KEY POINTS:
Ryan was reviewing broadband suppliers when he came across this from Woosh NZ:
"Free installation applies to $99 self-install option only." So, he says, "new customers enjoy FREE installation for $99 and they have to install it themselves? That's the deal: 'Sign up to any Woosh Wired Broadband
plan on a 12-month contract and receive FREE self-installation ...
"Ripper, Woosh."
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Unnecessarily invasive, from Reason.com: "French police woke journalist Vittorio de Filippis up one morning, handcuffed him and hauled him off to a courthouse, where he was twice stripped and had a body cavity search performed on him. Then he was questioned without a lawyer for several hours by an investigating magistrate before being released. What did he do to merit such treatment? He allegedly did not answer a court summons in a libel case."
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Richard Fox has read a far more lively explanation for the expression raining cats and dogs. "In English villages with thatched cottages, cats and sometimes even dogs would hang out on the roof, out of the mud, out of harm's way and handy to any rats and mice that were up there. In a heavy downpour, they would come scampering down - raining cats and dogs."
Lawrence wants to know why some petrol stations have all their pumps on prepay all day?
"I stopped at BP on Abbotts Way in Ellerslie ... It was 5pm and all of the pumps were locked. I went into the store and said I wanted to fill up my car. I was told I had to pay in advance. I again explained I wanted to pay however much it cost to fill my car up. His suggestion was to guesstimate how much that might cost ... I asked whether I could just leave my card with them, go and fill up my car, then come back in and pay. Apparently not. I ended up driving off and filling my car up at the much friendlier BP on Main Highway."
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To the person who crashed into my red Mazda Familia on Parnell Rd sometime on Saturday, February 21, between 10am to 5pm and was nice enough to leave their phone number on the windshield, please contact Craig at Working Style (09) 302-0532 because, sadly, the rain throughout the day has made the name and number unreadable."
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Today's Webpick: Bikini Wax Faces is a montage of women's terrified, mortified and pained expressions as they have the first strip of wax ripped off ! View here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.