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Funny stories from around the world

Posted in Funny, News on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Some more funny and random headlines from around the world: Billionaire to build Titanic II: Clive Palmer, one of Australia’s richest men, is commissioning a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic. Beauty pageant in fidelity pledge: Contestants at a Taiwan beauty pageant will this year be required not to [...]

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London 2012 Olympics Organizers Invite Keith Moon (1946-1978) to Perform at the 2012 Games

Posted in Funny, News on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

When Keith Moon, the legendary drummer for the British rock band The Who, died in 1978, it was too much for some people to accept.  Apparently that includes the organizers for the 2012 Olympics in London. According to the manager for The Who, officials requested Moon’s presence during an upcoming performance: The band’s manager, Bill [...]

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24-Hour Childcare

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, News, Society on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I couldn’t quite believe I read this – in the world of outsourcing to India business has taken another step – how about outsourcing your parenting?  A 24-hour childcare center in New Delhi billed itself as the place to go for “children of parents who are too busy to put them to bed”: “At ‘Care [...]

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Funny stories from around the world

Posted in Funny, News on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Some more funny and random headlines from around the world: ‘Ancient’ Greek statue is fake: An “ancient” Greek statue found in a sheep pen north-west of Athens has now been deemed a fake. Eyes fail before 576,000-mile car: A 93-year-old woman in Florida, Rachel Veitch, gives up driving after completing 576,000 miles in her beloved 1964 [...]

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Lost Boy Used Google Earth to Find His Mother

Posted in Funny, News, The web on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Twenty five years after he got lost whilst traveling on a train in India, a man found his mother using the unlikeliest of technology, satellite images. Here’s the incredible story of how Saroo Brierly used Google Earth to reunite with his long lost mother: Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He [...]

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Teen prank texted “I hid the body … now what?” to a random guy, who turned out to be a cop!

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Funny, News on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It’s the modern equivalent of dialing a random phone number or knocking on strangers houses, except this time it went a little wrong! A northwest Arkansas teenager thought it would be funny to text a random phone number saying she hid a body, but the joke backfired. Of all the local phone numbers she could [...]

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National consultation on Fostering, Adoption & the Church

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, News, Society on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

There’s been lots of exciting news recently from my friend Krish, and others, on a consultation on fostering, adoption and the church that he is working on with Care for the Family and Evangelical Alliance: There is a pressing need in the UK for more foster and adoptive parents. There is a crisis in recruitment and retainment of [...]

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Richard Dawkins tells atheist rally: “Show contempt” for faith

Posted in Church, News on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

About 20,000 atheists gathered in Washington on Saturday were told by Richard Dawkins to “Show contempt” for faith Dawkins didn’t appear until five hours into the event, but few seemed discouraged by the near-constant rain or drizzle. They whistled and cheered for his familiar lines such as: I don’t despise religious people. I despise what they [...]

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Queen showed up at a wedding in Manchester

Posted in Funny, News on March 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

When John and Frances Canning scheduled their wedding at Manchester Town Hall, they discovered that the Queen was going to be there for her Diamond Jubilee celebration. So naturally, they sent a invite to the Palace with no serious expectations. Guess who showed up? Bride Frances, 44, who runs a hairdressing salon, said she was [...]

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Funny stories from around the world

Posted in Funny, News on March 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Some more funny and random headlines from around the world: Rare US comic books fetch $3.5m: A collection of early comic books – including those featuring the debuts of Batman and Superman – is sold for $3.5m (£2.2m) at auction in New York. Police break up Orlando Nike rush: Police break up an unruly crowd [...]

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