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Hair removal cream Veet finds the perfect ad placement in the Australian Telegraph.
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Morgan has words for the couple at Berkeley cinemas in Botany Downs on Tuesday to see Benjamin Button. "Bringing your two children, both under 5, to a three-hour adult movie at 8.30pm
is not such a wise idea, unless you like interrupting and aggravating other movie-goers when your kids start crying and talking and you have to take them to the toilet or settle them down. Why the cinema outfit let them in is beyond me."
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The first letter arrived at Julie Strange's house about a year after her son Paul died. England's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency claimed her son had not sent in required information on a car he owned. She told the agency her son was dead, and even sent a copy of his death certificate, but the letters kept coming. Finally, after a summons came, Julie Strange went to court and when her son's name was called she held out a small casket with his ashes. The charges were withdrawn. (Source: reason.com)
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Our group had lunch at the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant last Saturday and was caught in a shocking traffic jam going through Orewa, which meant we were an hour late, writes a reader. "Unfortunately we couldn't contact the restaurant because they don't send you any phone number. Directory had no contacts listed and refers people to the website, where there are also no phone contacts listed. For a (very clever) campaign that is all
about making contacts, they have certainly made it hard to make contact with them."
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After feedback from SideSwipe readers, Kellie Nathan from Yellow Pages says a listing for the restaurant in the online Yellow Pages has been added. She says because of the limited opening period they were promoting the restaurant with a banner on their homepage and the exact location isn't published because it is in a working forest and there would be safety issues
for throngs of unplanned visitors. "Instead, when people make a booking, we give them full directions."
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An insurance broker says the bloke from Melbourne who drove his father's Mercedes into Austen Restall's car has probably got away with it: "My local office, with a combined brokerage experience of 40 years plus, has never come across an insurer willing to wipe the excess and pay out on a 'not at fault' claim unless the third party's details are provided, no matter how obvious the damage."
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A reader writes: "Geoffrey Slack and his 91- minute call sounds to me like a Pocket Call (when you sit down and mash the buttons on your phone, which then calls someone). This is typically someone overseas or on another network and they get to listen to you eating dinner/having a meeting/watching TV. Similar to the Toddler Call."
