Healthy lifestyle makes so much difference too. I used to be overweight, had high bloodpressure and high colesterol. The Doc said i was a heart attack waiting to happen. I looked at my kids playing one day and cried because i didnt have the energy to join them. I decided then that it was time for a change.
Out went the fatty, fried foods, choccies and booze and it was salads, veges and exersize from then on.
Now im 34 kilo’s lighter, off my blood pressure and cholesterol meds and spend time every day kicking the footy or shooting hoops with the kids. Life is grand!!
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Fred reply on September 30th, 2008:
I do not know how healthy I will go, but a reduction of crap - I loved my rich foods, so it’s not a major change of life as I was not a major junk food junkie nor was i a smoker either.
I’ll have to see how much of the chlorestoral was from diet vs, just me.
I am glad tha you made the change and was able to really live agaon.
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Fred please never refer to your….As a wet “noodle again”. It’s just not fair. I am too young to even think about wet noodles!
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This bitch looks like the missing link.
Did her mother fuck a baboon?
Looks like lousy taste in men run in the family.
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Tangelia the sad result of beastiality!
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Amy reply on October 1st, 2008:
This is what happens when Naomi Watts falls in love with King Kong!!
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Fred reply on October 3rd, 2008:
I thought the cut a scene or two from the movie!
I do believe that King Kong was much nocer looking…..
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Amy reply on October 3rd, 2008:
Maybe she was dating the king kong from the origional motion picture….he was not as cute as the one in the Jack Black/ Naomi Watts remake.
“Shopping cart used to dispose of murder victim’s body.”
Another reason to remember to use one of those disinfecting wipes to clean your cart before you use it…….you never know if it has had a dead body in it.
It looks like Swanson’s other Cougar girlfriend (Tina Tyler age 36 lived in the same building as Tangelia E. Brown
) showed up at the hearing . Tina and her BGF were wearing red T-shirts emblazoned with photographs of Swanson. Tyler’s said: “You took his body. But I still got his heart and soul.” Clark’s read: “RIP My ‘G’ (friend) for life. Blaze it up.” A photograph of Swanson also decorates the back of the T-shirts that says: “See you in the gates of heaven.”
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Amy reply on October 13th, 2008:
WTF? Could the man not find a woman his age? Maybe its that all the women his age are smarter and know they can do better….
But then im an “older woman” at 34 by his standards, and i certainly would not fuck him…
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eternal reply on October 13th, 2008:
you know like i do he just needed a place to crash. and maybe their standards were a little lower. because i’m 24, and i wouldn’t date his ass…
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this sounds like a perfect candidate for an episode of Snapped! on Lifetime Television for Women
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eternal reply on November 9th, 2008:
nah, those women are usually the upper crust of society, smart, sometimes cute, and always successful. what they do is unexpected, that’s why it’s called “snapped”.
no one would find this story unexpected when the main player in it is named tangelia brown who lives in the projects with her many children by various fathers and stabs her boytoy for planning to move in with another hoodrat in te same building.
i could be wrong, but i don’t see the audience being surprised, or sitting on the edge of their seats awaiting the turnout of this one. lol
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The woman and her friend both deserve hell, especially for involving a 13 year old… good bye ladies
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