|2-Strange but True! A pretty cool collection of weird stories which have occured over the last week! Premiere occured on Scouser House BBS... Get it... It`s cool /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ HUGH'S `DIVINE' BLUES ===================== It didn't take long for a wily entrepreneur to cash in on the Hugh Grant prostitution scandal. Onsale outside the Hollywood courthouse where Hugh Grant and Divine Brown appeared, accused of lewd conduct, are specially printed T-Shirts. They read: "To Err Is Hughman... To forgive is Divine". /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ SPEAK AFTER THE BEEP... ======================= The mayor of a Toronto suburb has put voice mail on hold by decreeing that a real person must answer all goverment calls during business hours. "It's the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my life," said mayor Mel Lastman of those irritating telephone messages featured in so many offices. Lastman recieved 343 calls of support in seven hours following publicity. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ CHEAP AND FLAMIN' HOT ===================== South African potter Thijs Nel says ceramic homes are the solution to the country's [Africa's] severe housing shortage. He built a prototype clay house from inverted soup bowls, and says at only £80 a square yard to build, they could be afforded on a "very basic loan". Nel put a "flame thrower" in one of the doors to "fire" it. The structure can withstand wind, rain and mild quake. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ HASSAN, THE MEMORY MAN... YEAH RIGHT! ===================================== King Hassan of Morocco did the unthinkable when he hosted a banquet for his friend French president Jacques Chirac... he forgot his guest's name! To make matters worse, he invited diners to toast Francois Mitterrand, the former leader which is not expected to go down in history as a friend of Marocco. The king had known Chirac for 20 years. Amid red faces, some saw it as a joke. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR BARCLAY-CARD ================================= A Russian travelling circus came to town in the Philippines a year ago and had to stay because it ran out of money. Children have been paying pennies to watch performances and local traders have suppiled unsold fruit and vegetables to the animals of the All-Stars Russian Circus, stranded in Davao city. It would cost around £300,000 for the Russian Embassy to fly it back. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ LE CAR PARK, MAI OUI... NO, IT'S THE FERRY ========================================== An elderly French couple thought a ferry's car deck was a car park when when they popped over to Dover on a day trip. They drove onto Stena Sealink's Fastasia ship in Calias, but got off as foot-passengers, thinking they had parked back home. Worried crew called poice, but later returned the car to France where its owners were wandering the car parks. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ MULTI-MURDERER HARRI GETS A... TROPHY ===================================== A teenager has swatted his way to a world mosquito-killing record, finishing off 21 in five minutes at a contest in arctic Lapland. Finn Harri Pellonpea, 17, defeated 20 other entrants who bared arms, legs and chests to attract the mosquitoes. Harri receieved a trophy and a weekend for two in Lapland - a summer favourite for mosquitoes. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ A UFO SAYS HELLO TO SONY ======================== A man claiming to be an expert in unidentifiued flying objects says a music video of a popular singer may show a flying saucer in the background. The object was captured on videotape by a cameraman filming a outdoor scene near Santo Domingo a few weeks ago for a video of singer Eddy Herrera. Danilo Rodriguez said: "Evidently we have witnessed the presence of a UFO." /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ TURN YOUR `HOSEPIPE' ON EVERY OTHER DAY ======================================= A water company has come up with a odd way to aviod hosepipe bans as the heatwave continues. Mid-Kent Water suggested people in houses with even numbers should water their gardens only on even days of the month, and those with odd numbers should water only on odd days. Managing director Mike Clark said: "This would help save water to avoid bringing in a hosepipe ban." /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ EARRINGS WHICH WILL SUCK YOU THIN ================================= You've tried diet drinks, strenous exercise, fat-reducing gels and transcendental meditation... why not give aiet earrings a go? Combining his knowledge of acupuncture and jewellery design, Yasuo Tomoyuki says he designed the earrings to sit on pressure points that stifle hunger. But the earrings carry a weighty price tag - £220 a pair. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ HMM... TASTY ARTERTIES FOR LUNCH ================================ A man who drank the blood of a passer-by after he bit through an arterty in his neck has been arrested in the town of Tula, 125 miles south of Moscow. The 20-year-old homeless "vampire" told the police he had first developed a taste for blood in the army. He claimed to have carried out several other similar acts in other regions of Russia, said the Tass news agency. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ©1995 Teletext Ltd./Roundabout Networks All Rights Resevered To Teletext