24.5.2009

Big Nothing Himself

    Big Nothing Himself

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    A woman responded to a newspaper advertisement from a handwriting expert offering to do character readings from samples sent to her. The woman sent a note written by her boyfriend and asked if he would make a good husband. The graphologist replied with a firm no, adding that he had been a pretty rotten husband to her for the past 3 years. She added a PS: Thanks for the evidence.

 

    Travelling Companions

    Sara Roberts hitched a ride from the south coast of England back to London and was dropped off in an area she was not familiar with. She was standing on the street trying to get her bearings when a door opened behind her and out came a good friend. The friend had moved flat a few weeks before and she had had no idea where he had gone. Talking of friends... another one of Sara's booked into a hotel in Ireland and, as he was unpacking, found in one of the drawers a briefcase belonging to his brother (who had stayed in the room the previous night). The brothers live more than 300 lilometres apart and rarely meet.

 

    Good at Her Job

    Bertha Tugwell is a midwife.

 

    Lovers Fall Out

    Gyles Brandreth, in his The Bedside Book of Great Sexual Disasters (1984) tells of a Vera Czermak of Prague who discovered her husband had been unfaithful. In despair she threw herself from her third-floor balcony only to lend on her husband who happened to be walking directly below. She killed him but escaped herself with minor injuries.

 

    Joker Does Dallas

    Another story from Great Sex... details how violently life can imitate art.

    It appears that a couple became involved in a violent argument over who shot JR while watching an episode of the TV series Dallas. During a commercial break the wife left the room and returned with a shotgun which she used to kill her husband. The scene of the tragedy? In the real-life city of Dallas, Texas.

 

    Up in Smoke

    On 31 des 1968 an Australian television news service reported the crash of a Viscount propeller-powered plane at Port Hedland in W-Australia with the loss of 26 lives. At the end of the report there was a commercial break and on came the well known jingle for a popular brand of cigarettes: Light upp a Viscount, a Viscount, a Viscount....