Category: Laugh? I thought my y-fronts would never dry out
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Libraries to start lending money
From Newsbiscuit In its latest bid to kick-start the nation’s ailing economy, the government has announced that public libraries will extend their current range of services to include the lending of money. From today, customers borrowing books will also be able to take out financial loans for a period of three weeks, though it may…
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Putting the elephant in the room back on its feet
I am sure I would be inarticulate and verbally maladroit if interviewed on the Today programme.I hope though I would not mix my metaphors to the extent that the interviewee did just now, discussing failed and failing states, and speaking of the need to put the ‘elephant in the room back on its feet’. Poor…
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April Fools
There’s much on Google’s batch of April Fools: see a nearly complete list at Google Blogoscoped, though they forgot one I found, Google’s new blogging platform, Google Weblogs: ‘Unsure of what to post about? Just click “I’m Feeling Lucky” and we’ll “take care” of the rest!’ My favourite, however, was the announcement at Archaeoastronomy that…