Every so often I spot a real-life news event that could almost be Nextian, so I figured we could start a thread for them

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

another laugh like that could prove fatal at this time of the morning, I've gotta go to bed. still snorting - not ladylike I know.

That just jogged my memory about a book called Pigs Might Fly, by Emily Rodda (I think). In it, a young girl gets taken to an alternate world where coincidences happen more often because of something in the air. I can't think whether it was entropy...

I saw that on the news this morning and thought it was hilarious, especially considering the Wales / possibly illegitimate cheese importation possibilities...

Liked the link about villagers accidentally growing opium as well...

Hmmm....did anyone yell "Opa!"?



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Here's another one. Shades of Anton Next?

Command errors led to Iraqi ambush

In the news today, it says that married men are stupider than the unmarried...

Apparently the wives are already being blamed for it.

Can't find this one on a link but it was reported in the 8.30am news bulletin this morning.

Danish Military Planners have admitted errors in what they have supplied to Danish Troops in Iraq or Afganistan (can't remember which was so busy laughing!).

For example bullet proof vests that don't fit, a snow plough and (best of all I think) a large consignment of lawn mowers.

According to a friend of mine, when he worked at a US army base in Germany, the base store stocked the same things as every other army base store, regardless of location. So this one sold hummingbird feeders, despite the fact that there are, in point of fact, no hummingbirds in Europe. Despite his having pointed this out, they continued to stock them until German environmentalists pointed out that the hummingbird feeders put out by uninformed folks who bought them there were causing a marked increase in the population of a particular pesty beetle, which apparently liked the sugar water.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

I don't know if this is true but I read that some health concious Americans started putting "low calorie" sweetener in hummingbird feeders and then wondered why all the hummingbirds died.

Not strictly on topic (but then, what is?) but am I right in thinking there's a currently a typo at the top of the "What's New" link on jasperfforde.com (ie June should read July)

[www.jasperfforde.com]

Sure had me confused anyway (not that that takes much doing!)

Here's some more news - don't take everything you see in books seriously, or if you do keep a fire extinguisher handy...
Rotten Potter Ends Up Hotter



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

KT,
I haven't heard that personally, but my opinion of many of my countrymen is such that I'd be inclined to believe it. Sigh.

I know someone from New Zealand who told me that only meeting people like me online had convinced her that not all Americans are blithering idiots. I suppose I should take that as a compliment.....



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

It's a deep-seated human need to think that nations better placed than ones' own are populated by blithering idiots. No matter where you go or who you loathe you can get evidence for the theory if you want it.

Every nation is populated by blithering idiots. Except Australia, of course!

(Now don't be rude!)

Magda--it will be more believable when you stop putting apostrophe's in plural's. :) (Jane Austen could get away with that sort of thing, but I fear it makes those of us not yet dead look uneducated.)

humilitas

Andorra may not be filled with idiots, it's full of retired European soccer stars.



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Improper apostrophe duly removed. I really do know better, so I must not have been paying attention. Either that or there are a bunch of bookworm's in the vicinity belching out extra's.

(above apostrophes were placed there deliberately by the author of this post in order to cast suspicion upon nonexistant bookworms.)

Ooooh, I wish I had thought of the bookworms... *grin*