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Sunday, 31 August 2008

Kaiser Karl is a bear

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Not that kind of bear. After all, it is hard to imagine the creative head of the house of Chanel submitting to the "No Artificial Scents" rule at the door of his local bear bar.The inventors of the teddy bear, Steiff, have created a Karl Lagerfeld bear, designed by the man himself.Speaking of KL, was he really ever fat? Go ahead – do a Google image search. Not a one. Has he had all evidence of
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Screaming, falling down, cross-dressing, vomiting

Posted on 02:00 by Unknown
Konstantinos Lagoudakis, the mayor of Malai, Crete, interviewed in today’s New York Times: “They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit.”He's talking about British tourists.“It is only the British people,” he said, “not the Germans or the French.”The Times spoke to 21-year-old man from Essex who said that the night before he had drunk had five
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Monday, 25 August 2008

Not no more, you don't

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As recently as yesterday, Dairy Farmers was running a TV ad in high rotation featuring actual dairy farmers – and lots of photogenic kids – saying "I own a company".




Today, Dairy Farmers was swallowed whole by National Foods of Japan for $910 million.
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Sunday, 24 August 2008

You got that right

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Saturday, 23 August 2008

Morons R Us

Posted on 05:29 by Unknown

The Official Moron Registry allows you to let the world know about the moron in your life. Here, some morons of note.





Bodes, Patricia - She doesn't know how to be a real parent. She is not the brightest color in the box of crayons. She is as dumb as a box of rocks.

Cairo, Kelly - Chooses to play billiards instead of spending time with his girlfriend who had slaved over the stove cooking
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Cutest. Animal. Ever.

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The momonga (Pteromys momonga), a flying squirrel that lives in Japan.Super-kuwaii!
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Space: 1899

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Monday, 18 August 2008

Rise and fry

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
If the buzzing and beeping of an ordinary alarm clock won't entice you to rouse from your slumber, perhaps the irresistible smell of sizzling bacon will.The Wake 'n' Bacon alarm clock switches itself on 10 minutes before you want to wake up and cooks some bacon in its internal tray.It makes the morning so much easier.
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Sunday, 17 August 2008

Lumoava Suomi!

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Every time I watch a DVD, I always sit through those endless copyright warnings in different languages wondering who on earth the one headed "Suomi" is for.It turns out it’s for Finns. They call Finland Suomi, and their language is also called Suomi.From Enchanting Finland: legends, feelings, experiences comes this list of the top 10 things that make a Finn happy. Number 6 is odd, but I know what
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Saturday, 16 August 2008

Unfamous last words

Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a website dedicated to its executions, including a database of final statements. Here are some highlights.Leon Dorsey, executed 12 August 2008“See you when you get there. Do what you’re gonna do.”Patrick Bryan Knight, executed 26 June 2007“I am not Patrick Bryan Knight, and ya'll can't stop this execution now. Melyssa, take care of that little monster
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Friday, 15 August 2008

Happy finish

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Aveda stoops to conquer with this poorly named product.

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Thursday, 14 August 2008

This monkey pants

Posted on 13:35 by Unknown
Finally, something on eBay I actually need. "It's offered to your attention the 'space pants' for macaque small monkey to wear it during the experimental space flight. This pants has been used for animals (monkeys) experiments in 1950s & 1960s in the USSR Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP, Moscow). This monkey's 'space pants' are designed with many clasps to fit bigger or smaller monkey."I
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Saturday, 9 August 2008

Life. Be in it. v2.0

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Without any apparent irony, the commercial television association Free TV Australia is running community service announcements telling us to “live life”.This message is being hammered home in almost every ad break by sportbots like Grant Hackett and Giann Rooney.Hackett is a particularly inappropriate choice to be telling anyone how to live. In the past year he has only seen his parents once and
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Friday, 8 August 2008

"I'm just coming into the stadium now."

Posted on 14:14 by Unknown
I slept through the Olympics opening ceremony -- actually, it put me to sleep -- but I saw highlights this morning.The Australian team looked good in their shiny blue jackets and silver caps, but did they all have to be chatting away on mobiles as they came in to the stadium? It looked like they had somewhere else to be.
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Tuesday, 5 August 2008

警警 and 察察

Posted on 22:18 by Unknown
Meet Jingjing and Chacha, the adorable mascots of the Internet Surveillance Division of the Public Security Bureau of the People’s Republic of China. In other words, the internet police.The bureau employs more than 30,000 people to monitor the internet, ensuring that anything to do with the Falun Gong, police brutality, the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, freedom of speech, democracy,
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Monday, 4 August 2008

Flirty dewy petaly floralcy

Posted on 20:30 by Unknown
I love the press releases for fragrances. They try so very hard. Here are some highlights from a six-page press release for an upcoming Mariah Carey fragrance.Endowed with the gift to bring her art to life, with heart-stirring music and lyrics to alluring fragrance, Mariah unveils a heavenly side of herself with the launch of her newest fragrance, Mariah Carey’s Luscious Pink.This brand is a
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