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This was a big political issue in New Zealand a few years ago, when the Government tried to levy a flatulence tax on livestock: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3005740.stm |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #46 on: 19:38:57, 10-07-2007 » |
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(I'm really surprised no-ones said this) but "what a lot of hot air!"
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #47 on: 23:20:10, 11-07-2007 » |
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Shayne Ward: Midget drama
(Wednesday July 11, 2007 04:44 PM)
Shayne Ward almost killed a Mexican midget on a video shoot in Los Angeles recently in a bizarre swimming pool accident, it has been claimed.
The "X-Factor" winner is understood to have been on-set making the promo film for his new single, alongside a party of models.
Two midgets were also involved in the filming but chaos ensued when Ward was required to toss one of the short extras into the pool.
Apparently he selected the wrong one, who was unable to breath in the pool because he was wearing a full face mask.
Crew members were forced to leap into the water and rescue the midget, with Ward also aiding the dramatic rescue bid, according to a shoot 'source'.
"Shayne was obviously really embarrassed by what happened - luckily his 'victim' thought it was hilarious, and they all ended up having a right laugh about it", he explained.
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« Reply #48 on: 23:25:14, 11-07-2007 » |
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Remind me not to go for a paddle!
HAVE any other readers seen this rather large fellow in St Annes sea?
Gaye Candy, of Heyhouses Lane, was out walking with her husband, daughter and dog, on Sunday when she spotted what she believed was a Whale Shark.
The 10-12 foot long creature was seen swimming up and down the coastline at around 4pm and was watched by the family for around half hour before it seemed to disappear.
Mrs Candy said: "I was paddling in the sea looking for my dog's ball and saw my husband pointing.
"I went out a bit further and saw a shark fin - it was a big shark fin pointing up and it was swimming up the estuary.
"We watched it and then it disappeared. We kept looking and then it appeared again back where it had started.
"I was absolutely amazed."
Mrs Candy has her own theory about where the big fish came from and she added: "I saw a programme about sharks at the Isle of Man so with the bad weather maybe they have ended up over here."
Whale sharks are the largest type of shark and can grow to 46 feet, weighing up to 15 tons, although the average size is 25 feet (7.6 m).
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« Reply #49 on: 23:29:51, 11-07-2007 » |
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Shayne Ward: Midget drama
(Wednesday July 11, 2007 04:44 PM)
Shayne Ward almost killed a Mexican midget on a video shoot in Los Angeles recently in a bizarre swimming pool accident, it has been claimed.
The "X-Factor" winner is understood to have been on-set making the promo film for his new single, alongside a party of models.
Two midgets were also involved in the filming but chaos ensued when Ward was required to toss one of the short extras into the pool.
Apparently he selected the wrong one, who was unable to breath in the pool because he was wearing a full face mask.
Crew members were forced to leap into the water and rescue the midget, with Ward also aiding the dramatic rescue bid, according to a shoot 'source'.
"Shayne was obviously really embarrassed by what happened - luckily his 'victim' thought it was hilarious, and they all ended up having a right laugh about it", he explained. Ward's management are denying reports that when the midget said to Ward, 'I'm not happy,' Ward replied, 'Which one are you then?' |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #51 on: 23:36:46, 11-07-2007 » |
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I know someone who went to someone's stag night last week, and for £500 plus his hotel expenses the groom-to-be spent the evening handcuffed to a midget, or oompa loompa as he preferred to be called. Aparently he does it for a living.
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« Reply #53 on: 23:14:09, 12-07-2007 » |
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Gaye Candy cough drops? ahem... |
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sososo s & i.
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« Reply #54 on: 11:03:28, 17-07-2007 » |
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It was a purely professional encounter, you understand, from when I was an apprentice Royal Swan Upper. They started us on ducks and we worked our way up from there.
I never qualified in the end. Failed the practical exam. I thought I'd made a pretty good fist of it myself but sadly not good enough.
Can we see George in action? http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4952.aspToday between Eton and Marlow, tomorrow between Eton and Shiplake, etc Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #55 on: 23:54:20, 17-07-2007 » |
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#51 the groom-to-be spent the evening handcuffed to a midget
Oh! Yes Tony. I've spent many an evening hand cuffed to the old midget ...... |
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« Reply #56 on: 13:29:34, 18-07-2007 » |
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A man has been charged with theft after officers apprehended a "dog kennel on legs" seen making off from a pet shop. Warwickshire Police said the 27-year-old man was detained in Newtown Road, Nuneaton. A police spokesman said: "The arrest occurred when officers saw a large dog kennel on legs making its way from Pets at Home towards Asda. Finding this odd, the officers stopped and ran after the kennel, caught it and found a 27-year-old male underneath it." I like the sentence "Finding this odd"....  |
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« Reply #57 on: 14:31:19, 18-07-2007 » |
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But British people do tend to be a bit like that, in my experience.
"Dog kennel going for a walk over there."
"s'pect it got bored where it was."
"P'raps somebody bought it, and is taking it home?"
"can't they get it delivered?"
"well, maybe they only live round the corner and thought it would be a bit of exercise..."
Meanwhile, in the store manager's office, a store security briefing is in progress.
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« Reply #59 on: 22:38:53, 22-07-2007 » |
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Tonight on ITV news... David Cameron: "The floods are an act of God, but our response needs to be better than that..." Didn't John Lennon get a serious outcry for such statements...?  |
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