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"Here's a chocolate bar my sister brought me back from Moscow," a reader writes. "The funny thing is that each piece is embossed with a no-women sign."
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A hammer-wielding bandit who terrorised an adult shop on the Sunshine Coast seems to have failed "Armed Robbery
101", say police. The man's getaway car was plastered with distinctive New Zealand-themed stickers likely to attract attention. Police are looking for a white car with a black silver fern on the rear window with the word "Aotearoa" in red above it. The man threatened staff at the Intrigue Adult Store in Mudjimba, 16km south of Coolum, yesterday before fleeing with cash and a mobile phone. (Source: Courier Mail)
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1978: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.
1979: The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution.
1983: The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling.
1986: Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality.
1992: How to Avoid Huge Ships.
1993: American Bottom Archaeology.
1994: Highlights in the History of Concrete.
2001: Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service.
2003: The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories.
2004: Bombproof Your Horse.
2007: If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.
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Ah, McCain. Not only McCain but Talleys, you've done it too! exclaims David North. "We bought a McCain 500g pack of frozen mixed veges, to find it was 95 per cent corn with just a trace of other veges. Next time we tried Talleys and found it exactly the same. A quality glitch, or are McCains and Talleys the same firm, with a strange view of mixed veges?"
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We have a mad bird in our community, writes Philippa. "My neighbour reckons even the cats are scared. This bird pecks and flies at the window. It will do this for 30 minutes or more at a time and when it started, was there several hours. It leaves quite a mess on the sill! We wondered if it had something to do with seeing its own reflection."
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Today's Webpick: How advertisers sell the cult of domestic cleanliness to women. Watch it here. Scroll down.
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