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Entries Tagged as 'Silly Moments'

Queen Victoria’s Bloomers

July 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments

It has been a good week for sarcasm. As I said in my previous post - the gods of sarcasm have blessed me this week.
Guess why I’m happy now?
The headline should have tipped you off…
Queen Victoria’s bloomers have just been sold at an auction for the, ahem, princely sum of $9,000!
Yes her handmade 1890 knickers [...]

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Tags: Curiosities · Fashion industry · Gods of sarcasm · History · Humour · Silly Moments

Toronto cabbies and the right to call home

June 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Oh my, what a nasty kettle of fish this story has opened. Ontario is pondering a ban on cell phone use while driving. Hurray - it’s long overdue. The local paper, The Toronto Star, ran an article last week that, I suppose, was supposed to drum up support for cab drivers here in the city. [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Catpaw's Mad · Curiosities · Rants · Silly Moments · Toronto · Utter Stupidity

What are they teaching soldiers at Fort Meade

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I like to troll through the info on how people landed on my site. I find it illuminating as to how people find me. The key words used are amazing sometimes… which brings me to the most amusing key word search to date. Actually it’s a combination of key words and the location. Someone from [...]

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Tags: Curiosities · Humour · Internet · Key words · Silly Moments

Hey guess what? I’m rich!

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Seriously, I am. I just got a letter from Barclays Bank stating I may/or may not be related to someone who died in an air crash. I’m in stiches over this letter. It beggars belief that anyone will fall for this, but inevitably someone will. Not only is it ludicrously ungrammatical, it is just plain [...]

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Tags: Corporate Greed · Curiosities · Day in the Life · Illiterate · Rants · Silly Moments · Utter Stupidity