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Archive for: October, 2008

How much do they pay these people … and why?

How much do they pay these people … and why?

Americans have often been accused of being a little bit behind the times, but this latest revelation from the University of Illinois just takes the mick.
Yes, those obscenely high-paid professors released the findings of research last week which revealed that the Bee Gees song Staying Alive “lives up to its name”, as it has almost [...]

Brian, the cartoon dog, urges you to vote for Obama

Brian Griffin, aka comedian Seth MacFarlane, the Griffin family dog in the hugely popular adult cartoon comedy Family Guy has urged people to go out and vote for Barack Obama on November 4.
Okay, there’s celebrity support (will.i.am, for example), but then there’s ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong, I love Family Guy, and I love Obama, [...]

Friday, October 24, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Medway Messenger

Verging on causing even more mayhem
IT IS good to see that Medway Council is taking action against people who park on the grass verges in Beechings Way (Medway Messenger, October 20).
Sadly, though, I think the council has gone about it all the wrong way; instead of getting to grips with the problem at its [...]

Hang up and drive

Hang up and drive

Yesterday, I went to pull out of a road in Gillingham when I realised that there was a car coming, so I stopped. The driver of the car gave me the dirtiest look I’ve ever seen in my life.
Ordinarily I’d have accepted this – it was, after all, my duty to give way. However, I [...]

Yourmedway: “Facebook site urges us to support our services”

Yourmedway: “Facebook site urges us to support our services”

Yourmedway today includes the story that Alan Collins, “University of Kent law undergraduate” and “[t]he Conservative youth co-ordinator for Twydall”, has “launched an online campaign to highlight the efforts of our soldiers”.
The local newspaper (free in shops and viewable online) has the story on page five of Issue 59 (dated Wednesday, October 22, 2008).
A couple [...]

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