For 12 days you voted for your favorites in Music, Nightlife, Shopping, Recreation/ Leisure. Find the winners by clicking here.

And just for fun, we at SqueezeOC compiled our Top 2 Dubious Distinction Awards:

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We want your VOTES!

To commemorate the upcoming two-year anniversary of SqueezeOC.com, we’re compiling a “Top 2” list of the best entertainment and lifestyle offerings here in Orange County.

But we need your help in making those final Top 2 decisions in a variety of categories, from restaurants to bars to spas and outdoor amenities. So please go to our online ballot here and place your votes for any or all of the categories.

You have until Aug. 15 to vote. Hop 2 it!

Reading about a seven legged, hermaphrodite lamb with missing bowel parts inevitably causes one to ponder his or her existence. Assuming that you believe this story is true (which I don’t on the count of there’s just one photo being circulated out there), you must ask “Why?”

Here’s are this morning’s watercooler comments about the little lamb:

• Seven is a lucky number.
• That’s a sign of the apocalypse.
• That’s another sign that we need to ease up on plastic water bottle usage.
• Do you read Revelations? The number seven comes up a lot.
• It could be God trying new things.
• Without the hermaphrodite part, I might have believed it.
• Think of all the good meat we could get off that thing.
• Photoshop is awesome

What do you think?

_ Erlina

JESSICA

Other people’s abs: I think it’s safe to say I’m obsessed now with turning my stomach area from flab to fab. I’m going straight to the horse’s mouth and interviewing some athletes who can give me the secrets to their ab success.

CYNTHIA

Bubblegum ice cream (in a cake cone): I can’t get enough of it these past few weeks (lots of trips to Baskin-Robbins). It’s the perfect summertime treat, and you never get too old to enjoy it.

Big Love: I’m captivated by this HBO series about a polygamist family living in suburban Utah.

LAILA

Ali Farka Touré: His last album, “Savane,” is a relaxing mix of American blues and African music with hypnotic acoustics.

Vegetarian recipes: Two at the top of my list to try are Scalloped Parsnip Baja Tacos and Tofu-Spinach Lasagna, compliments of vegcooking.com. Mmm!

ERLINA

“Super Sweet 16” on MTV: Yeah, so?

DEGEN

Personal watermelons: Sweet, delicious, and just the right size for one. Even better: getting them at 99 Cent Only.

French press coffee: Especially with the “High Octane” blend from It’s A Grind.

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You know that the weather is heating up when you start seeing Asian ladies wearing the face visors– proof that tans don’t always rule in So Cal.

I’ve been trying to take pictures of the visor-wearing ladies I’ve seen all over the freeways, but they drive either too fast or too slow.

Not knowing what these things are actually called, I Googled the words “face visor” and behold…facevisor.com.

These images are borrowed from the site where you can buy a face visor of your own for just $14.95– a bargain if you consider they provide four times the coverage of sunglasses– and are sure to get you noticed.

You can also buy them from suncapcompany.com for $29.95.

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Don’t miss our next Seven Sins party, Indulgence, tomorrow night at its new location:

Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, CA 92660
7:30 to 10 p.m.
Click here for a map and more info.
Buy tickets here until 4:30 tomorrow. Or get them at the door.
Advance tickets are $20. They’re $25 at the door.
Proceeds benefit Music for a Cure.

A ticket will get you all of this:

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In a fight between a skunk and a possum, it’s clear who loses.

_ Erlina

Like we don’t have enough distractions around here, this afternoon Ducks left wing Chris Kunitz stopped by the Register building (which SqueezeOC occupies a small corner of) with the Stanley Cup.

The wait was about an hour long, which seemed longer if you’re a Kings fan, but this is the Stanley Cup and it came to us, so we waited. All of us except Matt, Brian and Devin who were lucky enough to have an interview with the official Keeper of the Cup. They sailed straight through to the front.

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“I’m calling about the reality show contestant we have in common,” said my friend Anthony, calling from his newsroom in Lakeland, FL.

Hmmm. Silence. Was I really so out of touch with my friends that I didn’t know one was actually on a reality TV show? Thank god they’re all too old to join “The Real World.”

Stumped.

“Jessica Peralta. She’s a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance,” he finally said.

No way, I assured him. If SqueezeOC’s Jessica even drove by a “So You Think You Can Dance” audition, we’d all know about it.

But Anthony was sure. He’d done some Googling and wanted to interview said contestant (who was born in Florida and now lived in California) for his reality TV blog .

As soon as I got to the office I did a little Googling myself. Here’s how the dueling Jessica’s stacked up:
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If somebody called you at 9 in the morning, panting, breathing heavy and talking about body parts feeling like the size of walnuts, you’d probably hang up and call the cops. But this morning, it was just Brian calling while on a fruitless salmon hunt at Mt. Whitney base camp. So, I let him pant and talk and I grabbed a pen.

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