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9th, December 2013 Strange But True

Dog Took Human Along To Burglary

Dogs can be cat burglars... More »

9th, December 2013 Reviews

Sergeant Alexander Blackman: A Life Sentence For Murdering A Not-Quite-Human Taliban

Most of us will never know the horrors of war: we leave the front-line butchery and barbarism to others, content to judge the effectiveness of military strategy from our armchairs and calmly pontificate on the relative morality of battles lost and won... More »

9th, December 2013 Strange But True

Buttocks Are The New Shoulders

You'll believe a boy can fly... More »

9th, December 2013 manchester united

Manchester United and Chelsea Balls: BBC And The Sun Portray Mourinho And Moyes As Blithering Idiots

Football reporting is all about conjuring a story from pretty much nothing. In certain hands it's all about extremes... More »

9th, December 2013 Fashion

Inappropriate Christmas Jumpers: Jingle Balls

It's upside down... More »

9th, December 2013 Reviews

Heroic School Officials Suspend 10-Year Old For Firing An Imaginary Bow And Arrow

To Georgia, USA, where quick-acting school officials have suspended a 10-year old with an imaginary bow and arrow, saving his classmates from imaginary massacre... More »

8th, December 2013 In Pictures

11 More Terribly Tasteless Children's Presents

Can last Christmas's presents be topped?... More »

8th, December 2013 Strange But True

Kenyan Man Faces Goat In Court

Hats off to the Kenyans for forcing Katana Kitsao Gona, 28, to face the victim of his sex crime in court. He was caught assaulting the victim he'd tied up... More »

8th, December 2013 Reviews 6

Clever British People Get Off Their Faces More

Alice Robb has seen research showing that children of higher intelligence are more likely to booze and take drugs... More »

8th, December 2013 Politicians

Mandela Balls: John Simpson Says Nelson Mandela's Death Makes Him Feel Like 'An Orphan'

Mandela is dead. The world salutes a lost leader. And we ask that only South Africans call him Madiba. And then John Simpson types his tribute to the man... More »

8th, December 2013 TV & Radio 1

Star Trek Sing Let It Snow

Must have taken ages... More »

8th, December 2013 Music

How To Play Rock 'n' Roll On A Keyboard

This. Is. Rock. And. Roll. More »

8th, December 2013 Strange But True

Man Finds Jesus In Block Of Wood

JEeus is my wood stain... More »

8th, December 2013 The Consumer

Funny Canadian Graffiti Of The Day: The Poison Flute

Laughs in Canada... More »

8th, December 2013 Strange But True

Freddy Is The World's Greatest Grape Tosser Into A Belgian's Open Mouth

Anorak loves a world record, the more specious the better. So, we like Joris (George) Goens, 53, the town-crier of Furnes, breaking the world record for 'grape catching with the mouth in three minutes'... More »

8th, December 2013 Key Posts

Everything Victoria Ayling Knows About Immigration She Learnt From These Daily Mail Front Pages

The Mail gets a new columnist.... More »

8th, December 2013 Politicians

Ukip's Victoria Ayling And Her Little Problem With Lord Rob Neasden

The Mail says it "caught her on camera" saying: "[It could be used for] some future get back at me. Bribery, blackmail – we need the blackmail music don’t we."... More »

8th, December 2013 manchester united

A Manchester United Defeat Still Leads The Sports Pages

United fans will know the game's up when defeats are no longer the nations's lead football story... More »

7th, December 2013 Flashback

Pearl Harbor: The Photo Story Of Japan's 1941 Attack Before, After And During

On December 7 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the US navy base on Oahu, Hawaii. The attack was a declaration of war on Britain and the United States.Thousands were killed... More »

7th, December 2013 The Consumer

Desperate Marketing: SpaghettiOs Hijack Pearl Harbour Anniversary

It's the taste of freedom... More »

7th, December 2013 Film 4

Mandela Marketing: Nikki Finke Plugs The Film Of The Dead Man

Yeah, that film based on an actual true story... More »

7th, December 2013 Books

A.A. Milne Reads Winnie The Pooh In 1929 (With Photos Of The Writer Playing With 'Christopher Robin')

If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan... More »

7th, December 2013 In Pictures 3

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva's Twists On Time

The shifting artist... More »

7th, December 2013 Strange But True

East Sussex Breeding Sloths Are Both Males

What about love..? More »

7th, December 2013 Strange But True

Man Waved Exposed Chopper Like A Helicopter

To Indianapolis , where Shawn Harvell, 34, who is said to have menaced two women by exposing his 'chopper' and "swinging it about in a rotary helicopter motion"... More »