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Following the "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign to entice tourists to Australia, a bottled water brand called Another Bloody Water hits the shelves across the Ditch. According to the makers, "It tends to stand out on the shelves, by not standing out. Whilst all the other brands are fighting on the shelf with the same old cascading waterfalls and water droplets, etc, our clear, invisible bottle makes a focus of the water inside. Because, after all, it's just another bloody water, right?"
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A tiny U.S. community doesn't know what to do after nobody turned up to vote in its civic election - including the candidates. The current Mayor of Pillsbury, Darrel Brudevold, said voter turnout was usually fairly high in the farming community (population 11). "I dare say a half-dozen people usually make it to the polls," he said. But this month, no one showed up to vote in the North Dakota settlement. Not even those on the ballot, reports metro.co.uk. Mayor Brudevold ran unopposed for re-election. His wife, Ruth, and Dan Lindseth were standing again for their alderman seats. "Everybody has got a job and they're busy," the mayor said. "It just worked out that nobody seemed to go down there to the polls." (Source: Ananova.com)
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Vanessa from Torbay writes: "Am I the only Aucklander not to realise that carrying an umbrella into the Vector Arena is not permitted? Apparently it is in their 'terms and conditions' that you are supposed to read before attending a function there. I was directed to a tent on the forecourt to leave mine. However, after the show it had disappeared. I was directed to the cloakroom, where event staff decided I could have an umbrella belonging to someone else, which has previously been left behind. So if you come out of an event at the Vector Arena and it's raining ... "
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Yasmin is not impressed with the recently completed "pedestrian-friendly Queen St". "Every 10 or so rows of pavers there is a thicker crack filled with some kind of black rubber which I have got my stiletto heel stuck in on more than one occasion. Luckily a friend was walking beside me to catch me last time it happened."
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Bill has a question for the middle-aged man who insists on running along Remuera Rd (that's on the road itself) in the dark after 5pm in dark clothes, and refuses to give way to cyclists and cars: "How did you get to be so old? You clearly have a death wish."
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Today's Webpick: These nice folks explain why they're voting Republican in the 2008 US election (a clever bit of film from the Democrats). Watch it here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
