The ever-present hum of the vuvuzela during this year’s soccer World Cup catapulted the plastic trumpet to prominence and now it has earned a place in the Oxford Dictionary of English. Vuvuzela is among 2,000 new words and phrases added to the third edition of the dictionary, published on Thursday, which is compiled from analysis of [...]
August 17, 2010
South African low-fare airline kulula.com recently came up with a brand-new, funny livery. One of their Boeing 737-86N (ZS-ZWP / OK-PIK), called “Flying 101″ is entirely covered with details and funny remarks about the plane. The captain’s window is marked with the big cheese (”captain, my captain!”), the co-pilot’s window with co-captain (the other pilot [...]
August 2, 2010
Britain is to ban employers looking for lap dancers, strippers, topless barmaids or sexy web-cam performers from placing adverts at Jobcentres. Such a ban had previously been in place at the taxpayer-funded employment exchanges but that changed seven years ago when Ann Summers, a sex toys and suggestive lingerie retailer, successfully argued at the High [...]
August 2, 2010
A New Jersey man was jailed for up to three months on Friday for making himself vomit on a fellow spectator at a baseball game, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office said. Matthew Clemmens, 21, was sent to prison for at least 30 days, given two years probation, and ordered to serve 50 hours of community [...]
July 25, 2010
French fries in Germany could be significantly shorter this year due to the heatwave that has baked Germany and much of Europe this month, the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) said on Friday. Hot and dry weather has led to a meager harvest of extra-large potatoes used to produce the ideal-length French fry. “The French fries industry [...]
July 25, 2010
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — The manager of an Idaho thrift store is seeking the return of her laptop computer, which was accidentally sold for $5. Sandra Bechthold says she was shocked when she learned her 2-year-old Dell Inspiron and case were sold on July 12. Bechthold had to do some work offsite that day, leaving [...]
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