Sideswipe: Tow the line

Steve snapped this in Tunisia. 'Needless to say there wasn't a kid in sight ...' Photo / Supplied

Windows of opportunity

Peter writes: "I had a call last night from a man with an accent. He was from the 'International Microsoft Windows Help Desk' ... Apparently my computer is full of dangerous viruses. The kind man offered to help me solve this problem. I told him that would be great but I have a hearing problem. After 20 minutes of him shouting instructions at me he was starting to get a bit irritated. He then asked for my internet password. I spelled it out for him (EMMAFUGWET). I told him to yell it back to me three times which he did. The call then ended abruptly."

Is that a chilli dog I smell?

Yesterday Stina came home to a strange smell in the house. "It became clear that our dear dog, Orlando, had helped himself to a whole saucepan of chilli con carne and had managed to turn the gas on."

Paddle like you've got a porpoise

Mary Poppins star Dick Van Dyke says porpoises saved his life - by pushing him back to shore after he fell asleep on his surfboard. The actor, 84, told reporters: "I woke up out of sight of land," he said. "I started seeing fins swimming around me and I thought 'I'm dead!' They turned out to be porpoises. And they pushed me all the way to shore."

We're green, but only on the inside

The protest Brianna saw outside the World Dairy Summit last week (involving using green paint on the footpath which inevitably went down the drains and into the ocean to kill the dolphins) wasn't a Greenpeace affair, says communications guy Jay Harkness.

"We were there, but [our delegate was] inside the conference - accompanied at all times (even to the door of the bathroom) by the minder the organisers had arranged to follow him."

Today's Webpick: This guy is so sad to be leaving Wellington, he made this goodbye video... Go here.



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