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Spotted on one of the buildings in the Central Park Corporate Centre by the Ellerslie/Penrose roundabout: "These guys are at the top of a five-storey building, and nobody is harnessed on," says our witness in disbelief.
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The type of biscuit served in the boardroom could make or break a business deal, according to the world's first "business biscuit study", conducted in Britain. Eighty per cent of business professionals say a meeting can be positively influenced by the choice and quality of biscuit on offer. The research, commissioned by hotel chain Holiday Inn, said biscuit eaters voted the chocolate digestive their favourite, followed by shortbread. Lawyers were most impressed by a good bikkie, closely followed by those in the media and marketing industry. Dunking biscuits was a no-no, according to 52 per cent of respondents.
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The reader from Westmere "who so detests the Shell-Ferrari ad should consider what they are criticising", writes Michael Wood. "A panorama of Ferrari's most famous racers from the 1950s to the present day, racing through spectacular scenery, promoting the astonishing engineering and competition achievements of one of history's finest car-makers. Perhaps we should suggest to Shell that their next ad be a series of hybrid cars stuck in city traffic jams - just what we want to watch on TV in the evenings!"
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Chontelle had a similar experience to the woman who made silly faces at someone she thought was her brother at LynnMall last week: "I walking down the street and I saw an old high school friend, whose name I couldn't remember. I said 'Hello, how are you', in the usual I-haven't-seen-you-in-ages tone. He responded in kind and we had a conversation about what we'd both been up to. I was still frantically trying to remember his name when he held his hands above his head in two peace signs and said, 'More power to you'. It was then that I realised I had never met that man before in my life."
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Marie can also relate: "Many years ago I was walking to town in Whangarei. My fiance worked at Telecom. As I crossed the road I saw what I thought was his work vehicle coming. I slipped my blouse off one shoulder, hoisted my skirt to show a good piece of leg, and put out my thumb to hitch a ride. To the delight of the driver, he was able to go back to work and tell the guys he had to tell the boss's fiancee that he wasn't allowed to pick up passengers who didn't work for the company."
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Mel Webber says she once received a CV in which, among other horrors, the sender claimed to be "higly inteligint". "I also once received a lovely one in which the sender had included all the newspaper articles on his bagpipe band, as well as copies of every certificate ever received, including a 'Tidy Kiwi' award from primary school."
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You may remember the 2006 Time magazine cop-out, where instead of choosing a specific person for their Person of the Year, as was the norm, they awarded it to you, because of the influence of user-generated content on the internet. One person clearly took this to heart, and Emma says she was presented with a CV from someone who claimed "Time Magazine Person of the Year" under their qualifications.
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Today's Webpick: Crikey! This Christchurch couple are Steve and Terri Irwin lookalikes. Watch it here.
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