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  • In jail: Zimbabwe police sergeant who dared to use Robert Mugabe's loo

    05/28/2011 1:11:12 PM PDT · by Justaham · 10 replies
    guardian.co.uk ^ | 5-28-11 | David Smith
    When call of nature comes, it cannot always be denied. Few have answered it in such an unfortunate fashion as Alois Mabhunu. While on duty at a trade fair, the Zimbabwean police sergeant could not hold on and allegedly dashed to the nearest toilet – disastrously, it transpired, as it was reserved for President Robert Mugabe. He was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of invading the presidential privy. The incident happened at the annual Zimbabwe Int'l. Trade Fair (ZITF) in the western city of Bulawayo, according to local radio station VOP. Under the headline "Never Use Toilet Reserved For President!"...
  • We're going to eat out of a WHAT?

    07/01/2005 12:45:37 PM PDT · by Mike Bates · 39 replies · 566+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 6/30/2005
    It may take a strong stomach to eat curry or chocolate ice cream out of a toilet bowl, but a commode-themed restaurant in Taiwan does booming business serving up just that. The Martun, or toilet in Chinese, restaurant in the southern port city of Kaohsiung boasts lengthy queues on weekends as diners wait for a toilet seat in its brightly colored tile interior. Food arrives in bowls shaped like Western-style toilets or Asian-style "squat pots." Manager Hung Lin-wen said the original inspiration came from a toilet-shaped spaceship in a Japanese cartoon. The theme has attracted droves of novelty-seeking young people...
  • Al Franken has agreed not to draw a salary at AIR AMERICA

    05/30/2004 4:59:57 PM PDT · by Monty22 · 125 replies · 392+ views
    Drudge report ^ | 05/30/04 | Drudge
    FLASH: Al Franken has agreed not to draw a salary at AIR AMERCIA, hoping to keep the fledgling talk-radio network afloat... Developing...