Humour: July 2005 Archives

Well the comments system thought this was questionable so I'll put my comments to the previous post as a separate entry:

Presumably there'll be an O'Reilly book out soon called "Drinking, Beer", with a picture of a drunk on the front. Reasonably priced at 19.95 and available from all good retailers. Inside there'll be a very well written guide to how to brew and use the open source beer. Many people and companies will buy the book on sight, and then the books will moulder on the shelves as people find it's easier just to buy the stuff...

Towards the back of the book - the only bit that actually gets read - there'll be a overly quirky section on "Care and feeding of your wino."

[ Chenapan, our european correspondent, somehow managed to miss this story ]

NANTERRE, France, July 25th 2005

Lance Armstrong may be stripped of his seventh Tour de France title. In a random check for banned substances, French authorities found three substances in Armstrong's hotel room that are banned by the French:

Toothpaste, deodorant, and soap.

From our European Correspondent Chenapan (photo courtesy of Reuters)

At the “Art Basel” show in Switzerland, visitors can admire a soap made from… Silvio Berlusconi! The Swiss artist Gianni Motti got hold of some of the Italian Premier’s grease after he “left” it behind in a Swiss clinic following a liposuction a year and a half ago. The soap, nicknamed “Mani Pulite” (Clean Hands) is being sold for 15,000 euros. Motti said that “he was amused at the idea that one could wipe one’s bottom with a piece of real Berlusconi”.