Mark Otty: Running through the numbers – Times Online
So, I ask Mark Otty, got any good accountant jokes? Otty, a South African so lean that you can tell he s a runner, suddenly looks like he has missed the starting pistol. Er, of course I do, he says, nervously. Then he scratches his severely
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Favre talks candidly about retirement, comeback – International Herald Tribune
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. : As the tears rolled down his gray-stubbled cheeks, Brett Favre was saying goodbye to football and fighting his persistent doubts. Even at his retirement news conference in March, he couldn’t shake the feeling that he was making a
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Socks away! Roald Dahl s wartime sex raids – Times Online
He is known to the world as the author of bestselling children s books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Yet before he became a successful writer, Roald Dahl had a very different reputation as the sexiest
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AP Exclusive: Get a look behind the scenes with Rodriguez as he – Baltimore Sun
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) _ Coach Rich Rodriguez’s first game day at Michigan started with a storm of sights and sounds. It ended silently. Before kickoff of his debut a 25-23 upset loss to Utah Rodriguez and players had strolled through a crowd
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All Access: Michigan’s Rodriguez readies for debut – International Herald Tribune
EDITORS As Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez prepared for his debut Saturday as leader of the nation’s winningest football program, he allowed AP Sports Writer Larry Lage exclusive access to the team and coaches. In this story, Lage recounts life for
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Nautical but too nice – Guardian Unlimited
Oooh, it’s good to be back. Sun, sea and slobbing about are all very well, but it’s nice to have some aural stimulation. My holiday was in France, where the radio output alternates between fun (rubbish pop) and philosophical debate (in French). In
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Storm warning – Guardian Unlimited
When Tony Blair’s first cabinet met in 1997, anyone trying to guess which faces would still be there a decade later would probably not have picked out Alistair Darling’s. Back then, the chief secretary to the treasury already felt like part of the
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The destructive force of Hurricane Karl – Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Republicans can t seem to get a break with regards to August, when it comes to the weather, says Karl Rove, noting the possibility that Hurricane Gustav may hit New Orleans just as the GOP convention opens. As they board up their homes
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Heidi Montag’s Music Video for “Overdosin’” Totally Ridiculous or – Popsugar
Yesterday we showed you pictures of Heidi Montag’s music video shoot for her new single, “Overdosin’,” and now we have the final product. As with everything Heidi, she embraces the full level of her own ridiculous nature and seems to have no shame
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A funny thing happened on the way to the forum – Chicago Tribune
DENVER The Democratic rallying cry Thursday night was “Yes we can,” but Republicans delivered their own slogan to the masses: “Toga! Toga! Toga!” The battle began early this week, when organizers unveiled the stage setup at Invesco Field at Mile
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Cheeky credit crunch virals – The Sun
We knew the credit crunch is biting hard but the Queen working in McDonald s? That s ridiculous. Thankfully, the picture is one of a series of funny viral emails doing the rounds to raise a few laughs during these tough times. Computer
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Pregnancy Advice
A woman went to her doctor for advice. She told him that her husband had developed a penchant for anal sex, and she was not sure that it was such a good idea ‘Do you enjoy it?’ The doctor asked. ‘Actually, yes, I do.’ ‘Does it hurt you?’ he asked. ‘No.
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Take The Champagne!
A man enters a restaurant and while sitting at his table, notices a gorgeous woman sitting at another table, alone.
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Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Other Celebrity Obama Supporters Praise Historic Speech
On Thursday night in Denver, Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination with a historic speech. The address, which took place 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, left the
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EastEnders knife murder leads to 134 complaints
Violent scenes in a prewatershed episode of East-Enders have once again led to scores of complaints. The BBC received angry responses from 134 viewers after a character was shown being killed on its flagship soap opera this week. Thursday night’s episode
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China defends its reviled soccer team – International Herald Tribune
BEIJING : The Olympic Games have shown that sports and national pride are still tightly intertwined, and perhaps nowhere more so than in the minds of Chinese leaders. The evidence is indisputable: the more than $40 billion spent on the Games, the
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Brad Pitt Says ‘The Twins Are Fine,’ Clooney Jokes About Marriage – FOX News
Aug. 27, 2008: Brad Pitt and George Clooney at the Venice Film Festival VENICE, Italy George Clooney and Brad Pitt: Bachelor and family man. Inevitably, a news conference Wednesday promoting their new Coen brothers film, “Burn After Reading
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Tiger by the tale: Koenning apologizes for jokes – San Diego Union-Tribune
CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson’s affable defensive coordinator has apologized for saying that two of Alabama’s most highly regarded football recruits each drove off from high school events in a Cadillac Escalade. I guess I made a mistake in cutting a
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Prosecution, in closing arguments in 2nd Hollywood wiretap case, says calls prove wiretapping
LOS ANGELES (AP) A federal prosecutor claimed Tuesday that taped phone calls between Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and a high-powered lawyer showed they were conducting illegal wiretaps, even though the alleged wiretapped recordings have
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Haley Joel Osment to make Broadway debut in ‘American Buffalo’
NEW YORK (AP) David Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo,’ a robbery tale set in a Chicago junk shop, has found its third partner in crime Haley Joel Osment, who will be making his Broadway debut in the production.The 20-year-old Osment, who was an Academy Award
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Mortier would run both New York City Opera and Wagner festival if chosen by Wagner board
NEW YORK (AP) _ Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.Mortier, former head of the Salzburg Festival and current boss of the
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Sad and humorous stories about Wyoming by the author of ‘Brokeback Mountain’
‘Fine Just the Way It Is’ (Scribner. 221 pages. $25), by Annie Proulx: It was Annie Proulx’s award-winning ‘Brokeback Mountain’ a tale of love between two Wyoming cowboys that became an Academy Award-winning film.Her brilliant new book of nine short
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Leaving Early
A BRUNETTE, A REDHEAD & A BLONDE all worked in the same office with the same female boss. Every day, they noticed their boss left work early. One day, the girls decided that when the boss left, they’d leave right behind her.
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Russia recognizes breakaway Georgian regions – Globe and Mail
Tyler Williams from seattle, United States writes: . Under quiet thinking circumstances, the statements from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would strike a deep chord within Canada, where she says: “The decision by Russia to recognize the
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Very Funny – Egypt Today
Islam, Islamic, Islamist and Muslim it has become many a Westerner s obsession. You are a Muslim. You should not be working for the [British] police! the young man, who was a Muslim himself, blurted out angrily upon his arrest. To which
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Perky Anna Faris makes ‘House Bunny’ funny – Evansville Courier-Press
Just in time for back-to-school comes “The House Bunny,” which won’t teach you anything new or useful, but it will prepare you for sorority rush. Well, its depiction of Greek life isn’t all that accurate either, but that’s beside the point. The
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The Cologne Paradox Part II - ESPN Soccernet
I guess I shouldn’t be sending you away from this website hardly a sentence into the column, but that’s between you and me and we don’t have to tell the Soccernet people, okay? GettyImages Coach Christoph Daum stayed with Cologne. Now, you might want
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The Influence Game in Denver: What Are They Hiding? – ABC News
Not even the emotionally charged speech by Sen. Ted Kennedy kept corporate lobbyists from carrying out their multi-million dollar campaign to wine and dine and influence Democratic lawmakers at a series of lavish parties last night in Denver. Party
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Sox-fan Obama jokes that Cubs fans aren’t serious – Chicago Sun-Times
We all knew Barack Obama is a White Sox fan, but the presumed Democratic presidential nominee took it a bit further in an interview with ESPN. Obama joked about the stereotype of Cubs fans, who probably are tired of being described as partying people
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Jon Stewart shares conventional wisdom – Reuters
DENVER (Hollywood Reporter) – As he gets ready to preside over his third set of political conventions, “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said that from the show’s standpoint, it doesn’t matter who wins the presidency in November. “For our show, it’s
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Ky. Politician Jailed After Joke; Charge Dismissed – Guardian Unlimited
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) – Politicians are known for lame jokes. But when Otis ``Bullman’’ Hensley tried a generations-old Appalachian jest on a woman and two girls at the grocery store, the family thought it was downright criminal. Hensley, who earned
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Rebecca Hall chats about being Vicky in ‘Barcelona’ – USA Today
In Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona , British actress Rebecca Hall is seemingly the only one who doesn’t kiss Scarlett Johansson. “I got out of it, so I don’t have to worry about answering that question,” she jokes, referring to Johansson’s
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Un-funny jokes get hostile response – Baltimore Sun
MOSCOW, Idaho – There’s a reason comedians call it “dying on stage.” Research by a Washington State University linguist found that people who tell bad jokes often endure an astonishing outpouring of hostility from the listeners. “These were basically
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Gilad Shalit becomes punchline for jokes in the Gaza Strip – Haaretz.com
Gilad Shalit, who was abducted from the Gaza Strip border by Palestinian militants in 2006, has become the butt of more than one joke in the coastal territory. Several video clips and E-mails have been making the rounds in Gaza, triggering laughs
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Obama balanced by veteran Biden – Financial Times
In choosing the running-mate he would present to this week s Democratic national convention, Barack Obama had to decide how well, or how badly, his campaign for the presidency was going. If all was proceeding to plan, he would have looked for a
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Bad jokes bring hostility, researcher finds – Kansas City Star
Researcher Nancy Bell this week used a key as a prop in delivering a bad joke while demonstrating how she and assistants conducted research into failed humor. MOSCOW, Idaho | There s a reason comedians call it dying on stage. Research by a
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Women’s Blogs a Big Hit – The Ledger
Heather Armstrong’s wickedly funny blog about motherhood, Dooce, is more than just an outlet for the creativity and frustrations of a modern mother. The site, chock full of advertising, is a moneymaking machine – so much so that Armstrong and her
Source: www.theledger.com

Movie review: Pineapple Express Meet the doobie brothers – Santa Maria Times
Dale Denton (Seth Rogen, left) and Saul Silver (James Franco) are two lazy stoners running for their lives in “Pineapple Express.” / Columbia Pictures Perhaps I m not the right person to review a stoner movie that is, a movie about people
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Movie review: Hilarious Tropic thunders into theaters – Santa Maria Times
From left, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, Nick Nolte, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Brandon Jackson star in “Tropic Thunder.” / DreamWorks Pictures The late-summer comedy Tropic Thunder is filled with crude but often genuine humor and boasts an
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One Time Co-Star of Ryan Gosling and Life Achievement Honoree Rowlands – National Ledger
Gena Rowlands, whose illustrious movie work is being celebrated with her Lifetime Achievement honors at next month’s Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival, tells us she’s in no hurry to get back in front of the camera. Does that mean
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The Tyson Zone: – ESPN.com
Welcome to Week 15 of the NFL’s first annual Free Money Giveaway! For the sixth straight week, the Big Five (N.E., Pitt, Indy, SD and Philly) covered every possible 3-team teaser against the Small 27 (everyone else). If that wasn’t enough, the three
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Read all ‘”LOLCat”’ posts in News – Gaming and Culture – CNET News
SEATTLE—How does one build an empire on pictures of cats with silly, misspelled captions? As most fans of the Internet now know, I Can Has Cheezburger has become one of the most popular sites online.
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Perky Faris makes ‘House Bunny’ funny – Patriot-News Blogs
(AP) – Just in time for back-to-school comes ” The House Bunny ,” which won’t teach you anything new or useful, but it will prepare you for sorority rush. Well, its depiction of Greek life isn’t all that accurate either, but that’s beside the point
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Six killed in shootings at NIU - Collegiate Times
DEKALB, Ill.—A former graduate student armed with a shotgun and two handguns opened fire Thursday afternoon in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, killing five students and wounding 16 others before shooting himself to death
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Faris makes House Bunny funny – Texarkana Gazette
Associated Press/Columbia Pictures Anna Faris stars as an ex-Playboy bunny trying to save a college sorority in The House Bunny. Just in time for back-to-school comes The House Bunny, which won t teach you anything new or useful, but it
Source: www.texarkanagazette.com