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Pete from Tauranga, and 25,000 others, trotted along to see Eric Clapton at the Mission concert in Napier on Saturday night. "A great opening act," he says. "But what a bummer when a computer 'error message' popped up on the huge screens designed to give a better view of the stage. Woops!"
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Nell Hamm, 65, clubbed a mountain lion that attacked her husband while they were out hiking in a California state park.
She told CNN she grabbed a 10cm-thick log and beat the animal with it, but it would not release its hold on her husband's head.
"Jim was talking to me all through this, and he said, 'I've got a pen in my pocket. Get the pen and jab him in the eye'," she said. "So I got the pen and tried to put it in his eye, but it didn't want to go in as easy as I thought it would."
When the pen bent and became useless, she went back to using the log. The lion eventually let go and, with blood on its snout, stood staring at the woman. She screamed and waved the log until the animal wandered off.
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Japan's 71-year-old Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa has given a speech in which he called Japanese women "birth-giving machines" and called on them to "do their best per head".
He said: "The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines." (Source: Japan Times)
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A cruise ship worker writes: I hear many many stupid questions in my job. A woman once pointed at a big white round object, and asked what it was. "That is the moon," I replied.
Some others:
"What time is the midnight buffet?
"Is the ship in the water yet?"
"Do these stairs go up?"
"Does the crew live on board?"
"What do you do with the ice sculptures when they melt?"
