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A company called Custom Receipts is selling fake A" receipts so you can trick people into thinking you are loaded. What possible use for such a fraud? The website explains: "Ever wanted people to think you're rich? Just casually let them see your massive bank balance on one
of our fake ATM receipts, with your name right on it. Trying to impress that hotty at the bar? Money talks. Hand out your number on the back of one of our fake ATM receipts. They're a player's dream come true." (Source: BoingBoing.net)
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A disgruntled vegetarian writes: "On a recent flight to Brisbane on Qantas the special meals came out, and my pre-ordered vegetarian meal didn't arrive. Ah well, I thought, there must be a general vegetarian meal on offer. Given the meal, I noticed some suspicious-looking "pink bits". On inquiry, I was told that yes, my vegetarian meal had been ordered, but no, it hadn't been provided. So, how about that meat then? When I emailed Qantas on my return I received no response, so I called and was offered a meal voucher, for use only in Australia. For what? A meat pie or a sausage roll."
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Richard Hammond dumped his car, which was stuck in floods, and ran 25km to be home for his daughter's 4th birthday. The Top Gear star, who just 10 months ago suffered a serious brain injury in a horrific 460km/h dragster smash, completed the run in 2 1/2 hours in the middle of the night, reports the Sun. He abandoned the Porsche 911 Carrera in Cheltenham at 3am and arrived at his home in a hamlet near Newent soaking and exhausted at 5.30am before his daughter Willow awoke. "It was pitch black but I just put my iPod on and went."
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Strange entrepreneurs: Rolling Pin Productions makes President George Bush First Family Cookies: "We feature our 43rd President George Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and even Barney and Miss Beazley!" And get this; they cost US$8 each.
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It is increasingly difficult these days for a girl to go through the stage of "plain old kid", according to an Arizona Republic story, because clothing fashions seem to move from "toddler" directly to some form of "teen" (including "tween" and now "pre-tween"), with spaghetti-strap dresses and "ultra-miniskirts," but in tinier-than-ever sizes. The newspaper reports GapKids recently offered a "white, crocheted string bikini you'd likely see Anna Kournikova wearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue [except that it] was for a 12-month-old." Yes, that's 12 months, not years.
(Source: News of the Weird)
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Ray Storey had this to say about the list of weird Google searches in yesterday's Sideswipe. "It may have something to do with a game I heard about a while ago. Most searches yield at least 10 pages of results on any subject you care to think of. The object of the game is to google a phrase that only yields one result. No results loses. Try it yourself; it's really quite difficult! Can't remember what the game is called. Maybe I should google that."