News from February 2010

It’s Raining Fish In Australia

The small town of Lajamanu, in Australia’s Northern Territory was witness to the bizarre phenomena of raining fish this week.
The town was pelted with fish from the sky, not once but twice this week. On both Thursday and Friday night at around 18:00 towns folk saw hundreds of small white fish rain down from above. [...]

Shane MacGowan and Friends Release Haiti Charity Record

The all-star charity record organised by toothless punk rocker Shane MacGowan will be released on 8th March and it’s available on pre-order at 7 Digital.
The cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ I Put A Spell On You is performed by MacGowan himself and a group of his pals including Nick Cave, Johnny Depp and Bobby Gillespie. [...]

Glow In The Dark Bog Roll

A British company have developed a toilet paper which is impregnated with phosphor so it glows when the lights are out.
The luminous bog roll is the brainchild of Daniel Blackman, who works in product development for bizarre gift company Thumbs Up. Blackman came up with the idea of using phosphors in the manufacture of the [...]

Fun Park Runs Smelliest Urine Competition

Thorpe Park in Surrey are running a bizarre competition to find the smelliest piss in Britain.
The theme park are offering a £500 prize to the person that produces the foulest smelling cup of pee on Friday. Thorpe Park’s entertainments manager Laura Sinclair will have the unenviable task of sniffing all the samples of urine and [...]

Shit My Shatner Says

TV legend Bill Shatner is being lined up to play the title role in a pilot show based on the Twitter ramblings of a 74 year old.
Shit My Dad Says is a phenomenally popular Twitter account run by Justin, who tweets words of wisdom uttered by his aging father. With comments such as “Don’t mess [...]

Woman Finds Snake’s Head In Packet Of Frozen Beans

Ernestine Jamison from Houston, Texas was disgusted to find the severed head of what she believes is a snake in a packet of frozen vegetables.
Mrs Jamison, a mother of four, was preparing dinner for her family when she spotted the cold blooded critter’s decapitated bonce in amongst the green beans.
“I saw something in there I [...]

Gervais Plans Dwarf Sitcom

Rotund comedian Ricky Gervais is planning a brand new BBC sitcom starring the dwarf actor Warwick Davis. The show will also be based on the life of the actor.
Gervais and writing partner Stephen Merchant have begun developing the show under the working title of Life’s Too Short, named after and based on Davis’ autobiography, Life’s [...]

Topless Tobogganing

A second annual topless tobogganing event took place in Germany this weekend, drawing thousands of spectators.
Amid tons of controversy 30 men and women stripped to their undercrackers in the freezing temperatures and jumped on flimsy plastic sledges to whizz down the snow covered Braunlage hillside. The crowds cheered as the ladies bared their boobs and [...]

Giant George Is Officially The World’s Tallest Dog

Guinness World of Records have officially recognised a Great Dane from Arizona as the brand new title holder of the World’s Tallest Dog.
Giant George has been given the title after Guinness sent their own official adjudicator to verify the claims that he measures 109cm from paw to shoulder, beating the previous record holder Titan by [...]

Doctor Who Start Date

The BBC this weekend released a new teaser trailer for the next series of Doctor Who and announced the broadcast date.
The fifth series of Doctor Who since it’s relaunch back in 2005 will begin in Easter, and assuming the show falls back into it’s Saturday night slot on BBC 1 it will be broadcast on [...]

News from February 2010

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