Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
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 the point in re-inventing the wheel). HOW TO HELP Online: Visit the NZ Red Cross website. […]
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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 disagree with him, I’ve known a lot of veges over the years and just two
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 World, showing him having a toke on a bong. Shock, horror, a 23-year-old who
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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 Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and
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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 in The Shawshank Redemption (playing the part of Brooks Halten, the old bloke who couldn’t handle
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An Aussie bloke appeared in court this week, charged with possession of a whole bunch of stun guns. Apparently, he got sprung with 41 of the suckers and had already sold 59 of them. The police reckoned the stun guns were “capable of emitting a significant electric shock”. Well, duh, they are stun guns after
As more information comes to light about Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born in Los Angeles, the more I think the woman is an A-grade idiot. And a selfish one at that. So now we know she already had six kids at home aged between 2 and 7, including twins. Okay you might
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Talk about starting a trend: Chinese head honcho Wen Jiabao had a shoe biffed at him during a speech at Cambridge University on Monday. This comes after poor wee George Bush received much the same treatment from an Iraqi reporter a month or two back. So, is this now the trend: playing dodge-the-shoe with dictators and
A new trend? Shoe is! Read Post »
