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Breakfast Cereal Opens Porn Phone Line
A BOWL of Golden Temple of Oregon’s Peace Cereal – enjoy the “delicious crunch and juicier, fruitier flavor” – and a call to the number printed on the box directs breakfasters to a phone sex line.
Instead of reaching Golden Temple of Oregon, callers are greeted by a recorded voice asking:
“Do you love sex? … Isn’t that why you called?”
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Child Predator Hands
FOR SALE – Child Predator Hands, a must have for all child predators.
Buy now and we’ll throw in a FREE Gary G-Litter Bin to store all your child predotor goods in!
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Diet Water
THERE’S water, and now there is Diet Water…
Posted: 2nd, April 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comments (2)
Zimbabwe Campaign Posters Printed On Bank Notes
IN Zimbabwe, the money is so worthless, notes are cheap alternative to paper – and, no, not even toilet paper. The Zimbabwean wants you to “Fight The Crime That Crippled a Country”. The call to arms is writ on bank notes…
The Mugabe regime has destroyed Zimbabwe. It has presided over the brutal oppression of the opposition, a cholera crises, massive food shortages and the total collapse of their economy. Furthermore anyone brave enough to report this has been bullied, beaten and driven into exile. One such group is ‘the Zimbabwean Newspaper’. However, not content with having hounded these journalists out, the regime has slapped an import ‘luxury’ duty of over 55% on them which makes the paper unaffordable for the average Zimbabwean. In order to subsidize the paper they need to sell it in England and South Africa, to raise the foreign currency.
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Posted: 1st, April 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1)
Thief Raids RBS And Finds Tills Empty
“I’VE got a gun. Seriously I’ve got a gun – hand over the ******* money”.
Andrew Stewart is reading his newspaper in the Exeter branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland on March 31 last year when he heard that claim.
Brian Davison, 32, is harvesting notes form scared cashiers.
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Shrimp Flavored Crack
ANYONE for “shrimp flavored crack”?
Posted: 30th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comments (2)
The Greatest Complaint Call Ever
AFTER the Greatest Complaint Letter ever we now bring you the Greatest Complaint Phone Call Ever – to Asda:
Posted: 29th, March 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1)
British Car Parks Smell Of Baking Bread
THE GOOD news for doggers, dogs and children left in cars and thieves is that NCP car parks are to fill their spaces with the smells of roses, baking bread and cut grass.
How the new scents will blend with the more traditional car park odours of vomit, urine, emptied ashtray and used condom remains to be seen, but parfumiers are thought to be excited.
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Antiques Made To Order
ANTIQUES made to order – like it says…
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Posted: 27th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comment
Jade’s Goody’s Marriage Saved Her £1million Tax Bill
JADE Goody: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s post-reality career. Jade outfoxes the tax man…
When Jade Goody married Jack Tweed she saved her sons a £1million tax bill. She can’t cheat death, but the taxman can be beaten…
As PA says:
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Posted: 25th, March 2009 | In: Money | Comments (4)
Zimbabwean Dollars For Toilet Paper
IN Zimbabwe, the local curency is not good for much…
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Posted: 24th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comment
eBay Won’t Send Goods Unless You Obey Grammar Rules
ON eBay, you need to address everything correctly, or else. You need to comply with the laws of grammar. You need to do this or eBay will not let you have the goods…
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Posted: 23rd, March 2009 | In: Money | Comments (2)
The Honest Advanced Fee 419 Scammer
WORKING the advanced fee scam – the Nigerian 419 – is all about putting in the hard yards.
And honesty.
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The Homegrown Terrorist Cookbook
BRITISH terrorists are not like those foreign terrorists. There is always time for a nice cup of tea…
(Take when pulling string on bag)
Spotter: MK
AIG Workers Told To Travel In Pairs
AIG Workers have received a memo telling them, to fear for their security…
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Russian Bank Hires Strippers
TO the Unibank, Russia, where your deposits and withdrawals – ooooh, missus – are serenaded by a gyrating stripper and her gyrating stripper chums in an effort to drum up new custom..
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Posted: 20th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Money, Photojournalism | Comment
Bus Tours Of AIG Executives’ Homes
IN the US, Connecticut’s Vote Working Families – “formed by a coalition of community organizations, labor unions and neighborhood activists to hold politicians accountable on the issues that matter most to working and middle class families like good jobs, affordable healthcare, decent living wage jobs, fair taxes, good schools, reasonable utility rates and more – is offering bus-tours of the mansions of the AIG executives.
We’re all mad at AIG. Their executives bear a large share of the responsibility for bringing the economy to it’s knees, and now the same folks are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses — at our expense. Join us for a field trip to bring them the message.
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Posted: 20th, March 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1)
AIG Recruits Che Guevara
AIG has made its demands known – unless bonuses are paid in full than something bad might happen to you one day. It’s best to be sure so pay up without delay.
Protection is all. Do we understand each other?
In the spirit of achiveing a mutal understanding, AIG has now recruited Che Guevara to run its financial products division.
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Posted: 18th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment (1)
Cisco Worker Twitters Themself Out Of A Job
HERE’S the job seeker talking about their new roel at Cisco:
Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.
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Posted: 18th, March 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1)
RBS Wants To Know Your Politics When You Open An Account
MOONBATTERY picks up this gem on how RBS has asks anyone seeking yo open a new account for their political leanings:
Fraser Nelson makes the call:
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People Are Like Fleas On Your Dog
PEOPLE are like fleas on a dog. Kepe pople off your dog.
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Posted: 17th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comment
The McDonald’s Drive THROUGH
THE McDonald’s DRive Thru is attacked by pedants.
WE give you the McDonald’s Drive Through.
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Posted: 16th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comments (2)
How To Order The McDonald’s Gangbang
THE McDonald’s Gang Bang is all you need to know about American culture in a bun.
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Posted: 14th, March 2009 | In: Money | Comments (3)
The Ski Jump Toilet
THE Ski Jump toilet in Japan.
Guaranteed to end constipation in a jiffy.
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Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comment
Belgian Stock Market Faces Down World
BELGIUM. Chocolate. Chips. Fat detectives. Pluck. And thriving capital markets:
Web clip from the BBC stock marketwatch pages
Spotter; Matt Buck
