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Texas_blu
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Location: HCMC, VN
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject: Funny Stuff |
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I thought I might do something to bring a smile or a chuckle to our lives!
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In December, a Flybe Airline flight from Cardiff, Wales, was preparing to land as scheduled at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris when the pilot announced that they had to return to Cardiff because, he said, "Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to land the plane in Paris." Because of the heavy fog, the plane would have to be instrument-landed, and the pilot had not yet completed certification.
[USA Today-Metro (London), 12-18-08] |
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Texas_blu
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Location: HCMC, VN
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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David Shayler, 43, used to be a British MI5 intelligence officer, but apparently went downhill after a controversy with superiors and today lives as Delores Kent, in full female dress, and believes "in (his) heart" that he is the Messiah who will save mankind from its upcoming 2012 doomsday by turning billions of people on to the virtues of hemp, which is "perfectly balanced ... full of omega-3, -6, and -9 to help muscles grow and repair." Shayler/Kent also believes that Americans staged Sept. 11 and that Jesus Christ was, like him, a transvestite.
[Daily Mail, 7-17-09] |
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inky
Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 283 Location: Hanoi
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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So, when are you going to do it? |
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Texas_blu
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Location: HCMC, VN
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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London's Daily Mail reported in March that among the recession-themed business start-up grants awarded by the Welsh Department of Work and Pensions was the equivalent of about $6,600 to the Accolade Academy of Psychic and Mediumistic Studies. One of the Academy's owners defended the award, noting that parents who have lost a child need to know that the child is safe.
[Daily Mail, 3-26-09] |
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Texas_blu
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Location: HCMC, VN
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Britain's Bristol City Council warned residents in government housing in September to always leave their sheds unlocked. Otherwise, thieves would have to break the doors down to get inside, and taxpayers would be stuck with the repair bills.
[Daily Telegraph (London), 9-30-08] |
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Texas_blu
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Location: HCMC, VN
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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In October, the local government council in Worcester, England, ordered Bill Malcolm to take down the 3-foot-high, barbed-wire fence he had installed to deter the thieves who had broken into his storage shed three times in the previous four months. According to the Daily Mail, the council said it feared the government would be sued by a wounded trespasser. |
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