20. november 2004

Australia's finest The crew on an Australian army helicopter has some explaining to do, since instead of watching for terrorists, they were pleading for bare breasts. And somebody photographed the crew, holding out a "show us your tits" sign to women on balconies watching a car race. A shame. The job of the military is to look for terrorists so it's safe for the rest of us to look for breasts. PS: I strongly recommend you sign up to Randy Cassingham's free weekly This is True mailing list (he has a pay-for Premium list, too). Randy's been giving readers strange and funny stories with hard-hitting comments for many years, essentially doing by email what bloggers much later started doing on the web. 4:36:22 PM    comment []  trackback []

What's that white stuff on the ground? It's the same thing every bloody year. You should believe by now, after several thousand years of living in a near-arctic area, Norwegians were prepared for snow in the winter. Not so. A few days ago snow fell all over southern Norway, and total chaos on the roads followed  Oslo was particularly hard hit (to endless amusement for people in Northern Norway). The new, modern buses simply don't work on snow. "We are going to see this every time road conditions are extreme. None of the new low-bottomed buses are suited to have tire chains. It is difficult to get them on and the new types of chain are only designed to help the bus out of trouble," said leader of the Transit Bus union, Leif Arne Myhre. There is a wider lesson here. Sometimes we discuss popular holiday resorts in hot climates, and how horrible it was getting from the swimming pool to the bar and back again. Somebody is bound to say that those living there have no problems, because they are used to it. Then I respond, "are we really used to the rain and snow here?" End of that discussion. 1:54:21 PM    comment []  trackback []

Galloway's day in court British MP George Galloway some time ago sued The Telegraph for libel, after the newspaper revealed Iraqi documents indicating he had received money from Saddam Hussein's regime through the food-for-oil fraud. The case is now in court, and the Telegraph itself is reporting. If Galloway loses, he'll really go down in flames. And nothing suit him better. 12:45:18 PM    comment []  trackback []

Red meat for blue America Blogger Dave Haxton is, as he says himself, a rather unique character, so when a pollster called him to ask some questions, it was no surprise she had problems fitting him into the standard demographic categories. Surprisingly, it wasn't his heathen/asatru religion that was the real problem, it was his unusual occupation. There was no way she could put Dave down as a farmer. I wonder if the pollsters ever eat, and if they do, where exactly they think their food comes from? Do chickens just spring into the freezers in the store? Does a cow graciously raise itself and then dissolve into steaks? There's a serious disconnect in this country ... when a society becomes so "urban top heavy" that folks in the cities have no regard for where their daily bread comes from (besides the bakery!), the overbalance is bound to lead to a fall. It's just a question of when. Hey, everybody knows meat comes from the supermarket. End of story. 12:28:09 AM    comment []  trackback []

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