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Post 521

Kyra

Here's someone else who doesn't believe that dolphin story is real

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/rumor/dolphins.asp


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Post 522

Mrs Bojangles

Rudolph got killed by a plane!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/30092005/80/danish-air-force-pay-santa-dead-reindeer.html

smiley - blush When I first saw this, for one excrutiatingly mortifying bimbo moment, I thought, "...but reindeers can't really fly!"


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Post 523

The Groob

Police extract stolen mobile from woman's posterior.

http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/index.php/2005/09/23/police_extract_stolen_mobile_from_woman


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Post 524

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

On the day that the Nobel prizes have been announced - is this a future recipient?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/actually-it-is-rocket-science/2005/10/03/1128191658830.html

The 11 year olds I know have a lot to live up to smiley - laugh


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Post 525

Woodpigeon

On the subject of rocket science:

Rocket racing! smiley - bigeyes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4307538.stm


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Post 526

abbi normal "Putting on the Ritz" with Dr Frankenstein

http://cityguide.aol.com/denver/topeleven_animal_pageants/

If you can get this page - you'll to see the winner of the ugliest dog contest. A smiley - dogface only it's person could love!


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Post 527

MissFianna

I saw this today and went into immediate cardiac arrest. From laughing. ttp://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/04/world_jump_day_1.php


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Post 528

Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller

An inquiry into the desercration of remains at Gallipoli. And not before time!
Is there a more poignant monument to young men throwing away their lives due to the misplaced trust in politicians and their lies?
Hopefully the likes of Churchill,Kitchener,Godwin and Hamilton and present day politicians are squirming in their collective guilt!

(yes I,m sure this story might of rated a page twelve column hidden away amongst the horse race results, somewhere)

We now return you to your normal programming.


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Post 529

IctoanAWEWawi

got a link for that Rhynch?

On another note:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1571050.html?menu=

"Bank clerks in Moldova have been told not to make eye contact with customers after a string of robberies by a hypnotist."


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Post 530

Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller

I think if you tried this...www.smh.com.au and type Gallipoli, you would come across the story. It is an on going one about our gormless politicians not stopping Turkey from excavating a bloody big highway, so that bloody tourist buses can more easily park at the cemetaries and sacred sites of British,French,Indian,Kiwis,Aussies,Gurkhas etc. Pictures of road workers holding the shin bones of unknown soldiers have incensed the public here and in New Zealand.

Australian,New Zealand and British money goes into this area by the bucketload to maintain Commonwealth War Graves and memorials. Yet the lame buggers knew about the plans for roads to be dug through the middle of battlefields many,many months beforehand and did nothing to pressure the Turks to'tread warily' as it was.

Do I sound a bit Pee'd Off ? Grrrrrrrr


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Post 531

Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller

bloody moldovians eh! That was a hoot!smiley - laugh


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Post 532

The Groob

Man arrested in Ripper hoax case

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4354952.stm


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Post 533

The Groob

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4361682.stm

Quite funny.


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Post 534

IctoanAWEWawi

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/phantoms_and_rogues/

The near collapse of the British Banking system due to a rogue IT department and resistance of the institutions to admit anything could go wrong.

Very interesting reading!


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Post 535

Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller

No link to displaysmiley - erm only the item I heard over the radio as I worked...'Australia remains the Number one destination for British Immigrants!..................'GO AWAY! We are all full up here, the next bloody pale skinned person who says ...'ello, ow yu doin then?'is going to get a rude shock!smiley - laugh

Whats wrong with the 'Old Dart' that you have to come and live here then? Hmmmm? We don't do football very well you know, and by all reports we dont do Cricket or Rugby(Union), any better!

Perhaps you could reconsider destinations and stop cluttering up my back deck and regaling me with how great English beer is,WHILE consuming large quantities of my ice cold Tooheys(memo:I have never actually met an Australian who will own up to drinking Fosters while in Australia!)smiley - cool


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Post 536

aonemantidalwave

Believe me, this is one Brit who would never want to be anywhere near your country and I know a lot of people who share that view so don't mess yourself just yet.


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Post 537

Ged42

Badgers break into prison...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4374086.stm

Suspected to be trying to bust Nighthoover out of prison


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Post 538

Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller

"Phew!"
smiley - ok thank goodness for that!
atsunamiinanenglishbody4ever! Now theres a thought!


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Post 539

aonemantidalwave

Tell you what, we'll leave Austrailia to you if you take back all the Aussie bartenders and layabouts in London.
Agreed?

smiley - winkeye


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Post 540

Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller

Yes,I think I know what you mean.
I have been told that the absolute worst type of Australian appears in the English consciousness, when they meet one in a London or English Bar.

Apparently this does not happen when ,said Barperson(s) serve drinks in the Emerald Isle, as well as(strangely enough) wine bars in Francesmiley - cool

Yes, odd it is.


Layabouts you say?!
I bet my useless nieces and nephews(11 in number,at last head countsmiley - erm) make up a fair proportion of them!smiley - laugh
All over there, and all shockingly unaware of social norms!smiley - cool


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