Episode 35

Click here for Episode 35

First of all, this site got a mention. Thanks to Spoony, Garfield and Odie for the plug.
Click here for the link to this page (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself)
Click here for Spoony’s wiki page
And just to answer a few questions, I am male and yes, Garfield, I have no life.

SCHOOLGIRLS in suburban Sydney say organised fights are a regular occurrence and treated like a “party” – attracting large crowds, often involving alcohol, and are filmed and posted on the internet.
More

The Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is blaming gender bias for the controversy over $US150,000 ($236,000) worth of designer clothes and accessories the Republican Party provided for her and her family.
More

LEADING Australian celebrities have taken a stand against the “thin is in” motto and stripped to show how comfortable they are with their curves.
Kate Ritchie, Sarah Murdoch, Antonia Kidman and Ricki-Lee Coulter are just some of the high-profile names who have said Australian women should embrace their curves.
More
Click here to see the photos

DRINKING just three cups of coffee a day can make women’s breasts shrink, researchers say.
They said there was a clear link between drinking coffee and smaller breasts, as about half of women possessed a gene shown to link breast size to coffee intake.
More

“Bob had bitch tits” is a quote from Fight Club.
Click here for the Fight Club IMDB page
*Awesome movie. If you haven’t seen it you’re probably a daft bint, in which case this is probably more your style.

BANANAS in pyjamas may be OK, but in undies they are not – as a woman discovered at Sydney Airport.
Suspecting she was concealing something on her body, a female officer frisked her and found she was concealing three banana plants in her underpants.
More
*As a point of balance, note that Spoony didn’t read the whole article this time. Although, after thinking it was three bananas, he probably got distracted wondering which orifice took the double. He was sexually active before AIDS, you know.

Police detained a man accused of chopping off the head of a tenant in his apartment Thursday and then parading with it in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital shouting, “I’ve killed my wife,” officials said.
More
*Spoonman: “He obviously wanted some head” Long live pun humour!

A JAPANESE piano teacher has been arrested on suspicion of killing her “virtual husband” after becoming enraged that he suddenly divorced her in an online game.
More

*NOTE: I couldn’t find the story Garfield was referring to, but the following story (from 2007) is equally fucked up:
Belgian newspapers De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws reported Friday that “the Brussels public prosecutor has asked patrol detectives of the Federal Computer Crime Unit to go on Second Life” to investigate a “virtual rape” involving a Belgian user of Second Life.
More

BRITISH atheists have raised a pile of cash to tell Londoners there’s probably no God and to get on with life.
The nation’s first atheist advertising campaign has beaten its funding target in less than 24 hours, raising nearly nine times the amount it needed to posts its ads on public buses in London.
More
Click here to visit the fundraising page

A youth worker appealed at the funeral today of a murdered father for young Lebanese men in Sydney to shun crime and being macho.
More

“Chill Winston” is a quote from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Click here for the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels IMDB page
Click here for a poor quality YouTube video dedicated to the quote

Two Dutch towns on the Dutch-Belgian border intend to shut down all cafes which sell marijuana “as soon as possible” in an effort to get rid of the nuisance caused by drug tourism.
More

AROUND $12 billion worth of savings in funds have been frozen, leaving retirees and investors stuck without access to their accounts.
Treasurer Wayne Swan has been criticised for saying people cut off from their savings and investments because of the funds freeze should contact Centrelink.
Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull called on the Government to set an immediate cap on the unlimited bank deposit scheme, to stop money streaming into the guaranteed banks.
More

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), meeting in Vienna tonight, is set to announce a cut to oil output in a bid to shore up oil prices, which have been plunging as fears of a global recession hit energy demand.
More

The Fisher Price Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo doll has caused worldwide controversy after being accused of proclaiming “Islam is the light”.
Some concerned parents have also reported it saying, “Satan is King”.
More

“You know what they put on chips in France? Mayonnaise.” … “They drown ‘em in that shit” is from Pulp Fiction, as stated by Garfield.
*Give me the pedant-of-the-week award because the actual dialogue is as follows:
Vincent: You know what they put on french fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
Jules: What?
Vincent: Mayonnaise.
Jules: Goddamn.
Vincent: I’ve seen ‘em do it, man. They fuckin’ drown ‘em in that shit.
Click here for the Pulp Fiction IMDB page
Click here to see a YouTube re-enactment of the scene in question

The Swanston Street Boost Juice Bar is located at 172 Swanston Street Walk, Melbourne.
Click here for the Boost Juice website
Click here for the location on Google Maps

Lord Of The Fries is located at Elizabeth and Flinders Streets (across the road from Flinders St. Station) and Shop 5 Flinders Street Station (across from Federation Square).
Click here for the Lord Of The Fries website
Click here to see Lord Of The Fries on Google Maps

Minotaur (The Pop Culture Megastore) is located at 121 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.
Click here to see the Minotaur website
Click here to see Minotaur on Google Maps

Scientists have found that we feel more positively towards a stranger if we have a warming drink in our hand.
Researchers suspect that we are programmed to seek out warmth – and that a hot drink triggers a host of positive associations in the brain.
More

Spoonman’s Forking Fan Club links:

• Official Homepage of Spoonman’s Forking Fan Club (Thanks for the link)
• MySpace
• Bebo
• Facebook

*This next one was not in the podcast, but it’s a great example of an article that is better if you only read the first paragraph:
Fire crews have rescued a workman from a septic tank at a brewery in Healesville, Melbourne’s outer east, after he was overcome by fumes.
Insert your own jokes here
More

~ by atfslinks on October 26, 2008.