A friend of mine makes chicken curry for a living, he makes a lot of it, in fact he makes 2 tonnes of it an hour, he could keep most of Birmingham fed. The problem is that when you make that much curry, invariably you drop some. Last year he threw away well over £1 […]
Need Another Drink
E&J Gallo, the Californian winery has been caught in a scam, a 7 million euro scam. A group of wine producers from the Languedoc region have passed off 18 million bottles of plonk as Pinot Noir. This has been bottled and sold under Gallo’s “Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir Single Grape Wine” brand. The fraud came […]
Illegal Immigration
Virgin Media have sent a promotional pack offering cable TV to Aaron Needham in Nottingham. The letter from the Executive Director of Customer Care Mark Davidson (no less) was Addressed to: Illegal Immigrant, Cranwell Road, Strelley, Nottingham And started “Dear Mr Immigrant”, Apparently the marketing data that Virgin bought was corrupted, though Virgin (who have […]
One Half of One Percent
If I said the sum total of all your efforts today would make you 1/2 a percent better than you were first thing this morning, would you have bothered getting out of bed? Or would you have just rolled over and gone back to sleep? We like to be bold, think strategically and lay big […]
The Rear End of a Horse
There is an urban myth that the design of the rockets that propel the shuttle into space is constrained by the size of a horses bum. The logic goes something like this: 1. The rocket diameter was constrained by the width of the railway tunnels that the train that delivered the rocket passed through. 2. […]
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