Swine flu is here and so are the jokes. “Will there be a mass outbreak of Human/Avian Swine flu? When pigs fly.” Check out the story here.
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Category: In the news
Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
Slogan shirt scandal
Yes folks, not all slogan T-shirts are true! Seems a bloke in Florida was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the message “I ♥ My Marriage” while he tried to choke his wife. Nice, he sure sounds like a catch.
The pleasant and the not-so-pleasant
Two different women received very different surprises recently. First up, the good news. A Swedish woman discovered she had a rather inflated bank balance recently. Nearly $2 billion had been deposited into her account. Sadly, it disappeared again as mysteriously…
Gothic kitten seller to go to court
The nasty, kitten-mangling biarch who was selling “gothic kittens” with piercings has been ordered to stand trial. Her lawyer reckons state law says nothing about piercing cats or docking their tails. It probably doesn’t explicitly prohibit poking red-hot poker up the…
Don’t hold back
Everyone else has had a say on the whole Rihanna/Chris Brown drama so now Roseanne has entered into the fray. Oooh, and she’s not a fan of missus-bashing-accused Brown. chris brown’s lies and excuses make me want to beat the…
Help for Aussie bushfire victims
I’ve just made a wee donation to the bushfire appeal and have swiped all this info on how to go about it from the site I work for (hey, I’d already prettied it all up for one website, didn’t see…
Veging out
Sydney Morning Herald foodie columnist Simon Thomsen has written an interesting piece on all flavours of vegetarians. He says he’s not sure why they are so indignant and aggressive but suspects it could be diet-related. I find it hard to…
Party-poopers punish Phelps
The proverbial brown stuff has started to hit the fan for America’s Olympics golden boy, Michael Phelps. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll probably be aware of the photos that popped up in Brit tabloid News of the…
More bad press for Facebook
This time the headline screams: Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam. Ooooh, very exciting and dramatic. Turns out some 18-year-old conned classmates into doing dodgy stuff. An 18-year-old US student is accused of posing as a girl on…
RIP James Whitmore
Actor James Whitmore died on Friday. He was 87. He had a long career in Hollywood, with his first movie starring role coming in the 1949 movie Battlefield. The most well-known of his more recent acting exploits would probably be…