Century and a Half
Posted: Mon 29 June, 2009 Filed under: News, Thoughts Leave a comment »Blimey, Bernie Madoff has been given a jail term of 150 years for his fraudulent investor schemes etc.
That’s one hell of a sentence – the kind of jail time you can’t even really imagine.
Nigerian Gas/Oil
Posted: Thu 25 June, 2009 Filed under: Cynicism, News, Weirdness Leave a comment »Will someone please tell me that the new company name in this story is a joke? That the story was perhaps meant to be released on April 1st?
I find it hard to believe that anyone would seriously come up with the business name Nigaz for a Nigerian Gas/Oil company…
Interest
Posted: Mon 8 June, 2009 Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, News, Thoughts Leave a comment »Isn’t it a pity that we can’t have a flexible sentencing thing for people like this loan-shark who charged an 8,000,000% interest.
That way, his eight-month sentence could be added to in the same way that his loans were added to – just keep on adding time to it until he was there for life, as a living example of what that kind of interest does to people…
Crop Circles
Posted: Wed 3 June, 2009 Filed under: 1BEM, News Leave a comment »Ah, it must be summer – we’re starting to get the stories about crop circles again.
In fairness though, I love this crop circle in a jellyfish shape – that shows some real creativity.
Meerkat / Dog
Posted: Thu 7 May, 2009 Filed under: Animals, News, Thoughts, Weirdness Leave a comment »Is it just me, or does the image of the world’s oldest dog on the BBC look very like Alexander, the meerkat from CompareTheMeerkat.com ?
Children’s behaviour ‘linked to sleep’
Posted: Tue 28 April, 2009 Filed under: Cynicism, Health, News Leave a comment »Who’d have thought – children’s behaviour can be linked to sleep, or lack thereof.
Shocker.
Ron Silver
Posted: Mon 6 April, 2009 Filed under: News 1 Comment »Blimey, I must’ve missed this one completely – I didn’t know Ron Silver (probably best known from his role as Bruno Gianelli in the West Wing) had died from oesophageal cancer at the end of March this year.
Did you?