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Archive for December, 2011

Celebrities endorse the Photoshop diet

The latest diet craze to be endorsed by hundreds of celebrities is the Photoshop diet, in which hi-tech software is used to make images of the celebrity look like they are up to 100 pounds lighter than in reality.

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Posted: Dec 30th, 2011
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Scientists claim 2013 may have shortest February on record

predictions made after consulting horoscopesResearchers at the Institute for Applied Theoretics, in Basel, France, claim that climate change is increasing the risk of shorter Februaries, and predict that in 2013 the month will be exceptionally short.

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Posted: Dec 29th, 2011
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‘It’s Dear Diana all over again’ say North Koreans at Jong-il’s funeral

The outbursts of emotional distress at the funeral of leader Kim Jong-il have not been witnessed on the streets of Pyongyang since news of the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, reached North Korea fourteen years ago.

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Posted: Dec 29th, 2011
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Alliteration Association Axed

The Alliteration Association of Aldershot has announced it is to disband following a poor uptake in membership. The announcement shows the dwindling support for language based groups, coming just weeks after the closure of ‘Fan’s of: Poor Punctuation,’.

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Posted: Dec 29th, 2011
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East Midland Trains criticised over ‘replacement piggyback-from-a-tramp service’

simply using rolling stock under-utilised since Beeching‘They were 294 of us on the train and they herded us into an ageing 38-seater coach. But then an announcement came over the tannoy telling us that due to a lack of drivers, we’d have to continue our journey by tramp.’

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Posted: Dec 28th, 2011
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