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Calling Mr Bush to have a 'chat' - read what this 16 year old Iceland kid did. :)
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Crazy Chavez does to Venezuela what India has done for years...put the country between two time-zones putting it at a x-and-a-half-hour interval relative to other nations.
Venezuela creates its own unique time zone on Sunday, putting the clock back half-an-hour on a permanent basis.
--Speaking of India, I had missed this in the news last week. Outrageous! Outlawed Maoist insurgents out on the loose can only mean one thing for the Indian Northeast - more trouble!
Nearly 300 communist rebels and their supporters have reportedly escaped from an Indian prison in an armed jailbreak. A police spokesman said 299 of the 377 inmates in Dantewada prison in Chhattisgarh state had escaped.
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Also ...read this at India Uncut. Amazing!
A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services, and even handed out birth and death certificates.Also, an Op-ed about it in the Mint. (also found via India Uncut.)
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Remember Jade Goody, who gained some notoriety last year during the Celebrity Big Brother show on British television?
Well.. it seems she has snared the Sultan of Brunei's son and although one could bet money this is a short time fling, one could also be sure that she stands to make a bunch of money from the sucker!
What could a dim-witted reality television star see in the son of the world’s third-richest man? Certainly not his looks.
“Sometimes fairytales do come true,” she announced with straight-faced seriousness to one friend, as she toyed coquettishly with the showy diamond ring presented to her last week by the 25-year-old Prince Azim of Brunei. (The ring’s worth £3 million, or £30,000, depending on who you believe.)
She is forced to admit that the only downside – to borrow her own Essex girl parlance – is that the “minted” Prince is “a bit of a minger”. To the uninitiated, that means he is not exactly a great looker. Indeed, it is fair to assume that in the dippy Jade’s childhood fantasies, her ideal man did not bear an uncanny resemblance to the midget sidekick Tattoo from the Seventies television series Fantasy Island.
“Sometimes fairytales do come true,” she announced with straight-faced seriousness to one friend, as she toyed coquettishly with the showy diamond ring presented to her last week by the 25-year-old Prince Azim of Brunei. (The ring’s worth £3 million, or £30,000, depending on who you believe.)
She is forced to admit that the only downside – to borrow her own Essex girl parlance – is that the “minted” Prince is “a bit of a minger”. To the uninitiated, that means he is not exactly a great looker. Indeed, it is fair to assume that in the dippy Jade’s childhood fantasies, her ideal man did not bear an uncanny resemblance to the midget sidekick Tattoo from the Seventies television series Fantasy Island.
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