Smaller than life

This politician is laying a booby-trap for his voters

kalyanaraga — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:48:49 +0000

CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan politician is offering breast implants as a prize in a raffle to raise funds for his parliamentary election campaign.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100827/od_nm/us_venezuela_implants_odd

This burglar has no faith in Pound Sterling

kalyanaraga — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:19:06 +0000

“BURGLARS can be choosers. In a robbery that took place in Sainik Farms in south Delhi at the house of a
Germany-based NRI, Devender Nirman Singh, the culprit made away with 15,000 euros leaving 400 pounds untouched.”

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/aug/240810-Delhi-burglar-robbery-steals-Euros.htm

Sorry state (of) affairs

kalyanaraga — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:10:54 +0000

“It seems that Chief Minister Yeddyurappa has become the sorry face of the state government. It was for the 17th time since he assumed office two years ago that he expressed how sorry he was in public, yesterday.
This time, when he took the mike to address the media in Mangalore, it was only to tender an apology for the high handedness of government officials.

With this, Yeddyurappa has bagged the rather dubious distinction of being the most apologetic chief minister in the history of the state.”

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/aug/240810-Yeddyurappa-embarrassment-Mangalore-hat.htm

The German President lives by bread alone

kalyanaraga — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:07:51 +0000

German president Christian Wulff’s preference for bread and baked goods made in distant Hanover has got the country’s newly elected head of state into hot water

Reuters

The French cops need not now stand tall

kalyanaraga — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:00:39 +0000

Reuters) – France has ended restrictions barring people under 1.6 meters (5 ft 3 in) from joining the police force.

To be effective the cops are advised to make love more often and nag less

kalyanaraga — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:04:46 +0000

When you access the official Andhra Pradesh Police Web site, apstatepolice.org, you may expect the latest ‘Wanted’ list to crop up, not advice from the force telling you to make love to your partner more often and avoid nagging your spouse

http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2010/aug/10/make-love-often-andhra-police-advice.htm

Australia is offering shark tagger,kangaroo poo harvester, koala catcher jobs to glum Brits

kalyanaraga — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:06:41 +0000

LONDON (AFP) – Shark tagger, beer taster, koala catcher or kangaroo poo harvester — just some of the jobs South Australia is offering in a bid to get bored Britons to take up posts Down Under.

Yahoo News

Semen is not compost-able. Do not take the law into your hands !

kalyanaraga — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:29:51 +0000

“In San Francisco’s era of mandatory composting, city officials want you to obey the law. But they do not want you to take the law into your own hands.

Regardless of what awaited behind the green door, sexual fluids are unwelcome within the green bin, according to the city’s Department of the Environment.”

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/07/sperm_compostable_san_francisc.php

They don’t know from whom America had declared independence

kalyanaraga — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:07:51 +0000

At least according to a new Marist poll, which says 26% of people in this country don’t know that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/07/03/2010-07-03_26_of_us_dont_know_who_we_declared_indepence_from_marist_poll.html#ixzz0sovZmV98

If you are a French civil servant you can claim the prostitutes’ charges from the State as your travel expenses

kalyanaraga — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:10:17 +0000

Zoé Shepard, her pen name, confirmed France’s worst fears about its “fonctionnaires” – its 5.2 million civil servants – in a book recounting how they compete to see who will hover longest at the coffee machine, draw up sick notes to stay weeks away from the office or while away the day on Facebook.

In Absolument Dé-bor-dé (Absolutely Snowed Under), subtitled How to Make 35 hours Last a Month, nepotism is rife and taxpayer’s money wasted, with one local civil servant even signing off his visit to a prostitute as “travel expenses”.