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A new technology claiming to give a tan through a computer screen was a hoax by a British skin cancer charity.
Amazingly, 30,000 people visited the ComputerTan.com in 24 hours to register their interest, reports the Times Online, only to find the site was a hoax. Users who
registered for a PC tanning session expected to be bathed in heated rays but instead were confronted by gruesome pictures showing the ravages of skin cancer.
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Loren has worked out the muddle from last week's badly translated menu: "Sauce Cow" is easy: it becomes beef in gravy, or what classier restaurants like to call it boeuf au jus. "Sauce Pig Hand" is almost as easy: pig trotters in gravy. "Saliva Chicken" is not so at-a-glance simple: it should have been spit-roasted chicken (think about it). "Husband and Wife Lung Slice" is harder: "lung" should almost certainly be "long" (as in long thin slices) ... but of what? I shudder.
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Some boys were playing soccer on the Ponsonby Primary School field in Curran St when the ball bounced on to the road and rolled into the gutter. The children watched in dismay as a motorist slowed down, picked up the ball and drove off. The ball, a Euro'08, was new and treasured by the owner, so please return it to the school, you big meanie.
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In England, teenagers Raegan Booth and Aby Western were sent home from school and told not to come back until they dyed their hair brown. The headmaster says all "unnatural" hair colours are banned. Both girls have blonde hair. And Sheila New, 70, painted her cottage pale blue, but the local council says it doesn't match those of other homes in the historic district and are demanded she repaint the cottage a bright yellow or face a fine.
(Source: Reason.com)
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Maureen says it was great to see a bit of community spirit last week in Royal Rd, Massey. "A cardboard sign stuck into the ground, with a large arrow pointing down the road and the words 'speed camera' handwritten underneath. We all smiled for the camera as we drove past that green van."
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Today's Webpicks: Doonald Where's Yer Troosers . A wee Scottish lad sings fer ye. Go here.
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