Sideswipe: An easy mistake

An easy mistake to make.

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A reader writes: "While driving through Glen Innes yesterday, my dad passed through a police checkpoint for seatbelts. We were given the all-clear and he drives off down the road, when up ahead he sights a speeding motorbike tearing towards him. Although not recommended, my dad warned the motorcyclist to slow down by giving him a waving gesture ... Unappreciative, the motorcyclist proceeded to give him the royal middle finger, not with one hand, but two as he zoomed past ... Bemused, my dad drove on only to look in his rear vision mirror to see the motorcyclist still giving him the middle finger wave - both hands still in the air. Also bemused was the cop waiting at the checkpoint for the motorcyclist who, unfortunately for him, caught the whole thing."

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Questions you may get asked in a Google job interview, according to Businessinsider.com:

1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
2. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
3. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
5. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
6. Why are manhole covers round?
7. Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
8. How many times a day do a clock's hands overlap?
9. Explain the significance of "dead beef".

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It was supposed to be Hugh Ackroyd's wake. But the best part of the knees-up was the fact that Hugh Ackroyd is not dead. Instead, the 96-year-old photographer from Portland, Oregon, decided he'd like to be around for his own farewell. "Why bother when [I'm] dead?" he said. Ackroyd sat in his padded wheelchair. Someone brought a wreath with a ribbon that said: "Eventually, Hugh, rest in peace." Ackroyd got a kick out of that. (Source: Oregonlive.com)

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Georgia's Chattooga High School principal didn't like what he saw in the newly printed school yearbooks. There were several photos of boys playing basketball without any shirts on, so school officials spent two months cutting the pages with those photos out of the yearbooks before handing them to the students, who had paid $50 for them. (Source: Reason.com)

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