Posts by Mark_McA

Former model sues Universal over 'x-rated prop' outrage

It's all in the phrasing...

Amazing how that lawyer's mind works.

"We could say 'younger than him,' or... we could say 'closer to the age of a child...'"

(Paris, cos she's closer to the mental age of a child.)

eBay Germany faces PayPal probe

Complaint just lodged with UK trading standards - let's see...

I've got 49 transactions, 100% feedback, five years history with loads of high-value stuff. Now eBay tells me I'm not to be trusted and must offer PayScam as a payment option.

So, I set up a new account (cursing, as PP once kept £300 of my money for six months, for no reason) and lo! Another message... I must now offer PP as the ONLY payment option!

Cheating, swindling scumbags. Gumtree, here I come...

Los Alamos super reports for nuke duty

Up to 5 teraflops, you say?

Why, that's crazy talk...

:)

Cat awarded online high school diploma

It could be worse...

...at least Oreo the cat didn't dress up in a white coat, surround itself with lab equipment and pretend that a mail-order 'PhD in holistic nutrition' from ToyTown College, Alabama makes her a real doctor...

Eh, Gillian McKeith?

Vodafone looks for Magic applications

It definitely accepts entries that didn't tick the 'accept T&C' box...

...cos I did two. If they try to nick 'em, you heard of Scratch-E and Eye in the Sky here first...