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Real estate agents have probably become more unpopular than politicians in the "least trusted profession stakes" this week and it doesn't help when they resort to extreme hyperbole, claiming "views to South America" from Kawau Island and misleading "not taken from property" idyllic views. Here's an idea: how
about taking the picture from the property?
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Mother's revenge: "Everyone knows how hard it is to keep an old villa clean," writes a mother from Hamilton, "especially with two grubby sons. The other day, son number two was especially messy, so I asked if he would like me to tidy his room (which was covered in dirty washing, clean washing, sports gear, magazines, pens, rubbish). Of course he said yes, so I pinned every single item to the ceiling."
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An inflatable dog turd the size of a house has blown away from a modern art exhibition in a Swiss museum before bringing down an electricity line and smashing a greenhouse window. Complex Shit, a sculpture by American artist Paul McCarthy, cast loose its moorings and was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from the Paul Klee centre in Berne and carried 180m to eventually make landfall in the grounds of a children's home. Museum authorities said the work had an automatic safety device that was supposed to make it deflate in the event of a storm - but it failed to operate. (Source: Telegraph.co.uk)
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A reader from Glenfield writes: "This Ray White rental sign was graffitied in June. I've rung Ray White twice, and emailed their head office, but two months on and it's still there - the only graffiti on the street. Unsurprisingly, the property has yet to be let."
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Strange products: A motorised ice cream cone. Yes, the scoop of frozen deliciousness gently revolves counter-clockwise, so that lazy people merely stick their tongues out and don't need to actively lick.
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Paul writes: "It's a big stretch to associate heart surgery as an infant with the possible detrimental effects on a Year 11 adolescent of one cigarette being burned in a classroom as part of a science experiment. One day on the streets of Hong Kong, London, Beijing - maybe even Auckland if we are to believe what we are told - would be a more significant 'threat' to a teen's wellbeing. Sorry, this is frankly a neurotic response. Give the teacher (and your son) the credit they are due."
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Today's Webpick: There is something so compelling about an action figure doing that scene from Flashdance. Watch Boba Fett show his moves here. Scroll down.
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