Friday, February 26, 2010
And in Australia: Living Upside Down is Affecting the Industrial Umpire…
“From the Australian: ‘Bosses Rapped for Valid Sacking.’ Come again? Well, as the paper reported, ‘The nation’s industrial umpire has ruled that a long-term employee who was legitimately sacked for repeated safety breaches must be reinstated and paid compensation because of his poor education and...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
And in New York: Stop the Presses – Tower of Babble…
“A report… about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday rendered incorrectly part of a quotation by Mr. Obama…in noting that ‘we become absorbed with our abstract arguments, our ideological disputes, our contests for power,’ he went on to say ‘And in this Tower of...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
And in Costa Rica: The Voters' Favourite Rodent…
Costa Rica is set to have its first female president, after election results gave governing party candidate Laura Chinchilla an unassailable lead. With most votes counted from Sunday's poll, Ms Chinchilla had 47% of the vote, 22 points ahead of the main opposition contender, Otton Solis. Ms...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
And in New York: Janitors Build a Man Cave…
Janitor Gary Pivoda and Louis Marciano learned that man caves are best kept at home when they built a secret room for partying, sleeping and selling pot at the garage they maintained for the state of New York. Someone ratted them out, and supervisors put a hidden camera in the cave, which captured...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
And in Britain: Anthea Turner and Her Few Fans...
Anthea Turner thought she would clean up with her one-woman show at Preston 's Charter Theatre. But so far the former Blue Peter presenter is not exactly wowing the crowds...having sold just a handful of tickets for her show in the city. The star – famous for stints on the National Lottery and Wish...
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Friday, February 12, 2010
And in Seattle: Gay But Not Cheerful…
The headline in the Seattle Weekly says it all: “Gay, mentally challenged biracial male cheerleader claims discrimination.” All that high school student Benjamin Grundy wants is to shake his pom-poms like the girls on the field at Garfield-Palouse High School in tiny Palouse, Washington. Instead,...
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Monday, February 8, 2010
And in Australia: Fat cops get taxpayer gastric banding
Australian taxpayers are helping to pay for overweight cops to have radical gastric-banding stomach surgery as part of a fat-busting initiative. The Perth Sunday Times reports the West Australian Police and the police union have agreed to pay up to $2,000 towards lap-banding operations for obese...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
And in New Zealand: Large-chested Women vs. Midgets…
A controversial job ad calling for a large-chested woman or a midget to act as a beer wench at a rugby series in New Zealand has been filled. Last month, a group of 30 men placed an ad for a “beer bitch” to fetch cold drinks for them at the Rugby Sevens in Wellington. The lucky applicant would be...
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Friday, February 5, 2010
And in Vancouver: The Abysmal Grammar of Generation Text…
“Students seem to have absolutely no idea of what an apostrophe is for. None. Absolutely none. I get their message and I go, ‘You obviously don’t know what a sentence fragment is. You think commas are sort of like Parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words.’” Paul Budra, associate dean of arts...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
And in Britain: Police Warning - for Jokes…
Police have issued a Welsh shopkeeper with a warning - over his jokes. Bob Singh thought the policeman who visited his shop in Port Talbot was having a laugh, reports the Daily Mail. But the officer told him there had been a complaint about the gags he prints on leaflets advertising his corner...
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