Topic: e-bay - on July 17, 2004 at 6:07:00 PM CEST
BRAND NEW U2 ALBUM (very hot) - QUICK SALE? *** ;)
Ouch, sizzle! This thing's so hot my hands are on fire! The brand new U2 album (not even finished recording it yet) due for release in November. Hoping for a quick sale so Bono (hopefully) won't find what he's looking for.
Format: Big tapey thing (might need additional equipment)
Delivery: I'll get Dave to drop it round at the weekend. Cash only mind, no questions asked.
Postage from the South of France included...
ebay sorry down
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Topic: CARS - on July 17, 2004 at 6:00:00 PM CEST
Ford Recalls Nearly 900,000 Taurus, Sable Vehicles in cold weather states.
Should a coil spring fracture, it could rupture a tire and cause an accident.
Ford will put protective shields in the recalled vehicles.
The government opened an investigation into the defect in May after receiving 82 reports that springs had broken.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 17, 2004 at 5:57:00 PM CEST
Godfather of Soul Does Jazz
On July 20, Verve Records will issue for the first time on CD James Brown's 35-year-old jazz album, "Soul on Top."
Recorded in 1969 with the Louie Bellson Orchestra and originally released on King Records, the 12-tune collection features Oliver Nelson's arrangements and Brown's bandmate Maceo Parker Jr.'s tenor sax.
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Topic: - on July 17, 2004 at 5:55:00 PM CEST
Focus on women's breasts and buttocks
Officer accused of gawking at women
A San Francisco police officer faces internal charges that he abandoned his traffic control duties at the airport so he could fiddle with surveillance cameras and ogle women as they walked through the terminal.
Officer William Rossi, a 25-year veteran assigned to the traffic company at San Francisco International Airport, is accused in departmental charges of using the closed-circuit surveillance system at Terminal One substation three different times Feb. 29 to "focus on women's breasts and buttocks.''
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Topic: SEX - on July 17, 2004 at 5:46:00 PM CEST
How do Czech men measure up?
A Czech condom manufacturer has been distributing penis-measuring postcards in thousands of pubs and clubs across the nation.
The cards - issued by the Pepino condom company - have a centimetre scale to measure length and four openings to measure girth.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 17, 2004 at 5:39:00 PM CEST
Man Learns He's Dead, Thanks to Blind Ex-Wife
A Russian taxi driver got a rude shock when he discovered his blind ex-wife, who thought he had died in an explosion, had him buried in a Moscow cemetery.
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Topic: NEWS - on July 17, 2004 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Croatians cash in as 'family jewel' Adriatic islands go on sale
One of the most exclusive summer sales is under way in Croatia after dozens of paradise islands in the Adriatic were put on the market for the first time in centuries.
The untouched islands, part of what the Croatian government calls the "family jewels", are on sale for up to £20 million, with local families who have owned them for generations exchanging clear blue skies and seas for the more tangible delights of hard cash. The islands are attracting the interest of celebrities and businessmen.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 17, 2004 at 4:49:00 PM CEST
Man Allegedly Attacks Woman With Alligator
He then went to the bathroom and allegedly returned wielding a 3-foot alligator, swinging it at the woman. He hit her arm with the reptile as she tried to escape. He then allegedly threw empty beer bottles at her and finally shoved her out the front door of the house, according to the report.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 17, 2004 at 4:33:00 PM CEST
SEAGULLS "the size of small dogs" are striking terror into shoppers at a busy supermarket
Staff said they have had to arm themselves with brushes and mops to fight off the birds every time they turn on the store’s central heating system, located on the roof of the building. Yesterday, a store manager said: "The seagulls have been a problem for a while now. Some of them are the size of small dogs and everybody is scared."
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 17, 2004 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
3 Cars & 94 sheeps
t was a woolly, if not wild, report from the traffic police: Authorities stopped a convoy of three cars after they heard the "passengers" bleating - and found the vehicles stuffed with sheep.
Three Turkish men were transporting 94 sheep in three small pickup trucks on Thursday, the Libertatea newspaper reported Friday. Thirty-four of the animals were crammed into a single vehicle.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 17, 2004 at 4:16:00 PM CEST
Accused Software Pirate May Be Extradited
An Australian man accused of running a global software piracy network is one step closer to being extradited to the United States. U.S. authorities describe Griffiths as the ringleader of an Internet group, "DrinkOrDie," which authorities say had illegally copied and distributed more than $50 million worth of pirated software, movies, games and music before investigators shut it down in 2001.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 17, 2004 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
Whoopi Goldberg Axed Over Anti-Bush Remarks
When Whoopi Goldberg agreed to speak at John Kerry's Democratic fundraiser last week, she had no idea her remarks would cost her some coin.
Goldberg used President Bush's name as a sexual reference, and was consequently fired by Slim-Fast, where the actress was a spokesperson.
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