NO PJ'S PLEASE
Britian's Tesco supermarket is now banning PJ's. Apparently a lot of shoppers have been showing up in their night clothes. The spokeswoman says the no p-j's and nighties request is to ``avoid causing offense or embarrassment to others.''
HIDDEN TREASURES
An elderly British couple have been told a cracked Chinese vase they hid in a spare bedroom is worth more than their house and possibly everything else in it. The couple, who want to remain anonymous, received the blue-and-white lantern vase as a gift half a century ago. The vase even cracked is worht over $800,000.
IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION:
Q: According to a recent insurance study, female drivers are 80% more likely to do this. What is it?
A: Lock their keys in the vehicle
Friday, January 29, 2010
Langer of a policeman!!
Man fined 'for blowing his nose'
An Ayrshire businessman says he has been fined by the police for blowing his nose while stuck in a traffic jam.
Michael Mancini, 39, from Prestwick, said he was in standing traffic in Ayr town centre with the handbrake on when he used a tissue to clean his nose.
He claimed he was waved over by four police officers and given a fixed penalty for not being in proper control of his car.
Mr Mancini said: "I still had the tissue in my hand and was totally stunned when he said I was getting a fixed penalty notice for not being in control of my car.
"I thought it was some kind of Beadle's About moment - a wind-up. The traffic was at a complete standstill and I had my handbrake on."
The self-employed furniture restorer is refusing to pay the £60 fine and the case may now proceed to court.
The Daily Mail says the policeman involved was PC Stuart Gray, nicknamed 'PC Shiny Buttons' for his zealous approach to the job.
Last year, he issued a £50 fixed penalty for littering to a man who accidentally dropped a £10 note in the street.
An Ayrshire businessman says he has been fined by the police for blowing his nose while stuck in a traffic jam.
Michael Mancini, 39, from Prestwick, said he was in standing traffic in Ayr town centre with the handbrake on when he used a tissue to clean his nose.
He claimed he was waved over by four police officers and given a fixed penalty for not being in proper control of his car.
Mr Mancini said: "I still had the tissue in my hand and was totally stunned when he said I was getting a fixed penalty notice for not being in control of my car.
"I thought it was some kind of Beadle's About moment - a wind-up. The traffic was at a complete standstill and I had my handbrake on."
The self-employed furniture restorer is refusing to pay the £60 fine and the case may now proceed to court.
The Daily Mail says the policeman involved was PC Stuart Gray, nicknamed 'PC Shiny Buttons' for his zealous approach to the job.
Last year, he issued a £50 fixed penalty for littering to a man who accidentally dropped a £10 note in the street.
randy Bitch!!!! haha
President: 'Pork as good as Viagra'
Argentina's president says eating pork is at least as effective as Viagra for spicing up your love life.
President Cristina Kirchner claims to have tested the theory with her husband, the country's former president Nestor Kirchner.
"Pork consumption improves sexual activity," Mrs Kirchner told a gathering of business people at a meeting at the presidential palace.
Mrs Kirchner said she and her husband had enjoyed a pork roast over the weekend at their retreat in Argentina's southern Patagonia region.
The president assured her audience the meal had yielded "impressive" results.
"We were in high spirits the whole weekend," she said. "I'm a pork fanatic," she added, "and I'm not saying this just to impress you, or for self-promotion."
The head of the association of pork producers, Juan Uccelli, backed Mrs Kirchner's claims.
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Argentina's president says eating pork is at least as effective as Viagra for spicing up your love life.
President Cristina Kirchner claims to have tested the theory with her husband, the country's former president Nestor Kirchner.
"Pork consumption improves sexual activity," Mrs Kirchner told a gathering of business people at a meeting at the presidential palace.
Mrs Kirchner said she and her husband had enjoyed a pork roast over the weekend at their retreat in Argentina's southern Patagonia region.
The president assured her audience the meal had yielded "impressive" results.
"We were in high spirits the whole weekend," she said. "I'm a pork fanatic," she added, "and I'm not saying this just to impress you, or for self-promotion."
The head of the association of pork producers, Juan Uccelli, backed Mrs Kirchner's claims.
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VERY NICE!!!
World's most expensive bikini
New York jeweller Susan Rosen has created the world's most expensive bikini.
The £17.3 million jewel-encrusted costume was custom made for supermodel Molly Sims to wear.
The tiny bikini is made up out of 150 carats of D-grade flawless diamonds.
Rosen used some of the rarest gems in the world including a 51ct pear-shaped diamond and a 30ct emerald.
The bikini made its debut in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
Is it me or is the baboon bust up??
Somebody Definitly beat him like!!!
A baboon in a Chinese zoo circus has become something of a local celebrity by helping to sell tickets to visitors.
The baboon, Chun Chun, which means Spring in Chinese, sometimes covers for Tianjin zoo's human ticket seller to amuse visitors.
He accepts money from visitors, hands them their tickets - and even gives them their change, according to the zoo.
Chun Chun's trainer said it had taken a lot of work to train him to work in the ticket office as baboons were not naturally clever, like monkeys.
He works with a human supervisor as he sometimes gets confused - and occasionally refuses any banknotes except the 100-yuan notes as they are red, his favourite colour.
"We are now planning further training, to help him with his counting and also to stop his prejudice against banknotes that are not red," said a spokesman.
Yo Yo's are still the in thing!!!
An Australian man has set a new world record by keeping 16 yo-yos spinning at the same time.
Ben McPhee had yo-yos hanging off hooks, his fingers, and even his ears and teeth.
The new record was broken at the London Toy Fair but has yet to be ratified by Guinness World Records.
The previous record was nine simultaneously spinning yo-yos.
His performance came as toy retailers and manufacturers declared 2010 to be the year of the yo-yo after impressive sales in recent weeks.
David Strang, the managing director of Wicked Vision, distributor of Duncan yo-yos, said: "Since November they have been selling ridiculously well.
"We are up about 1,000% at least - ten fold on the sales we were having a year ago. Yo-yos, generally over the last 80 years, have gone in seven to eight year cycles.
"It's a generational thing. A ten-year old has never really seen one, but his older cousins, father and grandfather have. But this time around we haven't seen a proper global craze since 1998."
Retailers reckon that as many yo-yos could be sold this year as in 1998, the last year there was a global craze when nearly four million were sold in Britain.
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