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2nd, April 2009 Reviews

Being A Gay Palestinian In Israel

The highlight of the evening is a drag show, with heavily made-up amateur performers dressed as sexy, pouting Arab pop stars... More »

2nd, April 2009 Sports

Sven Goran Eriksson Sacked As Mexico Coach

Sven-Goran Eriksson has been sacked as coach of the Mexican national football team before they reached the quarter-final of a cup and got knocked out... More »

2nd, April 2009 Sports

Football video: Peter Crouch does "the rope"

England striker follows James Corden's Comic Relief advice More »

2nd, April 2009 Celebrities

Dancing With The Stars Shawn Johnson Excites Mark Ballas

Dancing With The Stars is the family friendly pro-celebrity dance show, starring family favourite Shawn Johnson and one Mark Ballas, a dancer who lives up to his name... More »

2nd, April 2009 Politicians 3

Michelle Obama Touched By Queen

The Queen has been touched by Michelle Obama... More »

2nd, April 2009 Money

Child Predator Hands

FOR SALE - Child Predator Hands, a must have for all child predators... More »

2nd, April 2009 Key Posts 3

Dancing Pope's Pole Club Advert Banned

THE Advertising Standards Authority says a flyer for Berserk at Club Fire, Ipswich, featuring what some believe to be a fake picure of thePope John Paul II cavorting with a blonde strumpet the Pope is offensive and must be ordered it to be removed... More »

2nd, April 2009 Sports

13 Bizarre Ways To Check For Testicular Cancer

Check your balls for testicular cancer. A how to guide... More »

2nd, April 2009 Sports

Checking For Testicular Cancer, With Teddy Sheringham

Says Teddy Sheringham, face of testicular cancer... More »

2nd, April 2009 Strange But True

Help! I'm A Lone Woman Locked Inside My Car

Woman locked inside car gets talked out by police... More »

2nd, April 2009 Strange But True 1

Funeral Home Saws Off Man's Legs To Fit Coffin

In Allendale, South Carolina, the local wooden tops are investigating if 6-foot, 5-inch James Hines had his legs removed to he could best fit inside his coffin... More »

2nd, April 2009 Reviews

The Top Ten G20 Protestor CamCorders

"We were all sitting down and the police started picking people off and dragging them out and arresting them. Then the riot police rushed us. A lot of us were trampled and lots of us are seriously bruised..." More »

2nd, April 2009 Politicians

Obama And Brown: A Love Story In Pictures, With Anal Poisoning

In a blaze of dazzling light from above, disciples witness the First Coming of Obama... More »

2nd, April 2009 Reviews

Arianna Huffington Turns Green

Replaced the wood-burning logs in my fireplace with logs made of compressed coffee grounds. You get warmth... and a contact caffeine buzz. (Okay, just kidding about the buzz, but the logs really do work.) More »

2nd, April 2009 Politicians 1

Barack Obama Swallows The Polypill

"President Obama is trying to offer the greatest care to the greatest number. This very much fits in with that"... More »

2nd, April 2009 Strange But True

God Will Take Them Back

Anorak brings you the sound of Scare Story radio - God Will Take Them Back. The message is that your family and loved ones will die if you drink and smoke: More »

2nd, April 2009 Key Posts 14

F1 FAIL! Lewis Hamilton disqualified from Australian Grand Prix

F1 shoots itself in the foot again More »

2nd, April 2009 Reviews

Terrorists Bring Down Jumbo Jet With Oven

"'Terrorists could bring down jumbo jet using microwave cannon built over internet'" - Daily Mail More »

2nd, April 2009 Sports

Tottenham's New Ground Pimped Out

More proof that football isn't a sport, it's a business More »

2nd, April 2009 Flashback

Adare’s Anglians Save Capello's England

So it was curious that a boy’s comic launched in 1971 should carry a story whose whole premise was based on England failing to even qualify for the tournament. Yet that is precisely what Jet chose to do, with its entertainingly bizarre strip, Adare’s Anglians... More »

2nd, April 2009 Sports 1

Jose Mourinho Gets Lap Dance On Chiambretti Night TV

If you can’t get Fabio Capello and Jose Mourinho in a lap dance club, then the lap dance club will come to them... More »

2nd, April 2009 Money 2

Diet Water

There's water, and now there is Diet Water... More »

2nd, April 2009 Celebrities 3

Watch Jade Goody Burn

The public will also be able to buy a version of the candle with the words “Jade — an ordinary woman, an extraordinary life"... More »

2nd, April 2009 Politicians 4

Queen Introduces Obama To Her Dogs

No anarchy does not rule. Order rules. These are two teams taking each other on. True anarchy is a free for all; this is uniform anarchy... More »

1st, April 2009 Reviews 1

Obama Gives Queen An iPod

Obama has met the Queen at Buckingham Palace and gave her a gift of an iPod. On it was not the Arctic Monkeys but video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia... More »