Posted 8:29 AM by Dr_Rock
A while ago, a colleague of mine won himself a Compaq iPaq simply by replying to a survey from his ISP. I decided that online surveys and competitions were a good way to fund a gadget habit that my wife (and my income) was just not prepared to sustain. So armed with a disposable e-mail address and a list of links, I completed the surveys and waited for the prizes to flood in.
Last week, I had my first win. A plasma TV? No. A DVD player? No. A sports car? Not exactly, no - my prize was a four inch squashy plastic model of the Delorean car used in the Back To The Future films. Not just that, though - it came with the advisory "Squeeze me - I light up". And indeed it did. Well, I say light up, the lights were clearly powered by a treadmill driven by two asthmatic ants carrying some heavy shopping.
I would have preferred to have won the Back To The Future DVD boxset that was the advertised prize, but beggars can't be choosers, huh? What worries me though is that having won this prize, I now have to take my place at the back of the competition-winning queue whilst those around me fill their homes with goodies worthy of the postage...
Makes me positively thankful for that video of National Lampoon's Vacation I won from the Mirror in 1980-odd...
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Posted 7:59 PM by Dr_Rock
George Dubya today announced undeniable proof linking Al-Qaeda with Iraq...
They both contain the letter "Q".
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Posted 7:29 PM by Dr_Rock
It simply isn't cricket

While England were receiving a Cricket World Cup thrashing by India, it seems Chris Cairns and his New Zealand team-mates were getting involved in a thrashing of their own. The irony of this was that at the time, they should have playing against Kenya - a game they boycotted because of civil unrest in the host country.
In a tit-for-tat exchange, the Kenyans have announced the withdrawal of their top lap-dancing troupe from a proposed tour of Auckland nightclubs, in the belief that they're better off taking their chances on the streets of Nairobi.

W.G. Grace would turn in his grave...
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