Karen was at the popular wedding spot, the Parnell Rose Gardens, and noticed the amusing name of the apartments on the other side of the road.
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What happens with an online vote: The winner of the third annual Time 100 poll, to find the world's most influential person, is Moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of a popular online community whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. Since he launched his website in 2003, the site has spread internet memes like Lolcats and Rickrolling and averages 5.6 million visitors a month. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone Moot beat out actually has a job. (Source: Time magazine).
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Alfonso De Marco has lived in the same house for 100 years after arriving in England from Italy as a 7-year-old. His father Giuseppe ran an icecream parlour from the same seaside building in Eastbourne, East Sussex, Mr De Marco still calls home. When he turned 100 he was offered the chance to live with one of his three daughters, but he turned them down. "The street has changed a lot since I was a boy. I remember seeing horses pulling carts up and down this street, and smelling chestnuts being roasted. It is different now, it is much noisier, but I still love it - there are a lot of memories for me in this house. My daughters grew up here, and my father lived here, so I cannot imagine living anywhere else, or anywhere better." (Source: Telegraph.co.uk)
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Western Springs College pupil Paige Eriwata had a devastating start to the new term when she left her Year 11 graphics folder on a Stagecoach bus on Monday afternoon, says her Mum. "It contains all of term one's work which is yet to be externally assessed for NCEA. Please, if anybody has found the black A2 size folder could they contact the school and save Paige having to recreate 40 classes worth of work. The bus was No. 045, which she boarded about 3.35pm on Great North Rd, at the stop on the corner of Motions Rd by Western Springs. She got off the (then) crowded bus, full with Auckland Grammar Girls, in the city."
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Today's Video Webpick: Seems there was a not-so-groovy Swine Flu scare in 70s too. click here. Plus, It’s back, by hokey. It’s In The Bag, the quiz show that New Zealand grew up with is returning to our screens. click here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
