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A Brazilian bricklayer has amazed his family and friends by turning up to his own funeral. Ademir Goncalves (59) had been identified as the victim of a horrific car crash on Sunday. They had had some difficulty identifying the corpse as it was badly disfigured in the crash. Unfortunately Mr Goncalves had spent the night with his friends drinking a rum-like liquor known as “pinga” and did not find out about the funeral until it was already happening on Monday morning. There wasn’t much else he could do but go to the funeral to put everyone straight. I hope his family gave him a ... Read Full Story

According to a London newspaper, a certain private school in Mill Hill, London, was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 11 year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the girls’ toilets. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the cleaner would have to spend a large amount of time scrubbing them off the glass and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally the headmistress decided that something had to be done. She called ... Read Full Story

Many people dream of being able to make decent money from posting their articles on the Internet. Many try and, sadly, many fail, but some do make a good living from it. Whilst it is difficult to achieve it really possible so I’m going to let you know how to do it. First of all you need a plan, but luckily for you I’m going to provide that for you. Here is my Eight Point Plan for Success: Write an article on a popular subject, paying careful attention to spelling and grammar. Pick something that a lot of people are interested in but few ... Read Full Story

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. “In English,” he said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.” Read Full Story

After London’s International Beer Festival, all the brewery presidents decided it would be fun to hit a pub in the City and go out for a beer. The first sits down and says: “Hey, Señor, I would like the world’s best beer, a Corona.” The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him. The second says: “I’d like the best beer in the world. Give me ‘The King of Beers.’ One Budweiser please.” The bartender gives him one. Another guy says: “I’d like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water; give me a Coors.” The bartender gives ... Read Full Story