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Sideswipe: Don't worry, I'm a doctor!
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Martin
Adlington saw this sign on the North Shore: "A PhD in waxing? 'Don't
worry, I'm a doctor ... your pubes are in safe hands?!'"
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A
London council has apologised after a woman was refused the loan of a
pair of scissors in a library because she "might stab a member of
staff". Lorna Watts, 26, told the BBC: "I asked why I couldn't borrow a
pair of scissors and she said, 'They are sharp, you might stab me'."
She added: "It's absurd - there are plenty of heavy books I could have
hit her with if I wanted to.Dinesh D'Souza, a former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, is author of What's So Great About Christianity and other books."
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Mark
writes: "I was following a bus today that has an ad on the back about
the dangers of doing two things at once - part of the campaign against
using a cellphone while driving. It has two separate lines of copy
mixed up to demonstrate how hard it is to read two things at the same
time - but it's on the BACK OF A BUS! I almost had an accident trying
to read the ad!"
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A
reader from Westmere was intrigued to see a leg of export lamb in his
supermarket chiller, emblazoned with a yellow "Special" sticker. The
price was down from $40.17 to $39.76 - which is 41 cents - or 1 per
cent. Assuming this was 10 per cent keyed in wrongly, he inquired and
was told that the lamb legs arrived at the supermarket already
labelled. The staff member told him in a low voice that some lines are
discounted by just 1 cent.
net
game encourages players to throw food at a stick-thin Victoria Beckham.
Nosh for Posh involves hurling burgers, fruit, vegetables and sushi at
a moving waif-like target modelled on the former Spice Girl. Gamers are
greeted with a picture of David Beckham's wife pleading: "Help me!!! I
need to put on weight!" The game's creator, Nicolas Jacquart, said: "We
wanted to poke fun at Victoria Beckham's latest Size Zero look ... She
looks as if she needs to put on weight." (Source: ananova.com)
Bizarre niche marketing.
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Dutch
police proudly announced they had destroyed an illegal marijuana farm,
tearing up 47,000 plants they claimed had a street value of €4.4
million ($9 million). They later found out they had destroyed a
perfectly legal operation of the University of Wageningen. University
officials said they were trying to develop new hemp fibres for textiles
and paper and the plants had an extremely low THC content, making them
unfit for drug use. (Source: reason.com)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sideswipe/news/article.cfm?c_id=702&objectid=10600114