7th, March 2012
Reviews
5 Man strumming imaginary banjo cleared of outraging public decency on a Reading train
"For my sins I play the banjo, so sometimes I do, with my hands, pick out a pattern on my knees"... More »
7th, March 2012
Reviews
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7th, March 2012
Key Posts
Live-tweeting from the Park Slope Coop meeting - a gathering for tortured PC souls
This week, Reuters journalist and Park Slope Food Coop member Chadwick Maitlin attended the association's monthly meeting and decided to live tweet it. Lasting over two hours, the Twitter documentation of the earnest proceedings gave a hilarious insight into the tortured souls of Park Slope... More »
7th, March 2012
Key Posts
Janaka Basnayake loses buried alive world record
Did Janaka Basnayake, 24, break the world record for being buried alive? We may never know... More »
7th, March 2012
Strange But True
2 The two-headed, six-legged Ukrainian tortoise - photos
If you call her name she spins around and round and round for hours.... More »
7th, March 2012
Strange But True
Ricky Martin's Vida Loca adopted as Kazakh national anthem
It was a proud moment for Kazakhstan and Ricky Martin when Livin 'la Vida Loca was adopted as the country's national anthem... More »
7th, March 2012
Celebrities
Living life with Nic and Eva Speakman - conceiving a talking cloud that rains Cherry Cola
The Speakmans - Nic and Eva - are "psychotherapists and personal development coaches". You might have spotted them on Fatima Whitbread's' 'Fat Fighters' on ITV's This Morning. Their advice is wonderful... More »
7th, March 2012
Reviews
Is Lord Lucan really James Hewitt?
It's a better story that we don't know how he escaped a murder charge (the nanny Sandra Rivett was killed and mother Veronica injued) by disguising himself as James Hewitt. But The Daily Mirror leads with: My dad Lord Lucan: Son breaks silence More »
7th, March 2012
Strange But True
Man's face eaten by parasite - photos
Adam Spencer wanted to travel. He journeyed from his native Oregon to South America... More »
6th, March 2012
Celebrities
What's with Russell Grant and Eurovision?
Is Russell Grant the face and sound of Eurovision..? More »
6th, March 2012
TV & Radio
The Hippopotamus enters race for the White House - video
What do you think of it so far, Mr Hittopopamous?... More »
6th, March 2012
TV & Radio
The solitary laugh - how to laugh in an empty room
How Solitary Laugh - how to laugh in an empty room, or in full room when feeling alone... More »
6th, March 2012
Royal Family
4 Prince Harry takes on Usain Bolt - cheats and wins (photos)
Harry began his tour of Jamaica by racing spring champion Usain Bolt, at the University of the West Indies. More »
6th, March 2012
Sports
Take the London Olympics diversity quiz
1. Sexual Orientation. A spectator complains to you that there are two men holding hands sitting next to them – they feel very uncomfortable and would like you to tell the couple to stop. What do you do?... More »
6th, March 2012
Technology
Mobile trade show seduces customers with Russian escorts
Were you one of the executives offered an escort at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by CBOSS? The incentive for doing business was "champagne, caviar and a beautiful girl"... More »
6th, March 2012
Celebrities
5 Stacey Solomon smokes through pregnancy and gets shouted at by the whole world
Thick but nice. That's what everyone thinks of Stacey Solomon isn't it? You wouldn't trust her to perform eye-surgery but you would absolutely let her meet your nana. She's unswervingly sweet but not the sharpest spoon in the drawer... More »
6th, March 2012
Money
George Monbiot gets Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan wrong
Monbiot goes all over Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan this morning... More »
6th, March 2012
Key Posts
Photos of the day - Wookie Goldberg's missing piggy
Dinner is served... More »
6th, March 2012
Strange But True
2 Farting man faces ban from County Durham men's club
They are threatening to ban Dave Marriott, 49, from the Grange Villa Workmen's Social Club, County Durham for flatulence... More »
6th, March 2012
Strange But True
3 Winston Kemp's Lichtenberg figure tattoos
Kemp was struck by lightening. The result was a tattoo known as a Lichtenberg figure... More »
6th, March 2012
Reviews
Stephen Lawrence: John Davidson, Neil Putnam and police corruption?
"The police intelligence reports, obtained by The Independent, outline extensive allegations of corruption against John Davidson, a lead detective investigating the racist murder..." More »
6th, March 2012
Money
11 Woman defrauded taxpayers with 10 fictional children
You might be outraged. The Sun wants you to be. Smith is the lead story in its Beat The Cheat campaign “to tackle benefit fraud — which costs taxpayers £1.2billion a year”... More »
5th, March 2012
Reviews
New Zealand wants journalists to reveal all sources to judges
Journalism looks set to get tougher in New Zealand... More »
