Archive for July, 2011

Weekend video: ‘A Time To Kill Closing Argument’

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July 30, 2011   Posted in: Video  No Comments

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July 30, 2011   Posted in: Comedy, News  No Comments

Academics Fail to Move A Skyscraper

A strange shaking resulted in the total evacuation of a 39-storey skyscraper in Seoul earlier this month after fitness fanatics pounded away to extra loud music and disrupted the day of all 3,000 occupants of the building. Or at least this is the suspected cause of the shaking according to the owners of the building, [...]

July 29, 2011   Posted in: News  No Comments

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July 29, 2011   Posted in: Blogs, News  No Comments

More Tea Mr Billionaire?

Students at a Beijing school are being instructed in the methods for bagging themelves a billionaire husband.  Those failing to make the grade are plumping for a millionaire instead – but either way, the Moral Education Center for Women’s message is clear: for the women to be “the best they can be”, making it down [...]

July 28, 2011   Posted in: News  No Comments

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July 28, 2011   Posted in: News  No Comments

Pear-Shaped ‘Apple’ Stores

It’s not easy to tell a fake apple from a real – at first glance anyway.  In Kunming city, China, many staff at one of a handful of Chinese counterfeit Apple stores were apparently oblivious to the fact that their employer’s credentials were pear-shaped. Although Apple has not commented on the discovery of the fake [...]

July 27, 2011   Posted in: News  No Comments

Book recommendation: ‘Billy Budd’ by Herman Melville

Melville’s short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, “Billy Budd”, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and [...]

July 27, 2011   Posted in: Books  No Comments

One-armed Belarus Man Monocuffed for Clapping

Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko’s police recently arrested a man for clapping at a street demonstration. Konstantin Kaplin, an unemployed man from Grodno, was fined the equivalent of $200 for the offence, but knows he can’t have been guilty because he only has one arm. He says he was only watching the demonstration and trying to [...]

July 26, 2011   Posted in: News  No Comments

Will Bucks Fizz be Making Their Mind Up?

Three members of the original Bucks Fizz line-up, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston, have sought to trademark the name Bucks Fizz, after the remaining original member Bobby G (Robert Gubby) also laid claim to it. He had applied for ‘Bucks Fizz’ in 1997 and registered it to himself in 2001 following a legal [...]

July 25, 2011   Posted in: News  No Comments