Well, that lasted a long time
Kraft proudly launched its new Vegemite variant on Saturday, calling it iSnack 2.0. This name was decided upon following a national competition to pick a name for the new product, which is a mixture of the traditional Vegemite and cream cheese. Following almost unanimous scoffing by Australians at the stupid name of the [...]
School fetes – I knew there is a reason why I hate them
Violence at a school fete in Papua New Guinea left eight people dead and a severed head hanging from a power pole. According to local media, an armed gang attacked villagers gathered at the fete in Kainantu district last Friday, and killed four people. The gang’s leader interrupted a speech by a local magistrate, produced [...]
Even in the land of litigation, this is crazy
A man called Dalton Chiscolm is apparently unhappy with the service provided by Bank of America. So what does he do? Sues them of course – for "1,784 billion, trillion dollars". There are a couple of fundamental problems with his lawsuit. First, the judge can’t figure out what Mr Chiscolm’s problem with the bank [...]
Purr, purr, purr ……
Woohoo! The Geelong Cats won the AFL grand final, beating St Kilda in a tightly contested game, by 12 points. Congratulations to the Cats – they have been the champion team of the last 3 seasons. Last year’s grand final loss was an aberration, and today’s win rightly places the Geelong team of 2007-2009 as [...]
Darling, another glass of wine?
A survey has found that women like to have a drink before having sex. The study found 75 per cent of women liked to drink before getting into bed with their husband or boyfriend, and 6 per cent had never had sex sober. Almost half said they preferred sex while under the influence of alcohol [...]
Where was she going? Did she just forget something?
Among the guests at the Australian Football League’s Brownlow Medal presentation last night were medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten and his fiance Brynne Gordon. I saw this picture last night and still can’t decide: was she planning to go to the beach hence the bikini top? did she just forget to put a blouse on [...]
Why bother having them?
In this case, children. Sydney mother-of-two Melissa Blackley is so obsessed with work that she doesn’t know what her children eat for lunch and hasn’t cooked dinner in two years. Her and her partner, John Anderson, are both high-powered sales executives and are so focused on work that neither of them knows what time their [...]
Banzai, samurai
I’m always amused by stories of criminals getting harmed or killed in odd ways during their crimes, so this one appealed to me. A student in Baltimore, USA, killed a burglar with a samurai sword after spotting the intruder in his garage. He and his housemates asked the burglar to stop, but while they called [...]
You need to be smart to get married?
Many would actually argue quite the opposite in fact. However, a woman in Scotland was banned from getting married due to social workers deciding she was not intelligent enough to get married. Kerry Robertson, 17, who is five-months pregnant was preparing to marry Mark McDougall when social services told her she would have to cancel [...]
240,000
I noticed my Sitemeter stats clicked over 240,000 while I was away a few days ago, lets call it Sunday for arguments sake. That makes it about 86 days for the last 10,000, which is slightly less than the previous 10,000. Not much change in the key search words that bring people to my blog. [...]
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