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[BarcelonAl]

This sort of activity is what makes me glad I'm single. Not very glad, but a little...

'Penis fire' suspect is charged.

[Mike]

Tempoarary School of Thought has been squatting in a £22.5 million pound house in Mayfair. . . . and offering free lessons to people on Role Playing, Hardcore Games Night (not sure if this is naughty or geeky), art, building tree houses, building labyrinths etc.

Guardian Article for more comprehensive article that their own website provides.

[Mike]

Winnie the Pooh has activated his long awaited comeback into show business 83 years after the original book by AA Milne was published. For all your keen worshipers of the Pooh it will be released on 5 October 2009 and be illustrated by Mark Burgess of the Paddington Bear variety. The BBC have a much better article than the Yahoo! one above.

Iceland the frozen food expert has bought 51 of the Woolworths branches. The irony is that they made an offer for all 851 of the Woolies branches in August 2008 that the board rejected. I bet the board (and more importantly their 32,000 employees) are regretting turning the offer down now.

The worlds most elusive venomous mammal caught on camera. It is rumoured to have been hiding at home and avoiding the pap in an attempt to raise awareness of its plight caused by the deforestation in its native land. The pap have reportedly sold this footage to the National Geographic for a cool £1.5m - an exclusive wedding ceremony is to follow covered by Okay Magazine.

[johnriley1uk]

The whole point of the end of The House at Pooh Corner was that Christopher Robin grew up, but something of the child would always remain within him. Hence the "somewhere at the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing"

In Christopher Milne's autobiography he tells a tale of how he and his father were mystified by a young reporter who asked "Will there be any more?" and he comments that she "obviously had never read the books, because there clearly can't be any more."

It seems that the A A Milne trust members may not have read the books either, otherwise they wouldn't be approving a new one. Ah well, I suppose these are the same people who sold the rights to Disney.....

[mr_e]

Will you still be buying the book John, or boycotting it? I felt a bit weird about the novels in the Dune series that weren't written by Frank Herbert, so have never read them (yet, at least).

The Iceland offer was likely way too low, so the board were "protecting shareholders" when they rejected it. Hindsight's a great thing, unless it makes you look silly.

I hope the "penis fire" story sent a shudder through everyone else as well. The quote from the woman concerned is absolutely priceless though. Do not cheat folks! It may cause your partner to burn your genitals off! Side effects may include accidental death!

[johnriley1uk]

Will you still be buying the book John, or boycotting it?

Not boycotting it per se but I have zero interest in someone else's idea of where the stories should be continued. As far as I'm concerned the tale is told and that's it.

[Mike]

For everyone who likes to Google their name (and other good stuff too) you can now see that two google searches uses as much energy as boiling a kettle. Not only that but produces as much CO2 as well. Oh well. Will have to cut down the the name Googlising to help the planet. I don't know how my vanity will survive.

[mr_e]

That Google CO2 figure has got to be utter shite... 7g of CO2 for a search that uses a fraction of a second of server time!?

[Mike]

Andy Harrison's secret second life as the head of an Airline!

[Mike]

Impressive plane landing by a pilot! All 155 passengers were safe and well after crashing into the Hudson river by midtown manhattan.

[BarcelonAl]

I'm waiting for the YouTube videos of that one!

Possibly more impressive than the total lack of fatalities and few injuries is the pilots name: Chesly B 'Sully' Sullenberger III.

[stimpsonslostson]

the civil service could be run as well by half as many staff. Pretty savage assessment of things by Lord Digby Jones. I heard his comments on the radio yesterday, the whole lab stopped to listen!

OK, one more, I know you're not generally a football crowd, but Man Citys pursuit of Kaka can't have escaped your attention. its ridiculous that someone could be offered £500000 per WEEK to play football. It appears that a BBC correspondant agrees.

p

[stimpsonslostson]

Man refuses to drive bus because of atheist slogan.
you all know my views, what do you think?

p

[mr_e]

To be honest, the civil service could likely be run by fewer staff. Unfortunately, there's no chance, thanks to constantly changing government policies plus computer systems that cost loads of money then take years to work as efficiently as the old ones.

Regarding the bus driver, I'd love to have seen the reaction if he'd objected to driving a bus with a pro-Islam slogan on it...

In ther news, Boy George may be (slightly) happier, given that the Hudson River crash-landing may divert attention away from his jail sentence.

[Mike]

Train Companies revenue Falls. If Stockport Manchester services are anything to go by since the start of the year I am not surprised. The companies appear to have dramatically cut the number of trains and the number of carriages making the services more crowded and have also put the price up by over 6%. I can very clearly see how this would effect passenger numbers.