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Sarah North spotted this cabin luggage restrictions sign at Wanganui Airport while waiting for her flight.
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New, up-to-the-minute words to add to your vocabulary, courtesy of Wordspy.com.
Brickor mortis n. A real estate market in which very few houses are being sold.
Secondhand drinking n.
A negative effect that a drinker has on a non-drinker [like car crashes, domestic abuse].
Murketing n. A form of marketing where the product or service is not mentioned or shown.
Defriend v. To remove a person from one's list of friends on a social networking site.
Digi-necker n. A driver who slows when passing an accident to take a digital picture.
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A reader went to MOTAT's Girl Power Day and paid the extra $10 for a "goodie bag". "I checked over the contents after I got home and was a little deflated rather than empowered when I realised that the contents were mostly from WeightWatchers ... "
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A shopper writes: "At Briscoes' weekend promotion Spring Loaded Savings, where everything was 25-60 per cent off, I purchased an eggbeater at $19.99. I got a 40 per cent discount which brought the price down to $11.99. However, when I got home and removed the price tag the old one underneath was for $14.99 ... Wonder how many other goods were sprung up in price."
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From Reason.com: "An assistant principal at California's Dos Palos High School forced Jake Shelly to take off his shirt and wear a T-shirt proclaiming him a dress code violator. The official said Shelly's shirt violated a dress code banning clothing that promotes 'specific races, cultures, or ethnicities'. That shirt depicted the US flag."
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Lena has little sympathy for Andrew Stevenson, who was bitten by a shorty at the Dizzee Rascal concert. "If your 6ft-tall correspondent can't handle an irritated '45kg waif', perhaps he should stick to the back rows of the concert. At least he can still see from there. It's little wonder we tiny waifs get a bit snarly at concerts. We pay top dollar to spend hours getting shoved while staring at strangers' backs. Of course we're gonna get a bit territorial if some 6ft lummox is pushing us."
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A reader writes: "The funeral crasher at my grandfather's funeral years ago in Palmerston North was a professional. He did his research among the crowd first, then proceeded to give a very lovely speech about my pop. At least he worked for his meal afterwards."
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Today's Webpick: Shark Attack is the best video on the web. Nine million You Tubers cant be wrong. Watch it here. Scroll down.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.