Sideswipe

This 40- minute album (above) has eight actual recorded pick-up scenes to learn from. You'll hear exactly how to pick up a busty college girl in a library, a tall pretty blonde on the street or a dark-haired sexy swinger in a singles bar. How's this one? "Mike has completely disarmed her natural street defences by complimenting her and then backing off pretending he's not so interested. Now that they are having a drink, let's see how he handles telling this luscious chick he's really an insurance salesman."

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NZ Rugby Union communications manager Brian Finn was disappointed to hear someone had told a Lions visitor that the rugby union had asked for the Tourism New Zealand 100% Welcome banners to be destroyed. "This is not correct. In fact, when asked by Tourism NZ for permission to give the banners away, we were only too happy to agree. And we certainly have no issue with DHL, the major sponsor of the DHL NZ Lions Series, getting a share of the credit for their fantastic support. Both the 100% Welcome Campaign and the overall marketing campaigns for the DHL NZ Lions Series were fully supported by the NZRU as a joint effort to make Lions supporters feel welcome here and to maximise the opportunity to showcase NZ and NZ rugby to the world. Tourism NZ has offered to send one of the flags to Helen [Clark] and we hope other supporters who may have asked will have received a positive response and gone home with a great souvenir of their time in New Zealand."

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A reader writes: "I have a delightful weather story to deviate one's thoughts from the miserable days we have been experiencing. This from the recently released From Slates to Computers, a collection of memories of school life throughout the 20th century ... 'The sole-charge teacher at Toatoa meticulously reported the daily rainfall, as shown by the rain gauge, to the Meteorological Service. At the end of one January, the Met Office informed him that the Toatoa weather station was the only one to send in readings during the month's drought. After some detective work, the teacher caught his 3-year-old son using the rain gauge as a urinal'."

 

A newly opened restaurant called Car Crash has had to close - after a car crashed into the building. The car lost control in wet weather and smashed into the entrance of the restaurant in Santiago, Chile. Owner Nancy Araya says she named the restaurant Car Crash because the area was an accident blackspot. She told Las Ultimas Noticias: "It is unbelievable, it is black humour that a car crashes into Car Crash. The restaurant is now a joke." Nobody was hurt in the accident. The restaurant is expected to reopen within a week. (Source: Ananova.com)