Sideswipe: June 10: Carried away with the brows

"I know Auckland Airport Domestic Parking wants me to drive safely, but that's one malevolent smiley face," writes Stephen.

How to make seaweed tasty

A reader writes: "My flatmate told me she was going to eat more natural healthy greens and foods with less additives but after a supermarket shop she was surprised to find her seaweed greens contained MSG, corn syrup, sesame oil, salt and sugar! Nothing like a bit of MSG, salt and sugar to make your seaweed tasty!"?

Milk bottles without milk just empty confectionary?

Last word: Like yesterday's reader, Alice Stephens ate three milk bottle lollies and threw the packet out. "I emailed the makers," she says,  "who informed me that they are leaving the milk out because it is an allergen! What next? No peanuts in peanut slabs?"

Howick house market maths: Six goes into two to make money

"There appears to be no shortage of houses for sale in the Howick area," writes a reader from Bucklands Beach. "You don't have to travel far before seeing about six houses crammed on to what was two sections. This phenomenon is taking place around the Howick/Bucklands Beach area. The crisis, in my opinion, is a monetary one created by enthusiastic real estate companies seeking massive fees, absentee owners sitting on empty houses and first time NZ buyers shut out by foreign purchasers."??

Complaining is fruitless, and so are the buns?

"We do love a fruit bun, right?" writes Jan from Glendowie. "So a six-pack is purchased . It contains one solitary, lonely raisin! At least it's strategically positioned on the outside, for all to see! The other buns in the pack contained either two or three raisins, but still, what's the cost of an extra couple of raisins?"

Video: Man plays Pink Panther Theme Tune with invisible saxophone...

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Picture this: My jaw dropped at these dramatic newspaper pictures from the late 50s by an Italian illustrator Walter Molino...

Video: A woman gets stopped by a police officer and breathalysed in this hilarious local short by Jackie van Beek, Jonny Brugh and Jesse Griffin...

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