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Kipling scholars discover new poem: ‘Iffy’

Stunned literature scholars have discovered a poem they believe influenced Rudyard Kipling’s famously inspirational verse ‘If’. Entitled ‘Iffy’, the poem, by Kipling’s little-known cousin Stamford Baines, contains the lines ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster / and treat those two impostors just the same / you’ve probably been rogered senseless once too often at public school / and fallen for all that stiff upper lip crap.’

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Posted: Jun 16th, 2011
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UK film censors ban The Very Hungry Caterpillar

"shocking images of gluttony and explicit pupa scenes"Following their ban on The Human Centipede 2, the British Board of Film Classification have now refused a certificate to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, due to what they describe as ‘shocking images of gluttony and explicit pupa scenes.’

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Posted: Jun 15th, 2011
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Andy Murray personally thanks fan for her timely shout of ‘Come on Andy’

In a surprising move, Andy Murray has personally sought out a fan from the crowd to thank her for her cry of ‘Come on Andy!’ during the final at Queens Club this week.

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Posted: Jun 15th, 2011
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14-year old boy ‘Wendy Licious’ expresses outrage at fake lesbian blogs

A 14-year old male from Gloucester has expressed his outrage at the exposure of a string of ‘fake’ lesbian blogs. The on-line journals, purportedly written by lesbians in Damascus and Washington, were actually written by lonely male Media Studies students.

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Posted: Jun 15th, 2011
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NHS to be rebranded as ‘Britain’s Got Illness’

they'll make you laugh, they'll make you cryHealth Minister Andrew Lansley has confirmed that the latest NHS reforms will require patients seeking treatment to be seen by a panel of three healthcare professionals, ‘sitting behind a desk with their hands on a buzzer with a light-up x attached’.

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Posted: Jun 14th, 2011
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