I was going to resist posting but look at their little faces!

From the OddSpot: “A woman’s email to Telecom New Zealand’s help desk was rejected because the company’s filter system found her name, Gay, “inappropriate for business-like communication”. The woman, Gay Hamilton, is herself gay.”

Buggeration. The Japanese sheep/poodle story is a hoax.

Airport immigration staff accused
“Mr Livingstone said: “Whenever I’m in India or China meeting business people or diplomats, again and again their complaint is that they have big business people coming through the airport being treated as though they are going to sneak off and do a bit of cockle picking or something.””

Absolutely brilliant: “Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared their new “poodle” was also a sheep.”

From the Odd Spot:
“Hungary’s busiest highway was closed after a truck carrying rabbits crashed, letting 5000 loose. One woman told reporters: “There are thousands of them on the road but they’re not using their new-found freedom well – they’re just sitting around, eating grass and enjoying the sun.””

I’m catching up on email before I go away, and came across this post I never published:
I listened to the Kleptones for the first time though they’ve been in my iTunes for ages. The Phil Collins one (Crazy Tonight = Strong Teeth) was the first time I’d heard that Phil Collins song since I was a very young teenager and it drove me crazy because it reminded me of all kinds of things I couldn’t quite remember. My memory is particularly skatty at the moment – I’ve been a bit too busy with work and some outside projects, and had a cough/cold since Christmas, but I have the weird feeling it should bring back the memory of a particular mood. Maybe it was just young teenage girl dreams I’m too old and cynical to access now.
So, there you go – things I thought I’d never do – I just blogged about Phil Collins.

Peep Show (I promise it’s not what you think it is, no matter what you think it is).

(I’ve always wanted to say that)
Apology for ‘idiots’ election ban

It only says it was ‘created by two avid photographers with a vision to make the World’s most extensive collection of historical photographs available to the masses. They worked to compile this collection from extensive personal archives, private collections, and public institutions’ but old-picture.com has some amazing collections.