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The Daily Muppet Award


I propose a new game.  Each day we should post links to any stories we find concerning serious muppetry.  (We could then vote for the best, or we could not bother with that bit & just laugh at them anyway).  On a slow muppet-news day you might get away with http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7092723.stm but my entry for today has to be http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7091904.stm (people of this intelligence are allowed guns because...?).

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Here's hoping he hasn't reproduced in his 66 years...The man - who police say was on his own and not intoxicatedAnd he can't even blame drunkenness for his stupidity...If he lives long enough, we'll see him on the Darwin Award site...Ben

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Yup. There's some serious muppetry there! Nice work!

I was quite muppety today. (Un)fueled by a lack of sleep last night I've just spent the day having to do everything twice cos I cocked it up the first time. Bah!

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So there are problems that a gun cant solve... that's a disappointment...

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If only he's been using uranium tipped bolts from a crossbow. That would have worked!

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Okay... My 'Muppet Of The Day' submission:

Busted By Facebook!
Who says Facebook is the province of the young? Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters. Kevin Colvin, an intern at Anglo Irish Bank's North American arm, was busted when he told his manager, Paul Davis, that he'd miss work due to what colleagues took to be a "family emergency". Davis turned up the photo above, freshly posted to Facebook from the Halloween party Colvin apparently missed work to attend, and attached it to his reply, copying the rest of the office as he did it. The email thread is now spreading around the net.








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I'd title that picture, "Buschlight in the loafers"...confused...Ben

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I'm guessing it's not good beer...

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The cool wand comment was genius

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JonnyStead wrote:

So there are problems that a gun cant solve... that's a disappointment...



That's why God invented high explosives...idea...Ben



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And uranium tipped corssbow bolts nod.gif

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Good points and well made - I'm off to polish my bow...

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More muppetry:

Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women
SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.
Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.

One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.

"Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.

"We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph.

"Leave Santa alone."

A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.
I think we need Steveo's input on that one!

-- Edited by ddvmor at 13:17, 2007-11-16

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Thats just political correctness gone mad...leave that old man and those very young children who sit in his lap alone!!!

Anyway, I'm not a big fan of Santa anymore, ever since I found out he was a creation of the Coca-Cola corporation..

Actually I just read this:-

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

I take it back..we love you Santa..I'd let you lure me to your ginger bread house in Greenland any day of the year, you rosey cheeked old bastard..(sorry I'm beginning to speak like an aussie now)...

-- Edited by stevo at 11:47, 2007-11-17

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