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Boyfriend pillow
Japanese designers have come up with what they claim is the perfect solution for the unattached woman - the boyfriend pillow. IOL says the pillow is an ideal sleeping partner because it doesn't snore, hog the duvet - or sleep around. Each model comes with two shirts in blue and pink, that can be washed and ironed by the dutiful 'girlfriend'. And one model also works as an alarm, by shaking to alert the woman when it is time to get up. A spokesman for the manufacturer said the pillow has been so successful they have had to draw up a waiting list of customers. The 39 pound pillow is currently available only in Japan but may soon be exported. We are waiting! |
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Inflight lessons Maybe it's not a good idea to do an English exercise on an airplane, especially if you write down "suicide bomb" as words you want to look up later. One Japanese man flying to Ohio in the US learned this the hard way when he was arrested for jotting these words down while reading the newspaper. He was released without charge after explaining that it was a spontaneous English lesson. "He teaches himself English by reading newspapers," police spokeswoman Alice Casanova said. "It was all just a miscommunication." The man was on a business trip Sunday when a fellow passenger noticed the words and alerted an attendant. The flight was returned to O'Hare International Airport and the man was taken into custody while the plane was emptied of its passengers. Investigators also searched the plane. "Nothing panned out and he was released," Casanova said. Is this caution or paranoia? |
Online rating Norwegian punters have reportedly become so fed up with not getting what they expected from the country's prostitutes that they have started rating them online. Newspaper Dagsavisen says it has surveyed a number of sites including one where prostitutes are given ratings from 1 to 6 and organised geographically. Other features include a search engine for checking ratings, illegal ads for sex toys, and a discussion forum where prostitutes and clients can discuss how business should be conducted. But Arne Randers-Pehrson at Pro Sentret, the national centre of expertise on prostitution, says such sites help set behavioural norms and are not necessarily a bad thing. He said: "One thing is that these sites arrange the purchase and sale of sex, which is illegal. I also think it is tasteless how some of the clients discuss the women. "But on the net the clients also discuss how one should treat prostitutes well. The clients are not a homogenous group and these aspects can form norms, for better and for worse." A debatable claim |
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Hazardous booty Spanish thieves have made off with thousands of green peppers unaware the vegetables they stole were toxic. A farmer in the southern region of Andalusia, whose field was raided by the thieves, warned that the peppers had been treated with a pesticide. He says the effects will not wear off for at least another week. Sebastiana Soriano, a friend of the farmer, said: "The peppers are not fit for consumption yet. It could be dangerous to eat them." Soriano asked authorities to warn the public not to buy green peppers from roadside stalls as they may come from the toxic haul. The pesticide cannot be washed off. A theft that could prove very costly indeed. |
Tailpiece
Jake was watching vigilantly at his dying
wife's side. ''Sleep now, its all right,'' he told her. But she kept
trying to sit up and said, ''Honey, I really need to tell you something.''
Finally Jake let her get it off her chest. |