Contributor JF Beck has come up with some gems from around the traps, including the following:-
Ian “Turps” Tupie has been grabbed by the ACCC over his involvement with the promotion of a nasal spray, especially over his claims that the spray gave him the horn.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has begun legal proceedings against television identity Ian Turpie for falsely claiming a nasal spray had cured his impotence.
Mr Turpie appeared in newspaper advertisements for the nasal spray with the headline “TV Star’s amazing CONFESSION!".
Anyone dumb enough to believe that spin deserves to be ripped off; what I get out of this is further evidence that there is nothing too personal for a celebrity to bang on about if there’s a quid in it; these same gerbils snork on about their privacy being invaded, then tell the world they can’t get a stiffy.
Meanwhile in Nigeria, contracting cancer of the earhole is the least of the worries faced by mobile phone users in the home of email scams. A long lingering death from tumours is not likely when, in a phenomena similar to the plot of Japanese horror trilogy Ringu, the receipt of a call from a killer number results in instant death.
A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain “killer numbers” then one will die immediately.
A BBC reporter says experts and mobile phone operators have been reassuring the public via the media that death cannot result from receiving a call.
He says that in such a superstitious country unfounded rumours are common.
A list of alleged killer numbers has been circulated but no-one is reported to have died from answering the phone.
The BBC’s reporter in Lagos, Sola Odunfa, says that the current scare story is reminiscent of a rumour that spread a few years ago that a handshake could cause sexual organs to disappear.
That rumour turned to tragedy as mobs rounded on people accused of making organs disappear.
Despite the massive public interest, no-one was found to have lost their organs.
We reported previously on the mysterious willy-thieving story- I recall it was some sort of Zionist plot to prevent West African Moslems from procreating. Possibly so, but how have they missed the likelyhood of the evil Jewish conspiracy being responsible for the greatest threat to African reproduction?
In a stunning display of duplicity, the rudest nation on earth has demanded fawning aquiesence from Americans with the temerity to apply for a French visa.
“Visas for France are not a right. Persons applying for visas are requested to show due respect for Consular personnel. Failure to do so will result in the denial of the application and denied entry into any of the EU countries,” says the sign posted in English at the French Consulate at 10 East 74th St., referring to the European Union.
Here’s some free advice- tell those arrogant garlic-reeking poodle-walking beret-wearing craven capitulating ca’pons to jam their visas up their jimmers; you’re missing nothing- the bastards are as rude as all the rumours suggest, the place is covered in dogshit, they have the ugliest cars this side of the former Soviet Union, their women are haughty (with no reason to be) and they collectively stink on ice.
Probably the only thing in favour of the sausage-eaters (besides Porsche and BMW) is the fact that they detest the French.