Sideswipe

Someone tell Justice Young to get this man on the next television leader's debate. (Amnesty International's latest campaign joins the election hoardings, courtesy of ad agency MTC)

After word got out that the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas could be fitted with an online update to make some of its scenes explicitly sexual, an 85-year-old grandmother in New York sued the company, Rockstar Games, for having failed to rate the game AO. But Florence Cohen apparently freely bought the M-rated version (age 17 and up) for her grandson, then aged 14, even though it invites players to murder, steal and engage in gang violence and attacks on police. She complained only when she found out that the M version's unexplicit sex and partial nudity could be made explicit. (Source: News of the Weird)

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Hard-nosed One News journalist Hannah Hodson is not afraid of using a pointed pun in a voice-over. Reporting property developer David Henderson's conviction for attempting to buy cocaine, Hodson said: "The conviction carries a maximum penalty of three months' jail. To avoid that Henderson will have to keep his nose clean for nine months."

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Trivia for the trivial-minded, part 2:

Did you know ...

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most popular player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.