Beware Of Pieces Of Glass In Old Tins
Posted on December 11, 2008 by admin in General
The legendary Koh-i-Nor diamond was lost for quite some time, after the handover from the Sikhs, to British rule, in 1849. It was only after repeated requests from Britain to Sir John Lawrence, Governor General of India, that the diamond was found again. Finally the gardener asked if they were looking for “The bit of [...]
Valuable Rock Stars Are Still Being Recovered
Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin in Finance
All is doom and gloom in the world of finance, yet things are vastly different to the days of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. On one hand we have Somali pirates holding shipping companies to ransom for millions of dollars, while a world away, million dollar rock stars are being recovered from the murky [...]
Somali Pirates Strike Cruise Ships
Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin in General
If you book an ocean cruise that goes through the Suez Canal and the Gulf Aden, past the pirate-infested coastline of Somalia, you will find your ticket entails a lot of extra expenses. Hapag-Lloy, the German Hamburg-based cruise operator, announced on Wednesday that its 246 passengers, from the MV Columbus, would now disembarked at the [...]
Obese Dog Survives Sub-Zero Temperatures
Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin in General
They say survival goes to the fittest, but it was survival of the fattest that saved a morbidly obese 12 year-old border collie-mix, weighing around 120 pounds. Unfortunately Jiffy made the mistake of sitting his behind on the sidewalk in Wisconsin, USA, only to become firmly attached to the freezing surface. Jiffy’s 59 year old [...]
Its Official – Worm Collector Arrested
Posted on December 2, 2008 by admin in Humour
“I wanted to see women shake their legs,” was the simple excuse behind 35 year-old Manabu Mizuta’s bizarre behavior. Manabu was arrested after releasing hundreds of beetle larvae inside a moving express train in Japan. Local police had been on the lookout after 18 similar cases had been reported this month, by the same train [...]
Its Official – JFKennedys PT109 Has Been Confirmed
Posted on December 2, 2008 by admin in General
In May 2002, Robert Ballard led a National Geographic expedition, that found the sunken remains of John F Kennedy’s PT-109. It has taken six years for the US Navy experts to declare that the wreck found in 360 metres of water is actually the boat JFK’s skippered. American troops were based on various islands of [...]
Its Official – Motorists Are Being Driven Crazy
Posted on December 2, 2008 by admin in How To, Humour
The more you drive on the roads the more you realize it is like playing Russian Roulette, simply because you do not know what anyone else will do. However, when the signs are confusing as well, what chance do you have? This is a Blue Moon Opportunity for someone to begin collecting ‘crazy’ motor signs. [...]
