KEY POINTS:
Chris writes: "Like many other Xtra customers, I too have been caught up in Xtrabubble problems. I was explaining this to a colleague (who was receiving emails from me with someone else's name attached) via email and as usual I used the spellchecker in Outlook to make sure I had not made the usual typo errors. The result made my day, well, week actually. Outlook suggested the correction for Xtrabubble is "trouble". Rather apt, I thought."
* * *
An Apparently well-educated drunk burglar broke through the ceiling of a Wellington Airport bookshop this week and crashed down on a stand of books. He then ate heaps of chocolate and read for most of the night before being spotted by security staff about 3am trying to climb out the hole in the ceiling - using a pyramid of books.
* * *
Lose a game of chess to a computer and you might bruise your ego. But lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine and you could break your arm. Distributor Atlus is removing all 150 Arm Spirit machines from Japanese arcades after three players broke their arms in one-armed combat.
* * *
James Brown's brood keeps expanding. The Sex Machine has another daughter and it may not be his last. An unnamed woman has proved through DNA testing that the singer, dubbed the Godfather of Soul, was her father. She is the third to do so and other tests are pending. Brown died on Christmas Day, aged 73, and acknowledged six children in his will.
* * *
Men will go to far greater lengths than women to have an affair - literally. Men travel an average of 212km to conduct affairs while women clock up just 27km, the survey from extra-marital dating website IllicitEncounters.com found. More than 20 per cent of men polled said they would travel "as far as it takes" to carry on their liaisons, while 34 per cent of women preferred romance within 32km of home. "Some of our members are housewives, or are working and have children and would find it very difficult to explain being away overnight. On the other hand, men find it very easy to explain being away overnight , and travel much greater distances as a matter of course."
* * *
The weakest link (BBC2).
Anne Robinson: Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: Prison, or the Conservative Party?
Contestant: The Conservative Party.
