Just for fun

[RobertGraves]

Seductive lessons
March 30, 2005

A university on the Spanish island of Tenerife will stage a workshop on how to seduce potential sexual partners.

The workshop titled "The pleasure of seduction" will form part of a Master's degree program in sexual education and therapy at La Laguna University.

Anyone is capable of improving their ability to seduce, which involves "making an adequate display of one's virtues and assuming what we cannot change", program director Fernando Barragan said yesterday.

The workshop will teach how to make use of one's looks and gestures through techniques including role play, group discussion and dance.

DPA

[Wyndham]

Robert: speaking as a man who has recently done his demographic duty, a) were you thinking about the fabulous land of Oz when doing it; and, b) when do you plan to have the other two?

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050330.wbaby0330/BNStory/Front/

[pinkozcat]

Here in Western Australia, TAFE (Technical and Further Education) is running courses in both flirting and striptease.

And they call Perth "Dullsville".

[RobertGraves]

Having Peter Costello (Treasurer and aspiring PM) suggest that one go home and bonk for Australia is guaranteed to have a long term impact on the population - it'll shrink.

Actually, I would like 5 daughters (ambit claim?) but this is very unlikely to happen unless our next child is a one of a quadruplet. My partner didn't take enough drugs to forget the birth 17 months ago and is not that enamoured with the process of birth - likes kids and happy to have 5 but I will have to give birth to them.

[Wyndham]

Five breeders! That would surely earn you not just 15,000 odd Oz spandooliks but the 'Southern Star of Fatherhood, with diamonds and oak leaf clusters', I'm thinking. Tell your wife to stop being so selfish, and to take one for the team.

Our government use to do things like that. Quebec still does, and always has. I think we've packed it in as a bad job, and just got use to the idea of importing Chinese and Bush Dodgers. I don't think we ever were suppose to think of anything so abstract as 'Canada' though. Can't imagine how that would work. I believe in Ontario we thought of the Queen. In Quebec, no doubt, they were thinking of the Pope.

[pinkozcat]

This report, titled "Closet Killer" was in today's newspaper:-

"A man was beaten to death, allegedly by his wife's lover, whom the husband had just found living in a cupboard in his Nashville home.

Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 35, was charged with killing Jeffrey Freeman, 44.

Mr Freeman's wife had let Mr Rocha-Perez live in the cupboard for about a month. The arrangement came to light when the husband heard Mr Rocha-Perez snoring."

[pinkozcat]

It would appear that President Bush lacks a certain something.

www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1345777.htm

[RobertGraves]

The 'metrosexual' is 'out' (apparently) so that means, of course, 'machismo' is back 'in':
www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/18/1113676701618.html?from=top5

[pinkozcat]

There is one born every day ...!

India's intelligence department is investigating reports that a fraudster sold an American businessman the Prime Minister's residence in the heart of New Delhi recently, a leading daily reported on Sunday.

The businessman forked out 35 million rupees ($A1.02 million) for the house that was up for sale on a website as a "huge sprawling mansion in the heart of Lutyen's Delhi with running water and electricity", the Hindustan Times said.

He soon received the title deed for the house and arrived in the Indian capital late in March to take possession of the house for an office he planned to set up only to discover he had been cheated.

- Reuters

[RobertGraves]

Some might find this (rightly) offensive but you gotta laugh:

'Stayin' Alive' anger prompts Gallipoli music rethink

Veterans Affairs Minister Deanne Kelly says the Federal Government will give more thought to the music played at Gallipoli in the hours before the Anzac Day dawn service.

Some of the more than 17,000 Australians who attended this year's ceremony at Anzac Cove have criticised the playing of the Bee Gees' song Stayin' Alive as part of the overnight entertainment.

"Much as I like the Bee Gees I don't believe that Stayin' Alive is appropriate for a pre Anzac Day service," said the president of New South Wales RSL, Don Rowe.

Mrs Kelly says a large crowd had gathered many hours before the memorial service and a decision was taken to play music videos to entertain the group.

Mrs Kelly says it is unlikely Stayin' Alive will ever again be played before another service at Anzac Cove.

"I think in the future we'd give more thought to and obviously plan what was to be played if entertainment is necessary as a distraction in that long, cold, dark lead-up to the dawn service," she said.

Mr Rowe has also deplored the amount of rubbish the crowd left behind at Gallipoli.

He says Gallipoli is a sacred place and should not be treated like a picnic ground.

New Zealand officials have suggested that numbers may have to be limited at future commemorations.

Prime Minister John Howard is meeting his Turkish counterpart this evening to discuss future management of the battleground.

ABC JUST IN

[Wyndham]

could have played (Aus own) AC DC 'highway to hell' . . .

[Aravis]

The BeeGees were also from Australia. They just weren't properly appreciated on Anzac I guess. I like your suggestion though, Wyn. ;D

[pinkozcat]

You have to admire their ingenuity.

Romania thieves build bogus ATM
Audacious thieves in Romania have constructed a complete automated teller machine (ATM), minus the cash box, to steal the details of account holders.

According to banking officials, the fake ATMs have appeared at blocks of flats or in areas of the capital where there are no banks.

Usually criminals only place a fake panel over an existing ATM, and do not construct a complete machine.

Police are investigating the incidents.

Romania's biggest bank, Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), says customers should only use ATMs situated around bank branches.

"Banks do not install ATMs in blocks of flats," BCR spokesman Cornel Cojocaru said.

- Reuters

[RobertGraves]

Imagine - Bush styley: ia201137.eu.archive.org/hdb1/items/Imagine_This/ImagineThis.mp3

More: www.waxaudio.com.au/mediacracycover.htm

[Tenarke]

Here is yet another worthy cause for us all to get behind; or perhaps rather, in front of:

www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/nyregion/07nurse.html?incamp=article_popular

Let’s all hear it for mammary freedom!