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Piranha
From ninemsn today: "Dannii Minogue Shares Her Beauty Secrets".

Oddly enough, the article isn't about cosmetic surgery. If you're really keen, here's the link.
libbylou
Couldn't read the article. Not couldn't access the article, just couldn't read it. The headline is enough to cause nightmares. If it was fashion advice I'd have to aroldite my eyes shut.
Ambrose's Auntie
Isn't that headline what's known as an oxymoron?

Or is that just Dannii?
Piranha
QUOTE (Ambrose's Auntie @ Sep 2 2003, 05:29 PM)
Isn't that headline what's known as an oxymoron?

Or is that just Dannii?

It's both.
Piranha
And another from ninemsn: "Probe into Missing Laptop"

I hope they're using prophylactics.
Pandrea
Here's a rather redundant headline:
QUOTE
Young Men More Likely to Sleep Around – Official Statistics
By Sherna Noah, PA News

Men in their early twenties are twice as likely as women to have slept with more than one partner in the past year, according to a new sexual health survey.

Some 42% of men and 20% of women aged 20 to 24 said they had enjoyed multiple sexual partners.

But men under 70 are more likely (15%) than women under 50 (12%) to have had no sexual partner over the past 12 months, according to the Office for National Statistics report.


Men of 69 less likely to get a shag than women of 49, what a shocker.

In other news, Sun Most Likely To Rise In East.
ejg25
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Some 42% of men and 20% of women aged 20 to 24 said they had enjoyed multiple sexual partners.


The rest had them, but didn't enjoy it.

I'm here all week.
Meowcat
I'm a little bit concerned with what Piranha has been up to on her holidays.


Piranha fished from Thames
BJC
Hee, MC, you just beat me to posting that headline! And its on the front page of Yahoo!!
Heatherbelle
See, if we'd known she was over here, we'd have done something...

I dunno what, but something.

That's funny.
Vanishing Point
Intel justified going to war: PM

Intel justified the war in Iraq. Really. What about AMD? Did Microsoft have anything to say about it.

I hate abbreviations like that being used in news articles.

Oh, and John Howard is deluded. Does anyone on earth still think that WMDs are still going to be found and that they were and still are a legitimate reason for the the war?
Piranha
QUOTE (Vanishing Point @ Today at 1:42 pm)
Oh, and John Howard is deluded. Does anyone on earth still think that WMDs are still going to be found and that they were and still are a legitimate reason for the the war? [/quote]
John Howard is stark raving bonkers.

That is all.
mjforty
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Does anyone on earth still think that WMDs are still going to be found and that they were and still are a legitimate reason for the the war?

Bush43 has refused to back off from the belief that WMD were a legitimate reason for going to war and still believes they will be found. Perhaps they're reading those intelligence reports with the same brand of rose-colored glasses (or whatever color it is when you want to see the worst of things -- maybe brown-tinted glasses).
ejg25
So unfortunate...

U.S. Navy makes skirts optional for women.

And men everywhere rejoice.
Claudia
NCIS take note.

(Although they're not actually *in* the navy. It still annoys me how often Kate is running around climbing onto or into things in impractical skirts.)
jenelope
Why would men rejoice? They're being told that they don't have to wear skirts with their dress uniforms, correct? I'm guessing that most sailors would choose to wear pants, just to avoid the pantyhose issue alone.

This is a good thing for women.
ejg25
They'd rejoice because of all the women walking around bottomless.
Heatherbelle
QUOTE (jenelope @ Today at 10:12 pm)
I'm guessing that most sailors would choose to wear pants, just to avoid the pantyhose issue alone. [/quote]
Your comment reminded me of something that happened to Dad, just before he came out the Army.

Traditionally, there were certain regiments that were purely female, and others that were mostly male. My dad, as a male nurse, served the majority of his time in the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corp) - which was formed of both Doctors and nurses. A restructuring less than a year before he left resulted in all male nurses being moved from the RAMC (which I *think* became Doctors/surgeons etc only) to the 'Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps'. Problem was, it was up to that point a female corp, uniformed mostly in grey dresses, stockings, and frilly hats....

Oh the jokes they had to put with.
Claudia
Shades of Cary Grant in I Was a Male War Bride.

(He's a French officer who marries an American officer during WWII. The only way to get him to the US when she is recalled there is by invoking the law allowing the spouses of military personnel into the country: the War Brides act. The scheme involves drag at one point, to get him onto an otherwise all-female ship.)
Piranha
This series of headlines on ninemsn today cracked me up:

QUOTE
Downer seeks clemency after death sentence
Fraser appeals for hostage's release
Travolta and wife receive threats
Meowcat
This headline from E!Online cracked me up

Britney vs. Chucky
ejg25
I just love this one, for some reason:

Angry Greek Lawyers To View "Gay" Alexander Movie

Angry Greek lawyers! Watch out! Beware of Angry Greek lawyers!
Pandrea
Heh.

And I saw a good one today: Love Cheat Tried To Kill Wife With Giant Firework, Court Told. Unfortunately I didn't see the actual story, but how do you kill someone with a giant firework? Strap them to it and launch it? Get them to stand still and aim it at them?
jenelope
Okay, so not a headline, but the way this phrase is constructed just made me giggle:
"In October, a parliamentary bill to criminalize adultery also raised questions about Turkey's commitment to European values"

I immediately thought, So they're saying that adultery is a European value?
BJC
No comment necessary.

Nudists warn of stiff uprising over laws.
Heatherbelle
I've not even read the actual article yet, and I'm snickering...
ejg25
I recently came across a DVD press release that touted among the extras "Extended Shaft Sequence." Oh for a different phrasing. Elevator Sequence, perhaps, guys?
kmm56
Well, depending on what kind of a DVD it was...
ejg25
Family adventure film.
ejg25
Amazon.com Starts Selling Digital 'Shorts'

Yeah, I know, and I know you were good enough to put those single-quote marks in there. But still, my brain is reading it how my brain is reading it.

And my brain is curious.
Pandrea
Kanye West Poorly Toilet Trained
Did anyone really need to know?
Veda
Uh, yeah... Is there really nothing better for him to talk about?
Claudia
I guess we already knew that college pranks are weird, but...

"While the chicken is unharmed, Babineau said, the sheep seemed distraught from the experience."
Pandrea
I just love this headline: I Baked A Snickers Pie.
ejg25
Jury To Decide If Flying Sizzling Shrimp Led To Man's Death.

I was all ready to be sympathetic to this victim of Benihana whimsy, but the pretext seems pretty flimsy.
ejg25
U.S. Grant Web Site Does Not Work on Macs.

And here I was thinking, "Well, that makes sense. Ulysses Grant is really old and they didn't have Macs in his day."
Pandrea
QUOTE
Early days yet, of course, but we can't help thinking it'll take something pretty extraordinary to rob the Australian of our coveted Headline of the Month Award for its quite outstanding effort, Lightning Exits Woman's Bottom. "I was brushing my teeth at the time," a remarkably composed Natasha Timarovic tells the paper, "and had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the bolt must have struck the building. I don't remember much after that." Doctors treating Ms Timarovic for "burns to the mouth and rear" said the accident was "bizarre, but not impossible": she was wearing "rubber bathroom shoes at the time, so instead of earthing through her feet, the electricity shot out of her backside". A warning, we feel, to us all.

(Guardian diary today)
Veda
Oh my!
Heatherbelle
Not much you can say about that, is there?

Except, OW.
ejg25
I thought it was good to be wearing rubber shoes in an electrical storm. No?
Pandrea
If you go to the actual article, it mentions something about a damp shower curtain and how she could have died if it weren't for the shoes, so I guess so.
Ananda
Does it make me weird that, reading that, I was struck by the oddness of someone's putting their mouth under the tap to rinse away their toothpaste? That just seems awkward. I know, I know, overshadowed by the whole lightning-from-tush thing. But still.
ejg25
I drink from the faucet too. I just had someone comment on that... but I thought it was pretty normal.

I don't have a shower curtain, though, so hopefully I'm safe from lightning.
Pandrea
I also find it weird. I would just cup my hand under the tap and drink from that.
Claudia
I tend to catch small amounts of water in my toothbrush and sip 'em. Yay capillary action.
Boliver
Under-faucet user here, checking in. The idea of sipping from my hand, and thus probably getting toothpaste on my hands, seems more messy than just sticking my head under the faucet. Same for having a glass there; it's just one more thing to have to clean, and, ew.
Veda
QUOTE (Claudia @ Oct 11 2006, 02:30 PM) *
I tend to catch small amounts of water in my toothbrush and sip 'em. Yay capillary action.


Ditto
Pandrea
Possibly my favourite headline ever: Lohan explains stupidity.
ejg25
All of it?
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