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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Giving your boss a Benny Hill slap on the head is a career limiting action? NOPE

A worker fired after giving his boss a Benny-Hill style slap on the head at a works night out to promote team building and bonding has won his unfair sacking claim and almost £2,000 compensation.

Derick Brown, 49, from Dundee, a team leader in the stores department of Tokheim UK, had been forewarned by customer services manager Robert Fraser not to give him a 'hard time' at the event.

A Dundee employment tribunal heard his employers, who supply fuel dispensing equipment, hosted a night out for workers and their partners in November 2005, providing each with a voucher to be exchanged for drinks at the bar and a half bottle of wine per person at the table.

Mr Brown and some workmates were watching a boxing match on TV in the bar. One of the contestants was bald, and the tribunal noted in that respect may have looked similar to Mr Fraser.

The contestant looked like a character from a Benny Hill comedy sketch, during which Benny Hill pats or slaps a bald man on the head.

Mr Brown suggested that he would give Mr Fraser "a Benny Hill" and he was encouraged to do so. He then returned to the table where Mr Fraser was sitting with his wife and patted or slapped him on the head from behind.

Mr Fraser had been unaware of his presence until then and told him he would "see" him on Monday morning.

Mr Brown admitted he was intoxicated and at his disciplinary hearing he said it was a drunken prank, not an assault, but accepted his behaviour was totally unacceptable.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Things to remember when you're drunk: 1)You can't dance 2) You're not that charming. 3) The woman eyeing you isn't pretty. 4)You are not that funny. 5) Any type of physical contact is not wanted by anyone, including your friends, family, and significant other.

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Hot new trend in home building: Dual Master Bedrooms
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Springtime usually signals 'building time' in the housing world. Despite a decline in the housing market some families are still choosing to build custom homes. And those plans include something new, separate master bedrooms.

A growing number of couples are living together but sleeping separately.

Howard and Bev Rossman have been married for 33 years. They love each other but can't stand sleeping together. Bev has restless legs and Howard snores.

So they bought a home and tore it down to build a custom home. The plans included what they call a "snoring room".

"It takes out the tension of sleeping together, not the romance," says Bev Rossman. "So it eliminates an aspect of conflict."

Bev says in the past she would have to search for another place to sleep when her husband snored. "I would have to go to our son's room or our daughter's room in the middle of the night," says Bev. "In the morning he would wake up and go 'I'm so sorry that you had to move' but now it's great."

The National Association of Home Builders predicts by the year 2015 that 60% of custom homes could have dual master bedrooms.

In fact many couples want separate rooms, separate bathrooms and different closets.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Unbelievable...another crumbling block of the foundation of marriage. Some of us have to deal with snorers and the like--it's a part of marriage, earplugs and all...deal with it, people. The next step after separate bedrooms is separate houses, and I don't think anyone would be celebrating that...

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What a Boob! Man caught with stolen bras jailed

PENANG: A 43-year-old labourer, caught while fleeing with two stolen bras partially tucked inside his pants, was jailed three months by a magistrate's court on Tuesday.

Chong Lean Hin, of Air Itam admitted to stealing the bras, worth a total RM10 belonging to two sisters.

He was nabbed by the girls' father Chow Eng Chuah while trying to escape.

Chong, unrepresented, had pleaded guilty on Jan 30 to committing the offence.

He had stolen the bras from Chow's house at Taman Air Itam, Lebuh Air Itam at 1.45am on Jan 28.

According to the facts of the case presented by prosecuting officer Chief Insp Mohd Fadzli Napiah, Chow was outside his house when he saw Chong removing the grey and beige-coloured bras, which were hung over the house fence.

Chong fled when Chow approached him but was nabbed after a chase.

In mitigation, Chong asked for a lenient sentence.

He also identified the bras as those produced in court.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Ok, now for the laugh-in bah-dum-tish:

Isn't this a little tit for tat?

He will definitely find some new breast friends in jail.

So, this dyslexic guy walks into a bra...


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posted by Tim @ 9:33 PM   0 comments

Powerball winner to quit job as sacrifice...ummm..ok...
(Columbia) -- The person who won the $15 million dollar Powerball lottery earlier this month after buying a ticket in Florence has come forward.

79-year-old Navy Veteran Dick Sandlin of Wilmington, North Carolina claimed his check, Tuesday.

The ticket was sold at Amoco Food Shop #3 in Florence.

Sandlin and his wife, Colleen, have decided to take the lump sum, which averages out to $7.1 million dollars before taxes.

"I don't feel any different right now than I did before. I'm still dreaming. I guess I'll wake up after a while and jump up and down and hollar and all that stuff," says Dick.

At this point, Sandlin says all he plans on doing with the money is buying "an RC Cola and a Moon Pie."

As for his job with the North Carolina State Parks, "I feel kind of guilty holding a job that someone else might really need, so I think I might just blow out and let someone else have the job," said Sandlin.

This is the fourth time a winning Powerball ticket has been sold in South Carolina, and all four winners have been from North Carolina.

Goosey's Gabbings...

RC Cola and a Moon Pie, eh? I smell a country song on the horizon..

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Lockdown at OU for suspicious object--an umbrella
NORMAN — The Norman campus of the University of Oklahoma briefly experienced a lockdown this morning after officials received a report of an unidentified Caucasian male of student age carrying a “suspicious object.”

According to a campus-wide email issued at 9:32 a.m., university deans, directors and chairs were ordered to “Immediately take action to keep all individuals within their current buildings into further notice.” A second email was sent by President David L. Boren’s office at 9:50 a.m. to students, faculty and staff. The note stated, “students, faculty and staff should stay in their buildings or dorms until further notice.”


More than an hour after Boren made his statement, his office released an update and a correction.

“The person apparently seen by the student making the earlier report has self-identified himself,” Boren said. “He was carrying an umbrella and not a weapon. We appreciate his action in identifying himself. We now consider the matter closed. I appreciate the cooperation from the university community in this matter. We always want to err on the side of caution in a situation like this.”

Goosey's Gabbings...

I think that the funniest thing is that here is what the daily forecast was: 14°C
Rain Wind: SE at 8 km/h Humidity: 100%


...And yet an UMBRELLA was suspicious...I assume logic doesn't apply in Norman.


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posted by Tim @ 9:08 PM   0 comments

Man punches out Mayor over unfixed pothole
ORAIOKASTRO, Greece, April 17, 2007 (UPI) -- A man who allegedly assaulted the mayor of the Greek village of Oraiokastro says he did so because of the town's failure to repair a pot hole.

The man, who was not identified, went to the home of Mayor Nikolaos Batos and punched him in the face and body when he answered the door, Ekathimerini reported Tuesday.

The alleged attacker said he was angry that municipal workers would not fill a pothole in front of his home. He was arrested and charged with causing bodily harm, making threats, swearing and disturbing the peace.

The mayor was treated for bruises at a local hospital. Doctors said his injuries were not serious.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Not only is this bizarre...but he was arrested for swearing? SWEARING? Ummm....WTF?
(Oops...just garnered a night in the Athens' klink...)

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posted by Tim @ 9:01 PM   6 comments

Secret Service Accidental Shooting--Cheney immediately says "HAHA-NOT ME!"

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Secret Service officers were injured in an accidental shooting Tuesday at the White House.

The incident occurred in a security booth at the southwest gate.

Secret Service spokeswoman Kim Bruce said one officer was injured in the leg and the other received a shrapnel wound in his face. She said the injuries appeared to be non-life threatening and that both officers were taken to nearby George Washington University Hospital.

The gun involved was a service-issued weapon, she said. She said the Secret Service Office of Inspection would conduct a review.

Goosey's Gabbings...

So, we're all supposed to believe that a group of people that are supposed to be the best of the best of the best--SIR...accidentally had this happen?? If that is so, we are in some deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep dooodoooo.....

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posted by Tim @ 8:55 PM   0 comments

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