Ginette Anderson passes this banner ad every morning and wonders if it is the right way up.
"The text is upside down, so the mouse is meant to be lying on its back. Or is it just too-clever marketing?"
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A Canadian woman says she was handcuffed and detained for disobeying a police officer's order to hold the rail on an escalator in the Montreal Metro. Bela Kosoian told the Toronto Globe and Mail she plans to fight the two tickets she was given for failing to hold the rail and obstruction. She said she was trying to find money for the subway fare in her backpack when she was told to hold the rail.
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A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer it. "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle." (Source: Bitsandpieces.us)
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Gerd of Swanson thought this instruction at Waiwera hot pools was a little unclear:
"It was a bit delicate taking the photo, since the sign was outside the female changing rooms and a male with a camera probably doesn't go down well there."
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Having reformed 80s band Spandau Ballet, Gary Kemp tells the Evening Standard the band's first split was like being a World War II veteran:
"I've heard stories about men who fought at Dunkirk who couldn't adjust to normal life when they returned home because it just wasn't exciting enough for them. The problem for us was that we spent 18 years not talking to each other." (Source: BBC Magazine Monitor)
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Lawmakers in Oregon recently passed the "Honest Pint Act" which would allow pubs and bars to display state-issued stickers proving that their pint glasses actually hold 16 ounces, as opposed to the 13- and 14-ounce glasses that some bars try to pass off as pints. The act is predicted to cost at least $20,000, not including the price of pint "measuring tools". No surprises that in England there is already a weights and measures law in place and that a British pint is 20oz. (Source: Freakonomics Blog, NYT)
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Melissa Lee may be parking on broken yellow lines, but Rodney Hide is a Cabinet minister who texts while sitting in his "RoddyCar" at the lights, declares a reader. Speaking of Hide, rightwing blogger Whale Oil reminded politicians using Twitter to be careful. He published a tweet made by Dunedin South Labour MP Claire Curran saying Rodney Hide gives her the creeps, then describing him as "demonic". Save the personal insults for the debating chamber, eh?
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View today's Herald cartoon.
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Today's Webpick: Check out my new favourite blog, Awkward Family Photos, plus a snippet from a BBC documentary about young people about rap culture in Britain. Watch it here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
