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Tinny: A subtle warning to visitors to this property in Patumahoe.

Gullible people ask urban legend reference site Snopes to verify the truthfulness of jokes like this:

I received the following email this morning regarding a new virus alert. I searched your site, but could find nothing on the topic. Can you tell me if there is any validity to the following? Thank you.

Virus alert. There is a new virus: code name is "work". If you receive "work" from your colleagues, your boss, via email or any where else, do not touch "work" under any circumstances!! This virus wipes out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with this virus, put on your jacket and take two good friends and go straight to the nearest pub. Order three beers and after repeating 14 times, you will find that "work" has been completely deleted from your brain. Forward this warning immediately to at least five friends. Should you realise that you do not have five friends, this means you are already infected by this virus and "work" already controls your whole life. This virus is deadly. Please pay close attention to it and take heed.

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A comment from a local blog on Monday's debut of Campbell Live: "Bill Ralston should be lighting himself on fire and throwing himself off a building after not securing Campbell to move to the Death Star."

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According to an article in the publication Earthtimes, adolescents who take virginity pledges do not have a lowered risk of sexually transmitted disease infection compared with those who don't, researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities have found, after studying the sexual behaviour of about 12,000 youngsters. Maybe these are cases of immaculate infections?

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While on hold with ihug for four minutes, Mike Edgar, from Blockhouse Bay, was repeatedly informed that ihug wait times are under 20 seconds. "I think management and staff must have done their training at Telecom," he quips.

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New definition. Cyn-ic: An idealist whose rose-coloured glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his/her vision. (Source: i-cynic.com)

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Most singles would try looking for love using personal ads, singles bars or an online dating site, but a woman in Hampshire prefers to use the freedom of information laws. The woman made an anonymous inquiry to Hampshire Constabulary to find out the number of single officers. She also asked for their email and home addresses and their promotion and pension prospects. The force declined to give out personal details but revealed there were 2000 single officers in the county. It also told her that there were 266 police bachelors in the specific area she was inquiring about, 201 of whom were in uniform.