2. Several parents complained when, in a 1998 episode of The Angry Beavers, series protagonist Norbert yelled, "Oh shut up, Dag!" How did the network respond? By bleeping out the word "shut". The situation immediately went from bad to worse, as many viewers now assumed that the yellow rodent was swearing. It was changed to, "Shush up, stupid!"
(Source: mentalfloss.com)
Merry chase over chair
Police in Australia were led on a high-speed chase through Adelaide because of a stolen second-hand floral armchair. Patrols spotted the chair in the boot of a Mitsubishi sedan about 2.40am on Tuesday and tried to pull over the driver, but she sped off. The chair fell out and the driver dumped the vehicle and fled on foot. The chair had been donated to the Salvation Army, which said thefts like that occurred almost every night.
A phrase to remember
A reader writes: "Your Newmarket correspondent's colleague might have a chance of differentiating between the two words [effluent and affluent] if she uses this wonderful phrase which we heard from our UK friends when asking how they were faring in the floods. They expected some action from the Government once 'the effluent hit the affluent'."
The day they ran out of ideas for naming products.
( Via Shelley Howells @Shellface on Twitter)
