One would have thought that a phone bill sent to an individual in the amount of €11,721,000,000,000,000 would have immediately been recognised at least as a ‘possible’ glitch by the telephone company. Not in France, despite it being 6,000 times the economic output of the entire country.
Next stop Shepherd’s Pie
Some of them are priceless but there are probably some regular commuters who have not noticed the joke stickers appearing on the London Underground. Here is a gallery of the Joke Stickers
WOW, in all senses
The gaming hobby of a political candidate has become an issue in the state senate race in New England, US, and Maine Republicans have created a webpage revealing that Democrat candidate Colleen Lachowicz plays an Orc rogue in World of Warcraft. The Republicans claim that Ms Lachowicz’s apparent liking for back-stabbing and poison in WoW raise questions about her ‘fitness …
Pigs eat farmer
The authorities in the US state of Oregon are investigating how a farmer was devoured by his pigs. Farmer Terry Vance Garner, aged 70, went to feed his animals last Wednesday but never returned. His dentures and pieces of his body were found by a family member in the pig enclosure, but everything else had apparently been consumed.
Man finds lost iPad
A passenger who lost his iPad on a flight to Los Angeles suddenly remembered that he had downloaded the ‘Find My iPad’ app only days before the flight and activated it to find his tablet. He located it… inside the home of a flight stewardess.
Oktoberfest 2012
The Munich Oktoberfest, the world’s largest beer festival, opened on Saturday as the first keg was tapped to herald the start of a 16-day extravaganza of lederhosen, oompah music and beer. Over six million revellers from around the world are expected to attend this year’s festival and drink seven million litres of beer in the 35 giant beer tents covering …
ig Nobel 2012
Prior to the real thing, as it were, the Nobel Prizes, there are the annual the ig Nobel awards, a sort of spoof event presented by the Annals of Improbable Research. The research itself is absolutely genuine, and serious, it’s just that it is unlikely ever to be considered ‘worthy’ of a Nobel prize. Some good/whacky ones this year!
Another vote-winning statement
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney says: middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less The average salary in the USA is $39,959, according to the Social Security Administration. Perhaps for a man of Romney’s means – he is said to be worth $200 million (but to whom?) – $250,000 is middle income. If that’s his vision then he may get a …
The smell of coffee
A lot of things actually smell much better than they taste, and vice versa in some cases. Interesting, though, to find out Why does coffee never taste as good as it smells?
It would certainly resolve the seat issue
Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Minister, Stephen Shen, is calling on the island’s men to sit down when they pee in order to keep toilets clean, adding that he himself has already adopted the habit.