Sideswipe: October 26: How much is that doggy in the wheelchair?

There are some wags in Thames!

Teen displays healthy sense of disrespect

A 14-year-old teen in Virginia is facing assault and battery charges after throwing a 5cm baby carrot at one of her teachers. Aliya May was leaving class last month when she passed a teacher she had the previous year. She took a carrot out of her bag and chucked it at the teacher, hitting her in the forehead. She was suspended from school for a month, and she is currently waiting for a summons.

Classic spelling of the Middle Eastern dip

Norwegians state the obvious

When Norwegians want to express that something is completely mental they say "texas". According to Texas Monthly, the colloquial term "is used as an adjective, most often without capitalisation. The context involves the phrase, "Det var helt texas," which translates to, roughly, "It was totally bonkers."

Newborn's fate up in the air

Two weeks ago, a doctor delivered a baby while on a flight from Taiwan to Los Angeles. Reports followed that the Taiwanese woman whose labour diverted the plane to Alaska may be charged $33,000 because she may have planned to give birth in American airspace so her baby would gain American citizenship. The Associated Press reports that the unnamed woman, who's been sent back to Taiwan without her baby (for reasons that remain unclear), has been under suspicion since the story made headlines. That's due to the fact that she lied to officials about how pregnant she was (36 weeks as opposed to under 32) in order to board the flight and allegedly asked the cabin crew, "Are we in US airspace?" shortly before she went into labour. Alaskan state officials say that the baby is eligible for American citizenship even though it was born in the air. In fact, authorities say, the baby would have been eligible for citizenship even if it had been born in international airspace, just as long as America was the first place the baby arrived.

"Just wondering if anyone else gets a bit fed up with signs still posted around town a month after the event," writes a reader. "Does the promoter not have a responsibility to remove these?"?

Read this: Ranchers in British Columbia are complaining that someone is going around shooting their cows and carving out select cuts, leaving the bulk of the corpses behind. "One wonders what kind of dish the BC cow killer was so desperate to make that they worked up the moxie to murder another man's livestock and hastily hack off meat from the bodies-perhaps they just wanted to get the freshest cut possible for a lonely candlelit dinner of a creamy stroganoff complete with sautéed cremini mushrooms and onions, accompanied by a nice chianti."...http://www.vice.com/read/somebody-is-carving-select-cuts-from-bc-cows-and-leaving-their-corpses-in-the-field-vgtrn

Fixing the grass after a Tonga, All Black scrum would be a job and a half

Remembering other Rugby World Cup moments:

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Picture this: Stephanie and Miles didn't think through this wedding photo...

Picture this: Icelandic rock looks like elephant drinking from the ocean...

Video: Australian underwear brand Bonds have created some ads from the point of view of a pair of testicles, played by two actors in hanging wicker chairs...Here's the first one called Impact, followed by Swim...

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