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Category: News
Dog eats all the pies
A greedy dog was entered in an eating championship despite nearly ruining the contest by wolfing down 20 competition pies in one sitting.
Charlie, a bichon frise, raided the fridge of 1995 champion Dave Williams while his owner was distracted by a pigeon flying up his chimney.
BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Dog jeopardises pie championships
Rubik’s Cube still in the news
It’s good to see the Rubik’s Cube going strong after all these years.
“Nakajima solved the classic 3×3 version of the six-coloured cube – which has nine squares on each side – with an average time of 12.46 seconds in five attempts.”
“None were able to beat the world record of 9.86 seconds set by French cube enthusiast Thibaut Jacquinot in May.”
And I was thought my best time of 50 seconds was pretty good!
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Japan teen in historic Rubik win
It’s official: swallowing swords hurts your throat
The Ig Nobel awards are out, and a great collection of flagrant abuse of science they are too. My favourite is the awards in the linguistics category: “Juant Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Barcelona University, for showing that rats cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards”.
Beijing’s penis emporium
“The Guolizhuang restaurant claims to be China’s only speciality penis emporium, and no, it is not a joke.”
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Beijing’s penis emporium
T. rex ‘would outrun footballer’
Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun a footballer, according to computer models used to estimate running speeds of dinosaurs.
Is that a metric footballer or an imperial footballer?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | T. rex ‘would outrun footballer’
I’m no fashion designer but…
Is it me, or are these pieces of ‘high fashion’ taking the piss just a bit?
The LSE is dissing our chavs
Most of the persistent low achievers in England’s schools are poor and white, and far more are boys than girls, a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study says.
But surely persistance is an achievement in itself?
Champions League football headlines
In anticipation of various possible outcomes in the Champions League final tonight between Liverpool and AC Milan, I thought I’d make some possible headline predictions dependant on the on-pitch action:
It’s all gone Kaka
Liverpool win 3-1 after a Kaka own goal.
Crouch-ing goalscorer hidden goal
Liverpool are robbed as Crouch’s goal obvious crossed the line but was missed by the officials.
What a Carragher-on
Slapstick defending results in Milan winning 1-0.
Kuyt for 6
Dirk Kuyt scores a double hat-trick.
Agg-agg-agg-agg-agg-agger
Darren Agger eats some spinach, turns into Popeye, and scores afer beating Italian centre-back Brutus.
It’s Reina-ing men
Something bizarre happens to do with Liverpool’s keeper and lots of other players.
Return to Zenden
Zenden scores the winner following a one-two with any other player.
Liverpool Riise to the challenge
You can probably guess.
Gordon Benit-ez
Benitez is brought on as a subsitute in the 120th minute and scores the winning penalty.
Life’s a lottery, football’s a Rafael
As above.
Doing his Pennants
Jermaine Pennant’s clearance is deflected into his own goal and the player decides to retire and join a monastery.
Rafa’s lucky Jerzy
Benetiz is coincidentally wearing his favourite jumper as Dudek (the substitute keeper) miraculously saves all of Milan’s penalties.
Just some of the many headlines we may be seeing tomorrow.
Earthquakes, the English way
I’m disappointed that we couldn’t feel anything of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake in Kent from east London at 8:18 this morning (although I admit I was barely awake then). However, the reports coming onto the BBC site show exactly how the English cope with these kinds of events.
Compared to the recent earthquake in Japan, which was much more severe and killed a number of people, and which happened the day before I arrived but which there was very little panic over by the day after, our home-grown earthquakes are very low-key.
Some of the earthquake witness quotes are the best thing, though, and shows the true scale of the event and the way our nation responds to it:
“The seagulls went crazy and in parts of Dover the electricity is off.”
“I was lying in bed and it felt as if someone had just got up from bed next to me.”
“I live near a popular area for dog walkers and no-one is about, everyone seems to be staying indoors wondering if there will be another one.”
“But the wardrobe doors were banging and sort of shaking and the bed actually felt like it was moving.”
And my favourite:
“I thought my wife had got cramp or something but then I saw the curtains were moving and the whole house was shaking. It lasted about 1.5 seconds.”
If they changed the headline to “Earthquake as violent as wife’s cramp hits Kent” then it would make my day.
BBC NEWS | UK | Earthquake shakes parts of Kent
BBC NEWS | UK | Eyewitnesses on the Kent tremors