The recent success of the London 2012 Olympics, and Team GB in particular, have reignited what was until recently a dwindling love of sitting on one's arse watching sports amongst the British public.
Never before have such a large number of Brits...
WASILLA, Alaska - Levi Johnston, 22, has finally come out and told it like it is. The baby daddy of Bristol Palin's son Tripp Johnston spoke with Bedroom Pillow Talk and revealed some rather interesting facts.
Levi told Carolina Chipotle that he d...
Vandenberg AFB / 30th Space Wing (AP) - Like a facial on a Friday night, NASA's latest mission will hit you right between the eyes as they search for information to help the Western Snowy Plover reproduce. The Snowy Plover Ecological Reconnaissance M...
The Reverend T.J. McCorkle of Louisburg, NC, announced today the opening of his fast food chain, Road-a-Kill. "We've had thousands of folks waiting in line all day long at all of our locations," said McCorkle. "We been eat'in road kill all our lives, now you can go right to the corner, mingle with your cousins, and eat road kill fixed the right way!"
"How's that?" called out a reporter from the...
JPL/Pasadena California - Scientists announced that the Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity Rover has in fact discovered a sign of intelligent life on the Red plant. Analysis of the initial data is ongoing; however, there is a clear signature that Ma...
In any other setting NRA President Wayne LaPierre's announcement of a new assault weapon capable of incinerating all within a six mile radius "depending on wind and topography" might have raised eyebrows if not incited panic. Not in Congress where fe...
London - Deputy Prime Monster Nick Clegg has blamed 'bastards' in the Lords for failure to abolish the illegitimate and anachronistic House of Commons.
Speaking to reporters at a lunchtime briefing Lord Clegg described how he'd successfully infilt...
The NASA robot dubbed "Curiosity" landed safely on Mars Sunday night smack dab in the middle of a deep pit of quicksand and sunk before any useful data could be collected.
Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another pl...
For many years, nations have sent vehicles to the Moon, Mars and other bodies to explore them, take pictures and even collect samples. But there is a worrying trend in robotic space vehicles - they are becoming heavier, leading to warnings of an obes...
The President's re election campaign committee demanded to see the dental records of Mitt Romney going back at least three years.
"The American people deserve a president with good teeth, especially since health care will be in shambles in a f...
President Obama has shocked the nation when, at his monthly public address, he announced that he was quitting the Presidential race. Millions of voters across the nation were either shocked, angered or joyous at the incident. As you can probably gues...
The US robot, Curiosity, that landed safely on Mars and cost the US tax-payer $2,5 billion dollars had a strange encounter of the third kind!
Curious Martians approached the craft with begging bowls in their hands thinking that the "Messiah Mc Do...
The latest DL denizen of the Red Sox continues to find healing of his heel beyond the scope of the medical staff.
Yes, the Honorable David Ortiz, DH, DL, is beginning to look and sound like he is switching his agency to Scott Boras. The original h...
Monday 30th July 2012
Topic: Benefits
Headline:
Source: The Sun
Extract: 900,000 Brits have been on the sick for more than ten years - with hundreds claiming cash for obesity, headaches and even ACNE.
And there are virtually no checks to see whether the 885,100 people who have received incapacity benefit for a decade still need it.
The figure includes 22,640 alcoholics and drug...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947
Chapter 105:Tesco's Big, Busty, Brutal Belinda
I was on my way to Tesco, on Bath Street, Ilkeston for my first duties there.
A nice sunny morning, plodding along on my Norton, young, fit, just promoted, willing and able, and full of the joys of spr...
Monday 30th July 2012
Topic: Crime - Assault - Stabbing
"Two more teenagers arrested over West Bridgford stabbing"
Source: This is Nottingham
Extract: Two more teenagers have been arrested in connection with a stabbing of a 17-year-old boy at a party in West Bridgford yesterday.
The two 15-year-old boys will be interviewed by officers today.
Police were called to reports of a dis...
Monday 30th July 2012
* Hurray... some sleep last night, great!
* Remembered I'd forgot something for last Saturday's Senior Moments diary:
When I went to catch the bus back from Bulwell, I again tried to use me bank card by mistake for me bus pass! Then, got seated, got the crossword book out and failed to find any answers... then the driver told us all that the bus would not start, and...
Last month it was reported that Christopholous Theothopolous, aka George Michael, suffered a curious malady whereby he awoke from his pneumonic slumbers to find that he now spoke in a west country accent. Since then, we can tell you that the Hellenic...
The foundation of the Olympic Games came with an Declaration: It is not the winning that counts but the taking part.
It came a surprise to the packed auditorium yesterday when the slogan displayed prominently for all to see announced: It is the w...
London, England. The Thirtieth Games of the Modern Olympiad being held in this town have reached a new low with the awarding of a gold medal to a sewer rat that somehow found its way into the sewerage pipes inside the Athletes Village.
Experts cl...
WATTS, California - The Yo Bro Record Label Company has just announced that one of its featured artists Snoop Dogg has just changed his name.
The man who was born Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. and started performing under the name Snoop Puppy Dogg...
HOLLYWOOD - The Bedroom Pillow Talk Entertainment News Agency has just announced that Pipe Dream Films has acquired the movie rights to the E.L. James novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
The erotic book has already sold 32 million copies world wide includ...
NEW YORK CITY - After what seems like a year of trying out guest hosts, it appears that Live! With Kelly may just have found it's new co-host.
Kelly Ripa has stated that if the choice were totally up to her she would pick Anderson Cooper in a nano...
If you thought that cats are the only animals that purr, think again. Researchers have recently reported that elephants purr too. See "The Mystery of the Purring Elephant" by Veronique Greenwood in TIME.com (August 3, 2012).
A Spoof reporter who...
Boulder, Colorado resident, Johnny Rubble, was shocked to find the Atlantic Ocean's waves lapping at the edge of his back yard. He was so happy at the strange circumstance that he decided to take a swim in the ocean which would turn out to be both h...
Blackburn's game against NEC Nijmegen off after 'riots'
(BBC Sport)
I'd heard watching Blackburn had become tedious last season, but I didn't know it had got this bad.
Chelsea defender Ashley Cole, 31, has ruled out a move to big-spending French giants PSG after insisting contract talks over a new deal at Stamford Bridge have not stalled.
(Daily Mail)
Stand by for an new chapter in Cole's a...
Northern Premier League side Kendal United have signed a sponsorship deal with a company which makes fake beards.
(Metro)
Handy for the manager if he needs to sneak away without giving a press conference after a bad defeat.
Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster has likened HJK Helsinki's artificial surface, where the Scottish champions will perform on Wednesday, to playing in a car park.
(Sunday...