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1st, February 2011 The Consumer 2

Woman Finds New Life Form Inside Can Of Beans

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1st, February 2011 TV & Radio 3

Ricky Gervais To Make TV Series From Golden Globes Gigs

So good is Gervais at this role that the keepers of the Golden Globes have invited him back to present the do a third time. Says he: "I don't think I should." But he will... More »

1st, February 2011 Reviews 4

In Egypt One Millions Men March As Thieves Rob Their Homes

One million people are expected to be on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria today. Given the impression of events on the TV news, nearly all of these protesters will be men... More »

1st, February 2011 The Consumer 1

Giant Colombian Ants In A Can Taste Like Bacon

You don't have to be a giant Colombian to like giant Colombian ants now that the itchy treats come in cans... More »

1st, February 2011 Key Posts 6

Jeremy Paxman Says Taxes Are C*nts: James Naughtie Might Laugh

Paxman was on Newsnight saying that taxes and those cut are "c*nts". Is this a slip of the tongue..? More »

1st, February 2011 Sports

Bolton Wanderers Mistake Daniel Sturridge For Danny Wellbeck: Transfer Day Madness

The maddest Premier League transfer story is to be found in Bolton’s capture of Daniel Sturridge from Chelsea... More »

1st, February 2011 Reviews 1

Greens Blame Global Warming For Riots In Egypt: Mubarak's A Hero

We waited and we waited. and then in came: the troubles in Egypt can be blamed on global warming. Cameron Scott knows that Mr Mubarak is not blame... More »

31st, January 2011 Strange But True

Man Says Parkinson's Medication Turned Him Gay: Penguins And Elton John Blush

To France, where a married man says Requip, a medicine he was taking for Parkinson's says, turned him a horny, gay crossdresser... More »

31st, January 2011 Sports

Andy Carroll To Liverpool, Torres To Chelsea, Wilshere To Sofa

Liverpool fans still labouring under the idea that footballers care about the club they play for rip up posters of the Spaniard and burn a replica shirt... More »

31st, January 2011 Technology 1

Facebook Takes On Groupon With Facebook Deals service

As well as harvesting all your personal data, Facebook will have access to your spending patterns... More »

31st, January 2011 The Consumer

Bid For Fake Sunflower Seeds And Picasso's Sex Life At Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Sale

You can buy 100 kilos of his life-sized porcelain "seeds" for between £80,000 and £120,000. Or maybe buy one in a bag... More »

31st, January 2011 In Pictures

Jackie Stallone’s Changing Face

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31st, January 2011 Reviews 3

Joanna Yeates's Father Reaches Out To Madeleine McCann's Parents

David Yeates: "We really feel for those people who have not been able to bury their children. The McCanns are one set of people like this but there are others as well..." More »

31st, January 2011 Technology

Iran Sentences Two Porn Website Workers To Death

Two Iranians have been given the death sentence for operating porn sites... More »

31st, January 2011 Key Posts 2

Jeremy Bamber: The Silencer On The Mantel Mystery

The Criminal Cases Review Commission is deliberating. Bamber is serving a whole life tariff. Unless he is freed he will die in jail... More »

31st, January 2011 Politicians

Kim Jong-Un Wears Crown Of Best Otter Fur: North Korea Rejoices

Kim Jong-un is Kim Jong-Il's son. And little Kim is wearing the crown of power, a furry driving hat dad has made famous... More »

31st, January 2011 In Pictures

Vegetarian Festival (Thailand)

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31st, January 2011 In Pictures

Bad Teeth

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31st, January 2011 Politicians

Barack Obama Needs A Pitching Czar

Barack Obama rules with a limp wrist... More »

31st, January 2011 Key Posts 1

Andy Gray And Richard Keys Gone: Now For The BBC's Sexist Perry Groves

The Touchline Taliban are many in face and voice. Take the BBC's Perry Groves in the Sun... More »

31st, January 2011 Key Posts

Hot Dogs Tattoos: As Disgusting On The Outside As They Are On The Inside

Not everyone hates the hot dog. Some of you want to paint a hot dog on your bodies in indelible ink - the immovable object on the insides matched by the immovable object on the outside... More »

31st, January 2011 Reviews

Egypt Revolution Scheduled For February 4 2011

Mackey spots a statement from protesters in Al-Masry Al-Youm, an Egyptian newspaper... More »

31st, January 2011 Reviews

Al Jazeera Reporters Arrested In Cairo: Times Reporter Beaten

Al Jazeera is on the scene in Egypt. Americans are realising that their hot air news media lacks insight... More »

31st, January 2011 Reviews 2

Whoonga Is The HIV Drug Giving South Africans An Illegal High

Whoonga is the new drug cocktail made from HIV medication, marijuana, detergent and rat poison... More »

31st, January 2011 Celebrities

Charlie Sheen's Cocaine Teeth Give Kacey Jordan A Lift

What news of low-profile-seeking Kacey Jordan, 22, the newest porn star to emerge from Charlie Sheen’s stables? Kacey has news of Sheen’s teeth... More »