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21st, July 2009 Strange But True 2

Chinese Bus Passengers Issued With Yellow Bricks

On a bus of China’s Harbin Public Transport Company, passengers are carrying a yellow brick... More »

21st, July 2009 Strange But True 1

British Pirates Make Off On A Punt

Eat yer heart out Somalia, with your fancy speed boats. In Cambridgeshire, British pirates are making off with the booty on a punt. More »

21st, July 2009 Strange But True 1

X-Ray Of Cat That Survived Being Shot In The Brain

Bobby, a black and white tom cat, was in 2007 shot in the leg with an airgun. And now he has been shot in the brain... More »

21st, July 2009 Celebrities 8

Blanket Speaks Out About His Father Michael Jackson

Jackson Watch: Blanket Jackson speaks about Michael Jackson, it was not murder and burying Jacko at the Neverland Theme Park... More »

21st, July 2009 Celebrities 2

Susan Boyle Says Fame Is Like A Demolition Ball

Susan Boyle is doing the media ronds, looking like a more varnished version of her old self, using Amrican words and functioning like a hairy puppet on a string... More »

21st, July 2009 Strange But True

Police Set Fire To Man With Taser

To.. the desert community of Warburton, Western Australia, where Ronald Mitchell, 36, an alleged petrol-sniffer, is Tasered by police and duly bursts into flames. More »

21st, July 2009 Celebrities 3

Sony Turns Michael Jackson's O2 Rehearsal Into His Death Film

Jackson Watch: AEG sells rights to Jackson's rehearsal footage to Sony for $50million - and so the film of the deathof Michael Jackson is being made. As Anorak predicted, the shows goes on... More »

21st, July 2009 Reviews 1

London July 7 Memorial Defaced

London memorial to the victims of the July 7 mass murderers has been defaced. More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities 1

Russian Teen Gets Britney Spears Tattoo On Chest

Savina so loves Britney Spears that she travelled from Yekaterinburg to Moscow to see singer dry hump a pole and lip synch. She also got a tattoo of the performer on her chest... More »

20th, July 2009 Money 2

Sprite Tastes Like German Sperm: Video

Here's a video for Sprite, the soft drink that appears to taste like German sperm: More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities 1

Tom Cruise Kisses Victoria Beckham At LA Galaxy Match

To Sticky Vicky’s side was Tom Cruise, the celebrity Scientologist recruiter who wants to be friendly with the Beckhams because... More »

20th, July 2009 Sports

Phil Tuffnell's Underarm Ashes Song

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20th, July 2009 Reviews

York Maze Turns Into 1000ft Long Neil Armstrong Tribute

To mark the 40th anniversary of the moon landings, here is the 2009 York maze cut out in the shape of astronaut Neil Armstrong, measuring over 1000ft (300m) in length... More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities 7

Michael Jackson Advertises Child Abuse In Brazil

Jackson Watch: In which Michael Jackson is the face of child abuse in Brazil, and so his dead old pappy Joe Jackson... More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities 2

Jesus’ Face Found On Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Left Knee

On her right knee you can just make our Michael Jackson... More »

20th, July 2009 Sports 7

David Beckham's Fight With LA Lakers Fan In Pictures

Beckham’s mission to take footy to the heathen is working. News is that not only do LA Lakers now play with a round “ball” but that the team boasts a sections of fans called the LA Riot Squad who have taken to booing and jeering Beckham whenever he touches the ball... More »

20th, July 2009 Strange But True 2

Bizarre Canned Foods: Sausages In Lard

Continuing our look at novel canned foods – food that will survive both you and a nuclear war - we being you canned sausages in Lard. More »

20th, July 2009 Strange But True

Burglar Leaves Victim Thank You Note

A burglar at Matt Neary's home in Fargo, North Dakota, left behind a note... More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities

Metropolitan Police Sing Tribute To Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Watch: To the Wireless Festival in London last month where a Metropolitan Police officer belches out a rendition of Michael Jackon's Rock With You... More »

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Michael Jackson's Brother Tito Fingers The "Killer Doc"

The Daily Mirror’s continued serialisation of The Thoughts and Musings of Tito Jackson (Jackson third from left) deliver the font-page screamer: "DOC SHOULD HAVE SAVED MY BROTHER.” More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities

Katie Price Wants To Finish Off Frank Lampard

Having been repeatedly billed a “self-made star”, the Queen of Irony tells the world... More »

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Michael Jackson: Jermaine Jackson Says Dr Conrad Murray Is No Doctor

You've heard from Officer La Toya Jackson of the Michael Jackson home-icide squad and glee club; you’ve heard Tito Jackson assure us that the Jackson Three that Michael is their daddy; now listen up as Big Brother housemate emeritus Jermaine Jackson tells all... More »

20th, July 2009 Celebrities 1

Introducing Perez Hilton's Real Blogger Barbara Lavandeira

Guannabee spots that the actual blogger is Hilton's sister, Barbara Lavandeira... More »

20th, July 2009 Reviews

Cop Investigated For Sex Attacks On 20 Women

A 41-year-old Northumbria Force detective has been arrested with no charges yet brought and is now suspended, presumably by the short and curlies, while his fellow wooden tops from HQ investigate claims of serious sexual assaults on over 20 women... More »

19th, July 2009 Celebrities 6

Peter Andre Falls From Stage

Pop acron Peter Andre is live and singing and falling of the stage at T4 on the Beach Weston-Super-Mare... More »