Surfers Catches Of The Day.

Crawley Borough Council, in England, have issued orders to remove park benches from underneath trees.This is a  Health and Safety ruling, just in case a branch might fall on someone'e head .
From The Daily Mail 07.09.2012.
Next, no doubt, they will cut all trees down , in case high winds might blow them over, and cause someone an injury.

2.Tens of thousands of fish and seagulls have washed up dead on one of  the shores of the World's largest lakes. Scientists are at a loss to explain why.The lifeless bodies were discovered along a 25 mile stretch of Canadian shoreline by lake Eerie, which stretches between  Canada and the U.S.A.
From an article by Phil Vinter in The Daily Mail 07.09.2012.
How many times has this happened before ? It seems that this is taking place every few months now. You will.not, of course, hear another word about this.

3. In 1962 in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania) an outbreak of contagious laughter began.
An isolated fit of laughter in a group of 12 to 18 year old schoolgirls rapidly rose to epidemic proportions.
Like the flu', the laughter epidemic was so severe that 14 schools were shut. It affected about 1000 people and lasted  two and a half years.
From The Guardian dated 02.09.2012.

4.The genetic 'control panel' of the human body that regulates the activity of our 23,000 genes has been revealed for the first time
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Scientists have , once and for all, swept away any notion of 'junk DNA' by showing that the  vast majority of the human genome does ,after all, have a vital function by regulating the genes that build and maintain the body.
Researchers from 32 institutions around the World came to this conclusion:" Junk DNA. is, in fact, an elaborate patchwork of regulatory sequences that act as a huge operating system for controlling  the  Genome ."
From The Independent  dated .07.09.2012.

5. Nasa'sWise Telescope discovers blisteringly hot'extreme galaxies'. 100 trillion times brighter and hotter than our sun, and millions of 'supermassive' black holes.
From an article by John Hall in the Independent dated 30.08.2012.

6.Bing drinking among pensioners has reached epidemic proportions in the U.K.More are admitted to hospital for alcohol related injuries, than 16- 24 year olds.
Up to 1.4 million  older people are estimated to drink too much.In the past 5 years there has been an increase of 63% in alcohol related admissions to hospitals.This was revealed by the Substance Misuse and Aeging research team at the University of Bedfordshire.
From The Daily Mirror, dated 07.09.2012.

7.How to tell if a man fancies a woman.
A. He looks at her in the eyes, then looks at her mouth, and then back to her eyes again.

B. The man will keep his shoulders back, and keep his torso in.

C.He will put his thumbs in the bell- loops of his trousers.

How to tell if a woman fancies a man.

A.A woman may pull up her sleaves, to let the man see more of her skin.

B.She may push something towards him, like a glass or an ashtray.

C.She may stroke the rim of her glass, play with her necklace or similar behaviour.

D. She may suddenly look away from the man, then fix her gaze back on the man

From The Telegraph dated 07.09.2012.

8.The top ten funniest films.

1.Airplane.
2.The Hangover
3. The Naked Gun
4.Superbad
5.Borat
6.Anchorman
7. American Pie.
8.Bridesmaid.
9.Shaun Of The Dead
10.Life Of Brian.
As chosen by lovefilm members.

Shouldn't 'Life Of Brian' be number one ?

9.Mining boss, Gina Rinehart, said that Australian labour is too costly. She said:" The evidence is unarguable. Australia is indeed becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export- oriented business. Furthermore, the Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than 2 dollars a day."

Gina Rinehart received an inheritance of 1.5 billion dollars

From Above Top Secret  dated 07.09.2012.

10.Margaret Bell, who kept bees in Leintwardine about 7 miles from her home, died in June 1994.Soon after the funeral, mourners were astonished to see hundreds of bees settle on the corner of the street opposite the house where she had lived for twenty-six years.The bees stayed for  about one hour, and the local press took photos of them.
From The Top 15 Bizarre True Stories site.