A prankster left a series offering "Free Dating Advice" in the floral department of a grocery store. (Via Obvious Plant)
Wordy folk on Twitter this week have taken famous film titles and added a bit of kiwi (#kiwifilms). Here are some of the best:
1. We Need To Talk About Levin
2. Fiddy Shades of Aye
3. The Hangi Games
4. How to Train Your Taniwha
5. The Girl With the Culturally Offensive Tattoo
6. Goodfullas
7. To Kill a Morepork
8. Four weddings and a three-day tangi
9. Sixteen Jandals
10. Mad Butcher: Fury Road
"In the '70s we had a shopping reporter on the local Rotorua radio station," writes Ann. "I remember her recommending a library book 'written by James Hadley Chase, who is dead at the moment'. And when the town gained its first Public Typist's office, with great enthusiasm this reporter told us that 'more and more local businessmen are taking advantage of the public typist'."
There exists a condition where a person's little toe just falls off. Dactylolysis spontanea is an extremely rare form of autoamputation and this is what to look out for: "First a little band of tough tissue forms around the base of the pinkie toe. Eventually the band gets smaller and tighter, and the toe swells up. The sufferer gets to watch as the band gets narrower and tighter, breaking the bones in the toe as it constricts. The toe ends up hanging by a 'pedicle', a tiny bit of tissue and bone. Eventually, even that gives up and the toe drops off."
1. The US President's social media accounts are managed by the Office of Digital Strategy, a team that includes about 20 people.
2. Henry III received a polar bear as a gift from King Haakon of Norway in 1252. The bear lived at the Tower of London and was given a long leash so it could swim in the river Thames and catch fish.
3. A study involving professors from seven universities found children from religious households are meaner than their secular counterparts.
The Alt-rock legends are ready to take the North Island by storm once again.