KEY POINTS:
Sign in a hotel bathroom in China: Could "Cherish the cloth grass" mean "Please look after your towel"?
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John writes: "Had a friend around on the weekend and while fiddling with the paper spike in my study she said they previously used them at the doctors' surgery where she works ... until an OSH inspector informed her they were a work hazard.
Later in the inspection she was asked to show him the office first-aid kit. She opened the door to a room brimming with equipment and every conceivable medical supply. But no ... six doctors, four nurses and this completely stocked room on the premises wasn't good enough for our intrepid (and slightly brainless) inspector - he wanted to see the standard little lunchbox with a couple of sticking plasters, roll of tape and a pair of scissors inside.
He refused to sign off the premises, then fortunately she remembered the emergency response kit they take to accidents and that did the trick. If John Key wants to not replace some Government employees when they leave OSH would be a good place to start."
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Police launched a drugs raid on a home in Scotland, but discovered only the 79-year-old owner's tomato plants. Uniformed officers burst into Lulu Matheson's house, kept her son Gus in his bedroom for two hours, handcuffed her grandson Stephen and turned the house upside down. The afternoon raid involved three squad cars, seven officers and sniffer dogs. They told the family they were looking for cannabis, but after searching for several hours had to concede the green plants visible in the window from the roadside were tomatoes.
(Source: www.theherald.co.uk)
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Clayton found some curious translations of the latest Bond flick from the IMDB website. "A Quantum Consolation (or A Quantity of Consolation) - Germany; Quantum of Mercy - Russia; 007 Quantum - Mexico & Canada; A Grain of Comfort - Croatia; 007 Quantum of Solace - Argentina and Brazil; and 007: Reward of Comfort - Japan."
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Last week Clinton found a white container next to his letterbox containing someone's ashes. "I phoned Manukau Memorial Gardens as its sticker was on the container. Trying to get these precious ashes back to the right person, I was told they cannot give out that information. So I offered to drop them off so they could pass them on, only to be told it's not their problem any more because the family had signed for them and picked them up.
Now I am stuck with the ashes of a person I don't know." Police in Papakura are keen to get the ashes back.
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