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Boring Meets Dull In International Partnership
Posted by admin on April 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) – Boring, meet Dull. That’s what happened when two small towns, one in Oregon and the other in Scotland, decided to become sister communities. The Oregonian newspaper reports that the idea came from a Scottish tourist, Elizabeth Leighton, who traveled this year through the Oregon town named after homesteader William H Boring. [...]
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‘Viral Fenton’ Mashed Up Into ‘Boat Race Trenton’
Posted by admin on April 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A YOUTUBE video has been ‘mashed up’ (dubbed with different voiceover) into a comic version of the protester, Trenton Oldfield, who stopped the boatrace last month by swimming into the path of the Oxford and Cambridge crews. The boatrace video features the ‘Fenton’ soundtrack, which derives from Fenton the dog chasing red deer in Richmond [...]
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Teacher Accused Of Harassing German Neighbors
Posted by admin on April 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A MATH teacher has been charged with harassment for allegedly subjecting his German neighbours to wartime music and Nazi salutes. Prosecutors say Geoffrey Butler caused Reinhard and Kathryn Wendt four years of misery with broadcasts of The White Cliffs of Dover, Rule Britannia and the Dambusters March. Lawyers at Medway Magistrates’ Court said that relations [...]
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Huh? US And British English To Collide At Olympics
Posted by admin on April 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
THE LORRY driver taking kit to the football pitch was so knackered he pulled into the lay-by near the petrol station for a quick kip. Huh? For American readers, that translates as: The truck driver delivering uniforms to the soccer field was so tired he pulled into the rest area near the gas station for [...]
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No Coffee Allowed At Mums’ Coffee Meeting
Posted by admin on March 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
ASTOUNDED mothers were told by their local council last month that hot drinks were banned at their morning coffee gatherings. Volunteers have been ordered to change the name of the sessions from “Coffee and Play” to just “Baby Play”, reported the Daily Telegraph. Because of the health and safety officials’ ruling, parents attending the Stratford [...]
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Papers Reveal Thatcher Kept Reagan’s Doodles
Posted by admin on March 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
MARGARET THATCHER was so fascinated by US President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 summit, the former British prime minister’s newly released papers reveal. The page of ink drawings is among personal papers from 1981 released last month by the Thatcher archive at Cambridge University. Reagan [...]
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Archaeologists Find 7th-Century Teen Buried In Her Bed
Posted by admin on March 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a 7th-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse of glass beads. Experts say the grave is an example of an unusual Anglo-Saxon funerary practice of which very little is [...]
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Spotting Teens Under Pink Lights
AN INNOVATIVE method of controlling teenagers, who hang around on street corners looking for trouble, is being tried out in a city in Wales. New lights have been installed that accentuate skin imperfections, and have become the Council’s new weapons. The special acne lights being used in Cardiff give off a pink glow that exaggerates [...]
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Winner Of Irish George Clooney ‘Lookalike’ Contest Has Doubters
Posted by admin on March 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A TRIP to the Oscars was the prize for David Glendon when he won a George Clooney lookalike contest last month. Problem was, nobody else thinks he has any resemblance to the Hollywood hearthrob. Glendon pipped 782 other entrants to the post in the prestigious competition, held in an Irish whiskey Bar. The 27-year-old Kilkenny [...]
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English Runner Wins Trans-Atlantic Pancake Race
Posted by admin on February 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
AN ENGLISH runner has won the annual Shrove Tuesday trans-Atlantic pancake race, beating the winner of the southwest Kansas leg of the race by 10 seconds. Eighteen-year-old Devon Byrnes of Olney, England, covered the course in 58.5 seconds to beat 19-year-old Kaela Krueger, who won the leg of the race in Liberal six hours later. [...]
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