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Dave Henderson of St Marys Bay wonders if the person who put this poster up halfway down College Hill in central Auckland knew that someone would send it to SideSwipe, or have they really lost their unicorn?
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The recent misinterpretation pieces reminded Mervyn Rosser of the following: "Back in the 1960s the Customs Department was vigilant in searching book imports for possible pornography. The engineering librarian opened a large consignment of textbooks from the US to find that the only one extracted for search was a small book entitled Curves. The investigator would have had little joy from a study of equiangular spirals (even though they occur attractively in both the vegetable and animal native kingdoms) or sine waves (the name derives from the Latin sinus, one of whose meanings was "breast"), or a host of other beautiful forms mathematically described."
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Jessica asks: "Did anyone else manage to book the $1 Jetstar fares? I spent two hours trying to book a fare to Queenstown for four adults, and only ever got as far as the detail-entering page. When I tried the 0800 number, it was conveniently engaged. Shortly before the 2pm low fare cut-off, the entire site became unavailable. A terrible starting impression, and I can say I will be sticking to Air New Zealand!"
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A married Manchester United fan drove 650km to begin an affair with a woman he had met on Facebook, but it turns out to be a hoax set up by two rival Liverpool supporters. Stuart Slann, 39, drove nine hours from Sheffield to a remote farm in Scotland to meet a woman he had been flirting with for several weeks on the social networking site. However, after arriving at the deserted house and waiting for a further three hours in his car for "Emma" to finish work and show up, the two pranksters called him to confess. To add to his humiliation, they recorded the conversation and put it on the internet. It was then that Mr Slann's wife discovered the "affair" and ended their marriage. (Source: Telegraph.co.uk)
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Zoe reckons Zela Charlton (who claimed not to know
what a PS3, MP3 and V8 were) is quite far behind "today's world". He says Wikipedia (Zela can look that one up for herself) tells us that a patent for the V8 was taken out in 1902 and first used in the mass production of cars in 1914. (BTW Zela, a PS3 is the latest gaming console from PlayStation and an MP3 is the name of a music file of a song that can be played on a digital device like an iPod - just think modern Walkman cassette player!)
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Today's Webpick: An Irish TV reporter, doing a live cross, is interrupted by a drunk. (language NSFW). View here. Scroll down.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
