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The Lego Bandit wants his Mr Froggy returned or else

This story gets better the more you read. An inmate at DuPage County, Illinois, wants to be released within 14 days. He says that unless his the personal effects taken from him during his … (read more)

Posted: 21st, February 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Watch Louisiana’s Captain Clay Higgins message the gremlins, thugs, animals, punks and heathens

 

Louisiana’s Captain Clay Higgins addresses the gremlins, thugs, animals, punks and heathens:

 

 

Spotter: Tim Blair … (read more)

Posted: 20th, February 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Rita Ora is topless (but not on Page 3)

 

By now you’ll have seen the photos of Rita Ora, the stalwart of family Saturday night telly, posing topless. But you’ve still not seen her bare nipples in the Daily … (read more)

Posted: 20th, February 2016 | In: Celebrities | Comment

LOL: Andy Gray translates David Luiz post Chelsea interview In French

 

This is tremendous. Former Sky Sports pundit Andy Gray now works in Dubai with BeIN Sports. On those fascistic sandy wastes, Gray talks footy matters with his old Sky mucker, the absurd Richard Keys. Last … (read more)

Posted: 20th, February 2016 | In: Chelsea, Sports, TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United get money back on Rooney to China rumours

Transfer balls: Shanghai Shenhua have offered to pay Manchester United – get this – £27m for Wayne Rooney. They have also offered the England captain £500,000-a-week in wages for three … (read more)

Posted: 19th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

The sublime beauty of ice braking up on Lake Superior near Duluth

 

On Lake Superior near Duluth, the thin ice is backing up. The effect is great. The noise of the ice cracking as it banks up is beautiful:
… (read more)

Posted: 19th, February 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Stars Wars: The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills

 

Peter Mayhew, aka Chewbacca in Star Wars, has been tweeting photos of his original Star Wars script from March 1976.  We can read The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the Journal … (read more)

Posted: 19th, February 2016 | In: Film | Comment

Two years prison for man who taped up dog and left it to die

This is good news from Canada. Michael Earl Hill, 32, who taped a dog’s muzzle shut, bound its legs and and left it to die in a field will spend … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Leroy Sane to Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and wherever else the SEO machine sends him

Transfer Balls: The Daily Star has conjured a headline to seduce fans of the five biggest Premier League clubs to a non-news story:
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Man Utd … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United, Pep and The Metro’s Lewandowski mystery

Transfer balls spots this utter bilge from the Metro: “Verbal agreement clears Man United to sign these two major world stars.” Another teaser names names:
Man Utd transfer news: Thomas Muller … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Young dolphin pulled from sea for selfies dies – maybe

To Santa Teresita, Argentina, where tourists are passing around a young dolphin. Everyone wants to pose for a selfie with the critter. Sky News says the dolphin “quickly overheated and died while … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester Parents asked to stop smoking cannabis on the school run

Parents, grandparents, Uncle Cosmic, Worzel, Swampy and other guardians picking up children from St John’s Primary in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, are kindly asked to stop smoking cannabis at the school gates. Parents, … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester Untied balls: Rooney out, Van Gaal’s hell, England’s dream

Manchester United’s captain is injured. Wayne Rooney, for it is he, has knee ligament damage. The Sun nails the pun with “PAIN ROO KNEE”. The paper says Rooney will miss “a minimum” … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Madeleine McCann: The twins’ ‘secret’ that isn’t

Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the child who vanished in 2007.

Daily Star (front page): “MADDIE: Twins Secret torment”

The twins are the child’s siblings Sean and Amelie. Kate McCann has … (read more)

Posted: 18th, February 2016 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (3)

Manchester United balls: Di Maria beats Chelsea and hammers Van Gaal in the Daily Mirror

 

The Daily Mirror is at pains to tell its readers how good a football Angela Di Maria is. The aim is less to praise the Argentine player than it is to … (read more)

Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Sports | Comment (1)

Manchester City: Sergio Aguero gets the Princess Diana treatment

The Daily Mail has bought a few paparazzi pictures of Manchester City player Sergio Aguero minding his own business. To give you an idea of the levels of news we’re … (read more)

Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, Sports | Comment

Punctuation in novels: words stripped from books leaving only the punctuation

Punctuation in Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (left) and in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (right).

 

Adam J Calhoun stripped two books of words:
Inspired by a series … (read more)

Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Books | Comment

Are Soulless Chelsea turning into Manchester City?

 

On the BBC, Chelsea Alan from Twickenham is worried that the soul is being “ripped out” of Chelsea. He fears the Blues are becoming “a Man City who are full of mercenaries”.

“I … (read more)

Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Key Posts, Sports | Comments (4)

Child performs awesome magic trick (gif)

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Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Gifs | Comment

Financial Times writer slams Hewlett Packard over advertising threat

 

When The Financial Times wrote a few words on Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, the company’s marketing chief, Henry Gomez, was upset by the article’s tone. He threatened to stop placing he company’s … (read more)

Posted: 17th, February 2016 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment

The Left’s little problem with Jews: Oxford University offers a safe space for anti-Semitism

Members of Hashomer, a Jewish security organization dedicated to protecting pioneering Zionist settlements, pose with their rifles October 1, 1907 in the Upper Galilee during the … (read more)

Posted: 16th, February 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Transfer Balls: Manchester United want Aubameyang to partner Bale, Ronaldo and Neymar

Transfer balls: Manchester United are all set to bid a £60m for Borussia Dortmund’s 26-year-old striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, says the Daily Mirror. The paper says United will “make him one of … (read more)

Posted: 16th, February 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Prince George is advanced for his age and started ruling ‘long before other toddlers’

 

Prince George is so “advanced for his age” he “started speaking long before other toddlers”, reports Hello! magazine. The magazine now has a play-date supplement, featuring actress Sophie Winkleman, Mrs Lord … (read more)

Posted: 16th, February 2016 | In: Celebrities, Royal Family | Comment

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