Posts by OtisAardvark

Cambridge chap's todger topiary gets the chop

Pubic order offence

So if Mr. Ashmead has "trimmed the bush back" as requested by the police, has it resulted in the optical illusion of enlargement of the offending member?

Paris because I'm sure she could give some advice on topiary if required.

Illinois bright spark sparks car inferno

@Mark Monaghan

I'm not sure she'll make the Darwin Award short-list. You forget that to be a candidate the nominee must remove themselves from the gene pool or be rendered effectively sterile to prevent reproduction.

So near yet so far!

Tory who claimed brother's tech gear on expenses quits

@How is it fraud?

There was some coverage on this point. Using the defense of "I was within the rules" is not always a legitimate defence. If it can be shown that there was malicious intent to deceive and defraud then there is potentially a case to be answered rulebook or not.

As an Englishman once said,

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Baron Acton, 1887

US Navy unveils superconductor 'cloaking device' destroyer

Life Saving Work?

"...because we know our work will save lives,"

Er, that would that be American lives, right?

I expect the extended this life expectancy of US warships and sailors will result in the reduced life expectancy for any "insurgents" the warships are deployed against.