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| Mingpod#7 Hello, And welcome to Mingpod#7, the increasingly infrequent ezine (*1) gives you the detail on the sites that have bin Madging my Bishop, cool gossip, jokes and things stollen from other websites. If you want to be taken off this list or want someone to be added, then email: [email protected] Warning: May contain ideas and phrases that cause irritation. I've now finally got a confirmed ExpressionFM 87.7 (URE) Citywide show. It is the weekend breakfast show: 3 shows, 3hrs each. On at 7-10am, for Sun 18th, Sat 24th, Sun 25th February. The Show is called "Born Sleepy". Clever, eh? Catch it on your radio in Exeter, or live on the web: http://www.xpressionfm.com Mark - bubblin' in Dublin >> Music << *Check this out. CD-Wow are my favourite place to buy CDs on the web, at �8.99 (&free postage) for new albums, delivery in a week. And now they're cheaper, with OVER 150 Great Titles at only �6.99 inc FREE Delivery I just wish they'd give me advertising money! http://www.cd-wow.com/bargain.php *It looks likely that the name of the British Popstars band is "Inner-spin". Inner-spin.com and inner-spin.co.uk were registered as domain names on 22nd January by Granada Media Group, the company behind Popstars. n July 1999 Popstars boss Nigel Lythgoe was the producer of LWT's Animals Do The Funniest Things. The programme included scenes of a chimp "singing" Like A Virgin while wearing a conical bra, but caused a storm when it was revealed that the performing chimp had had all its teeth pulled out. Nigel said he thought it acceptable for chimps to have teeth removed "for safety reasons", and that he would do it all again. *For anyone who still hasn't heard Britney's Valley-girl twang exclaiming stuff like "This is fuckin retarded..." here's the link: http://www.britneyspears.org * Eminem gets bum deal. Students at Sheffield university have banned American rapper Eminem's songs and T-shirts, calling him anti-gay. Students who show up in Eminem-wear at University's disco will be turned away, the radio station will not play his music and the student newspaper is banned from printing reviews of his CDs or concerts. The student union did not mince their words on the subject: "There was clear evidence of a flagrant breach of our policy towards gays. We are trying to reduce homophobia," said Neil Foster of the student union board. "We argued till we were blue in the face that we're all over 18 and unlikely to have our opinions about homosexuality influenced by the lyrics of a singer, but it didn't do any good," said Dan Morfitt, head of music at the university radio station. "Sheffield students are dead fruity", Eminem did not comment >> TV << *Watched "Dark Angel" on Sky 1, Jim 'Terminator' Cameron's first attempt at TV, pitched as Buffy meets the Matrix. Meant to be set in a post apocalyptic future after a nuke had wiped out all electronic data, spinning the world into chaos. Seemed like a normal city, with occasional conspicuously signalled bits of litter and semi futuristic device. The heroine was looked and sounded very much like Britteny Spears, but also had looks with a hint of the oriental and, strangely, Libby from Neighbours. I think it'll improve as it goes on, but as a first episode it was pretty weak. Highlight: Security: Hold it right there! Dark Angel: How about if I hold it over here? >> Film << *Yun-Fat, says being Young & Fat key to success. Ish. Dashing Chinese movie star Chow Yun-fat, hero of the kung-fu epic "Crouching Tiger", says the key to staying young is stupidity. "You see I am very stupid. I don't understand or talk well. I take it easy every day. I am like an idiot. Be like this every day, and then you'll look young," Chow, who looks younger than his 45 years, bantered in Mandarin at a news conference. "Don't try to push yourself too hard," said the star "and eat lots of pie", he probably didn't conclude. >> On The Net << * http://markseddon.com I've just got a cheap digital camera, so I've been playing with that. Photos from URE's Topsham 10 can be found at: http://uk.y42.photos.yahoo.com/seddonism I've also tidied up the site to make thing easier, and added a new poll. *Win copetitions on the web with the help of this newsgroup, it points out where all of the cool prizes are, and even gives you the answers! http://x69.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=fs]/topics_if.xp? search=next&offset=0&CONTEXT=980857557.1032781831 *Buy a baby online: http://www.martian.fm/ebaby.htm *News site of the week: http://www.plastic.com/ *Probably the best blog in the world...! http://ramboknife.pitas.com/ You send in your requests for bad cartoon pictures. Hurrah! *Wicked League of Gentlemen site http://www.funkybean.com/lol/htm/intro.html >> In the News << * Dutch team mull 'I want your baby' sperm donor show A Dutch production team is considering creating a television show in which unmarried women choose between potential sperm donors. The show, believed to have the working title "I want your baby", would be the latest in a string of television sensations designed to grab both audiences and newspaper headlines. The show is in the pipeline of Joop van den Ende TV Productions, a unit of Endemol, the company that brought the world the so-called reality soap 'Big Brother'. * Serial UK streaker cleared of being pubic, sorry, public menace A British nudist campaigner accused of being a menace for repeatedly stripping off in public walked free and naked from court, British newspapers reported on Thursday. Prosecutors said Vincent Bethell, 28, who appeared nude in public six times last summer to campaign for the "Freedom to be Yourself" group, had been likely to "harm the morals of the public or their comfort". Butt, sorry, but a jury of 10 men and two women -- who were advised to avert their eyes as he walked to the witness box to give evidence -- disagreed and found him not guilty of being a public nuisance at Southwark crown court in London on Wednesday. * Council demands harder porn A sex shop owner has fallen foul of British trading laws after customers complained his so-called hard core pornography videos were far too tame. Nick Griffin was fined 3,800 pounds ($5,600) after angry buyers complained to trading standards authorities that the salacious titles he sold as pornography were not blue movies at all. "People who complained to us were very embarrassed. They had selected videos with lurid titles and pictures on the covers expecting to see a lot more than they actually did," York trading standards chief Colin Rumford was quoted as saying "even I had difficulty cracking one off with this tame porn", he didn't continue. * Indian groper gets several strokes An Indian man faces three strokes of the cane and a year in a Singapore jail after being convicted of groping a woman on an airplane while she slept. Swarup Das's claim that he was asleep when he accidentally touched the woman was dismissed by Judge Hoo Sheau Peng as "hard to believe", the Straits Times newspaper reported on Wednesday. The woman covered herself with a blanket before dozing off, but was awakened by Das's right hand resting on her groin. She pushed his hand back thinking it was an accident, only to be woken 30 minutes later when she felt his fingers slipping into her underwear. She flung his hand away and informed the cabin crew of the incident. (Did you see what I did with the pun in the headline, there?) >> Politics << In the week that Castro expressed hope that Bush wasn't too stupid, and that it was confirmed that Al Gore WOULD have won Florida if the disputed ballots were counted: * World Unites in taking the piss out of Dubbya Bush. An Indian newspaper published a travel guide on Monday for new U.S. President George W. Bush, lampooning his alleged lack of knowledge about world affairs and his failure to name India's prime minister in an impromtu quiz. Under a map of India, the Asian Age wrote: "This is India. Very Conveniently located. Pakistan to the left and China just above." The last illustration was a man puffing on marijuana: "This is 'ganja', it said. "You don't remember smoking it." Germany's left-wing Tageszeitung daily poked fun at George W. Bush on Saturday as he prepared to take over as U.S. president, offering the former Texas governor some helpful hints about Europe's biggest economy. "Congratulations Mr President. You know what? This is Germany. A reliable friend -- conveniently located in the middle of Europe. Madame Tussaud's, Euro Disney and 1,352 McDonalds nearby," the paper wrote in English above a map of the country. "You might like to visit the wall. Unfortunately it's gone. For further details, contact Daddy." They finish: "Do you feel the urge to sentence someone to death during your stay? Please notice that there are no lethal injections available at the moment. Do as the Germans do: use the Autobahn!" * Letter "W" goes missing from White House keyboards - hite House est ing in dissaray President George W. Bush has lost his middle initial from many computer keyboards at the Old Executive Office Building in the White House complex. In an apparent prank carried out by departing Clinton administration staffers, Bush aides discovered that dozens of computer keyboards were missing the "W" key. Bush aides said on Tuesday that the W was marked out in some cases but often the key had been removed -- and sometimes taped on top of doorways -- or damaged with the spring broken. Bush made a big deal out of his middle initial during campaign rallies, often holding up the middle three fingers of his hand to form a W. Like some American idiot verison of Churchill. He is often popularly referred to as "Dubya." Bush's middle name is Walker. He would joke to crowds that if his Democratic presidential rival, Al Gore (who claimed to have invented the internet), was so smart, why did every Internet address start with a W. "And not just one W -- three Ws!" he would exult. Hilarity never failed to result. >> Unfortunate Advert of the week << After a three-year inquiry the advertising standards authority decided Red Bull doesn't aid energy, performance and concentration, as it claims. You'd be better off with a cup of sweet tea? Quite possibly. Though probably not as a mixer with a vodka. Still, the company can continue to use its advertising slogan: ` Red Bull gives you wings.' So it's ok for the maker to suggest that anyone who drinks it can fly, but not that it might give them a boost walking down the road. >> Rumour of the Week << Andi "broomcupboard" Peters & Tony "Vision On" Heart. What's the link? Hint: http://www.popbitch.com confirmed it was true! **************************************************** Mingpod #7 Feb 2001 To subscribe/ unsubscribe/ contribute/ comment: [email protected] Past issues of The Mingpod are avaliable at: http://www.mingpod.com (*1) Frequency of ezine may go up as well as down. Your house may be at risk if you leave the gas on. |