KEY POINTS:
Jemimah was on her way back from getting lunch at St Lukes on Thursday when she spotted this cyclist. "The man would have to have been at least 50!" she exclaims. "I was so shocked I just had to take a photo."
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Rhonda from Papakura
stopped to check out the supermarket's rotisserie chickens: "My son was reading aloud the types available ... 'Sage and Onion', 'Cranberry stuffing' ... but when he got to 'Tender Basted' he innocently added an 'r'. I don't know what was funnier, what he said or the look on his face when he realised what he had said."
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While surfing the net, Raj discovers more about the Exclusive Brethren. They apparently "practise separation from evil, recognising this as God's principle of unity. They shun the conduits of evil communications: television, the radio, and the internet". This quote was found, funnily enough, on www.theexclusivebrethren.com.
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A reader wonders if someone at SkyCity has a sense of humour, because at the exact moment that Mike Baldwin died on Coronation Street on Thursday night, SkyCity triggered its fireworks display from the Sky Tower. Making a very fitting way to send someone off after 30 years on a soap.
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The New York Times describes The Pussycat Dolls as "a female singing group whose six members slither through their music videos dressed like Barbie's nasty cousins". In their most well-known song they ask: "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" The executive producer of new reality pop show Pussycat Dolls Present explains: "It's just like saying, 'Don't you wish your girlfriend could be free and comfortable in her own skin and do her own thing, like me?"' Yeah right.
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A reader was somewhat bemused to find this option on the menu at MKOP in Mission Bay. "Omelette du jour - evolving daily served with baby, leaves or toast"!
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Well I've been asked a couple of times to put petrol into cars and I'm a white dude," says a reader. "Just last week I was asked by an Asian lady to check all her tyres and adjust them to the correct pressure. I'm always glad to help out and I always direct them to go inside to pay. It's also quite funny to see the look on their faces when I get in my car and drive away."
