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11th, May 2009 Sports 1

The Modern Chelsea Fan And Eurovision

If you want to know how much Chelsea Football Club has changed in recent years, enjoy this Daily Star news... More »

11th, May 2009 Reviews

Anorak Spots: Mother's Day Condoms

Life out there - some of it not all that unintelligent... More »

11th, May 2009 Celebrities 8

Katie Price And Peter Andre See Each Other For First Time And Split

Peter Andre and Katie Price have separated after four years of marriage... More »

11th, May 2009 Celebrities 4

Susan Boyle Camel Toe

Boyle to Oprah: "I’ve just tidied up a bit like any woman would"... More »

11th, May 2009 Strange But True 1

NHS Hospital Opens On Mediterranean Beach

Balmy times at the NHS’s new £36m NHS hospital in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. The place is empty not because we’re all dead or all well but because the floors are too hot to walk on, meaning corridors are "as hot as a Mediterranean beach"... More »

11th, May 2009 Celebrities 3

Jamie Oliver Joins Ryan Seacrest On A Mission

First Madonna leaves Blighty, then Little Britain and now ABC is taking Jamie Oliver to the US in a mission to scare the batter from the KFC class, to introduce them to Oliver’s Good Food Bible... More »

11th, May 2009 Politicians

Government Subsidises Advertising Industry

Hereunder is news on how much the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and his flabby Bunter-esque department spent on advertising in the last 12 months... More »

11th, May 2009 Sports 5

Irish Ruby Player Snubs Queen? Picture

Ireland's Grand Slam winning Rugby meeting Her Majesty The Queen. Did Ronan O'Gara shake the Queen's hand - and did he first warm it..? More »

11th, May 2009 Photojournalism 1

Austria Opens Nazi Era Hotel, Bans Jews

Tyrol, where the daily Tiroler Tageszeitung reports on the Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus, which does not accept Jewish guests... More »

11th, May 2009 Key Posts

Perverted Jews To Blame For Swine Flu, Says Egypt

A new fatwa published in Egypt determines that the source of all the existing pigs in the world is Jews... More »

11th, May 2009 Politicians

Gordon Brown Joins Orangemen March

In “PM MAKE-UP SECRETS LOST IN TAXI BY AIDE”, Sun readers learn that Gordon Brown takes the shine off things with a dusting of terracotta Guerlain. And puts the shine back on by way of an illuminating foam... More »

11th, May 2009 Celebrities 11

Greg Pritchard Is Britain's Got Talent

Greg Pritchard sings Nessun Dorma in the fashion of a ladies’ toilet attendant and Britain’s Got Talent goes wild... More »

11th, May 2009 Money 2

Supermarket Sells Minges

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11th, May 2009 Madeleine McCann 7

Madeleine McCann: A New Suspect

Madeleine McCann Watch: In which Scarface is spotted, a new suspect has a sex change and enjoying Princess Diana... More »

10th, May 2009 Politicians

Michelle Obama Pumps Carrie Prejean's Arms

"May I change the subject," said a prominent Washington theologian at a recent dinner. The conversation had been high-minded -- religion, philosophy, the nature of evil. "I'd like to talk about Michelle Obama's arms," he said... More »

10th, May 2009 Reviews 2

RIP Ralph Millward: Killed In Bournemouth

In Westbourne, a Victorian town to the west of Bournemout, six teenagers are arrested over the death of Ralph Millward, the Big Issue seller who stood outside the Marks & Spencers... More »

10th, May 2009 Reviews

Saudi Arabia: Hit Your Wife If She Spends Money

In Saudi Arabia, Old Mr Anorak is taking notes at a seminar on domestic violence, leaning from Jeddah judge Hamad al-Razine that it is permissible for a man to hit his wife for “lavish spending”... More »

10th, May 2009 Reviews

The Earth Day Poetry Slam

gave you fertile ground; you just coated it with pavement / I gave you the animals; you poached them to endangerment More »

10th, May 2009 Strange But True 4

Sodomising Pygmies For Supernatural Powers

"Some soldiers from the 85th Brigade sodomised three male pygmies to gain supernatural powers and protection in Kisa village in Walikale territory..." More »

10th, May 2009 Technology

In China Mobile Phones Are Disguised As Cigarette Packets

In China mobile phones are disguised as cigarette packets -to avoid embarrassment... More »

10th, May 2009 Celebrities

Miss Panama: Giosue Cozzarelli On Confucius Causing Confusion

To the Miss Panama parade, and hopeful Giosue Cozzarelli is fielding questions... More »

10th, May 2009 Sports

Spurs Captain Ledley King Arrested

King, captain of Tottenham Hotspur captain, has been arrested. King is being questioned by police on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm to another man... More »

10th, May 2009 Celebrities 1

Susan Boyle: Hairy Angel Rejects Obama

Susan Boyle Watch: In which Susan Boyle snubs Barack Obama... More »

9th, May 2009 Celebrities 10

Tom Cruise Proves Study Technology: Video

If Tom Crusie were British, and living in the UK, would he expect to get away with this tribute to study technology? More »

9th, May 2009 Strange But True

Google Maps London Undergound

THE Overground Underground Northern Line - the jounrey home as seen by Google... More »