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2nd, January 2011 Celebrities

Katie Price Edits The News Of The World: Photos

Katie Price and her walking Toffee Crisp (Alex Reid) are in sunny foreign climes for “crisis talks”... More »

1st, January 2011 The Consumer

Wendy's Training Video: The Chili Cheese Song

The music is what you hear in your head before you submerge it into the chili dip... More »

1st, January 2011 Reviews

New Year Honours List: Dr Fish For Services To Fish

Nominative determinism gets you the breaks, sometimes… More »

1st, January 2011 Reviews

Ford Open Prison Riot Photos: The Benny Hill Special

Get a load of Butch chasing Big William about in his stockings. And then setting fire to the little bald chap’s beard... More »

1st, January 2011 Key Posts 1

Loony Dook New Year's Day Swim Photos: Numb In Edinburgh And Scarborough

If you can still feel, you're not in deep enough... More »

1st, January 2011 Reviews 1

Swine Flu Carnage: Scare Story Of The Year

Scare Story of the Year for 2011 is that swine flu is coming to get you and you kids... More »

1st, January 2011 Reviews

Great Forecasts Of Doom: Paul Ehrlich's Death Of England

Forecasts Of Doom: David Viner, the Met Office and Mark Lynas (snow is a "distant memory"), meet Paul Ehrlich... More »

1st, January 2011 Reviews

Happy New Year 2011: Photos

It's 2011. The noughties are over. Her's to the onety-twoty-teens! Yaay! More »

31st, December 2010 Key Posts 4

Tabloids Condemn 'Oddball' Chris Jefferies For Murder Of Joanna Yeates

The tabloids construct a case against Mr Jefferies based on his hair and a paedophile who used to own Joanne Yeates' flat... More »

31st, December 2010 TV & Radio

Only Way Is Essex: Sam Faiers Spray Tan And Vimto Party

The Only Way Is Essex is the oddest show of 2010, a reality show featuring people who look so unreal, like ice sculptures of huge frozen blocks of Vimto… More »

31st, December 2010 Celebrities

Chery Cole And Ashley Cole's Baby Will Be Born In 2011: Best Prediction Of 2010?

Predictions are lots of fun. But it might be best to leave it to the professional, like TV psychic Derek Acorah... More »

31st, December 2010 Reviews 2

Snow Is A Distant Memory: Climate Expert Mark Lynas Knows

"It was the traditional British winter, everyone’s dream of a white Christmas. And what no one knows – or likes to admit – is that it’s probably gone for good..." More »

31st, December 2010 Key Posts

The Funniest News Headlines Of 2010: Boobs, Buts And Steve Jobs' RIM

Boobs, Butts, a penis snail, Barack Obama shaves a small boy, Steve Jobs' RIM and lots more... More »

31st, December 2010 Key Posts 1

Husband Spots Murdered Wife On Antiques Road Show: The Strange Case Of Lynette Dawson

She went missing in Sydney in 1982. Her ex-husband Chris Dawson, father to their two children, says it is her on the show broadcast from Padstow, Cornwall... More »

31st, December 2010 Strange But True

Dead Son Donated Sperm To Aunt's Lesbian: Meet The Kids

Charlie Lowdon died aged 20. At aged 15, he had been “donating” sperm to his aunt Sarah Ashman and her partner Claire Ashman... More »

31st, December 2010 Key Posts 1

Julian Assange Dresses As Santa Claus: Wikileaks Exposes The Big Christmas Lie

Mr Assange is the subject of a bizarre set of photographs in Newsweek. In one photo taken during his enforced stay at Ellingham Hall, Mr Wikileaks is dressed a Santa... More »

31st, December 2010 Key Posts 14

Joanna Yeates: Clifton College's Strange Mr Jefferies Was A Gay Mr Chips

The Sun says his nickname was “The Strange Mr Jeffries”. The Star agrees. But the Express tells us he was called "Mr Chips"... More »

30th, December 2010 Politicians

Why Did 13,200 People Sign Up For Manchester's ID Card White Elephant?

Well, in all 13,200 people signed up to the scheme. It cost £292m. All the cards have now been cancelled... More »

30th, December 2010 Key Posts 1

Fast Food Burgers: Does The Advert Look Like The Real Thing?

Does the Wendy's Double Baconator look better in reality? Is that BK Stacker pre-eaten? One diner bought the burgers and compared them to the promotional images used to get your juices running... More »

30th, December 2010 Politicians

North Korea's Crap Revolution Gathers Strength As People Stockpile Human Excrement

After the Skid of Change, according to several recent defectors the items most in demand market are: Skinny jeans, porn films and human excrement... More »

30th, December 2010 Strange But True

Woman Finds Jesus And ET In Her Right Breast: Photo

The breast is Karen Sigler’s And when she saw the X-ray of her cancerous tissue she saw Jesus... More »

30th, December 2010 Reviews 8

Joanna Yeates: Weird Chris Jefferies's Candy Floss Hair Made Him Do It?

So, what do you remember about suspected murderer Chris Jeffries? Anorak asked that question of a former scholar at Bristol’s Clifton College... More »

30th, December 2010 Key Posts 21

Joanna Yeates Murder: Chris Jefferies, 10,000 Reasons And A Strange Couple

What Chris Jeffries saw - and what the news reported... More »

30th, December 2010 Key Posts 77

Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John: Photos Of Elton John's Son

The birth mum is a surrogate. (Whose egg? Liz Hurley? Liz Taylor? Liz Windsor?)... More »

29th, December 2010 Reviews

TSA Spots An 'Anomaly' In Kurtis Blow's Knickers

Not only do TSA reps get to feel up a stranger in public, but they also get free drugs... More »