Oddly enough

Oddly enough

High-steak game: 78-point win means big discount

ANN ARBOR, Mich.

A Michigan steakhouse got more sizzle than it bargained for out of a college football promotion.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Ann Arbor announced on its Facebook page Friday that for the remainder of the season customers would receive a percentage off their total food bill equal to the final winning point differential in the latest University of Michigan football game.

Then came Michigan’s 78-0 drubbing of Rutgers on Saturday, its largest margin of victory since an 85-0 win in 1939 over the University of Chicago. But the Facebook posting capped the discount at 50 percent and said the offer does not include alcohol.

The restaurant posted on its website Sunday that it was “fully committed with reservations” through Thursday, when the offer expires.

Record 1,201 couples renew wedding vows

KALAMAZOO, Mich.

A record 1,201 couples have renewed their wedding vows at a ceremony on the campus of Western Michigan University.

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports a Guinness World Record official on site certified the record event Saturday. It broke the previous mark of 1,087 couples renewing their vows at Miami University in Ohio in 2009.

Couples dressed in Western Michigan gear and even donned veils, white dresses and tuxes to celebrate their marriages. Western Michigan University President John Dunn and his wife, Linda, were among the couples who renewed their vows.

The group included couples from the United States, Canada and Japan and a couple from the Western Michigan University class of 1943, university officials said.

The ceremony was officiated by Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell.

Farm stand sets up outhouse as voting booth

ASHLAND, N.H.

A New Hampshire farm stand is showing off a decorative outhouse-turned-voting booth with manikins of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and side-by-side toilets to cast ballots.

Chris Owens, who runs Owens Truck Farm in Ashland, put up the “Official NH Voting Booth” sign on the wooden structure. He tells New Hampshire Public Radio customers like it, taking the attitude, “that’s about the only place this ballot belongs is in the toilet.”

He says he’s collected about 100 ballots already.

Above the Trump manikin is a sign that reads, “If I am elected, we will build a wall between Plymouth and Rumney, and Rumney will pay for it,” referring to two nearby towns.

Owens plans to tally the votes next month.

Associated Press