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Mad Mother Psychoshower Curtain: The world's most famous movie scene can be re-enacted in your bathroom. Do you have some house guests who are staying a bit too long? Put up this shower curtain before they wake up and it will send them packing. These are the original
designs sold through Universal Studios in their Alfred Hitchcock pavilions, which house the Bates Motel Gift Shop.
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For women hoping to become hostesses at next year's Olympic Games medal ceremonies, here come the criteria: no tattoos, no big bottoms and cut down on the earrings. Tattoos and earrings tend to look sleazy, and big bottoms could stick out too much, state media reported. Li Ning, principal of the Beijing Institute of Protocol who is heading the selection process, said experts were looking for women of uniform height with neat bottoms but no body art or ear studs. Glossy skin was another asset. "Bone structure and height should be uniform," she said. "For example, we don't want any wide bottoms." (Source: AFP)
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A holidaymaker managed to take an 18cm knife on board a plane, but his 13-year-old daughter's bottle of fizzy drink was confiscated by security staff. Nick White realised he had the knife in his pocket as he reached the security gate at Birmingham Airport, so put it through the scanner with the rest of the contents of his pockets, but security staff failed to spot it. They were sharp enough to spot his daughter's soft drink and confiscated that as part of increased security measures at the airport.
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Poland's 1200 troops assigned to Nato forces in Afghanistan will not be ready for combat for weeks because the keys to their vehicles have been stolen. "We had been told a 10 per cent theft rate was likely in convoys brought in from Pakistan, but we had not expected the spare car keys to go missing," says a Defence Ministry spokesman. "We shall have to send away for spares, so it may take from several days to several weeks for our contingent to become combat-ready." (Source: Reuters)
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A number of readers thought the safety adviser in Friday's photo was being perfectly safe because he had wing mirrors, which provide drivers as good a rear view as the internal mirror. How does your correspondent think truck and van drivers see behind them? asks one reader.
Each day Sideswipe will link to a humorous, satirical or simply strange video clip selected from the infinite amount of nothingness hosted on YouTube and the like. The very best online videos will be carefully chosen and hosted on Ana's online magazine Spare Room and shared with Sideswipe readers.
Today's Video Webpick: This CNN clip of the US National Spelling Bee champion 13-year-old Evan O'Dorney, is one of the most awkward interviews we've ever seen on television. Watch it here.
