Sky News: Superg-Looed: Man Stuck To Toilet
and as usual, Americans find a twist:
Sky News: Woman Cut Free After Two Years On Loo
Can’t wait to see how the Chinese manage to top that one…
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Work recently asked me to send in a photo of me for their files. Alas, I meekly did a wacky pose against a wall, when what I should have done was done a screengrab from a randomized face at monoface. Over 7000 combinations of photographs of eyes, hair, nose and mouth combined to create some strikingly ridiculous faces!
Those wacky Germans…
Oct 24
Imagine you’re a German web development guru, who’s discovered this whole brand new phenomenon called Social Bookmarking. And you want to bring it to the German Hoff-loving masses. What would you call such a social bookmarking site? Would you ride on the Web 2.0 bandwagon?
Nope. Welcome to mister-wong.com. Complete with comic graphics of Chinese blokes looking like Einstein searching the web, just for you. Even better, when you dip into the German side of the site, the invitation to register says “Wong the web”. Now why didn’t I think of registering that?
Anyone got any ideas why this might be? I’d better reserve mr-patel.com just in case…
Tourism officials, eh?
Aug 25
On our travels across the length and breadth of the British Isles this summer, I have noticed one or two strange things.
To whit:
1. As part of the official tourist map of Weston-super-Mare, there is a prominent advert for a funeral directors. You know, just in case you were planning to die there.
2. The Bram Stoker Dracula Experience will take visitors on a “frightful journey” through Castle Dracula. Handy, therefore, that it also has baby changing facilities – just in case you’d choose to take your delicate newly-born children on a frightful journey…
And what do people do? Pose for pics with the bloody thing! 
Thanks to Skarlett for spotting that – full story here
I’m sure that phrase has been around since, like, forever, man. Certainly I’ve seen T-shirts with that phrase on various London dodgy stalls for at least five years.
But it turns out that not everyone knows it. Strange Cousin Susan has only just discovered it, and is using it with great gusto in her workplace. Which is in California – a place, I’d have thought, which would have discovered it a long time ago.
The only source I can find for said quote is from Jerry Springer: The Opera but it must have come from someone else before then. Surely? Any ideas?
Aside from anything else, why lesbians? Wouldn’t the phrase work just as well if it was “Dip me in chocolate and throw me to the chocolate nymphomaniacs”? I’m not particularly aware of any chocolate fetish amongst lesbians – at least, no more so than your average woman…
This is ridiculous. I thought prices in London were insane, but prices in Cardiff are manifestly so insane Barry the McMad Axeman probably set the price on this.
And while we’re on the subject The Guardian has reasons to move to Barry. It notes the el cheapo house prices (comparatively) but also says you’d be moving to a “pig’s ear”, a town renown for its “shabbiness, seaside/industrial decline”. Still, you can’t argue with those house prices. Now to find a house in Barry.
