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Despots defend record round of bonuses in 2010

all being paid much more than David CameronMembers of the ‘Confederation of Dictators, Tyrants, Autocrats and Unelected Heads of State’ have been vigorously defending the latest round of bonuses that they have awarded themselves over the past twelve months – a year which has seen the public standing of brutal autocrats drop to its lowest level in over half a century.

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Posted: Feb 27th, 2011
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Government sets up regulatory body Oftoss for crap Friday night TV

includes set-bottom boxThe Government today swung into action over growing complaints about plummeting standards in crap Friday night TV.

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Posted: Feb 26th, 2011
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U.S. re-starts secret testing of the word ‘nuke-u-lor’

Reports from monitoring stations have confirmed that the United States has restarted underground testing of the word ‘nuke-ulor’. The reports have been greeted with dismay by the international community. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon describing the move as ‘an act of harassment, but without the emphasis on the second syllable of harassment’. Monitoring stations have been [...]

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Posted: Feb 24th, 2011
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Morrissey children’s album flops

a charming manFormer Smiths frontman Morrissey says he is ‘currently contemplating the warm, welcoming embrace of early retirement’ after his album of songs for children ‘Hello Young Persons Everywhere’ failed to chart this weekend.

The album, a long-standing ambition for the singer, contains a number of reworked children’s standards including ‘This Old Man, He Played One’ and ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ along with a selection of self-penned numbers including ‘Algebra is a Frightful Bore’ and ‘It is Inadvisable to Commence Your Sentences With a Gerund’.

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Posted: Feb 23rd, 2011
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Uproar in Hollywood as new ‘director’s cut’ shorter than original film

Movie moguls and critics are said to be ‘spitting feathers’ after controversial director Todd Bertolino declared his last film had been ‘a tad long’, and that a new ‘director’s cut’ would be nearly an hour shorter. ‘Repeat Prescription’ was first released in 2007 and features Jim Carrey as a city financier developing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. [...]

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Posted: Feb 23rd, 2011
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