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Hairy humour from outside a Rotorua salon:
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Reality TV: Keith Torckler was awaiting surgery, all prepped up and seated in the waiting room for the call and filling in time watching TV. "And guess what? I find I am watching a post-mortem being conducted. I didn't take it as a portent of the likely outcome to my surgery but both myself and another gentleman awaiting surgery found it an interesting and amusing combination of circumstances."
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A reader firmly believes there is a strong correlation between high-priced vehicles and the level of discourtesy their owners show for other drivers. "A message to all owners of expensive European cars: I understand your car changes gear for you automatically; wipes its windscreen automatically; your rear-vision mirror, when hit by high-beam headlights, tints automatically; if you forget to turn your headlights off when you exit the car, the car turns them off automatically; your car may very well navigate for you. But please understand indicating is still a task YOU must perform."
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Don't knock Australian blondes, says Steve. Yesterday's column reported that when a customer asked why a Peach Melba icecream looked more red than orange, the girl at the Queensland takeaway replied: "Maybe it's the Melba". Steve says the icecream is named after the dessert, which contains a Melba sauce (named after Aussie opera star Dame Nellie Melba) ... and the sauce is made of pureed raspberries.
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A reader writes: "My partner, a flight attendant, overheard this conversation at the end of an early morning flight.
"Have you seen I Am Legend?"
"No, is that the one based on a true story?"
"Yeah, I think so."
The film I Am Legend, for those who don't know, is set in post-apocalyptic New York City, where disease has killed 90 per cent of the population, lions and deer roam deserted city streets, and vampire-like zombies hunt the remaining humans.
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