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NORTH SHORE TIMES 23 FEB 2011

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PROTECTIVE HEADGEAR

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Last week protestors in Cairo donned innovative headgear to protect themselves from flying stones: This chap has placed a lot of trust in his lunch - a BLT & 2 baguettes!  A real dish!  "Take this tuna-fish sandwich - you bastids!"  The block-head "What do you mean by 'square-head'?" The real thing - classic anarchist street-wear! "Mohammed! where's the xxxxing chamber pot?"

KIWIS IN LINE FOR PRESTIGIOUS DARWIN AWARD

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  Charles Darwin: "Two things are infinite - the universe & the human capacity for stupidity". The Darwin Awards honor Charles Darwin by commemorating those who yield to natural selection and "remove" themselves from the gene pool... ...thereby ensuring that the next generation is smarter by one. "Safety Last!" Of necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously. NZPA - A witness has described how darkly dressed figures, apparently drunk, were stumbling along a dark Northland road before a teenager was hit and killed by a police car. Rawiri was hit by a police patrol car on a straight section of State Highway 1 at Ohaeawai on July 25, 2009, while walking home with a friend late on a cold and dark night after attending a social function. Several witnesses including two Kamo firemen, Denis Hewitt and Stephen Gurnick, who were also returning home from a social evening, told the coroner of figures "dressed in black ... s

SUNDAY STAR TIMES 13 FEB 2011

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