More PC lunacy
The Middlesex Crusaders cricket team has played, quite happily, under that name for about ten years now, but next year they will be playing as the Middlesex Panthers.
Bruce on tour
Bruce Springsteen’s latest album. Working on a Dream, has topped the UK album charts. It’s his seventh UK number one. The legendary rocker, who played at the recent inauguration of US President Barack Obama, will be in Spain in July and August as part of his 2009 US and European Tour. He will be at:
Odyssey Marine Exploration find another valuable shipwreck
Odyssey Marine Exploration have discovered another valuable wreck at the bottom of the sea, this time a British military vessel.
Stating the obvious
In order to avoid potential claims if a dairy intolerant consumer suffers an adverse reaction, the supermarket chain ASDA now has a label on its cartons of milk stating: ‘Allergen advice – contains milk’ This follows Cadbury’s labeling Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate with ‘contains milk’ (helloooo) in capital letters and the Happy Egg Company putting labels on its boxes of …
OTT?
Someone once said: ‘There is no such thing as bad language, only the bad use of language’. After all, it is we who arrange a group of letters to form a word…..and then declare it to be ‘bad’.
Googled
Google suffered a mild case of embarrassment on Saturday after a human error resulted in all search results coming up with the legend ‘this site may harm your computer’.
Gaffe prevention
First it was Margaret Beckett. Faced with a forecast that house prices were set to slump by 22% in the next 18 months, Ms Beckett suddenly advised first-time buyers to snap up bargains amid signs of a property market ‘upturn’. Then it was Tony McNulty. Faced with unemployment hurtling towards two million and government borrowing and debt at record levels, …
Cop that
Grampian Police in the UK have spent an estimated £170,000 of public money trying to prosecute a strippergram who plays ‘police officer’ as part of his act. Sergeant Eros, as he is known to the public, was last week cleared in court…for the 22nd time.