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Spotted at the Cook Islands Airport.
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Revenge is a dish best served online. To get back at her cheating husband, an Australian woman is selling a photograph of his lover's black lacy smalls on eBay, describing them as "so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween, perhaps". The eBay listing includes a detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery. The woman says she returned from work after receiving a romantic text message from her husband of 22 years that was clearly misdirected, to find him at home watching a DVD and discouraging her from entering their bedroom. In the room she found the empty condom wrapper under his pillow and "the tart's knickers ... at the foot of the bed". The woman said she also plans to sell her husband's Harley motorcycle on eBay "at a start price of 99c and, of course, with no reserve". (Source: Reuters)
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Annette Jones (nee Barker) was miffed to see in yesterday's SideSwipe an ad for a Kawau Island section showing a picture of Barkers Bay , which she says has been in private family ownership for 50 years and is not for sale. She also corrects much of what the ad claims. "The beach is not 'a superb sandy beach' but hard pebbles, the wharf is in private ownership, therefore not 'easy access from the shared all-tide wharf' (and it's not an all-tide wharf) and the land being sold is not even visible on the photograph, it is a 10-minute brisk walk up a steep clay driveway behind the bay. It says a great deal about the inadequacy of our real estate laws that this degree of false advertising is allowed to be printed and that the sellers would sanction this."
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Bungling engineers in Poland are red-faced after building a railway tunnel that's too small for trains to fit through. Rail bosses claim the mix-up happened because workers who were laying new tracks didn't talk to the team building the tunnel. "During work on the tunnel, tracks were laid down on newly raised ground which meant the distance between the tracks and roof of the tunnel became shorter," said Polish Railways spokesman Marta Szklarek. (Source: Ananova.com)
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Ben Krooneman comments on the lit cigarette experiment: "Surely all the children in the class are doomed because of smoke inhalation! Sure hope they send in a decontaminating team to clean up. Might be better to demolish the whole school ... Naughty teacher tut, tut, tut."
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Today's Webpick: A new ad from a catering company parodies TV chef Gordon Ramsay by using a potty-mouthed, seven year old Little Gordon. Most of the cussing is bleeped out, but lip readers, cover your eyes.
Watch it here. Scroll down.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
