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Archive for April, 2009

Middle-middle class man devastated at relegation to lower middle class league

When insurance salesman Kevin Watson, 49, agreed to answer a questionnaire on social class, it was a decision that would change his life.

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Posted: Apr 28th, 2009
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Gordon Brown ‘not concerned’ after spotting job advert for new prime minister

A Downing Street spokesman has said Gordon Brown is ‘unconcerned’ about the advertisement for a ‘New Prime Minister’ placed in the appointments section of yesterday’s Sunday Times newspaper.

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Posted: Apr 28th, 2009
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Alternative therapist sacks Red Indian spirit guide for being useless

turned out to be just a bit kitsch, reallyA reflexologist from Glastonbury has fired her Red Indian spirit guide ‘Starhawk’ for being ‘a bit crap really’, after a 35 year working partnership. Ellie Farrell had first discovered the identity of her spirit guide at a new age fair in Weston-Super-Mare two years ago; ‘A psychic artist did a pastel drawing of him. Obviously, I was delighted to know I had a genuine Native American guiding my soul through this life, but to be honest, he did look a bit twee and kitsch, like that ‘crying Pierrot’ painting, but with a head dress and mauve aura.

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Posted: Apr 28th, 2009
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Essex council hails traffic-calming effects of dead cyclists

Sleeping cyclists for next 400 yardsAn Essex parish council is to leave the mangled wreckage of cyclists on the road as part of a new ‘natural’ traffic-calming scheme.

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Posted: Apr 27th, 2009
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Post Office queue announcer sacked for sending customer to Cashier Number 4 instead of Cashier Number 6

The Communications Workers Union today condemned the management of the Post Office in Harrow for sacking queue announcer Shirley Crookshank after her directions sent a customer to the occupied cashier number 4, instead of the vacant cashier number 6.

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Posted: Apr 27th, 2009
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