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Why did the drunk and naked Australian cross the croc infested river? For a couple of crates of Jack Daniels of course.

Now THAT'S how to celebrate Olympic gold! 'Incredible Hulk' of discus tears off his shirt then runs 100m hurdles in incredible display of joy

Man drowns himself in a vat of whisky at world famous Scottish distillery Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084984/Brian-Ettles-drowns-vat-whisky-Glenfiddich-Distillery.html#ixzz1jAkH4gDb

A £2 million, 100 metre tall wind turbine catches fire in hurricane-force winds at Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The wind turbine was spinning so fast it caught fire.

The day before yesterday, I reported that Briffa and Osborn (Science 1999) had not just deleted the post=1960 decline (see also CA here), but had deleted the pre-1550 portion as well – the deletions contributing to an unwarranted rhetorical impression of consistency between the reconstructions, an impression that was capitalized upon in the commentary in the running text of Briffa and Osborn 1999.

Enter the KING WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such...

First prize - Norwegian Blue Parrot

Politics in the United States is as polarised as I can remember in my lifetime. November’s election is shaping up to be as close fought as the 2000 contest, but with war and global Islamic terrorism mixed into the brew, we all feel as involved as the American public. The whole world is dangling on a hanging chad. ‘What’s all this nonsense about salt being bad for you?’ While the majority of Europeans and the entire Labour party minus Downing Street are rooting for Kerry, what is more disquieting is the support of some British Conservative MPs for the Democrat...

I'd like to enlist the services of my fellow americans with a bit of detective work. Let's start off with hard evidence.The Federalist Papers were documents written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison to persuade the 13 states to ratify the Constitution. In one paper, Federalist 45, James Madison wrote: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined . Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised pricipally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last...

Wannabe Yanks Theodore Dalrymple regrets that we import many of America’s vices but none of her virtues In the modern world, the availability, indeed ubiquity, of entertainment is the most potent cause of boredom. It causes boredom because the world cannot ever be as fast-moving or dramatic as audiovisual entertainment, and for most of the time interest has to be extracted from the world rather than merely absorbed from it passively. Hence the more people with vacant minds seek distraction by entertainment, the more bored they grow; and bored people create chaos in their lives because intense misery is preferable...

With friends like these. . . The Entente Cordiale was conceived 100 years ago, but now, says Simon Heffer, France and Britain are further apart than ever One hundred years ago, on 1 May 1903, King Edward VII arrived in Paris on the last stop of a European tour. It had already sparked some controversy: His Majesty’s Protestant subjects were not happy that he had dropped in at the Vatican to see the 93-year-old Pope, Leo XIII. What came next, however, was to be far more radical, and would have unimaginably deep consequences. Not even the King’s most senior ministers...

Pax Americana William Shawcross says Europeans are hypocritical, isolationist and deluded in their attempts to hobble the greatest power on earth Tony Blair has played a blinder on Iraq, standing for the Iraqi people, with the United States, and up to the French and Germans. He has quite rightly said that after the war is over, ‘there is going to have to be a discussion; indeed, a reckoning about the relations between Europe and America.’ It will not be easy. There is cold fury in America about the perfidious manner in which the axis of France and Germany behaved in...

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 2001 Secret plans for 10-year war BY MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR Generals rule out 'D-Day invasion' AMERICA and Britain are producing secret plans to launch a ten-year “war on terrorism” — Operation Noble Eagle — involving a completely new military and diplomatic strategy to eliminate terrorist networks and cells around the world. Despite the mass build-up of American forces in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, there will be no “D-Day invasion” of Afghanistan and no repeat of the US-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991, defence sources say. The notion that a US-led multinational coalition ...

THE new head of Britain's Armed Forces attacked "our so-called allies" yesterday for their criticism of last Friday's raids on Iraq. Admiral Sir Michael Boyce: said Britain had no alternative but to bomb Iraqi military targets. In a thinly-veiled attack on the French, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce expressed irritation at "the adverse comments from countries that are supposed to be our friends". He added: "Some of the motives are probably questionable." The French, who were among the sharpest critics of the raids, are engaged in a major sales campaign to obtain business for their own companies if or when sanctions ...

Nacy Reagan's former press secretary, Elaine Crispen says she's "curious" after reading that first lady(sic) Hillary Rodham Clinton might have offered overnight stays at the White House to her Senate campaign supporters. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, repeating that it's not uncommon for political supporters of President and Mrs Clinton to slumber at the White House, promised to prepare a list of recent guests. "The President and the first lady, over the last 7 1/2 years, have always welcomed their friends and supporters and political officials from around the country, prominent members of the arts community, to stay at the ...