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iPod to iPhone to iDiamond????

June 20th 2008 09:30
iDiamond
So what to buy for the person with too much money and every conceivable gadget under the sun?

The iDiamond of course. A $40,000 diamond encrusted iPod Shuffle.

Even the earpieces contain gold with a small band of encrusted diamonds.

What will they think of next???
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PETROL Versus BEER!!!

June 19th 2008 09:30
beer petrol sign
The cost of petrol versus beer, neatly displayed.
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BOWL BUDDIES!!!

May 2nd 2008 16:35
toilet
Ever wanted to push George W. Bush's head down a toilet!

Well now you have the opportunity at hand, literally.

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FART DEODORISERS!!!

April 30th 2008 16:31
farting man
Yes, you heard me correctly, fart deodorisers!

Somewhere, someone in a company out there in the big wide world, has designed an odour absorbing pad to wear in your briefs/underwear to absorb the smell of the thunder down under.

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thief
In India this week a man was arrested by police after having robbed a bank of a different kind.

We've all heard the old jokes about the Irishman robbing the sperm bank by mistake, but it appears in this case that the sperm bank stolen from in this news item was indeed the actual target.

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Now Just FORK OFF!!!!

April 18th 2008 08:32
fork
From the Associated Press comes this tidbit of exacting revenge in Iowa, USA

"When known pranksters Rick and Marilyn Jones left town for a wedding, neighbors seeking payback eyed their property and decided to stick a fork in it — a few thousand forks, in fact.

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SQUATTING For The OLYMPICS!!!

March 27th 2008 01:10
Going to the Beijing Olympics? Well it might be standing squatting room only for those availing themselves of one of the the most unpleasant, but extremeley necessary evils.

toilet
I'm talking toilets! Yes again with another toilet tale, and no, I don't have some sort of weird toilet fetish. (Although I'm sure you were just hoping for one. )

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Not Superman but SuperSHEEP!

March 18th 2008 10:10
Police in Germany recently experienced an unexpected turn of events when their latest suspect not only outran them, but also beat up their police dogs!

German sheep
Wanted in connection with rampaging through the town streets at over 30 miles an hour, a sheep managed to evade capture by jumping up and over the bonnets of police cars that were set up as a 'sheep-block' and head butting pursuing police dogs.

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The AFP have reported this week on YouTube's latest rising internet star - an Italian archbishop!

"An Italian archbishop has become an unexpected Internet star by answering questions from his flock each week on YouTube, getting more than 65,000 hits each time, the Milan diocese said Thursday.

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Recently in Hungary, a burglar out on the prowl, climbed the fence of what he considered to be a prime target in a posh area of Budapest, only to be confronted by fencing of a different sort.

fencing foil sword
Virgine Ujlaky, 23, of the Olympic Fencing team was practicing her swordplay when she saw Pal Nagy, 43, climb in through the window of her house. She deftly pinned him up against the wall with her sword at his throat while she rang police.

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TEXT Message ENGAGEMENT!

March 11th 2008 09:21
SMS text message free
This is for everyone who's ever sent a mobile text message to the wrong number or been on the receiving end of one.

Anthony Hubbocks was one such person, having sent a sent a flirty SMS to a wrong number. the end result of which, was that he ended up engaged to a Welsh woman.

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Jedi Knight
Thousands of Australians during a national census have been known in the past to put down their religion as being 'Jedi'.

Now it seems the first 'Jedi Church' is in the makings thanks to brothers Barney and Daniel Jones of Anglesey, Wales

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tortoise
Forget about worrying if cooking chips is going to lead to the possibility of your house catching on fire, it may be those pesky tortoises that cause the damage instead!

Emma Fox of the UK had just recently brought Fred, a 70 year old female tortoise, inside the house when she came out of hibernation early, reports The Sun.

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Definitely A Spicy Theft

February 20th 2008 22:24
taco free image
In the latest news from the 'Inland Valley Daily Bulletin' in the US, an armed robber snuck up behind a bicyclist in order to mug him.

However this incident was a little unusual considering how the standard US mugging goes.

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