Sideswipe: Sept 15: Hurray for the Ruby Wold Cop!

This is not a Rugby World Cup cup. Photo / Supplied

Comedian Raybon Kan has a couple of rugby souvenir mugs satirising the hard line on any unofficial attempts to cash on the Rugby World Cup. Both are up for auction on Trade Me. One is pictured above and another is inscribed "Ruby Wold Cop", claiming any resemblance to other words is just a coincidence.

Passion killer
An embarrassing typo made it through to the e-book version of the romance novel, Baby, I'm Yours, by Susan Andersen. The sentence was supposed to read: "He stiffened for a moment but then she felt his muscles loosen as he shifted on the ground." Unfortunately a "t" was used instead of an "f" in the word shifted ... (Source: Newslite.tv)

Shop where impossible is possible
A reader writes: "If anyone else is told by the Champions Of The World rugby merchandise shop at the bottom of Queen St that 'it's impossible to get the Argentine rugby jersey in New Zealand now and you won't find one anywhere else in the country', they can just pop 100m up the road to the RWC Superstore, which has nine on the rack and more out the back."

Sorry, I have to take this
Jared writes on Facebook: "I was walking home tonight and saw an older man with a lot of bags struggling and looking at me. So naturally I asked if he needed help, but he said no and just started lecturing me about how awful today's youth is and how technology is destroying our country and is the cause of our national debt. The look on the guy's face when I pulled out my iPhone, answered a fake call and walked away was priceless." (Source Lamebook.com)

'I said it ...'
1) "When I was a child my Dad and I were driving back from my grandparents' house in Scotland, just near Edinburgh Airport, and we were talking about the Concorde. I said, 'Wouldn't it be funny to see one right now', and Dad said, 'Not very likely, the Concorde doesn't fly here often'. Lo and behold, what should fly over the car about 5 seconds later but a Concorde taking off." 2) "I once worked at a bank in Wellington, and one particularly slow afternoon another teller said, 'I wish something exciting would happen, like an earthquake.' As soon as she had finished the sentence, a moderate quake shook Wellington."

Cup transport success
Amid all the anger over the World Cup rail fiasco, here's a bright spot: Cameron writes: "Arriving at Baldwin Ave station to go to the opening game, I was greeted by a guy asking if anyone wanted a lift in his car to Kingsland. I took him up on his offer and it turned out he was going back to Mt Albert to watch the game at a mate's place - the opposite direction. But he didn't want people missing out on getting to Eden Park because of the trains. Good on yer, mate."

A different wrinkle
Kevin writes: "Regarding the wrinkling of fingers in the bath, I do not believe it is a neural response as this would not explain why it increases with time and does not happen in the sea. These observations are more consistent with osmotic movement of water into the skin in fresh water and, if anything, moving out of the skin in salty water."