Last Friday's "Top 5" post -- about the best office pranks -- got folks talking about shenanigans at work. One poster offered a gem about using the shimmer effect in Word, which got me thinking about a whole new class of goofs: mucking about with a co-worker's computer. ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It sounds like a classic sitcom setup: Boy meets girl. Boy tries to impress girl with expensive holiday gift. Girl loves boy, but hates gift. Hilarity ensues.
THEATRE WASTE Almeida Theatre, London **** We've known for some time that Sam West, an admirable actor, can also direct. That much was stirringly evident during his stint at the helm of the Sheffield Crucible. But in this past year, he has begun to establish himself...
International bigwigs arrive in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly. CW asks: How have leaders fared since last year? George W. Bush DOWN: Outgoing U.S. president has no power at home, no clout abroad and no time left. Sarah Palin SIDE: Small-town gal comes...
I truly appreciate Karen Stollznow's article "Merchandising God: The Pope Tart" (SI, May/June 2008) for both its hilarity and seriousness. It's a shame she did not carry her research further and ask "Why do Catholics see Jesus on a tortilla, but Muslims don't see Allah on an apple...
Classic '60s TV and Music Icons Return With New Comedy Shorts on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, Music Videos, Website and Live Entertainment BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Banana Splits, fondly remembered by Baby Boomers for their unique combination of kid-style comedy and contemporary music --...
Justin Long stars as a high school dropout who, upon being denied a place at his chosen colleges, resolves to set up his own educational institution. Hilarity ensues as the group of ingenious misfits go to great lengths to convince their parents of the college's authenticity. ...
Justin Long stars as a high school dropout who, upon being denied a place at his chosen colleges, resolves to set up his own educational institution. Hilarity ensues as the group of ingenious misfits go to great lengths to convince their parents of the college's authenticity. Comedy, with Jonah Hill...
The problem with toilets is that no-one wants to talk about them. Even less do they want to talk about what goes into them (the's word) or the act of human waste expulsion (the'd' word) -except with smirks and giggles. That kind of verbal crap has been swilling...
THE STARS: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Steve Martin. THE STORY: Single and successful, businesswoman Kate Holbrook Fey decides at 37 she wants a child, but discovers she has little chance of getting pregnant. She recruits South Philly girl...
Byline: MR M OLIVER I READ with some hilarity the ramblings of PL of Low Fell, who said we've never had it is good. I could almost hear the music from the Hovis ad in the background. PL lives in the past, stating: "Look at the...
Byline: By VAL JAVIN Deputy Features Editor I BEGAN to suspect that the man sitting next to me was a ringer. At every brush stroke the plums that he was creating looked more and more mouthwateringly like the real thing. Elsewhere there was much...
My secret life The home I grew up in ... We moved around a lot, between Oxfordshire and London. I was happiest between the ages of 11 and 16, living in north Oxfordshire. I spent most of my time meeting boys and going...
Restaurants If ever a restaurant embodied the Zeitgeist of the Nineties (and isn't Zeitgeist the Ninetiest of words?) it was Quo Vadis. How deliciously ironic that an old Soho haunt, once the home of Karl Marx, should be taken over by the PR...
CASANOVA: ACTOR, SPY, LOVER, PRIEST by Ian Kelly Hodder & Stoughton, £20, pp. 400, ISBN 9780340922149 £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 One evening in November 1763 the splendidly named Sir Wellbore Ellis Agar passed a middle-aged Venetian man on Westminster Bridge who, he thought,...
A lawyer for life, Martin Luskin's role in real estate law has evolved and expanded with the flow of the market. Now, as partner at Blank Rome LLP, he's handling high-powered acquisitions valued anywhere between $1-3.5 billion. And, as chair of the firm's real estate and financial...
Ruby Wax is putting depression on stage. She's not the only comic who's battled the blues, says Andrew Johnson Ruby Wax, the caustic comedian who has spent years struggling with depression, is about to tackle the taboos surrounding mental health in the only...
Today is Father's Day, so please spare a thought for the children of quite possibly the most embarrassing dad in Britain: Fathers4Justice founder Matt O'Connor Not many fathers have a fluorescent-blue Superman T-shirt lurking in their wardrobe. But Matt O'Connor is not...
The Poles wake up to what they say is a howling of kittens. The French greet the morning with a wooden mouth and a hair ache, while the Danes get carpenters in the forehead. English speakers the world over call that mix...
WHEN my exboyfriend interviewed me for a documentary he was making about his past relationships, I was about eight months pregnant, and my biggest fear was that I might cry on camera. I did. It's strange to see yourself genuinely crying on fi lm. At one...
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