Hair today, gone tomorrow
A reader writes: "My mother tells the story of a barber in Hamilton in the 1970s whose surname was Ferkin. He put a notice outside the shop which said, 'Come in and have a Ferkin haircut'. The council made him take it down."
Rehab will make you sick
Thailand's "Last Resort Rehab" at the Wat Thamkrabok Temple, about 160km north of Bangkok, resembles a traditional drug-detox facility (work, relaxation, meditation) - except for the vomiting. At the "Vomit Temple", Buddhist priests mix a concoction of 120 herbal ingredients that are nasty, according to methamphetamine addicts interviewed for a recent Australian TV documentary. Said one, of the rehab agenda, "Vomiting is at 3pm every day. Foreigners must vomit for the first five days. The vomiting is intense." (News of the Weird)
