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13th, March 2014 Sports 1

Spurs Balls: Daniel Levy Dares To Lose When He Wins

LIVERPOOL FC fan Brian Reade wants to talk about Spurs in the Daily Mirror... More »

13th, March 2014 Celebrities

Finally! The Malaysia Airlines MH370 Mystery Gets A Celebrity Face

FINALLY! With Katie Price discussing the Oscar Pistorius trial in Now magazine, it's been left to Uri Geller to find a solution to the question' What happened to Malaysia Airlines MH370?'... More »

13th, March 2014 Flashback

1967: Ohio State University'’s Nuclear Reactor Laboratory's Cigarette-Sized Radiation Checker

FLASHBACK to February 1 1967: what better way to illustrate the marvel of a device for checking levels of cancer -inducing radiation than by comparing it to a cigarette?... More »

13th, March 2014 Flashback 2

“It’s A Cook Book!” Television’s Five Most Horrifying Alien Invasions

“It’s A Cook Book!” Television’s Five Most Horrifying Alien Invasions... More »

13th, March 2014 Celebrities

Like, A Justin Bieber Fan Talks To A Newspaper

"He should, like, learn from his mistakes, but as the same time, like, young he's like young still and he just, like, there's a lot of pressure like on him right now and like, I just like, I just think people should just back off" - Roxy, Justin Bieber fan"... More »

13th, March 2014 The Consumer

The Ingenious Solution To Looking At Next Door's Garden

CAN you see this work from Alyson Shotz?.. More »

13th, March 2014 In Pictures

Peru's Guinea Pig Festival In Photos: Playing With Your Food

TO Peru for the annual Guinea Pig Festival. Andean people pose with a Guinea pigs, wearing Peruvian local dresses and hats... More »

13th, March 2014 Film

Watch Staircases to Nowhere: Making Kubrick's The Shining

STANLEY Kubrick's The Shining has yet to get a dread sequel. Those film executives seeking to milk the success of the hit movie can watch Staircases to Nowhere, featuring words from the film's producer Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick and Brian Cook, the First Assistant Director... More »

13th, March 2014 Celebrities 2

Bryan Cranston: Teen Heartthrob

AS hard as it may be to imagine that the dark and intense meth maker of Breaking Bad was once a teen heartthrob, it’s true. In the mid-1980s Bryan Cranston was a dreamboat for teenage girls. So, when I came across the March 1985 issue of Teen Talk magazine, I couldn't help but share his wonderfully cheesy pictorial. In light of the hardcore image Cranston acquired from Breaking Bad, it’s all the more humorous to see him described as an affable Prince Charming... More »

13th, March 2014 Flashback

1965: The Machine That Revolutionised Wall Street

Latest Wall Street reports can be made available in seconds with this device which a New York broker installed in his Frankfurt subsidiary, Oct. 26, 1965. .. More »

13th, March 2014 The Consumer

Watch Artist Sipho Mabona Make A Full-Size Elephant By Folding One Piece Of Paper

SWISS artist Sipho Mabona has created a life-sized elephant by folding a single sheet of paper measuring 15m square. The paper elephant is 10 feet tall. It took 12 people a week to create... More »

12th, March 2014 Strange But True

Real Barbie And Real Ken Meet In New York - Pictures Of The Plastic Fantastic Couple

When Barbie met Ken... More »

12th, March 2014 Flashback

11 Regretful Rejection Letters Sent To People Who Became Hugely Famous

IF at first you don't succeed, keep a file of all the rejection letters those who never understood replied by. When you're famous, let the world know the fool who said 'no'. Here are 11 rejection letters sent from companies to ailing wannabes. But we'll kick off our gallery of regret with a rejection letter Hunter S Thompson wrote himself... More »

12th, March 2014 Arsenal

Arsenal Balls: Ozil Is 'Humiliated' By His Injury

Utter balls... More »

12th, March 2014 Reviews

Regret The Error: Brighton Argus Apologises For The Coming Goat War

Newspaper are wonderful... More »

12th, March 2014 Film

The Fantastic Mr Fox And Mr Wes Anderson

Ever noticed...? More »

12th, March 2014 Money

Hurrah! The CIA Spies On The Senate!

THIS is excellent news really, that the CIA has been spying on the people in the Senate over in the US. OK, in one sense it's a bit naughty as the CIA isn't supposed to ever do anything domestically... More »

12th, March 2014 Music

Keith Richards Is Writing A Children's Book. Stop Laughing

WHEN rock musicians get bored, there's a mental ticklist of things they need to do to stop them from shrivelling up and dying... More »

12th, March 2014 Fashion

Australian Woman's Hair (Harry) Styles From 1968

Hair don'ts from the 1060s... More »

12th, March 2014 Celebrities

March 12 1969 In Photos: Paul McCartney Marries Linda Eastman At London's Marylebone Register Office

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12th, March 2014 Strange But True

Sri Lanka's Executioner Quits After Seeing Gallows For First Time

WITH 405 convicts on death row, Sri Lanka's Prisons Department is looking for an executioner. The preferred method is not stress-induced heart attacks but hanging. The last three hangmen employed to off the felons quit when they saw what they had to do... More »

12th, March 2014 Flashback 3

When Home Computers Caused Raptures of Transcendental Ecstasy

BELIEVE it or not, it was a hard sell in the early 1980s to convince people to buy a computer for the home. The contraptions were insanely expensive, and they simply couldn’t do a whole lot. Something as simple as filing recipes was a tall order for an ’82 PC. Of course, we were happy with terrible graphics because we knew nothing better – yet, as enticing as having Pong in the living room did sound, the expense was simply out of the ballpark for most families... More »

12th, March 2014 Fashion

29 Horror Haircuts From The 1980s

Hair that had been whipped in the 1970s now went tighter than Joan Collins' vowels. Gels and backcombing were the buzzwords. These looks were once considered cool. Most are now as cool as a wasabi enema: More »

12th, March 2014 In Pictures

18 Vegetables Pretending To Be Animals

Were you / are you one of those children encouraged to eat faces? 'Go on,' says your loving mum, 'Eat his mange tout eyebrows. Now his cucumber eyes. Go for the cauliflower ears.' .. More »

11th, March 2014 In Pictures 2

35 Smart Arse Exam Answers That Are Funny

Taking a risk in an exam.... More »