“I met the Dalai Lama in my office but I meet everyone in my office. I don’t know why I would sneak off to a hotel room just to meet the Dalai Lama. You know, he’s not a call girl,”
“As I say, he’s a respected international spiritual leader.”
Canadian PM Stephen Harper explains why he [...]
I was intrigued by a news item on the Beeb news site about a now elderly couple who have been living in a Travelodge motel for the past 22 years. Because one of them needs easy disabled access the Travelodge on the A1 fits the bill better than their own 1st floor flat in Sheffield.
By [...]
There’s a scene in the Nicholas Roeg film ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ in which the main character Thomas Jerome Newton approaches a patent lawyer, Oliver Farnsworth with a portfolio of world beating patents and asks “in, say 3 or 4 years, how much would this be worth to me?”.
Farnsworth replies “I’m a [...]
A water buffalo named William Shakespeare escaped from a field in Cumbria and ran into the path of cars on a nearby road on Tuesday, police reported. The buffalo was sadly killed in the accident and fire fighters had to cut a 19 year old driver from the wreck of his fiat punto that collided [...]
The Mayor of the North-western Italian town of Varallo has decided to incentivise himself and other overweight residents by initiating payments of 50 Euro for each person that loses 4 kg in weight in one month. If he and others can then maintain that weight for a further 5 months they will each [...]
