Some Lighter, Fluffy News

Dozen?!!!

Sorry, Heather.. but like my views on 'kickbacks and favors for..'.. this will distress you.
Like my opinion on that, though, I consider it small in the greater scheme.

i would say 15%.

For the same reason, everyone does it and the effects, if found out, will be covered up.

What's remarkable is that the government could stop the airing of the program... who's the fascists, again?

 

Maybe ... I should have written my first reaction.

How much gin till Ted Kennedy wastes more of the line than he snorts?

 

Well, then ... why would someone spend 5 million of their own money to get elected to a position that would never repay?

Oh, no doubt they will justify it with some higher motive, at first.. but sooner or later, reality bites and they say "the pay isnt high enough."

And again, not excusing it... but it is a fact of life.. EVERYWHERE.

the braking mechanism on it is when it becomes too obvious and open.

 

Re: RE: Some Lighter, Fluffy News

All of them! Any politician in a suit is certain to also be wearing trick shoes like Sick Boy in Trainspotting (I think it was Sick Boy) with a syringe in the heel ready to go. Plus, any time you see a politician with a bottle of water beware: it's almost guaranteed that the water has been dumped and replaced with Vodka...but that's with everyone, isn't it?



I joke of course...

 

Some Real Fluffy Stuff......

WACKY SHORTS
They don't call him The Incredible Sulk for nothing, and it's not taken Nicolas Anelka long to find something he doesn't like about playing for Bolton. "I am playing alone up front which is not what I prefer," he said. "Our game is based on 'kick and rush' so I don't get the ball much." What did he expect? Surely he must have seen Bolton play in one of his previous spells in England?

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Perhaps he needs to bond with his team-mates a bit more. Certainly Brazil coach Dunga is a fan of this kind of bondage. Whereas the Samba superstars were allowed to stay in separate rooms in their hotels at the World Cup this summer, Dunga's new regime means that they are now back to sharing rooms, in a bid to improve team spirit. "The players were isolated in their rooms and chatting on the internet," he said about the World Cup. "I think that getting on with one another is fundamental in forming a group. Sharing the same room, the players can exchange ideas, talk about their experiences, in short, have real conversations like friends." They had better start playing like a team, otherwise Dunga may have to resort to making them all sleep in one big bed.

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There is of course another way to improve team spirit, and that tactic was employed by FC Sion coach Nestor Clausen recently during a Swiss Cup tie. His team were losing 1-0 to FC La Chaux-de-Fonds at half-time, and they looked like they were heading for another defeat after their UEFA Cup exit at the hands of Bayer Leverkusen. So he quit. And it worked, because they went out like a new team in the second half and won 3-1. However, if he was hoping to claim it was some kind of clever tactic, it backfired on him, as club president Christian Constantin said after the game: "Clausen's time at Sion is over. I found out the news at the same time as the players which was at half-time. I've never seen or heard anything like this."

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And finally, we have the story of a policeman who should have kept his thoughts to himself. The Argentinean copper was on duty at Lanus on Saturday for the visit of his hometown club Estudiantes de La Plata, and when the away side scored to go 3-0 up, he cheered the goal. This didn't go down well with the home fans, who threw stuff at him until he was moved away from them. He's now been suspended without pay for ten days, which should teach him to be happy.


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PROBLEMS AT THE GRASS ROOTS

On TV camcorder clip-shows like You've Been Framed, the best bits have always involved animals, and Wacky World is no different. Over the years, we've written wacky tales involving wild boars, dogs, pigs, cows, pigeons, baboons, sheep and Neil Ruddock. Now we have a new member of the menagerie, so say 'aaah' and welcome The Wincham One, a cuddly and adventurous little rabbit who made an impromptu appearance at an FA Cup qualification match at the weekend.

Unibond Premier League club Witton Albion were taking on North East Counties side Sheffield in the first round of the FA Cup qualifiers on Saturday afternoon when home keeper Jon Worsnop noticed that something strange was happening when he was about to take a goal-kick: "I spotted something moving and knew straight away there was a problem, so I took the kick from the other side of the goalmouth," he explained. "But the ref didn't believe me when I told him what was there."

The ref wasn't impressed, and booked him for time-wasting. A little later however, there was no denying that Worsnop was telling the truth, as a hole appeared in the pitch and a rabbit poked its head out. "I've been confronted by streakers and annoyed supporters before, but never a rabbit," Worsnop told the Northwich Guardian. "I just saw a hole emerge in the six-yard box and there it was, peeping at me.

"There was no way I was going to pick it up, it looked petrified," explained the brave keeper. Fortunately, team-mate Brian Pritchard grabbed the pitch invading bunny before it tried to escape, and it was placed under arrest in groundsman Alan Spruce's jacket. Once the pitch had been repaired, the game continued and Witton won 3-2, but what about the rabbit? Club director Mark Harris said: "We freed the Wincham One, it seemed the right thing to do."

Wills Bar FC haven't had any animal interventions in their matches yet, but it can surely only be a matter of time for 'Britain's Unluckiest Football Team'. The York Sunday Afternoon League side have had a miserable time of it recently, so much so that a number of their players are thinking of quitting before things take a turn for the even worse. During one game, four players' cars were broken into, but that was only the beginning of their troubles.

A week later they arrived at their local pitch for a home game against Dunnington, only to find that it had been double-booked, so they ended up making a 20-mile trip to an available pitch to play the game. They lost 8-0, which was bad enough, but worse news awaited them after the match. Manager Steve Baxter explained: "We went out and played the game and got totally stuffed 8-0 by Dunnington, so the mood wasn't all that great when we got back to the changing rooms.

"But when we did get back we found that our wallets and mobile phones had all been stolen. I don't know what you would call it. I suppose you could say it's extreme bad luck, because I don't think anyone was particularly targeting our things. It's a sad state of affairs, but we have a few players who have told me they are not going to play any more because of this, because at some point it stops being enjoyable when this kind of thing happens."

Another amateur side feeling cheesed off at the moment are Stambridge United, who recently sealed a prime sponsorship deal with author Chris Turner to advertise his new book about football chants. Unfortunately, the Baliston Essex Olympian League are less than enthusiastic about the team's shirts bearing the name of the book, "The Referee's A W*nker", with a red card replacing the letter 'a' in 'w*nker'.

They have been deemed too offensive by the league, and Stambridge can't wear them, much to the disgust of Turner: "I think it's absolutely absurd," he fumed. "The strips are part of a sponsorship deal worth thousands and are certainly not meant to be offensive - you can hear the chant at every football match in the country."