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Another Windsor hits the headlines

   Honorary Lance Corporal William Windsor was
   stripped of his rank this week after attacking
   the arse of a military drummer. The regimental
   goat of the 1st Battalion Royal Welch regiment,
   otherwise known as “Billy”, refused to march
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What do you call an unemployed goat? Billy Idol.
What do you call a goat at sea? Billy Ocean.
What do you call a goat that mimes? Billi Vanilli.
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       >> Don\’t look back in anger <<
       Christina Aguilera needs charm school

   Christina Aguilera has always had a diva
   attitude – arriving hours late for everything,
   big demands, feuds with everyone from Mariah
   to Kelly Osbourne.

   Now with the release of her new album she\’s
   learned a new trick. During promo interviews
   she\’s refused to look at any journalist.
   Instead, the diva insists that the interview,
   for which she\’s usually two to four hours late,
   takes place in a dimly lit room, where she sits
   and stares in the other direction completely
   to the journalists while they ask, and she
   answers, questions.

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Hoffwatch: Dave is today receiving treatment at St
Thomas\’ Hospital, after leaving the Sanderson Hotel
in an ambulance. He "cut himself shaving", apparently.
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       >> Belgian buffoonery <<
       Jean-Claude just can\’t kick the habit
“,1] ); //–>   and stay in line during the parade at the
   Episkopi garrison, Cyprus, and ended up
   headbutting a group of military drummers before
   attacking them with his horns.

   Now bad boy Billy has been demoted and has lost
   the perks of his rank, such as being saluted.

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What do you call an unemployed goat? Billy Idol.
What do you call a goat at sea? Billy Ocean.
What do you call a goat that mimes? Billi Vanilli.

Mentos and Diet Coke 2.0

Well after all that, Revver allows embedding. Too bad WordPress doesn’t allow it, or I’d post the “approved by producers” version here. All I can do instead is link to it on Raj’s blog here.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s a video by two mad scientist types (one is allegedly a mad lawyer/scientist!) of a frolicing fiesta of fountains of diet coke and mentos.

Enjoy. And if you figure out how to embed it in a wordpress blog, let me know.

gherkin of terror!

I resisted posting this for a couple of days…a couple of days too long. In future I resolve never to hesistate posting something just because it’s:

A) stupid
B) probably fake
C) really, really stupid.

Honestly, if she thought her life was ruined by her fear of pickles, just wait till she finds out what life is like as THE world-famous pickle pussy.

Operation Global Media Domination: no more games

TIAIt seems nobody cares if Harry Potter is dead. Nobody but the BBC, that is, which commented on my post about the story in the Guardian. The BBC is trawling my blog for readers: while I am somewhat stunned at this micro-, nay, nanomanagement, I’m okay with it if they’ll only give me the linkie luv. Translation: they don’t allow you to leave the URL of your blog your signature, ie like this: raincoaster. Frightfully Web 1.0 of them.

In other OGMD news, the Mento and Diet Coke Fountain Madness is dying out as those mad scientists lay the smackdown on YouTube and the video has been kaput for a week now, after nicely threatening the existence of my blog. I wonder how long you have to respond to those threats before the powers that be nuke the blog. Could be tricky, as I do not actually have electricity at home at the moment.

And although for the past several days it’s been beating the coprophilia out of the Beautiful Agony post, today nobody is interested in Watching the World Cup For Free. Is it over or something?

I only care about the Stanley Cup, yo. Do they even have ice in Carolina?

knitiloids!

KnitiloidsTwo Squid-related posts in one day!!! Can you fucking stand it???

Pretty thrilling, eh?

From Knitie, via BoingBoing, comes news of these adorable knitting patterns. Craft your very own tentacled beauty from a vanished era; I prefer the longer, more squid-like version, but then I’m a size queen when it comes to Squid.

Hey, sometimes a Squid is just a Squid.

Every scary prehistoric beast should be made into a huggable toy, and I say it’s the nautiloid’s turn.

Their living relatives include the squid, the octopus, and the famous chambered nautilus.