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- ohnoerino, on 10/27/2008, -1/+25Dugg for the phrase "pineapple head".
- Shazbuckle, on 10/27/2008, -1/+24The Mole Man thing cracked me up.
- ScottMcIntyre, on 10/27/2008, -3/+26So, it took a UK court to rule that Pringles are not crisps... seems a worthwhile use of court time (sarcasm)
QFA:"Proctor & Gamble, makers of Pringles crisps saved millions of pounds on VAT after the UK High Court ruled the product is not a crisp. As Pringles aren’t officially crisp they are exempt from the 17.5% tax that applies to “potato crisps, potato sticks, potato puffs and similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour, or from potato starch” defined in the 1994 VAT Act." - serif69, on 10/28/2008, -1/+16You call those bizarre? Amateurs.
Signed,
The US Court System - Koush, on 10/28/2008, -3/+10To address the sex ration case. The woman can have sex with all three husbands at once, 3 times a week. I doubt the husbands would complain so everyone is happy :).
- RevAradia, on 10/28/2008, -1/+6They're right..these ARE the most ridiculous. I started to go off about the young lady not allowed to wear the "symbol of the Christian faith" but then I realized this was not the US. Granted this kind of thing goes ON in the US but generally not because of something worn as a symbol of the "Christian" faith...tell it to other religions though..many here in the US are persecuted for their beliefs..they just don't usually happen to be Christian. So Sayeth the Crone
- DteK, on 10/28/2008, -0/+4hmm. Im no Star Wars geek or anything but im pretty sure its "Jar Jar Binks". Or is that some UK thing?
- Harabeck, on 10/28/2008, -0/+4Jar Jar himslef rarely pronounces "R", so when he says his own name, it sounds like "Ja Ja".
- zip000, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4Wow. According to the linked article, Pringles are only 42% potato!
I had no idea that they weren't regular chips (crisps); I thought they were just compressed somehow. - inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4Tort is out of control in the states!
- swampflyer, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3"Never mind the warning about promoting partisan views, just make sure it carries the warning “may induce boredom”."
This sure as hell is no cracked.com - Static88, on 10/28/2008, -1/+4FTA - "Now we need the High Court to decide once and for all if Jaffa Cakes are a cake or a biscuit…"
Jaffa cakes are cakes.
Hypothesis : Cakes go hard when left out, biscuits go soft when left out.
Experiment : Jaffa cakes do indeed go harder when left out.
Science "Suck it bitches." - inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3Neither cakes nor biscuits are taxed - but chocolate-coated biscuits are. Both argued that their products were chocolate-covered cakes, not chocolate-covered biscuits.
- jlauten, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3No one will ever top the $54 million dry cleaner pants case:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
Two wonderful things about it:
1. The case was filed by an ACTIVE COURT JUDGE!
2. The $54 million was scaled back from his original $67 million request. - MrsRodted, on 10/30/2008, -0/+3Mrs Strange is an appropriate name for that lady
- technicolourbob, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3I was hoping the article would be a little more detailed.
- DteK, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3indeed
- KingLeo, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3The toy car one sounds an awful lot like the toy Yoda case in Florida back in 2002 in which the girl who won it thought she had won a Toyota all along.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/680871/post ... - takeo1775, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3Mole man scenario sounds appealing, all the space you want under your feet - secret command centre. That is until you lose everything when it collapses.
- pastadenialist, on 10/28/2008, -1/+3Regarding that case:
"It was later revealed that the girl's parents and grandfather are directly involved in the UK branch of Silver Ring Thing, casting doubt on whether Miss Playfoot herself decided to launch her case or whether she was driven to do so by family pressure. Heather Playfoot, her mother, is the company secretary of Silver Ring Thing (UK) Ltd and her father and pastor/elder of the Kings Church (Horsham), Phil Playfoot, is the company's Parents Programme Director. Grandfather Stuart Sutcliffe is a director of the company."
Admittedly from Wikipedia, but that's the gist of what I understood at the time. - QuadraticMan, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news ...
Number 6 is my new hero. - dbradman56, on 02/25/2009, -0/+1That was weird as well :)
Tian
http://talismanclick.com - gitargr8, on 10/28/2008, -2/+3I hereby order your ass to three counts of sodomy each week.
Case adjourned! - ScaryUK, on 10/29/2008, -1/+2There's a similar legal ruling about Jaffa Cakes being a cake or a biscuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Cake_or_b ... and another about Marks and Spencer's teacakes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7340101.st ...
Cakes are taxed, biscuits aren't hence both companies fought to have them classified as cakes - shortshmu, on 10/28/2008, -1/+2I'm not happy
- ihatediggcom, on 10/28/2008, -3/+2Sex ratio my ass
- shortshmu, on 10/28/2008, -4/+2That would crack you up!
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