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Scotland’s Dull And America’s Boring Join Up

April 26, 2012
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James Matthews, Scotland correspondent The Dull and Boring plan was hatched after a resident of Dull, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, cycled through Boring in Oregon. The Dull folk of Perthshire then contacted their Boring counterparts across the Atlantic with a view to striking up the partnership. It may be dull and boring but the two towns...
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Borat anthem played by mistake at medals ceremony

March 24, 2012
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(Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s shooting team demanded an apology after a spoof national anthem from the comedy film Borat was played instead of the real one at a medal ceremony in Kuwait, the BBC reported on Friday. The team’s coach told Kazakh media the organisers of the Kuwait tournament had downloaded the parody from the...
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Thatcher snatched Ronald Raegan’s doodle 30 years ago

March 17, 2012
Margaret Thatcher swiped some of Ronald Reagan's drawings at a summit more than 30 years ago, newly released papers revealed. Picture: AP

NewsCore FORMER British prime minister Margaret Thatcher swiped a page of doodles by then-US president Ronald Reagan at a summit more than 30 years ago, newly released papers revealed. Britain’s only female prime minister to date noticed the US leader sketching during a G7 summit in Canada in 1981 and decided to pocket the...
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New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paper

March 13, 2012
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New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paperSome Trenton residents tried to force a recall election of the citys mayor over his hiring practicesPublic buildings in the capital of the US state of New Jersey face running out of toilet paper following a row. Trentons city council has refused to approve a $42,000...
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‘Blue Balls Rain’ Mystery Solved

February 6, 2012
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Scientists claim to have solved the mystery behind the strange blue jelly balls which ‘rained’ down on the garden of a UK resident a week ago. Researchers at Bournemouth University say the mysterious balls were merely a common substance found in nappies. Steve Hornsby of Dorset was left puzzled when a torrent of gooey...
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‘I had flag up my bum for Queen’

January 17, 2012
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Liam Warriner has detailed how he exposed his buttocks to the Queen during her visit to Brisbane. Picture: The Courier-Mail POLICE have decided to drop a wilful exposure charge against the man accused of “mooning” the Queen during her visit to Brisbane last year. Liam Lloyd Warriner, 22, from Sydney was not in the...
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Sheep shearing pitched as Olympic sport

January 17, 2012
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Sheep shearing could be the next big Olympic sport, according to a New Zealand farming lobby group. Federated Farmers thinks shearing has the potential to become a demonstration sport at the Commonwealth Games, or even the Olympics. The group’s meat and fibre chairwoman Jeanette Maxwell says shearing requires both skill and physical effort. Newly-crowned...
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Man used skeleton to drive in carpool lane

January 10, 2012
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A US man has been fined for driving in a carpool lane with a skeleton in the passenger seat. Bryan Stime was pulled over by a Washington state patrolman on December 20 for alleged aggressive driving when police discovered the green skeleton in a white sweatshirt seating in the passenger seat, television station King...
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Ad banned because judge says kitty litter sniffing ‘highly implausible’

January 8, 2012
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A kitty litter company has been stopped from airing an ad about its performance in a “smell test”. Picture: File Source: Supplied A NEW York federal judge has ordered a pet product company to stop airing a cat litter commercial that unfairly seeks supremacy over a competitor. The Clorox ad was aimed at Church & Dwight Co...
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Missing wedding ring found on carrot 16 years after it was lost

January 4, 2012
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A WOMAN has miraculously found her white gold wedding ring on a carrot in her garden – 16 years after it disappeared. Lena Paahlsson of Sweden took the white gold ring off while baking with her daughters during Christmas 1995, but it vanished from the kitchen counter where she had put it. The family...
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