Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
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 »
British singer-songwriter-guitarist John Martyn — who released more than 20 albums of his own and worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Dave Gilmour and Phil Collins — died on Thursday. He was 60. ON THE WEB: Times Online obituary BBC report
Here’s another case of critters getting their own form of justice. According to The Sun, a sick wee pervert in Moscow was having a few drinks and decided to sexually molest a poor, innocent little raccoon. The raccoon, however, had different ideas. In fact, it proceeded to attack the perv and bit off his pecker.
Would-be raccoon rapist gets the chop Read Post »
In the market for a new house? The slightly charred one next door to Invercargill’s chapter of the Mongrel Mob is still up for grabs. But not for long … the motivated vendor is keen to sell and you’ve got until 3pm tomorrow to get your offer in. Okay, so the house needs a little
Man of La Mancha author Dale Wasserman died of congestive heart failure on December 21. He was 94. Wasserman also penned the stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ever the forward-thinking writer, he gave his wife instructions for his obituary months ago: “The only thing I would want the
RIP Dale Wasserman Read Post »
Reports are coming out on a plane crash in South Carolina involving former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM. The breaking news reports say the two musicians have been critically injured and have been taken to a burns unit. Sadly, a further four people are dead, including two of the crew. You have to
The celebrity curse Read Post »
Teachers in one Texas school district have been given approval to carry guns, apparently just in case some psycho manages to make it through the already-in-place security measures. The report says: Recent school shootings in the United States have prompted some calls for school officials to allow students and teachers to carry legally concealed weapons
… and I still can’t get a Taser! Read Post »
The man who has made billions of blokes happy and revolutionised the way we watch telly died this week. Robert Adler was one of the two men credited with creating the remote control. Without him we’d still be wearing a track in the carpet between our favourite chair and the telly. Some say he played
