News of the World.
Jun. 25th, 2009 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pathology_doc1. Mystery man unveiled: Formula One legend Michael Schumacher was on Sunday unveiled as "the Stig", the mystery man who test drives cars on British cult motoring show Top Gear. He wasn't the only man to play the role, but he is surely the most appropriate.
2. Slimy creature admits crime, avoids realistic penalty: R&B singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna and will be sentenced to 180 days of community service for the attack, lawyers said. He's also on probation for five years with a "stay away" order, but that's not good enough for me. He should go to jail for those five years (at least), and all the profits from his extant works should be appropriated for battered women's shelters.
3. They'll make a film about anything these days: Oscar-nominated film-maker David Fincher is in talks to direct a Hollywood movie based on the rise of social networking website Facebook, reports say. Fincher, who earned an Oscar nod for his period romance The Curious Case of Benjamin Button earlier this year, is in advanced negotiations with Columbia Pictures over the possible movie, Daily Variety reported. A musical will surely follow.
Lead singer: She friended me!
Chorus: She friended him, she friended him, she frieeeeeeeeeeeeeended him!
4. So that's what causes crop circles! Things are really hopping in Tasmania where wallabies are getting stoned on the state's opium poppy crops and creating crop circles. The wallabies are breaking into the poppy fields and making the circles while they're high. The poppy crop is for medical morphine - no need to panic there - but stoned marsupials? My beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carlanime always did say Australia was weird; I'm starting to agree with her!
5. As my wedding approaches, the rain is pouring down. In India, they have it the other way round, but it's no ordinary wedding: Two frogs have been married in a ceremony in the western Indian state of Maharashtra to usher in the delayed monsoon rains, a report says. Future mother-in-law asks the obvious (QWP) question: how do you make it stop?
2. Slimy creature admits crime, avoids realistic penalty: R&B singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna and will be sentenced to 180 days of community service for the attack, lawyers said. He's also on probation for five years with a "stay away" order, but that's not good enough for me. He should go to jail for those five years (at least), and all the profits from his extant works should be appropriated for battered women's shelters.
3. They'll make a film about anything these days: Oscar-nominated film-maker David Fincher is in talks to direct a Hollywood movie based on the rise of social networking website Facebook, reports say. Fincher, who earned an Oscar nod for his period romance The Curious Case of Benjamin Button earlier this year, is in advanced negotiations with Columbia Pictures over the possible movie, Daily Variety reported. A musical will surely follow.
Lead singer: She friended me!
Chorus: She friended him, she friended him, she frieeeeeeeeeeeeeended him!
4. So that's what causes crop circles! Things are really hopping in Tasmania where wallabies are getting stoned on the state's opium poppy crops and creating crop circles. The wallabies are breaking into the poppy fields and making the circles while they're high. The poppy crop is for medical morphine - no need to panic there - but stoned marsupials? My beloved
carlanime always did say Australia was weird; I'm starting to agree with her!5. As my wedding approaches, the rain is pouring down. In India, they have it the other way round, but it's no ordinary wedding: Two frogs have been married in a ceremony in the western Indian state of Maharashtra to usher in the delayed monsoon rains, a report says. Future mother-in-law asks the obvious (QWP) question: how do you make it stop?