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Texting Woman Who Fell Into Fountain Sues Mall: Cathy Marrero Does Seinfeld
DID you laugh when you saw texting Cathy Marrero tumble into the fountain at a shopping mall? If you did, then shame on you. And you’d best get a lawyer because Cathy Marrero is not one to be laughed at. No siree.
The 49-year-old is not amused. So. shs’s going to sue. She will begin by suing the mall in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She says the staff who saw her fall into the fountain laughed. How very dare they! Says she:
“I saw the water coming at me, I could see the pennies and nickels at the bottom of the fountain and then I was in it.'”
Mrs Marrero seems to have a more sophisticated sense of humour than mere pratt falls. They may be ok for Charlie Chaplin, but this woman is one for detail. Seinfeld would consider the nickle a golden element in any retelling of the incident.
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Posted: 21st, January 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comments (6)
Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak’s Beanpole Surprise (Photos)
JOANNA Yeates: Vincent Tabak is the man in the news. He’s been arrested. He lives at Flat 2 44 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol. Joanna Yeates used to live in a property in the same building. She lived at Flat 1. Mr Tabak has lived has the property since 2009.
Police have not named Mr Tabak as a suspect. They did not afford Chris Jefferies the same courtesy. Back then, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, warned newspaper editors about the dangers of publishing “irrelevant or improper material”. The newspapers went to town on Mr Jefferies, giving him The Full Murat.
Will the press treat Mr Tabak with some respect and news of his apparent arrest with circumspection? His Facebook photo remain a gift to armchair sleuths. But will he be monstered?
The Sun is ever informative:
One colleague at consultant engineers Buro Happold in Bath said: “He is everything you expect from a Dutch bloke.”
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Posted: 21st, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Warsi Is Not Yet A Jew Nor A Shag Over The Dubai Dinner Table
BARONESS Warsi, co-chairman of the Tory Party, says prejudice against Muslims has “passed the dinner-table test”.
When asked if they would shag a Muslim over the dinner table, 83% of married non-Muslims Britons said “yes”. This is down of last year’s figure of 94%. Many experts blame Lauren Booth’s conversion for the rise in prejudice and the survey being popular with ex-pats living in Dubai.
But British Muslims are not yet fully ingrained into the dinner table racism. Until a top author like a JK Rowling or Martin Amis can portray the villains as Muslims in much the same way John Buchan, George du Maurier’s Svengali, or Anthony Trollope have done, the chattering classes prejudice will just be chatter.
But being a Muslim in the UK is very different to being a Muslim in a Muslim country. You are held to a different standard.
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Posted: 20th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Joanna Yeates: Man Aged 32 Arrested
JOANNA YEATES: a 32-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of Joanna Yeates…
Chris Jefferies is still a suspect.
Update 1: Vincent Tabak is introduced to the world. A property being searched in Bristol is registered in his name.
He’s Dutch.
His property is Flat 2, 44 Canynge Road, Bristol. Miss Yeates lived in the same building.
He is reported to have lived there with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson, a treasury analyst at Dyson in Malmesbury, Wilts.
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Posted: 20th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (58)
Joanna Yeates: Sun Clears Chris Jefferies In Jo’s Garden
JOANNA Yeates: One day one from the police’s appeal – via Teresa Yeates (Joanna’s mother) – the papers lead with news of “Jo” and a new development in the hunt for her killer. And the shock news is that Chris Jefferies appears to have been cleared by the Sun – one of the papers that monstrered him.
The Sun (front page): “Jo cops close to breakthrough”
Daily Mirror (front page): “New Jo lead”
Joanna Yeates is the red-tops’ “Jo”, just as Madeleine McCann became our Maddie. She now only has a first name, like a Hollywood great or a family pet.
But there is no news of what the breakthrough is. This is just news that there might be a breakthrough.
Police believe her body was carried from her flat in a large suitcase or holdall. And they are scouring CCTV footage for motorists carrying a big bag in their car…The suitcase theory arose due to a lack of drag marks on Jo’s body or clothing.
What about a rug? What about the killer carrying her?
Joanna Yeates: Chris Jefferies Is More Robert Murat Than Serial Killer
The speculation continues:
But because there are 25 strides between her door and the road, they are convinced a case or large holdall was used to conceal the movement.
In one paragraph what the police believe becomes the police being convinced. What else?
A police insider said: “It would be strange if someone was able to move a body without being spotted. But someone carrying a bag or pulling a suitcase on wheels would not have stood out. It was the weekend before Christmas so a lot of people were going away for the holiday.”
Someone carrying a bag containing a 8st-10st woman would not have stood out, even in bad lighting? (Liz Jones looks as though she weighs less.) And we do know it is one killer the police are hunting because in that press conference appeal, Mrs Yeates spoke of looking for “someone”.
Nine stones is 126 pounds. That’s 57.2kgs. Ryan Air, for examples, allows its passengers to check in bags weighing 15kg or 20kg. Are they heavy? Yes. Now picture the woman or man pulling the bag that weighs almost 60kgs along a busy street and not standing out.
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Posted: 20th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Hampshire School Bans Student For Looking Too Old
THE Petersfield School, Hampshire, has suspended Prince Summerfield because they say he’s not 14. The school wants proof that he is 14. They say he looks older. They say he’s 24 – “beyond secondary school age.”
He says he was born on September 24 1996.
So the school has sent him home until his age can be proved.
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Posted: 19th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Vanessa Feltz, Channel Five And The Living Hell Of Writing For The Daily Express
VANESSA Feltz might be post-gastric band but she continues to fill the daytime schedules like a bulking agent in a packet of own-brand baps. She’s the face and more of a terrific show on FIVE (owner: Richard Desmond). Readers of the Express (owner: Richard Desmond) will surely be tuning in.
David Stephenson is the Express’s TV reviewer. Under the headline “THE WEEK’S REVIEW: FANTASTIC VANESSA FELTZ IS A MUST-SEE”, he tells readers how rubbish the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are.
C4 has trapped people in the land of repeats
So not like Channel Five, then, which follows Vanessa with CSI (repeat), The Business Inspector (repeat), Animal Rescue Squad (repeat)..?
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Posted: 19th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (14)
Zachary Jackson Levon: Elton John’s African Kids And A Sperm Shake
ELTON John cradles Zachary Jackson Levon in his arms and the years of waiting for an OK! magazine baby montage are finally at an end.
Elton says the inspiration for having a baby of their own was their failed bid to adopt Ukrainian orphans Lev and his brother Artyom.
So, surrogacy it was. Elton and David Furnish looked through a selection of “egg donor profiles”. A woman was chosen whose skin tones would set off Elton’s red robe he sports for the shoot and David’s dancing eyes.? And they had to select a surrogate. She is “very knowledgeable about natural, organic products for children, the types of nappies to use, ways to feed the baby”.
She’s a rare find in a Californian woman.
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Posted: 19th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (10)
Susan Boyle Gets Job As Microsoft Secretary In Nigeria
SUSAN Boyle continues to live the dream. The email missive from Nigeria tells us that SuBo has scored a job as a secretary for Microsoft, specifically British Microsoft Award Secretary.
Starry stuff for the woman who dared.
The Good News!
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Michael Jackson’s Dead Perfume On Sale Soon:
MICHAEL Jackson Inc. has launched a new perfume. To connect with Jacko, his legion of fans can open the twin vials of Ebony & Ivory and dowse themselves in a rich emollient of embalming fluids with top notes of creosote over a deep base of Ronseal. Also hints of wine gum, burnt hair, Pepsi and for that added authenticity a dash of ground monkey foot. But we are wrong. The actual scent is made from the flowers that grew in his Neverland Ranch in sun-dabbled Beverley Hills.
Now the cool kids who want to remember their idol can small of Knobcone Pine, Brittlebush, Hairy Purple Bells, Blue Dicks-Ookow, Morning Glory and maybe other native Californian species.
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Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (23)
Married Gays Win Fight Against Christian Hoteliers
THE law acted and Christians Peter and Hazelmary Bull, of the Chymorvah Hotel, near Penzance, have lost their trial with Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy.
The gay couple said their being banned from sharing a double room at the hotel was “direct discrimination“. They’ve been awarded £1,800 each in damages at Bristol County Court.
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Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (12)
Sarah Palin’s Battle Hymn: A Video
SARAH Palin’s got a fly upon her nose. Little Sarah Palin’s got had a fly upon her nose… And she shot it and she refudiated it and the fly flew away.
It’s often a sobering moment when the elected leader meets their people…
The Top Five Sarah Palin Songs
Sarah Palin Sings Jesus Is My Friend
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Michaela McAreavey In Photos: A Public Funeral
HOW do you write about Michaela McAreavey, the young woman murdered on her honeymoon? Do you focus on the killers? Do you just broadcast photos of the funeral cortege making its way to St Malachy’s church for her funeral from her parents’ home in Ballygawley, Co Tyrone? Do you show it all because Irish President Mary McAleese, the leader of Ireland’s Catholics, Dr Seán Brady, and the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness were among the mourners and the dead woman’s father is Tyrone GAA manager Mickey Harte? Sometimes just showing is enough…
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Joanna Yeates: The White Company Button, Liz Jones And Nathan Tomlinson
JOANNA YEATES: For the first time this year the murdered Bristol woman does not feature on the front page of the Daily Mirror. Colin Firth, Katie Price and Wayne Rooney take the cover.
But there is still some news. Laurie Hanna notes that the events as best known are to be filmed for the BBC’s Crimewatch.
As fact got that’s about as good as it gets because Hanna then delivers:
Yesterday top criminal profiler Professor David Canter suggested the killer may be a police officer. Prof Canter, whose crime-busting skills inspired TV’s Cracker, said: “It implies they’ve got some sort of experience with the investigative process.”
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Nat Lofthouse: A Life In Photos, Ciggies And Wanderers
NAT Lofthouse RIP. This was your life in photos. You were the former Bevin Boy who played for Bolton Wanderers when they were winners (signing fee: £10 on the day after the second world war broke out). You played for England when they were the greatest. You played 33 times for England, scoring 30 goals. You became “The Lion of Vienna” as England defeated Austria 2-3 in a cauldron of noise and violence.
A footballer’s career has ups and downs – but when they die, it’s the glory that endures…
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Gaddafi Accuses Wikileaks Of Causing Death In Tunisia?
IN Tunisia, scores of people are dead. Libya’s Botox–nursed leader and Mickey Rourke look-alike Muammar Qaddafi (Gawker) says Wikileaks is to blame for the Jasmin Revolution and the bloodshed. Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is gone. Is the old farter next?
Julian Assange once said Wikileaks’s work has led to the deaths of 1300 people in Kenya. (Does that make Assange guilty in his terms?) .
Gadaffi fingers the site for blame:
“WikiLeaks, which publishes information written by lying ambassadors in order to create chaos.”
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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
Was Sadistic Sabrina Barber A Victim Of Mephedrone?
REMEMBER meow meow, aka mephedrone, the legal toxin that became an illegal high when the departing Labour Government wanted to look tough and made it illegal? It was linked to deaths but never actually proven to be responsible for any. Well, the Mail has news of the drug, and how it is implicated in a brutal and sadistic attack in Plymouth Hoe:
Sabrina Barber, 16, was high on miaow-miaow as she launched a ‘sustained and savage’ 90 minute attack on terrified Naomi Morrison, 17.
Reading that you could deduce that Barber was not responsible for her actions. It wasn’t her, yer honour, it was the drugs.
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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
David Beckham And Irma Nici: The Sports Massage (Photos)
DAVID Beckham states that he did not shag Irma Nici, aka Irma Nezirovic. He says that at the time she claims he was testing the hand creams, he was having a “sports massage in his hotel room”. He says he’s never met her.
He also has:
No tattoo of her name on his skin!
No sign of her phone number written in felt tip on his knickers (see billboards)!
In his £16.5million libel suit against Bauer, owners of In Touch magazine that printed Irma’s allegations, Beckham says is has suffered “severe emotional distress, including extended humiliation, embarrassment, anger and worry“.
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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Katie Price Divorce: Alex Reid Grows Hair In A Very Bad Place
KATIE Price tells a friend who tells the NoTW that she wants Alex Reid “out of my house and out of my life for good“.
Described as “furious” and a “blond bombshell” (the more exclusives Jordan gives a paper the more desirable she becomes) Jordan says walking Toffee Crisp Reid has “turned into a fame-hungry sponger”.
That would be the Big Brother winner Alex Reid whom Jordan married after he won the show for fame whores?
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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (30)
Katie Price And Alex Reid’s Divorce: Will He Jilt Her At The Lawyers?
KATIE Price and Alex Reid’s chocolate sock romance (he’s the Toffee Crisp; she’s the Snickers) is heading for divorce. Well, so goes the tabloid sensation that’s sees the Sun lead with Alex Reid’s “last-minute divorce jitters”.
Jitters is most often a term used for someone about to be married. Can you have divorce jitters? Is this the world’s first cancelled showbiz divorce.
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Posted: 15th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Joanna Yeates: The Front-Pages Headlines And No News
JOANNA YEATES: The missing “landscape architect” (seemingly a key fact given that the tabloids never tire of repeating it) is on the front page of the Daily Mirror, a place she has occupied every day of 2011.
Before we get to today’s exclusive, the Sun sums up the case with its front-page headline:
1 months on Jo…cops still in dark
No News – again. Read all about it!
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Posted: 15th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Amy Winehouse Regains Control Of Her Limbs – Suddenly: Video And Photos
AMY Winehouse is in Brazil. She’s on stage. And suddenly she regains control of her limbs. Like Pinocchio testing out a new arm, Winehouse wheels about the stage. She finds a leg. She finds another legs. Thrilled by it all she does a pirouette.
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Sarah Palin Learnt About The Blood Libel From The New York Times’s Blacks
SARAH Palin is implicated in the murders of six people and the shooting of 14 more by a nutzoid press reacting to nutzoid Jared Loughner. Obama puts his gun away to take nutzoid praise for rising above the partisan politics.
Palin wasn’t to blame. But she reacts to the barage of criticism by saying:
Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.”
Michael Tomasky writes:
Okay, I guess I have to do this, but I’ll keep it short. I think she probably didn’t fully know what “blood libel” means, historically and culturally.
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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Where Is Europe’s Mohammed Bouazizi? Tunisia Has A Message For Europe
IN Tunisia Mohammed Bouazizi set himself alight in a protest over unemployment and state control. He is now dead. Thích Quảng Đức did the same in Vietnam. In Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Tunisian president, says he will nto run for office. After 23 years “serving” the people he will go in 2014. He’s already left. He’s in Malta. He will surely end up in Paris. And in his place is Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi.
The Economist reports that Ali
“…turned Tunisia into a police state known for its efficiency. Occasional worries about authoritarian tendencies in more relaxed North African states such as Morocco were frequently referred to as ‘Ben-Alisation’.”
Things are brutal. A police sniper shoots to kill (warning – this is graphic):
But what next? One Egyptian blogger notes:
Revolutions in Egypt, Iran and Pakistan have had the same emotional reaction from people, as they stared in awe at their proclaimed ’saviors’ whose true face has now been revealed. They were no better than the previous leaders.
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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Katie Price And Alex Reid Divorce: Top Coats And Justin Bieber Nights
KATIE Price and Alex Reid are locked in will-they wont they divorce story. Reid tells Star readers that he and Katie have been “getting on like a house on fire”. Her house, to be specific – because Katie said she was talking with her people and arrangements for any divorce had not been finalised. Our money is on him getting the base coat of his tan, she getting the top seven coats and them splitting the breasts down the middle, like Heidi Montag.
The made-for-tabloid divorce story limps on. But today it got refreshingly nasty. The Daily Star leads with:
JORDAN: A DIFFERENT MAN EVERY NIGHT
On Monday she’s Alain Delon.
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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
