Putting the 'happy' back into content
An 84-year-old Nigerian has accepted that he must adhere to strict Islamic codes and is going to divorce 82 of 86 wives.
Yup, Pa Bello is sticking with just 4 of his many spouses, the oldest of whom is 70, the youngest 25. He also has more than 170 kids and brags that, “I can get any woman I want, no matter where she comes from and what she does for a living.”
OK, good for him, but can you imagine the earache he gets if he forgets to put the bins out!?!
I feel truly sorry for the inhabitants of America’s Gulf Coast and New Orleans in particular as the threat of Hurricane Gustav gets ever closer.
Bizarrely, though, it could well have been Hurricane Fay or Hanna, the two names chosen by the World Meteorological Organization either side of Mr Mahler’s first name.
In fact, for the first 25 years of naming cyclones and hurricanes, only women’s names were used – how generous of the meteorologists!
So what might be the name that becomes infamous over the next couple of years?
Well, Kates and Peters might need to watch out next year, while Fionas and Gastons are in line in 2010.
What a job, eh? Naming future tropical storms!
OK, so the picture on the left is pretty crap, but I think you can tell what I’m getting at.
Why is it that every single individual piece of fruit now has to have its own special sticker? We’re not talking the branding ones like ‘Cape’ or ‘Zespri’, just the ones with number and name.
I know it’s to help staff differentiate between varieties of fruit, but does every single piece need its own identifier? Think of the manpower, adhesive and paper being wasted just to put it on.
It must be like being in The Prisoner in the apple section of Sainsbury’s. There’s probably one lonely Braeburn desperate to break free of the plastic bag and scream, “I am not a number, I’m an apple!”